(updated May 12, 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
• NEW! I also have changed my dad's tribute page to one of an Alzheimer's Awareness subject matter. It is called: Alzheimer's: Know More. I have also created tshirts and other merchandice to raise funds to donate to my local Alzheimer's association.
  
• 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.

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!

I'm having a rummage sale! (Updated May 12th)

Locally, my mobile home community is having a rummage sale at the beginning of June. I am hoping to raise enough money on my own so that I can use some of the proceeds to send out a few more packages. My family has been busily cleaning out the house and garage, and wow the treasures that we accumulate in a year.

If you live in the Northwest Indiana area, and are interested in learning more about my community's rummage sale, please don't hesistate to ask. I will be offering discounts to my local friends at Wish Upon A Hero, and I am offering the same here on Aidpages. For details, please ask.

Hello everyone, thank you for reading my ad. I want to tell you a little about me first.  I am going to tell you I am not an ordinary kind of guy, and thank God for that. I was in a car accident in 5/19/01 was in the hospital for 3 months and rehab for 3 months. My whole world was turned up side dowN. I will not go into all the gory details. My aorta was torn a little bit and some how some way it had clotted itself over. There is no way I should be alive from just that alone, and it was not found until 8hrs after I was in the hospital. I had 7 surgeries and I died in 5 of them. Now I am not a cat but I am surly running out of lives. It would have killed an ordinary man I'll to tell you that right now.
Oh yeah it severed my spine also, yes I am paralyzed from the waist down. But trust me it does not slow me down to much. I just can not sit for long periods at a time. I can do anything you or anyone else can to except walk and stand.
     I do all of my own mowing, and my weed eating off of my lawn mower, in the summer I mow a couple yards for a few extra bucks, plant my garden 100x100, planting flowers and pulling the dang weeds.  I also enjoy 4-wheeler riding and I love to do woodworking either it be making birdhouses and patio furniture. If it can be done I can do it, its just mind over matter if I can't do it, it can't be done as long as I can get to it,  Life is short so I just live one day at a time and enjoy each and every one of them,. I look at it this away there is someone out there that is a lot worse off than I am, so you will never hear me complaining.
   I have 2 sons Zachary and Tyler that mean everything in the world to me, both are in collage. They are the only reason I fought so hard to stay alive. I live alone with my 2 dogs Maggie a black Labrador and T-Bone a Chesapeake Bay and a cat.  When I go 4-wheeler riding both my dogs love to ride on the back of me and when I need gas for my lawn mower, I ride the mower
to town, and I have made a platform that I mounted on my deck for them to ride on because it is a mile and half from home. Oh yes I get the looks and stares but I don't mind gives them something to talk about he he.
   I am honest caring, giving, and sincere. My friends say I am inspirational and fearless. I love life and everything about it, yes you have to take the bad with the good like it or not. I was divorced about the same time as my accident. I don't get out much, I don't drink or go to the bars.  Ok why am  I here, well its not because of bills I pay all my bills at the 1st of the month and I have 168.35 left over just enough to buy my groceries. My house is paid for so I don't have a house payment. The problem is my basement walls are caving in in the past 6 months my inside walls have cracked so the house is moving I cannot afford to have them fixed. I have thought about getting rid of my 4wheeler but it is about the only enjoyment that I have. I do not want my house to fall in. So if there is anything you can send me will help, I can  sell you a birdhouse it cost me $10 to make so anything over $10 I will be happy to send you a birdhouse I have pictures if you want to see them the are a log cabin style with a clean out at the bottom, you can also see them at my website. You can e-mail me at dsayer@psci.net  I have saved around $1100 from birdhouses I have sold, but I need $8300 more.

Thank you very much any help would be greatly appreciated.

Dale

HELP!  Family of five needs help with rent and utilities.  Dad is barely working since residential new construction is slow, Mom is off on disability from complications of childbirth. Need help paying rent and utilities so we don't end up homeless!  Every little bit will help!  Thanks!

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I'm 29 years old and in need of serious dental work.  I've always had problem teeth no matter how much I brushed or seen a dentist.  About 4 years ago I was lucky enough to get on pregnacy medicaid and get my teeth fixed for the first time in years.  They had to pull many and I had at least 20 cavities.  So the dentist fixed them at the end of treatment when they wanted to do the cleaning they said I had some tooth disease and that medicaid didn't cover it and that if I wanted them to keep taking care of my teeth I would have to pay out of pocket.  There was no way I could afford it so I stopped going.  After about 2 months my teeth started chipping where they filled them and they cancelled my medicaid because I could no longer be on it.  My teeth have been chipping ever since.  3 of my front teeth have broke off since last year.  I no longer smile and I have a very hard time eating anything.  There's no one to help because I can't afford anything.  Every paycheck I get goes to bills and/or my daughter.  So I've put myself on the back burner.  I cry all the time when I'm alone because I just want to have pretty teeth.  I suffer from depression and social anxiety now and don't go anywhere but work and home.  I am asking that someone please help.  thank you.

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I don't know what else to do.I've tried our local food stamp office and they said our case worker is only chosing 3 families to help. If anyone can help please contact me at junebugfan1974@yahoo.com

I am a single mother of two children.  Female age 7 and male age 3.  I do not have money to buy them gifts.  If anyone could send us some gift certificates I would be so thankfull.  There is a Walmart, Kmart, Meyer, and Target nearbye.  I am in college full time, and our budget is in quite a pinch.  They are in need of clothes, food, and toys.  There father is behind in child support, and we need immediate help.  Please send it to 2829 Hilltop Drive Apt. 6 Peru, Indiana.  Thank You.

Angela

I have a small business located in Martinsville, IN.  I have a disability, and I have worked for several years through Vocational Rehabilitation to help other people with disabilities.  The state funds grew smaller, so I saw the need to hire two employees and expand in October, 2004.  We made a business plan, and tried to get grants, but anything we could find was for non-profits.  We built two websites, hoping to make money on those while waiting for the process for certifications to start home modification assessments, design, for aging and disabled for medicaid. So far, I have encumbered $100,000 already building small business.  It took so long to get the certifications we needed that, now that we have our certifications, and are starting to work the projects, I am running out of funds to pay my employees and keep my business going, not to mention all the loans I have incurred to pay my employees on startup.  We spent $6,000 on a grant consultant company that was a hoax, because all they could really offer was grants for non-profit.  We are not non-profit.  We are a for-profit, sole proprietor business which helps people with disabilities and aging. We now have our certifications, and have met with aging and disabled offices that will be using our services, but there will be more time involved in actually working those cases, billing, and receiving our money from the state.  I am out of resources at this point, and need help.

i was involved in a car accident and suffured severe injurys i have 2 blown disk ,spinal stenosis and nerve and muscle dammage and now i have arthritis throughout my body .i filed disability like 4 years ago here in indiana i was rejected .99% of peaple are rejected because there hopeing  that person that is fileing wont come back again because it saves the state money.because of my  injurys i have not been able  to perform work like i used to and i  get very few hrs in and that just enough hardly to feed my kids and keep my family a float it has been very stressful and has been a struggle.meanwhile the courts are trying to put me in prison for 3 years .the courts here in warsaw indiana are saying that since i was rejected from ssi that im able to work  like a normal person im 35 years  years old and i have a medical chart of a 60 or 70 year old .the courts gave me a court appointed public defender because i wasnt able to pay for a regulur attorney   so when i went into court at my evidentuary hearing my lawyer didnt even go over my case so that we could be prepared i believe the courts had it setup this way on purpose my disabilty lawyer wrote a letter to the courts on my first court date and it stated that mark has a real good chance at getting his disabilty  and that ssi was backed up and that ssi somehow misplaced my doctors records and the prosecuter  at my evidentury said that  he could not find that letter from my disabilty that was done on purpose so that  it wasnt shown as evidence and documented in in warsaw idiana court house  so the courts have gotting what they wanted a case that they rushed and  pretty much did what they wanted to .they have set a sentence date for this march the 26th at 9:15 a.m they told me to bring in my proof then but i feel as though they have already made up there minds because a sentence date is just that they dont let  show ur proof  because its not recorded as evidence its to sentence me.i really wish i had a paid attorney but do not have the money to have 1 or my case  would   be treated fairy .wheres the justice in that?im looking at 3 years in prison  i dont want to loose my family because in limited because on my health and its not fair how the courts are treating me .i still and hopeing for some type of mircle to come my way .im asking for someone out there to loan me like 10k for my child support and 10k for a good lawyer that i know thats not going to be working with the state like a public defender .i have a home where i only owe like 4 or 5k more on it and we could sighn a contract to that affect and use my home as calateral again im not asking for free money just some help with my legal matters or if there would happen to be an attorney out there that reads this is willing to help me it would be a blessing to me and my family because i pray i dont loose them because of how  courts can bully peaples around because there indigent ,or if anyone has some useful tips for me i would be great to hear what u all have to say about my situation .plez email me at bellspainting@comcast.net and if  u read this after the 26th of march and if  i was sent off can u  plez email me because i will have my gf check my email from time to time.ty so much  for listing to my problem.

I GO TO SCHOOL FULLTIME AND WOULD LIKE TO FIND A GRANT THAT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE REPAID. I SUPPORT MYSELF WITH AIDS AT THE MOMENT. I AM 25 YEARS OLD AND ATTEND IUPUI IN COMPUTER ELECTRONICS

I have lost everything three times in my life now.  I do not think I can handle it again.  I was young and stupid the first time.  The second time I was being abused and just left everything and built my life up again.  The third time I was messed over a bit by my most recent ex boyfriend.  This time I worked really hard to get my own apartment and the first new car I have ever owned.  I had a good job untill last Tuesday.  I also am a full time student.  I got hurt at work due to a safety violation by the company.  Now my wrist has three different tendon problems, and I have to wear a brace.  I got fired essentially because I got hurt at work.  Now I am facing losing everything.  My rent is due on the 5th and I have $36 in the bank.  Rent is $475.  I would have been able to cover it, except I was off work due to bronchitis for 8 days last month.  I was off work for 6 days because of my wrist this month.  Work fired me for attendence related issues because of the 6 days off for my wrist.  I am planning on giving up my apartment after this month if my old job denies me worker's comp benefits which they are trying to do right now.  I also applied for unemployment benefits but that takes time as well.  I have found a temporary home for my cats and a friend is going to help as much as he can with my car payments and insurance.  I just need help with rent untill I can get my things moved out and break my lease with at least a little notice.  As soon as my wrist gets better I will have no trouble finding a job and repaying all who have helped me.  Hopefully there is someone out there who will be able to help me.  I should have plenty of good karma built up from last fall when I was able to help others. 

Thank you,

Kat 

Hi.  I am a full time single mom and a mother of three.  My Oldest daughter is seeing her friends get iPods and MP3 Players, but I am just worried about putting clothes on their backs and food on the table.  I have an 11 year old daughter, an 8 year old daughter, and a 6 year old son.  I just found out about 3 weeks ago that at the age of 31 I have full blown Osteoporosis,  and a malignant tumor in my breast.  I am applying for disability, and medicare.  But, you know how that goes!  What, I may hear from them in 6 months to a year!  I need help this year on christmas.  Money is so tight this year I am having a hard time getting them anything!  If you could help or know someone that can, I would be so grateful!

Thank you for your time.

Amie Lee

I need financial help for being able to pay for my up and comming wedding. My wedding is to be on February 11, 2006. About 3 years ago my wife passed away and I had to file for bankrupcy due to her medical bills. Now I am having much difficulty in borrowing money to pay for my wedding. If anyone can help me I would appreciate it greatly. If one needs to know more E-mail me at macgyver@netnitco.net   Thanks Mark

PS: any donations would help also. Send to 1938 Loganberry Lane Crown Point Indiana 46307

  Born again Christian,Going through a rough storm, Praying for God to step in and calm the waves, And guide me to safety!!!

  I've held several good jobs, that have lasted just long enough to make me think I'm finally getting a hold on things... Then my health problems flair up, and I wind up losing what I've got built up.

  I'm one of those people who has fallen between the cracks of government assistance for one reason, or another.

  I own the mobile home that we need to relocate, but the owner of the park  dosen't want us in it while we try to find another place for it, and look for a place to stay.

  Sorry to sound so sobb storyish. I just beleive in telling the truth, even though it seem to get me in more trouble than streching, or leaving something out of it.

Hello,

I have just launched a new website called MarriageByGrace.  This site was created to help others save their marriage.  I am on a mission to "STOP DIVORCE" and help couples in doing that.  Owning and running a non-profit web can be costly to advertise and spread the word.

Please visit my site, if you can help fund, donate or sponsor this site in any way would be very helpful.  With the donations I am going to help people that are in marriage trouble and can not afford to get help.  I am very active in the church and I have God watching over me to ensure the money is used right.

I am using one of the best web hosting services on the market because of the 99.9% up time.  I could of used a free hosing somewhere and domain name but I feel that this site needs to be up at all times.  I will be adding more and more to the site as time goes on.

I am a single mother of two children; female, age 7, and male age 3.  I attend college full time.  I sometimes can not make it to class because I do not have gas or childcare money.  I would like donations for the holidays.  My car is old and out of shape. It is unreliable.  I can not afford medical coverage.  We do not qualify for food assistance because I own an acre of land.  The land is nice, but I can not afford to put a home on it.  We need any and all help possible.  A new vehicle is needed, a nice home is needed, and any amount of money would be much apriciated.  Can any one help at all?  I just feel very hopeless and helpless.  Please respond as soon as possible with any possible thoughts and/or help.  Thank you.

Divorced mom of 2 of the most awesome children anyone could dream up!  Diagnosed with liver disease in 2000 and separated a year later, I've been working very hard to learn different ways to take care of myself and keep myself as well and functional as possible while raising my children to be strong, independent individuals.

I hate asking anyone for help and as wealthy as my family are, they will not do anything for anyone.  I have a sister that donates thousands of dollars to help others, but will not help family, a dad that only thinks he has one daughter when he has 3 and grandparents and aunts and uncles who donate scholarships and oodles of money to others, but just don't value family (unless, of course, you're as wealthy as them and want to take them to brunch).  It's as if it's all about clout, not the actual giving.  When I was well, I helped so many people.  I let people live in my home, helped people get off drugs, gave food and money.  I helped people with Christmas gifts for their children.  I volunteered and donated my time for people not even looking for volunteers.  I've always tried to help the people around me.  I have always been the one people call at 3am when they're upset or been through a loss.  Why is it that when my life turns upside-down, everyone who called themselves a friend disappears?

I worked very hard after high school to put myself through college and worked my way up the ladder in business to a management lvl position in a medical clinic.  When they found out I was sick, they attempted to force my resignation, than when I refused, they called me into a room with 6 bosses and a company attorney and fired me.  I had never even missed a day of work.  That was 3 years ago and since, cannot find a position that I can actually function with.  Who wants an employee that comes in late or has to leave early or just has to stop working every so often to rest?  Who wants an employee that can do the work some days and not others?  I type 80 wpm, but only for a couple hours a day, than my fingers hurt too badly.  I have the ability to do so much, but can't.  It's so frustrating.  And if I do feel good and go out on a limb and do extra while I can, than I suffer so badly later for it and can't even move the part of my body I used.  Sometimes it's non-stop pain, sometimes it's intermittant, but the fatigue and mood swings are intense all the time.

Since my initial dx of liver disease in 2000, I have also been diagnosed with Hashimoto's thyroid disease, seronegative arthritis, fibromyalgia, bp disorder and a list of other nasties that alone would put any normal person in bed.  I'm not quite sure of the bp disorder.  I think my mood swings are due to the fact that I'm so sick all the time....not some organic or chemical illness.  I've been through hell and had to find ways to deal with my emotional state.  I don't want to be down, so I think I try and "act as if" I'm okay, but than when I can't, I appear to be having mood swings. 

But I have children that need me.  Unfortunately, at 12 and 15, I feel like I need them more now.  They are amazing.  My daughter is a gymnast and cheerleader with aspirations to be a pediatrician someday.  My son is in ROTC, football and German club and is just an amazing chef!

I continue to try to work.  The position I currently have started at 40 hrs a week and has dwindled to 16 hrs now.  I do merchandising which allows me to schedule myself and work at my own pace.  Sometimes, even skimping by doing very little.  The job is a blessing, although I'm able to work so little now that it doesn't help much anymore.  I'm becoming scared.  I've even had this boss tell me to "take some time off" recently, which in my experience means something more like, we're getting ready to fire you.

My doctors don't want me to work at all, but I always joke "Doc, we live in different worlds" when they tell me to quit and apply for SSI.  I know the drill with Social Security.  You apply, get denied and than fight tooth and nail for however long until you have nothing left but the shoes on your feet.  Even then, you're lucky to be considered disabled.

I'm so sick all the time.  I try to explain to people the feeling of having the worst flu and hangover all in one every single day.  I feel like I have no where to turn.  I'm scared to lose my children if I can't afford to take care of them.  As it is, I'm so far in debt from medical bills, I couldn't get help from anywhere if I tried, and there are warrants out for my arrest because I can't pay medical bills or make it to the hearings.  Even if I could make it to those hearings I probably wouldn't....Why?? So they can garnish the little bit of money I do have coming in?!!!  Who came up with the law that if you can't pay, you either come to court to allow garnishment, or go to jail for contempt and have to pay the amount of the bill to get out???  It's ridiculous. If I could pay my bills I would.  I did when I could.  I've never even had a credit card.  I don't abuse credit.   

I'm currently fighting for disability Medicaid to pay my medical bills and prescriptions.  I try to explain that without my medications, I can't work, but without Medicaid I can't get my medication and see my doctor, but it doesn't work like that.  I suppose they will end up reevaluating me when I'm totally incapacitated and homeless because that's where it appears to be going.  If I end up denied, the medical care will cease and I will not be able to function at all.

I'm really scared and desperate.  I need help, but I don't even know where to turn anymore.  I have approximately 6 hours a day where I feel semi-normal.  I still have the pain and fatigue, but I can work through it.  Usually about 3 hours in the morning and 3 in the later afternoon, than I'm done.  My body wakes me up between 4 and 5am and I'm done by noon.  Like I'm 85, not 35. 

If I can't take care of my children and have to live in agony constantly, what's the point to living at all?  My children are my life.  I can deal with being sick if I have their smiles to drive me on.  I'm so tired.  I'm just so tired and I can't do this anymore.  In my eyes, family is all there is.  If I can't have mine, than what's the point?

Legal help?  Financial help?  It all seems so temporary, but what else is there?  Like a temporary fix to a permanent, ongoing problem.  I'm beginning to understand why people went to Dr. Kevorkian.  Quality of life is everything and when the scale of suffering tips too far on the side of agony and less and less on the side of joy, what's left?

So whatever help can be given, please, please think of us.  We are grateful for anything and everything. 

well i have one more day and i will offically have no utilities but thanks for letting me post

hi my name is abe im 23 years old single from indina state im looking for some single to or somebody who want's to make a relationship.im been threw allot stuff and im tired im looking for some one honest.dont care about thre personality.at least she is truthful and dont lie always speak with true.

Hello! I'm a single mother of one girl. I just recently became a c.n.a.(after several years of struggle i finally achieved something so far). I'm looking for employment and am having a hard time due to having no transportation. i really could use a good working car to be able to get a job and a place of my own. thanks so much!!!

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Hello. I am a 22 year old, disabled, mother of a 2 year old baby girl from Chesterton, Indiana. My disability is called Freidreich’s Ataxia. It is a degenerative, neurological disorder that deteriorates my nerves and muscles which has resulted in my being confined to a wheelchair. I also have slightly slurred speech. Right now, my family is in desperate need of help. I do receive SSI and my fiancé works at a local supermarket, but we do not have nearly enough money to pay all of our bills. We are completely out of money and we’ve overdrawn our bank accounts. So at this point, I really don’t know what else to do, so I’m pleading for help. We’ve tried for assistance programs (like foodstamps and TANF), but supposedly, we don’t qualify. We’ve sought out assistance for our gas and electric bill, but we were told that the funds for our county have been used up. We have also looked in to subsidized apartments or getting on Section 8 but nothing is/will be available for years. And to make things even more horrible, my disability is getting worse quickly and I’ve been falling out of my wheelchair a lot (I fell on my face and broke my nose a few months ago) and I’m having a very hard time caring for our daughter properly all day every day by myself. I have been trying to find an agency to get an aid, but we can’t afford it. I’ve tried for over a year, to find a job, but I’ve had no luck. I’ve been told that no-one will hire a liability, and with me being in a wheelchair, that’s what I am. My fiancé has even tried getting a second job, but along with jobs being very hard to find, no-one is willing to accomodate his attending college. So you see, nothing works! We’re maxing out credit cards left and right and we are heading in over our heads in debt. We have no health insurance and are just stuck. We really need help to get back on our feet again.

Please find it in your heart to donate a few extra dollars to help us out. I really didn’t want to come to the society for help, but it seems no agency out there will.

Feel free to e-mail me at  eamatula@comcast.net or IM me on AIM: lyzball or YahooIM: littlelyz4u414