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My. Story is about my widowed niece of three children trying to provide for her family.Her most debilitating obstacle is her health issue.She is so morbidly obese,that I am afraid she may not be able to leave her home before much longer.She and her three children live on a fixed and modest income that hardly provides for their needs.There is no insurance.Without assistance from close family,her family would not make it.She has unreliable transportation at best.Her oldest son is away in college on a full scholarship,and would not be there if it weren't for the scholarship.Her middle son is not adapting well and having behavior issues.I see her daughter suffering as well with life as it is.They attend church religiously and this is the only time she leaves her home except
when her parents come for them.
My request is to ask for your assistance in finding Cari help with bariatric surgery to give her hope of a normal life which will enable her to support her family with gainful employment.It is so disheartening to see such a beautiful family in ruin because of their misfortune. Please consider this humble request for assistance.Thank you and bless you.
HELLO MY NAME IS SINDY. I AM 15 YEARS OLD AND I WOULD LOVE SOME HELP. I LIVE IN A 5 BEDROOM HOUSE THATS GREAT YES BUT NOT WHEN THERE IS 8 PEOPLE LIVING IN IT! MY MOTHER AND FATHER BOTH ARE DISABLED. MY DAD HAS SEVERE DIABETES AND MY MOTHER HAS HAD 3 BACK SURGERY AND HAS RODS, SCREWS, AND A METAL PLATE IN HERE BACK. AND NOW THEY SAY SHE NEEDS ANOTHER SURGERY. MY GREAT GRAND-MOTHER ALSO LIVES WITH US. SHE BRINGS IN A $900 CHECK EVERY MONTH BUT AFTER THE LIGHT BILL AND THE HOUSE PAYMENT AND PAYING HER TITHES SHE HAS NO MONEY LEFT! MY MOTHER AND FATHER ARE TRYING TO RAISE 4 KIDS. MY MOM HAS TO TAKE CARE OF US KIDS AND MY DAD WHEN HIS BLOOD SUGAR DROPS WHICH RANGES FROM 4 TO 20 TIMES A DAY. MY MOTHER GOES OUT OF HER WAY TO HELP ANYONE IN NEED AND ASKS FOR NOTHING IN RETURN! BUT NOW WHEN WE ARE STRUGGLING LIKE THIS HER FRIENDS WILL NOT EVEN ANSWER HER CALLS. NOW IDK IF THIS WILL HELP ANYTHING BUT I REALLY HOPE IT DOES! AND I HAVE AN AUNT WHO IS LESBIAN AND SHE GOT FIRED FROM HER JOB BECAUSE OF THAT. THEN SHE FOUND A GOOD WORKING JOB AND SHE WENT INTO A COMA NOW SHE IS BACK HERE WITH US VERY HEALTHY. NOW I KNOW GOD HAS BLESSED ME IN MY LIFE AND I WILL NEVER COMPLAIN ABOUT THAT BUT WE JUST NEED A HOUSE PLEASE! THATS ALL IM ASKING! I KNOW THATS ALOT AND IF YOU CANT I UNDERSTAND NO MATER WHAT IM STILL BLESSED.
MY HUSBAND SHANNON IS ALSO ON OXYGEN FOR SARCOIDOSIS AS WELL AS DIALYSIS FOR HIS END STAGE RENAL DISEASE. WE ARE REALLY STRUGGLING TO PAY OUR BILLS FOR SHANNONS DISABILITY CHECK IS THE ONLY INCOME FOR OUR HOUSEHOLD. I CANT WORK BECAUSE I HAVE TO CARE FOR MY HUSBAND. HOPEFULLY WE WILL BE ABLE TO HAVE OUR SURGERY SOON SO THAT SHAN CAN GET WELL AND I CAN GO BACK TO WORK. I AM HIS LIVING DONOR AND WILL BE GIVING HIM A KIDNEY AT EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL IN ATLANTA. WE COULD REALLY USE YOUR HELP . WITH HIS ILLNESS IF WE LOSE OUR ELECTRICITY OR HEATING GAS IT COULD BE FATAL. WE RECENTLY RELOCATED TO GEORGIA FROM CHICAGO BECAUSE WE COULD NO LONGER AFFORD TO LIVE THERE. PLEASE CONSIDER HAVING SHUTTERFLY HELP US. WE COULD REALLY USE THE ASSISTANCE NO MATTER WHAT IT MAY BE. THANKS SO MUCH TEBA
My husband Shannon has been battling End Stage Renal Disease for the last two years. In May of 2011 he started dialysis treatment to stay alive. He is fortunate to be doing nocturnal (overnight) hemodialysis at the North Henry Davita in Stockbridge Ga. He is doing fairly well on this treatment but will need to have a kidney transplant soon. Shannon is NOT able to work at this time, which is causing him quite a bit of stress as he is used to being independent.
Shannon has Medicare and Medicaid coverage, which is a blessing, but this will not cover all the costs for the transplant. The good news is that I am a match for him and will be able to give him my kidney. The bad news is that our transplant surgery has been put on hold until we can raise enough money to cover the prescriptions for the anti-rejection medication needed after the transplant that the insurance won't cover. This is a long lasting situation as Shannon will have to take these medications for the rest of his life. We will need to raise over $20,000 for the required immunosuppressant medications.
Hello Ellen, I love your show and you. Im writing in regards to how you help familys in need. My family lives in willow, Alaska. I have three wonderful children, ages 16,14,and12. My husband Gil has been out of work for2years now. Like every-one else we are struggly.We are living on 1acr with a house that is falling down all around us. Gil buit a small two bedroom cabin all by him self, but it is falling apart, not his fault. He work's very hard to take care of us, but there is no work, no money! Gil is a project Manager with no openings in his field. He has applyed for so many jobs, but they all sat he is over quliyfid. Myself i'm trying to go too school, to better myself but it aoso is getting hare and I am running up student loans I can't pay back. We love our children so very much, and they giveup alot to hepl us. It break's my heart how we keep trying to keep our heads above water with no hope in sight. I wish there was something I could do for my family, and for Gil to not giveup! Feeling blue and cold in Alaska, Cynthia
First I want to start by saying I love u Ellen. I don't have a computer at home because I can't afford to pay for internet. So I log on to your website at work and I won my free gift card for answering the trivia questions but the school had a block on their computers, so i couldn't send my email address so that I could receive my card. I would appreciate if can email me back so I can give u my address. Thank You Very Much.
DEAR ELLEN, HI MY NAME IS PAM LEWIS AND YOU ELLEN ARE MY INSPIRATION WE WATCH YOU EVERY DAY AND LOVE YOUR SHOW YOU JUST MAKE ME SMILE LAUGH AND SOMETIMES CRY BUT IN A GOOD WAY I THINK ITS AMAZING HOW YOU ELLEN AND SHUTTERFLY WORKS TOGEATHER AND HELPS PEOPLE THAT ARE IN NEED THE WORLD NEEDS MORE PEOPLE LIKE THAT IT WOULD BE A BETTER PLACE. I AM MARRIED TO A WONDERFUL MAN OF 29 YRS AND HAVE 3 BEAUITFUL CHILDREN SHELBY DUSTIN AND ZACK AND 2 BEAUITFUL GRANDBABIES THAT I JUST WORSHIP MY HUSBAND BECAME ILL BACK IN 2010 AND HAD TO CLOSE HIS BUSSINESS DOWN AND THEN WE COULDNT PAY OUR MORGTAGE PAYMENT AND HAD TO MOVE INTO A LOW INCOME APT WHEN THE MARCH TORANDO CAME AND TOOK THAT HOME AND EVERYTHING WE HAD WE WERE DISPLACED TO ANOTHER CITYWHERE WE HAD TO START BACK OVER AND THAT IS VERY HARD WE NOW LIVE IN ANOTHER LOW INCOME APT AND STRUGGLE EVERY DAY TO GET BY I LOST MY MOM BACK IN AUGUST TO LUNG CANCER SHE WAS MY BEST FRIEND I MISS HER SO MUCH THIS PAST CHRISTMAS WAS SO HARD MY MOMS BITHDAY IS CHRISTMAS DAY AND THIS WAS MY FIRST CHRISTMAS WITHOUT HER AND ALONG WITH THAT WE DIDNT HAVE A TREE OR WASNT ABLE TO BUY GIFTS FOR OUR CHILDREN IT WAS A VERY SAD TIME. I WRITE TO YOU ABOUT EVERYDAY I SIT WATCH YOUR VIDEOS AT NIGHT BEFORE I GO TO BED YOU ALWAYS SEEM TO MAKE ME FEEL BETTER YOU ALWAYS PUT A SMILE ON MY FACE. ONE DAY I WAS TALKING TO MY MOM AND SHE SAID PAM ARE YOU STILL WRITTING TO ELLEN AND I SAID YES AND SHE SAID TO ME KEEP WRITTING AND NEVER GIVE UP ON YOUR DREAMS BABY GIRL MY MOM HAS TOLD ME AND TAUGHT ME NEVER GIVE UP ON YOUR DREAMS AND IF YOU WANT SOMETHING BAD ENOUGH IT CAN HAPPEN.SO HOPING AND PRAYING SOME DAY YOU WILL SEE MY MESSAGE AND HOPE IT TOUCHES YOUR HEART AS IM WRITTING IT FROM MINE AND THEN I CAN LOOK UP AT MY MOM IN HEAVEN AND SAY MOM I DID IT AND DREAMS DO COME TRUE. LOVE THE LEWIS FAMILY 606-462-3241
Hi Ellen
My Name is Arnar Freyr Hermannsson just call me Andy. I come from Iceland and I watch your show a lot. I'm a former drug addict and I have been sober now for 7 months and 21 day to day, and by watching your show inspires me to continue help people like me get sober. Then I have one question for you Ellen, can you give me any tips to continue my work of helping other people.
yours Andy from Iceland.
Hello Ellen,
I watch your show very often. I enjoy your show very much from your dancing to your funny jokes as well as the great celebraties you have joining you on the couch. I really enjoy the part at the end of your show when you say "be good to everybody". Most of all I love the way you help people in need. I must say it is kind of a bittersweet to me meaning I love the way you help others but it brings tears to my eyes because I wish it could be me the one you help. I really need help with housing. I am being evicted from my home due to the fact that I refused to pay rent for two months because my landlord would not provide heat. I had to keep the electricity going which bought my bill up to 1074.00 in which I am paying on a payment plan paying 130.00 per month trying to catch up. I have to do this because when I do find a place to live, I want to be able to transfer my services. I am currently unemployed but looking for employment on a daily basis. I would be very thankful if you could help me in this matter. My son is 22 years old who has a part time job and he helps as much as he can. I had to ask him to withdraw from school due to the fact I could no longer afford his rent. But I must add that he is a very smart and respectable young man in who I am very proud of. Just really having a very hard time right now. Your help would be very appreciated.
Thanking you in advance,
Marcia Allmond
Dear Ellen, first i wanted to say you are truly an amazing person. You are very inspirational and for that thank you. I am writing to you not because of a particular person or for help for a single person or money for someone. I am writing because it would be really cool if you could do a 2 minute advertisement for Fanconi's Anemia. This is a condition that not many people know about, and honestly needs a little light. I feel like if more people knew about the condition then maybe more people would donate to the Research of F.A. To help families and help get us closer to some kind of cure. And maybe more people will donate bone marrow for those who need it. There are many families who are effected by this and i know not many people know that this condition is out there. When i told people i had FA most people i know have no idea what it is. I hope you read this and it would be really cool if you could help all of us out and just shine light on a medical problem that needs it. thank you so much.
Hi Ellen,my name is Marilou E. Pabatao, from Philippines. I am one of your avid fans in your show because it has inspired a lot of people. You have lots of people in need indeed. I am a widow for 3 years now and i have one very little cute 3 yr old daughter. I am inspired to write you because she will be turning 3 yrs old and she never saw her dad...He died in a car accident and she was 1 yr old when her dad died. I was not officially married to him because of incompleteness of do***ents. I was a former nun who left the convent 3 yrs ago. I am happy with status now as a mother but sad to say my daughter longs to see her kins in Trinidad and Tobago. We want to visit her grandmother who is sick and other relatives in Trinidad and Tobago however we dont have enough financial allocation for the trip. I am wishing that you could help us fly to Trinidad and Tobago to see her 85 yr old grandma...Please Mam Ellen we humbly ask you to help us in this need. We cant pay you in return but rest assure of our constant prayers for you always. Hoping to hear from you soon. +639053218289
DEAR ELLEN, HI MY NAME IS PAM LEWIS AND YOU ELLEN ARE MY INSPIRATION WE WATCH YOU EVERY DAY AND LOVE YOUR SHOW YOU JUST MAKE ME SMILE LAUGH AND SOMETIMES CRY BUT IN A GOOD WAY I THINK ITS AMAZING HOW YOU ELLEN AND SHUTTERFLY WORKS TOGEATHER AND HELPS PEOPLE THAT ARE IN NEED THE WORLD NEEDS MORE PEOPLE LIKE THAT IT WOULD BE A BETTER PLACE. I AM MARRIED TO A WONDERFUL MAN OF 29 YRS AND HAVE 3 BEAUITFUL CHILDREN SHELBY DUSTIN AND ZACK AND 2 BEAUITFUL GRANDBABIES THAT I JUST WORSHIP MY HUSBAND BECAME ILL BACK IN 2010 AND HAD TO CLOSE HIS BUSSINESS DOWN AND THEN WE COULDNT PAY OUR MORGTAGE PAYMENT AND HAD TO MOVE INTO A LOW INCOME APT WHEN THE MARCH TORANDO CAME AND TOOK THAT HOME AND EVERYTHING WE HAD WE WERE DISPLACED TO ANOTHER CITYWHERE WE HAD TO START BACK OVER AND THAT IS VERY HARD WE NOW LIVE IN ANOTHER LOW INCOME APT AND STRUGGLE EVERY DAY TO GET BY I LOST MY MOM BACK IN AUGUST TO LUNG CANCER SHE WAS MY BEST FRIEND I MISS HER SO MUCH THIS PAST CHRISTMAS WAS SO HARD MY MOMS BITHDAY IS CHRISTMAS DAY AND THIS WAS MY FIRST CHRISTMAS WITHOUT HER AND ALONG WITH THAT WE DIDNT HAVE A TREE OR WASNT ABLE TO BUY GIFTS FOR OUR CHILDREN IT WAS A VERY SAD TIME. I WRITE TO YOU ABOUT EVERYDAY I SIT WATCH YOUR VIDEOS AT NIGHT BEFORE I GO TO BED YOU ALWAYS SEEM TO MAKE ME FEEL BETTER YOU ALWAYS PUT A SMILE ON MY FACE. ONE DAY I WAS TALKING TO MY MOM AND SHE SAID PAM ARE YOU STILL WRITTING TO ELLEN AND I SAID YES AND SHE SAID TO ME KEEP WRITTING AND NEVER GIVE UP ON YOUR DREAMS BABY GIRL MY MOM HAS TOLD ME AND TAUGHT ME NEVER GIVE UP ON YOUR DREAMS AND IF YOU WANT SOMETHING BAD ENOUGH IT CAN HAPPEN.SO HOPING AND PRAYING SOME DAY YOU WILL SEE MY MESSAGE AND HOPE IT TOUCHES YOUR HEART AS IM WRITTING IT FROM MINE AND THEN I CAN LOOK UP AT MY MOM IN HEAVEN AND SAY MOM I DID IT AND DREAMS DO COME TRUE. LOVE THE LEWIS FAMILY 606-462-3241
Hi ,Ellen I have been watching your show, and you are a amazing person ,by helping people in need.I just wanted to nominate my son Derik ,he became a father six month ago ,and he is good dad, and a hard worker.The reason I nominate my son ,because he is good kid.And he is always having trouble with his car ,one day he called me that his tire flew off .And just the other day he said that he have a blow out.I wish ,I could buy him a new car,l can't aford it ,because I just make minimum wage and work four days a week.I would to have money to help him out. Thank You !
Dear Ellen,
I am writing to you, or should I say, reaching out to you to help my best friend Columbia. Columbia and her family had their home in Island Park, Long Island, destroyed during Hurricane Sandy. Columbia, her husband and their two boys were in their home when the hurricane hit. She experienced the roof blowing off, water entering their home, loss of electricity and more. Columbia was stuck in her home for over 48 hours until I went I picked her up. She and the boys stayed at our home (and my Mom's since our electricty was out for a few days) for about 3 weeks. It was so upsetting to see her feel helpless and scared. She cried often, was away from her husband a lot (he tried to help community and his home as best he could), and kept thinking about the safety of her boys.
Some background information: Columbia lives in her parents home. They passed away while she was in college and she did everything she could to keep their home. Columbia bought the home and has lived there ever since. Columbia had all her Mom's china, photos, videos, Christmas decorations, and more in the garage and storage area of the home, Unfortunately, much of this was lost. She upset me so much when she told me she lost her Mom and Dad's voices on the videos that she was saving.
Columbia is a strong individual but I can see how some days she looks and seems so helpless. Helpless, a woman who is a Special Education teacher and who has such a positive influence on so many students' lives. Staying focused day in and day out is so hard for her. She wants to do everything for everyone, the people of the community, her students, her friends that lost homes.
When she stayed with us we did everything possible to keep it positive. The neighborhood created a mock Halloween for her kids since they missed Halloween, we celebrated her birthday during this time, played games by candlelight, had slumber nights, drank lots of wine, and our bonded!
Columbia is back in her home and has been working on it day and night for over 3 months now. The family is living in the upstairs appartment because the downstairs is not livable yet. I wish I could do so much more for her. They are out of money and cannot complete projects or furnish their place. She is making the best of everything and keeps a positive attitude. If we had the means, we would send her money to help her out, I wish we could.
I apologize that this message is all over the place. I had so much to tell and just kept writing. Thank you for listening!
Warm regards and thank you, Ellen for always making us laugh!
Natina DiOrio
My husband David is in desperate need of cataract surgery. Like of millions of Americans, we have no insurance. He has been unemployed for the last 4 years, due to the construction industry. Our mortgage company is starting foreclosure proceedings as we speak, and we are desperate for some help. Our granddaughter will be born mid April and I would love for him to be able to see her. Thank you for your consideration. 630-432-3967