(updated April 15, 2008)

I have been away from Aidpage, but not completely out of the picture. What I have I been up to?

I had been making many attempts to still get the word out about what I am doing, but I had not been received well at a couple places:

• Myspace kicked me off four times. The fourth time, I managed to keep the page running for a few months, and I logged in only to discover that I was removed once again. I am not sure what their reasoning was. It was a description of how I was helping others. I had helped many families through that page so it was very disappointing, and I lost track of people in line to receive help.
  
• I posted a page on Squidoo.com. and that page, too was removed after receiving a lot of criticism from members there. I wasnt asking for money; only describing how I was helping others. Apparently I seemed a little too good to be true or people just didnt believe me.

I HAVE been accepted with open arms at WishUponAHero.com.  I am very active there under the name 'The Empty Hanger' Here is how I have helped and currently help others. To date, I have granted over 20 wishes, and more that is not tallied on the site.

• Sending cards for birthdays, encouragement, friendship, sympathy. That just costs a stamp!
• Offering advice on situations
• Sending books (via media mail)
• Sending spiritual literature (I returned to church in January accepting Jesus into my life)
  
• Sending small packages of clothes
• Sending coupons
• Sending school supplies
  
• Sending my old eyeglass frames to woman who cannot afford new ones. (current)
• Workiing on a HUGE giveaway starting May 1st for WUAH. (shipping covered by anonymous donor)
  

OTHER CHANGES

• 'The Empty Hanger' has been scaled back to a local operation. It was a difficult decision. Aside from what I do above, I still manage to provide packages of good usable clothing to persons in need. I find them at the local food pantry mostly, and word of mouth. Someone will email me at projectemptyhanger@mail2me.com, and we arrange a mutual public meeting place for the person's safety and mine. Its worked out pretty well, and I bypass shipping costs altogether. I do ask a lot of questions beforhand, because my genorisity has been taken advantage of on several occasions, and it is how I screen people. I find that those that are evasive are not being honest with me.
• I am considering turning over 'The Empty Hanger' as an outreach project at my church.

ADVOCACY

• Alzheimer's Awareness My dad passed away from the disease January 21st, 2008. He was diagnosed in 2003, and we watched this independant and strong man fight for a long time until we had to place him in a nursing home in 2006. It wiped us out financially and emotionally. I've currently been put into a position to help my mom who lost his pension (because she was not married to him when he retired). I use his likeness in many ways to help educate others about Alzheimer's. I am beginning an initiative for leglislation so that no other  families should be forced into poverty for making the decision to place a totall dependant loved one into long-term care. You can view a video I made by visiting the following link: Alzheimer's Video
• I also have a tribue page for my dad. Go to the tribute page.
  

        If your family is affected by this disease and need some advice or just to talk, please email me at projectemptyhanger@mail2me.com, and put 'Alzheimers' in the subject line.

Books 

I have several books in production at bookemon.com I currently have two that are available for purchase (and read for free online) They are: 'Wired from the Welfare Line' and 'Stepping on Life's Cracks'. A third, 'Raymond's Window' is currently being developed.

Thanks 

Elaine, for all your help and support to 'The Empty Hanger'

Staff and Admin of Aidpage for your support

Everyone here who reads and takes interest in my little endeavor!

What's next?

A possible giveaway for here on aidpage. Stay tuned!

I am not accepting requests for help at the present time, but if you need advice on anything, please message me here or at my email  projectemptyhanger@mail2me.com. Or, just say hi! 

Please e-mail me direct at..... Troublentaken@msn.com ... thank you!

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 I am a single mom of a 16 year old son who is terminally ill with a disease called Wegeners Granulmatosis.  I am not one to ask for charity, but this year I have swallowed my pride to do just that.

I am currently unemployed due to Justins hospitalizations over the last year.  We have lost EVERYTHING, right down to our home and vehicle. We have been staying with friends for several months now, even though it is not a home of our own it is a warm place to lay our heads.

I cant begin to tell you how overwhelmed I am emotionally and mentally, anyone who faces the fact your child is dieing can understand where I am coming from.  I lost my son James six years ago and now I am losing Justin. I keep faith that a miracle will happen, because faith and hope are the two things we do have.

It kills my soul  to know that Justin may face christmas morning with nothing.. I dont know what to do or where to turn to.. If anyone could offer me any help or lead me in the right direction to anyone who could help me out I would greatly appreciate it.

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Sherry Gilbreath

My husband and I have four children, the basic situation is that our owner has gone into foreclosure, and we have received a writ so we have to be out by tuesday.  We literally have no place to go, because everybody requires first month rent, and deposit. I am on workmans comp because I was injured on the job, my husband was working overtime, but they cut everyones hours, we have no family here, and none that can help us , who arent here. I have been sitting up at night, searching on the computer, making phone calls during the day.  Right now I am just really depressed, and I am desperate.  If anyone who reads this can send something, anything $1.00 to ???, you can send it to my paypal account, happygolucky_80011@yahoo.com or just mail it to house, we will still have mailbox keys, even if we have to go to a weekly motel . 3062 s biscay circle, aurora, Co. 80013. We found a house, and have pulled all our resources, and the owner has consented to let us move in, but we still need to come up with the money first, needless to say our landlord is not giving back our security deposit, and because we have been basically living paycheck to paycheck, we are in this situation.  We have tried applying for loans (no luck), we have tried payday loans, (no luck), and we have even tried finding loan sharks in our area, If anyone can help. I can verify any information I have just said, but if you can help........ we would be truly grateful.  The amount of money we need to come up with is $1,100.  Thanks

I am not in as bad a boat as all these other people and surely they need help more but I have been working steady for seven years, since my first child was born.  Now I have Four and can't for the life of me catch up on payments, all I am looking for is what ever help is abvailable to a person in my boat.  what ever you can do would be great,  thanks

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hello. i am an audio engineer in austin tx. my family was in new orleans when katrina hit and we lost everything. we are still trying to recover. now we are thinking about starting a business in austin and could use any help that is out there. thank you. god bless.

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I can use them!!!  I use coupons to cut costs to the household, and get quite a bit of our food for free using them.
If you don't want yours, I'll take them!!
I can also use refund forms (things like get $2 back when you buy sucha nd such product)
Or any other coupons you might find in places like magazines, hanging on bottles of wine or licqour, on tear pads by products in stores.
B. L.
P.O. Box 296
Fort Plain, Ny  13339

HELLO, WELCOME MY FAMILY HAVE STRUGGLED AWHILE AS WELL AS ANYONE AND WE CONTINUE HAVE DAILY STRUGGLES , YET WE BELEIVE THROUGH GOD AND PRAY ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE.TURNING IT OVER TO THE LORD WILL RELEASE YOU FROM YOUR STRUGGLES. GOD BLESS YOU AND SEEK YOUR LOCAL CHURCH FOR HELP.

        Jen

I am the father of four young children, and my wife is recently disabled.  I am sinking into the ground and about to loose everything I have.  We need help.

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Trying to save my family’s home and I only have 90 days left.

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Well, I guess my story may sound similar to some others here. I am single mom of two beautiful girls ages 2 and 6. We were homeless in Maryland for over a year. I finally found housing here in Springfeild VA and about two weeks after moving here I lost my job. My car is getting ready to be repossed if I don't make a payment soon and Christmas is coming. I have tried so hard to keep order and balance in my girls life, that i kind of forgot about me. That's ok though, any good mom would have done the same.

I guess my six year old has felt this situation the hardest. She never really feels like she is at home. She got her first real room (even though she shares it). In only first grade she has been to four different schools. I have her in activites such as soccer and bowling (whatever mom can mange to afford at the time). She has a hard time making  friends which I believe is because she know sthat she won't be there the next school year.

My fear right now is loosing my car and not being able to do anything for thm for christmas. I know christmas isn't about the gifts, it's about family and love and togethernes. However, my family makes a huge deal out of christmas and they have come to expect certain things from me. This year I am falling very short. My family has helped me so much in the last year that to ask them for anything else would be ludacris.

If anyone out there would like to help my babies this holiday season I would greatly appricate it. Please contact me and let me know.

Thank you and God Bless

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My family needs hlep.  My youngest daughter was molested by her father yet because it was given the name "lewd" the police haven't really done anything, even after he violated the protective order.  Not only did he get into our home, he messed with my brakes and mail.  Police weren't helping me and we had to leave.  Now me and my daughters are stuck, homeless and I need help.  Money, place to stay, anything.  I've successfully changed my name, now in the middle of changing my SS#.  Once that goes through, I will be able to get a job and get back on my feet.  But for now, I am almost out of money.  We've been eating ramen noodles for every meal.  Please someone help us.  My daughters don't deserve to live like this.  I beg for anyone to help us.  Even if you just have a small place we could stay til I can get going again.  Anything is greatly appreciated.

Contact me at terrian2007@hotmail.com i have no phone # or address at this time

thanks,

sheree

Hi, My name is Jessica. My husband Mike and I just moved to missouri from Arizona because we could not afford to live there anymore and we thought we might have more opportunities for jobs here. We were wrong. We have had nothing but troubles since we have moved here. Let me begin, we moved into a rental property that we cannot afford, the management company told us that it was the only house in the entire springfield metro area (including cities up to 25 miles out) that would allow our older rottweiler who has medical problems. We made the sacrifice to take care of him and chanced not being able to afford the rent, which is a blazing $800 a month. We also did't have air conditioning for 3 weeks out of our first month, the rental company didn't want to fix it, until we threatened them with the Health Department. We expected to find jobs pretty soon. It took me seven weeks to get hired on at Wal-Mart making $7.00 an hour, and I have to beg them to give me full time hours, which they did. So I generally get (if I am lucky) between 34-37 hours a week. I work very hard, any hours available and volunteer to be called in if they need me to replace someone elses shift. Mike on the other hand, has not been able to find a job. He has applied everywhere possible (at least 4 applications a day to different places, some online, some face-to-face) It has now been 3 months and nothing. Well, one week he was not able to turn in applications, or go to intweviews, because one saturday night, we was attacked. Two large, drunk men, who we didn't even know attacked him and brutally assaulted him. The police came and a report was made, but the men were never found. This happened in a parking lot not but 5 minutes from our house. We had to go to the emergency room because he was seriously injured. They had managed to beat his head into the concrete pretty bad. He had fractures in his face, and whip-lash, and a pretty bad neck injury. He had a black eye and nerve damage to his face and neck. We had to go back to the emergency room about 4 days later because he didn't feel quite right, and the doctors told us that he had post concussion syndrome. His eyes had been dilating in and out quickly, and his blood pressure wasn't right, and his heart was beating strange. The total bill for the hospital, came to about $4000. We contacted Victims of Violent Crime Compensation of Missouri to see if they could help pay for some of the bills. They denied him, because they didn't catch the men? Not sure why. On top of that bill, he has to see a family practice doctor once a month for medications that run us about $400 each fill. She recommends either continuing the medication for a long time, or getting a surgery that has about a 33% success rate and costs between $80,000 and $100,000 to do. We have been delinquent on our bills several times, and have resulted to food stamp benefits, which we think should go for people that need it worse than us, like families with children, but we wouldn't eat if it wasnt for that help. We get less than $100 a month. We basically have lived on tuna sandwhiches and eggs. Once a week I try to fit in some ground beef and rice. We are falling harder and harder, and I feel like my body is about to give out. More than that, I am scared. We have no support system. No money, If anyone thinks that they can help us out with money to pay our bills, or to buy some food, or to help with the prescrpitions that would be great. Or, If you have a job availible in the Springfield, Mo metro area that would be good for Mike, let us know. He had an assosciated degree in computer related field and some experience with computer repair, installation, and such. But he doesnt have to do that. Keep in mind that his injury limits him physicially (meaning he cant lift 50 lbs continuously) though he is pretty strong. Thank you.

Hello my name is Micki. Iam a single mother of two beautiful little boys, Braxton 8 yrs old & Aiden 3yrs old. A little over two yrs ago my son moved to NY with his father. I have court ordered visitation in the summer and on holidays. His father is going against the order and wont let my son come home. He hasn't been home in a year. This is killing us. Im under so much presure because my son made me promis that his little brother and I would move to Long sland N.Y. as soon as we could .There are no words to tell you what this has been like for my family, my three yr old starves himself for wks at a time when his brother left, and each time after he visits the same, and thats just the begaining of what we go through. It's been two yrs and we are no closer to moveing. I don't have the funds to move , don't know how to find a three bedroom home for my children and I there , not to mention finding a job there that will afford us to live. I can not afford legal councel at all, so I am unable to file comtemt charges against his father..... My son has some special needs, he has "CAPD" hearing difficulty, and "ADHD", also has an inoppreible "aracnoid cyst", in his brain that was descovered right befor he left to live with his father. I know nothing about my sons medical wellbeing now that he is there , I know nothing about his education now that he's there, and it was ordered that his father provide me with that info. His father never met "his" son untill he was almost three, and that was because we went to NY to make him meet him. ONLY after that did he imedietly file for custody of my son .We fought for over two yrs. untill I ran out of money, Im still paying that off. Please befor you assume I wasn't proven "unfit" , that law doesn't apply to Oklahoma. Just "best interest" = IE", who has more money. What I need is help someway to get there, (N.Y.) money, job, home. ASAP". Thank you for anything you can do. I'm not looking for a hand out, not looking for a new life , my sons needs me and we need him. What has happend is wrong and I can't let this go on till he is 18 . I will do anything to get back in my little boys life. If there is any thing I can do for you in return please don't hesitate to ask. P.S. I miss him so very much.....please, please help us!!!