Jun 20, 2010
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Jun 3, 2010
My name is Chris and I am a professional massage therapist. I am a graduate of Berks Technical Institute in Wyomissing PA. I graduated June of last year. I have been doing massage most of my life. My mother is a healing practitioner in the arts of physical and spiritual energy. I have been trying to find a job since I have graduated and have come to some realizations since my journey began in July of 2009.
I have done massage out of my home and more recently I have done it as part of a team in a chiropractors office. Now don't get me wrong it is good but I am being forced to do a great deal of marketing and I do not do well with trying to convince people they need services they feel they don't. its not that I can't get them to see they have an issue or problum but rather that if someone can't afford it they can't aford it. My boss seems to think otherwise.
My need is this. I have a baby comming and I am in need of a steady paycheck getting paid what I am worth. However, I have come to the conclusion that my desire to help heal people does not have as grand an outlook as I once thought it did if I stick with massage. I would much rather go to school to become a physical therapist and get my career rolling in that direction. I have all the necessary skills, mindset, desires and abilities but the funding is not there.
I already have student loans from three coleges that I attended when I got my AS and part of my BS and then my Massage certificate. and its a really challanging thing to even qualify for grants. I have tried and I don't trust any of the online ads for govt. grants who knows if it legit or not. I have been taken advantage of twice already and wont allow it a third time.
I would like to either work for a place of business and be trained or be put through school through them or, I will need the help to get there.If anyone can help me or knows of someone who can I would be forever greatful and would love to make a great new friend in the process. Thank You for taking the time to read this. Sincerely Chris.
Jan 29, 2009
Will you save me? I am a 20yr. old girl that was diagnosed with endometriosis when I was 16. That when my opiate addiction all began. Endometriosis is an extremely painful disease in the female organs of my body that is hereditary. The only way to know if you have it is to have surgery and i have had to have 2 surgeries for it and was due for another surgery 8months ago but my health insurance ran out. My gynocologist started prescribing my Vicodin for the pain when i was 16, I was on that for a 1 1/2yrs. when my body got used to it it stopped taking the pain away so he then moved me up to oxycodone 5mg. for the last 3yrs. About a year after i was taking the oxycodone my body adjusted to that also but this time my doctor said that he couldnt precscribe me anything stronger but didnt tell me why. A friend of mine was prescribed roxycodone 15mg. which are the same thing but stronger he started giving me them because he didnt need as many as he was prescribed well i took them daily for about 6mos. and ran out 1 week and was sick and found out that meant i was addicted which i didnt know that was possible when i started taking them another friend of mine was prescribed oxycontin and told me that it was the same thing just stronger so i started taking those to relieve the pain when i would run out of the roxys soon enough the roxys didnt help and only the oxys helped and i was addicted ive gone to detox twice and it wasnt enough help i need to go to rehab because i dont just take the oxys to relieve the physical pain but to also relieve my emotional pain from friends dying and leaving and my family my dad is an alcoholic and has been since before i was born my mom used to be addicted to cocaine and alcohol but is a recovering addict for over 10yrs. She would help me but she is filing bancruptcy. She was married and her husband left her after just building a house and she couldnt afford it on her own so now she has to move in the next 2 wks. My dad cant help me because he can't help himself and there is no one else to help me. I went to this rehab down in Florida called the Florida Center for recovery back when I had insurance the problem came when my insurance cut me off they only covered half of the time that the treatment was it is a 35 day program and they wouldnt pay more than 20 days so I didnt get the full treatment I would love nothing more than for your help in sending me back there it is a $15,000.00 program plus the plane ticket there they will help set me up in a halfway house afterwards down there which I also need very much I need to start over and learn how to live life sober again. In Ohio all I know is how to live as an addict all of my friends are addicts and everyone on my dads side of the family is either an alcoholic or an addict. I have never been the type of person to ask for hand outs but Ive given up on being stubborn. I really do need help and I know now that if Im ever going to get help I need to throw out my pride and ask for it so that is what Im doing. If anyone can help me I would greatly appreciate it I was a strong ambitious woman I was kicked out of my moms as soon as I turned 18 and still finished high school while living out of my car staying at different friends houses and a few times I had nowhere to go so I had to sleep in my car. During one of my stays at a friends house I was raped by someone who I though was my friend and I went to the police but they stopped investigating a few months later for reasons unknown. My drug use increased after that because it was the only thing that made me feel good it was the only thing that I had control of and that didnt leave I know that may sound crazy but being an addict is insane. I took cosmetology school in high school got my Cosmetology license 4 days after graduation, and worked in a salon for almost 3yrs. I went back to state board and got my managing cosmetology license as soon as I was able to (after working in a salon for 1yr.). I saved up and got my own apartment a few months after working at the salon. I lost my job when the drugs started taking a toll on my life I started sleeping and couldnt wake up to my alarms showing up late to work and calling off a lot due to being tired or sick from not having any medication or being in the hospital which I have to go to the hospital and doctors a lot. I want to start my life over learn how to live life again I want to be happy again and I want to be loved again. I have forgotten what its like to feel and when I get sober at a detox center I feel all the pain again and rehab helps you find out ways to cope and reasons to stay clean a reason to live. Ive tried commiting suicide 4 times now intentional overdose. Im heading towards death I started shooting up a few months ago when I lost all hope. I feel as though Im not only killing myself but my mom too. She has had some medical problems in her life also and most of it caused by stressed. I just want to be me again and I hope that I can one day be the person reading a story like this and can help somebody like me when I get my life back! I appreciate anything that you can do. Thank you for taking the time to read my story I have faith that one day I will be better i pray that god will help me through you!!! When I get better I will pay back my debt to you if you would like!!! Someone once told me that I am only as old as when I took my first drug and I truly believe that because I still feel like a 16yr. old girl. I just want to grow up. The Rehab that i wish to go to is The Florida Center for Recovery toll free 1-800-851-3291 or local 1-772-429-3199 The address is 3451 West Midway Rd. Fort Pierce, Fl 34981 It is a great 35 day program and afterwards they will help me get into a halfway house nearby the rehab facility which is very necessary in my case I take a lethal dose of narcotics on a daily basis and im asking for any kind of help!!!
Dec 30, 2008
Hello all, I'm a 44 year old web designer that has been in the business for a few years now. My goal in life is to start my own business and help others that are less fortunate by employing them. I hope to be able to do this through a grant. The people I will employ will be of some type of minority and also helping less fortunate ones who are just out of drug and alcohol rehab. I want people to have hope and to also have a positive outlook on life.
If you have any suggestions please feel free to point me in the right direction.
Aug 9, 2008
My name is Gary Smith. I am a gay male who lives in the hills of Kentucky. My lover and I have been together for 4 years. (On and off for 17.) We have seen a lot of people die of AIDS, Crystal abuse, drug abuse of many kinds, at the hands of others... and by their own hands.
We are tired of standing idly by and watching our fellow men fall by the wayside. Some killing themselves slowly using drugs... some taking a quick jump to death through a loop tied to the ceiling... and some dying slowly due to AIDS.
We are looking for people and agencies who want to help snuff out the disease of drug addiction... namely addiction to Crystal Methamphetamine.
We are looking to buy a stretch of land, here in the hills of Kentucky, and turn it into a farm. Accept applicants who need a new start (away from the drugs and the gay lifestyle) to live in a communal setting. Tending animals, gardening, carpentry, housekeeping, cooking, cleaning, and so on.
We believe that funding for their upkeep can be found easily. We are just needing the start-up capital. (Property, housing, furnishings, livestock, equipment, seed, feed, and provisions.)
They average meth user goes back after six months, to using... usually to an extreme.
We would like to provide this setting for one year to each individual and phase them back into society... clean, productive, bright-eyed, and with a yearning to help others in our community.
At times, when the need arises some will be allowed to stay on indefinitely as positions come open.
We have people from a lot of healing arts standing ready to help in this venture with their expertise. (Raiki experts, Physical trainers, physical therapists, yoga instructors, respiratory therapists, and religious leaders in numerous different beliefs.)
As you can see, we don't intend to leave any need unmet for these individuals, not physical, mental, or even spiritual. We believe that every person can only be made whole... if their WHOLE PERSON is not given undivided attention and healing in this process.
Please, someone... anyone... help us to accomplish this so we can start helping the gay community to start healing.
Hello I am a 32 year old male my name is Nathan I am trying to raise my stepson alone my wife is in jail on a 5 year sentence for getting involved with drugs.
I have recently been evicted from my trailer and my mom has used most of her retirement up helping me and other members of my family. She is trying to get disability but been denied 2 times already she can arely get around the house and I help her with chores and errends she needs.
I had quit my job at hardees and move because of the eviction and move near my mom I have been paying child support for 3 children that I am not even able to see. I used to make double the money I was recently making and the state is dragging there feet on getting a court date to get my support lowered I am trying to get my wife into a rehab so she can get out of jail quicker because me and my son love and miss her so much and I think she really needs help.Most of the rehabs that she can get into either cost too much or they are short term ahe needs at least a 6 month program the best one I found for us is going to run about 3,200. I am not sure how I am going to keep food on the table let alone help her. The state just moved her more then 3 hours away making it hard to visit her my car is on its last legs and I cant afford car insurance,I have no home phone so she cant call collect even.
I have never asked anyone for help like this I am just so scared for my family if there is anyone that can help please e-mail me at drgn1975@yahoo.com
God Bless You
I am a Real Estate agent and contractor, I am trying to buy properties, rehab them and then get low income or otherwise people who cannot get their own home in them, I need help, does anyone know of hard money lenders or government money that could help me meet my goal? I was down once and know how it feels not to be able to find a home so please any input at all would be great. I have been doing this for years and I found the perfect property that would aid over thirty families. Please anyone who has any ideas I would welcome the information.
