Well this is my first post.And i forewarn you it will be long. just posting past history too, It is what got us into what we are in now, I found this page when looking for help in Ohio.
For the past 3 years my husband and i have been able to keep afloat., Its been stressful but we have done it. Just a few years ago when my sons lead test can back at 32, We tried to get help trough the state in removing lead from our home. Yes we new when we bought it, it was a older home and they said it had lead. No one told us the damage lead could cause in a child or for a family. The state health department couldn't offer any help but giving us deadlines to get this removed, and Noe we were told we couldn't do it by ourselves, well we did.. we couldn't afford 10,000 + dollars to have someone remove it or even more for someone to come paint it with a certain paint. Our son now has issues, they say he has aspergers a high functioning autism.
Life was going better and my husband and i got pregnant. I had a very rough pregnancy. I was suppose to be on bed rest over 1/2 of it but my husband was laid off in feb. And we were going on unemployment (not much) and my 48(min) hours a week. well i fought with the dr about this and won telling him I had more stress not working, was admitted to the hospital over 3 times. well may 12 our little boy was boy very healthy. at 7 15lbs. the hospital scared us when leaving they didn't think he would make it past the first weekend because he was droping weight we had a home nurse come and show us how to force feed him every 2-4 hours 3-4 oz to make him gain the weight back. @ months in we was the same weight as other babies his age...so we get over that block in our path then, I notice a trend going on in my job. All older employees there were being fired.... I watched all my co workers leave, I confronted my boss the owner one night on the phone telling him I see a pattern and I am next. All he did was laugh at me telling me that I was crazy. I would be labeled #9. that everyone being paid 10 or over and full time with benefits were being let go, i was 9 and I know who is next. But he was on med leave when I was let go. sure enough the next day I was told there was a man. full staff meeting. I text another employee to see if she heard it yet, to see if they were firing me like they did a few others, a set up meeting not a full staff. Well their was a meeting. BUT i got fired for asking another employee told i was gossiping...
Now here I sit because i was on leave when pregnant and 12 weeks after and my husband laid off feb-june. We are being foreclosed on. Never in our lives did we think this would happen.We just don't know where to turn from here. My aunt has a place we can move into because she is disabled and ha to move to another state to be looked after by her sister and her family. But the shape the house is in. it needs soo much tlc. while i was working we saw we were loosing out home, so we did working my aunts house Ive spent over $500. in just dumpsters, and have to get a HUGE one for 495. next coons put a hole in the roof and destroyed everything upstairs. and now with it being like that for so long and all the rain we have to do a new roof. and we need to figure out how to get the smell out of the house we have tried everything, also water leak in basement so we have musty smell there.
I'm in dire need of help so if there is anyone in Ohio that knows about roofing or anything else that could help us out please let me know.I don't know how much longer we will be in our home, I know we cant move into my aunts with our children in the shape it is in right now, Also checking into habitat for humanity too.. I have no problem with work min 48 hours a week and i had worked 10 days 12 hour shifts right before i was let go. was suppose to work 13, 12 hour shifts in a row, off 1 day then back for 6 more. Because of the firing they did a week before.
