Hey DUers I Need Some Emergency Help From You [View all]

[stewert]

I will try to keep this short. My name is Steve Senti, I have been a member here since 2000 and I also own and run www.oreilly-sucks.com. I am 53 years old and I have a bad back, diabetes, high blood pressure, and other medical problems. I was living with my 89 year old WWII veteran father, in his house, paying the bills with his social security and pension money, driving his truck, etc.

I was caring for him in his home for the last 3 years, he needed 24/7 care because he had alzheimers and dementia. Until he got sick in January of this year, then it got worse and worse and he passed away on May 14th at 4:10am. I was devastated because he was my whole life, and now he is gone.

I can not even type this up without crying, because it makes me think of him, and I am still having a hard time getting over his death. It hit me so hard it's been 4 months since he died and I have still not made it one day without crying thinking about him.

I have been getting by (just barely) with a little money I had saved, a small life insurance policy he had of $1.000, and a little money I made selling advertising on the website I own. I also made some money from garage sales, I got some money from my family, and some through donations here and at wishadoo.org and on the website. Thanks to OneGrassRoot from DU who helped me a lot.

Now most of that money is gone, and I need to raise $1.170.00 by October 10th, to pay my monthly bills. I also need to raise $170.00 of that by September 25th, so I can pay my $295.00 truck insurance bill. I filed for SSI in December of 2012 through a law firm called Myler Disability. Then SSI denied me in June of this year, and we filed an appeal that should take 4 months. I also filed for public aid on May 19th and I am still waiting for a ruling on that, a whopping 4 months later.

The state of Illinois (DHS & HFS) just approved me for a medical card, finally, but it is not good until 1-1-14. Now I am waiting to hear if my public aid cash assistance will be approved. Right now all I get is food stamps and free health care from the OSF Sisters Community Clinic in Peoria, Illinois. The law firm tells me they think the SSI appeal decision will be in by November, and I have no idea when I will find out if my cash assistance from public aid is approved or denied.

I also filed for a cash grant through the Sunshine Lady Foundation on 9-9-13, which is run by Doris Buffett, who is Warren Buffett's sister. But they tell me it will be 8 weeks before I will find out if my grant is approved or denied. So basically, I am between a rock and a hard place, I have no real income to speak of and I have to find a way to pay the bills until November while I wait to find out about all this stuff.

I am even going to do another garage sale, which will be hard because I do not have much left. That is where you guys come in, I am hoping you can donate some money to me to pay my $1.170.00 in bills for October.

So please make a donation if you can, here is my paypal email:

[e-mail]

I also have a paypal donation page on my website:

http://www.oreilly-sucks.com/donate.htm

You guys are my last hope, I have only raised $127.00 in the last week, which leaves me about $1.170.00 short of what I need. I just need to raise that $1.170.00 to get me to November, and I hope you guys can help me, because I have nowhere else to raise any money, this is my last chance to raise that kind of money.

Steve