02/05/2023
WHERE HAVE WE BEEN? It is a year that we have posted here on Facebook and YouTube and now we come to not only check in but also to ask for help.
So what happened. Well first we got burned out mentally and we took a break to just mentally get better. What didn't help as well is that a lot of the dumpsters we pick were getting locked, were getting hit first before us, and or the contents were being destroyed by employers. So that pushed us back more to kind of in all honesty give up. We haven't lost the love of picking, but it was getting a little disheartening to not find nothing. At times we did go and found some stuff but majority of the time it was nothing. We have been selling at the flea market, we still have a lot of items from past finds. Not only that Aida has also been repurposing Bath and Body Work candles into tea cup candles as well.
Then life happened. Jacob tore his ACL again and went into knee surgery for a second time in a row. He had to repair his meniscus and ACL. Apart from that bills and work just took over and we rode the wave of that 9 to 5. Then come earlier this year I got into an accident and started with back problems.
I got better from the accident but another set of health problems started to occur. My left eye started to give me pain, pain that I couldn't remedy with just Tylenol and Ibuprofen. Eventually I had an episode of pain that made me double over to where my head/eye was hurting, I couldn't hold my head up and going to the hospital, not even the morphine helped to ease it. Eventually I was scheduled with a specialist for Glaucoma because my eye was creating immense pressure. 5 drops and 3 pills later I was able to handle the pressure and prevent pain for about 4 days. I got hit with another painful episode and the specialist referred me to another specialist and long story short I need to remove my eye.
This lead to Aida getting a crash course in insurance, which she detests HMO's and networks by the way, and not only that, thru faith, she got me insurance, made a way to see my the 2nd specialist all within April. All this wasn't supposed to occur till June! Granted we had a hiccup because well HMO's that is all I have to say. I needed a new one and it would kick into effect in May. So all April I had to prevent pain literally my doctors couldn't prescribe nothing strong other than drops and Tylenol and Ibuprofen. Not even a tranquilizer and morphine together did anything. Luckily again my wife got me some CBD oils and I started to take preventative measures.
I work in front of a computer and I am not able to do that too much. I sleep and just keep my head down because I pick it up and I am in discomfort. To sleep is a miracle all of this April. Only relief was literally hanging my head off the bed. I can't drive no more, I can't see tv like before. So this is where I come for help. I have insurance but I have a deductible which again is something I'm new to. I hate to be absent a whole year and now come asking for help, but unfortunately I am. I have linked a gofund me for this situation and would appreciate any help that can be offered and if any can't because believe you me we know this economy isn't helpful, then we ask for prayers. May is here and literally in the span of this morning Aida has gotten this surgery approved and set for May 18th.
If you have any questions, comments or if you just want to yell at me to ask me where have I been LOL please feel free to post them. Any and all help is appreciated.
Love you all.
Juan, Aida, Jacob, and Leah
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