January 23, 2014

Attn: All DUers Read This: I Need Your Help!

My name is Steve Senti, I am 54 years old and disabled. I own and run oreilly-sucks.com and have been a member here since 2001.

I posted here a few months ago after my Father passed away in May of 2013. I was living with my 89 year old Father who had alzheimers and Dementia, I took care of him and paid the bills with his social security and pension money. Now he is gone and I am all alone in his house with $800.00 a month in bills.

I am still trying to get over his death and a day rarely goes by that I do not cry thinking about him because I miss him so much. I was in control of his entire life for the last 2 years, and he was not just my Father he was my best friend too. We got about as close as a Father and son could get and I am still depressed from him being gone.

I am on food stamps and I get my medical care from the OSF community clinic, the state pays for it with a medical card that went into effect on 1-1-14, and they pay for my 5 prescriptions with a $2.00 co-pay for each one. I am disabled with a bad back and other medical problems, so it limits what I can do.

I got a law firm called myler disability to file my SSI claim, it was denied and we filed an appeal, the appeal was denied in December and we filed the next appeal for the ALJ hearing with a judge, where most appeals are won. But they tell me it will take 11 to 13 months to get the appeal hearing with the judge, here is a copy of the most recent letter they sent me.



I do not have much of an income, I make $100 to $200 a month selling ad space on my website, but some months I do not make anything. So I need to raise some money to help me pay my bills until I get my SSI ALJ appeal hearing in December.

So if anyone can help me and make a donation I would appreciate it very much, I need to raise about $7.000 dollars to get me to December. Now I understand that is a lot of money, and I do not expect you guys to donate that much to me.

But if you can donate anything it will help. I have even tried to find work I can do and had no luck. I even tried to get the state vocational rehabilitation office to find a job I can do and so far they have not found anything for me either. So it looks like I am on my own until December, that means I need to raise $7.000 to pay my bills for the next 11 months.

I was lucky to sell an ad spot on the website recently, which will give me enough money to pay the bills for February. But if I do not raise some money from donations by the end of february, I will run out of money by March.

So please donate if you can, I have a paypal donation page on the website:

http://www.oreilly-sucks.com/donate.htm

And my paypal e-mail is: oreillyspins@yahoo.com

Steve

P.S. Even if you can not donate, if you could keep this thread kicked up so everyone can see it for a couple day I would appreciate it.

Thank you.

September 19, 2013

Hey DUers I Need Some Emergency Help From You

I will try to keep this short. My name is Steve Senti, I have been a member here since 2000 and I also own and run www.oreilly-sucks.com. I am 53 years old and I have a bad back, diabetes, high blood pressure, and other medical problems. I was living with my 89 year old WWII veteran father, in his house, paying the bills with his social security and pension money, driving his truck, etc.

I was caring for him in his home for the last 3 years, he needed 24/7 care because he had alzheimers and dementia. Until he got sick in January of this year, then it got worse and worse and he passed away on May 14th at 4:10am. I was devastated because he was my whole life, and now he is gone.

I can not even type this up without crying, because it makes me think of him, and I am still having a hard time getting over his death. It hit me so hard it's been 4 months since he died and I have still not made it one day without crying thinking about him.

I have been getting by (just barely) with a little money I had saved, a small life insurance policy he had of $1.000, and a little money I made selling advertising on the website I own. I also made some money from garage sales, I got some money from my family, and some through donations here and at wishadoo.org and on the website. Thanks to OneGrassRoot from DU who helped me a lot.

Now most of that money is gone, and I need to raise $1.170.00 by October 10th, to pay my monthly bills. I also need to raise $170.00 of that by September 25th, so I can pay my $295.00 truck insurance bill. I filed for SSI in December of 2012 through a law firm called Myler Disability. Then SSI denied me in June of this year, and we filed an appeal that should take 4 months. I also filed for public aid on May 19th and I am still waiting for a ruling on that, a whopping 4 months later.

The state of Illinois (DHS & HFS) just approved me for a medical card, finally, but it is not good until 1-1-14. Now I am waiting to hear if my public aid cash assistance will be approved. Right now all I get is food stamps and free health care from the OSF Sisters Community Clinic in Peoria, Illinois. The law firm tells me they think the SSI appeal decision will be in by November, and I have no idea when I will find out if my cash assistance from public aid is approved or denied.

I also filed for a cash grant through the Sunshine Lady Foundation on 9-9-13, which is run by Doris Buffett, who is Warren Buffett's sister. But they tell me it will be 8 weeks before I will find out if my grant is approved or denied. So basically, I am between a rock and a hard place, I have no real income to speak of and I have to find a way to pay the bills until November while I wait to find out about all this stuff.

I am even going to do another garage sale, which will be hard because I do not have much left. That is where you guys come in, I am hoping you can donate some money to me to pay my $1.170.00 in bills for October.

So please make a donation if you can, here is my paypal email:

oreillyspins@yahoo.com

I also have a paypal donation page on my website:

http://www.oreilly-sucks.com/donate.htm

You guys are my last hope, I have only raised $127.00 in the last week, which leaves me about $1.170.00 short of what I need. I just need to raise that $1.170.00 to get me to November, and I hope you guys can help me, because I have nowhere else to raise any money, this is my last chance to raise that kind of money.

Steve

September 3, 2013

Update 9-3-13

Good news, I reached my goal of $1.000. thanks to you guys at DU.com. Someone donated the other $350.00 I needed today, so now I have enough money to pay my bills for September.

Thank you all so much.

Steve

August 30, 2013

Hey Folks I Need Some Help Fast....

My name is Steve Senti, and I own www.oreilly-sucks.com, I have run it for 13 years now. About 3 years ago my 89 year old Father got Alzheimers and Dementia so I had to care for him 24 hours a day 7 days a week. It was really tough because of all the stress, etc. but I did it because I loved my Father with all my heart.

In fact, we got so close over the last 3 years it was ridiculous, we were as close as a son and Father could get. I had to feed him, wash him, put his clothes on, help him to the bathroom, take him to his doctors, and on and on.

But I did it because he was my Father, then he got sick in January of this year. It got worse and worse and he was in and out of the hospital about 9 times from February until April, when the doctors basically forced me to put him into a nursing home. Which was the hardest thing I have ever had to do in my life. Because my Father had told me he would rather be dead than go to a nursing home.

So on April 12th I agreed to put him into a nursing home, and at that point the doctor said he only had a month or so to live. And I was devastated, I just sat in his house all alone (because my Mother passed away in 1998) crying all day and all night waiting for the call to tell me he had passed away.

It was literally like being tortured, I was crying about 10 times a day and I did not know what to do. Because his social security and pension paid all the bills, so not only would I lose my Father and my only family, I would also lose my financial support.

So on May 14th the phone rang at 4:20am and I knew what it was, they told me my Father had passed away. Now I have $1.000.00 a month in bills and no income, except for the roughly $150.00 a month I make from my website selling text link ads for $20.00 a month.

I am 53 years old with a bad back and other medical problems, I get food stamps and free medical through the local OSF Sisters Community Clinic. I am unemployed and I have filed for SSI and Public Aid. In June I got a decision on my SSI and they denied it. So I found a law firm to take my case and file an appeal.

I filed for Public Aid in May, and to this day they have still not made a ruling on my claim, and it was for emergency cash assistance. My family has been helping me pay the bills since May, and my Father has a small life insurance policy of $1.000.00, but that money is almost gone.

I need to make it until November, because they say I should have a ruling on my SSI appeal by then, and I should have a ruling on my Public Aid by then too. To make long story less long, I need the help of all the DUers, I need you guys to help me raise the money to pay my bills for another 2 months, which is about $2.000.00.

If you guys could help me and make a donation to my paypal account it would keep me from being homeless, and broke. I am still having trouble getting over my Fathers death, I am depressed and I still think about him every day and cry 3 or 4 times a day.

He was not only my Father, he was my best friend too, and he was like a son to me also, because taking care of him was like having a 5 year old kid. So when he died it was like losing my Father, my best friend, and my son. I have sold everything I can, to pay the bills, including the vacumn cleaner, the lawn mower, the weed trimmer, my watch, everything, but my tv.

You guys are my last hope, if I can not raise at least $1.000.00 by September 10th, I do not know what I am going to do, because I will not be able to pay any of my bills. I only need to make it to November, and then I hope to win my SSI appeal by then, or at least get my Public Aid claim approved.

So please make a donation, here is my paypal email:

oreillyspins@yahoo.com

And I also have a paypal donation page on my website:

http://www.oreilly-sucks.com/donate.htm

Steve

P.S. Note to Skinner, and the mods, I know you do not like people posting threads like this, but I have no choice, and I hope you let this stay on the board. I have been a member here for a long time, and I know I did some stupid things in the past, but I was drunk when I did it and dealing with my Father which led me to drink, it was very stressful and pretty much a living nightmare. The stress of taking care of my Father led me to drink way too much, and I hope you can forgive me for that and help me.