Your support would help me cover the essentials that keep me going during this time: ongoing medical bills, rent, transportation, groceries, and prescriptions. Because these needs continue week after week while I am unable to work, recurring donations would make a real difference in helping me keep up with these basic expenses. If recurring support is possible for you, it would help me manage these ongoing costs while I wait for assistance and focus on getting through each week. I am starting this fundraiser for myself as I try to get through life with parietal lobe seizures. This diagnosis has affected every part of my daily life, and right now I do not know when I will be able to return to work. I have already applied for assistance, but I have been told it may take months. In the meantime, I am doing everything I can to hold on to what I have worked so hard to build while facing ongoing seizures and the loss of income. 

I also live with mental health challenges, and the type of seizures I have affects my mental health as well. This diagnosis and everything that has come with it have made those struggles significantly harder. I am seeing a neurologist and taking anti-seizure medications that are life-sustaining for me. Without these medications, my seizures would be even worse.