Loss of Income
Circling the drain very quickly - please help!
Doc and PK
Many of our friends know us as "doc strangelove" and "peacekitten, " but our real names are Debra and Sandy. Like many people, we've been struggling but somehow managing to stay afloat. Now, unfortunately, we have lost that fight, and are at the end of our rope in every way.Not very long ago, we became the victim of identity theft. Thieves took THOUSANDS of dollars from us electronically, and while the money stolen from the checking account was, and will be, mostly recovered (thanks to a MONUMENTAL battle with the bank), we were not so lucky with the other accounts. They are all gone, cannot be recovered, and represented a lifetime of savings. Savings, pensions, just evaporated, never to be seen again.All during this disaster, our usual lines of work in music and film evaporated as well. It's the longest dry spell either of us have ever had in our working lives. Many jobs have been promised, only to be taken away at the last minute or pushed back indefinitely while the "suits" mull over the economics of the jobs in question. We really feel like Charlie Brown when Lucy pulls the football away!Just to add insult to injury, one of our clients stiffed us for a substantial amount owed us for a completed film project. We were counting on this money earned to tide us over for a good long while, because it was all we had left. Now the matter is in the hands of the California court system, and it's anyone's guess as to IF or when we'll see even a small part of it.We are now absolutely flat, stony broke. We are behind on the rent, about to be evicted. It's only the incredible generosity of family and friends that has prevented this from happening up to this point. Our telephone has been shut off for weeks now, and we will lose our phone number in the next week. We are about to lose our electricity and internet, upon which we have been relying to look for work. We can't pay for vital prescription medications, and we have no health insurance. Our car is in the shop with an unexpectedly huge bill we cannot pay, and as Sandy half-jokingly says, we can't even get it back to live in it. To get back on our feet, we are trying to create our own jobs by starting up a very modest business venture, but it is dependent upon having a car, which we can't get out of the shop without help.We just need some help to get over this hump, so we can recover from everything that's been thrown at us lately. Once we do, it will be a great honor to pay this forward and help another. It's beyond mortifying that we are literally staring at life on the streets with our beloved pets, especially when we have always been the ones other people looked to for help, which we were always pleased to give.We're at our wits' end, and are more grateful than we can express in words for any help we are fortunate enough to receive.ADDENDUM: Anyone wishing to send physical checks may do so at the following address:Micro Giving Foundation777 East Atlantic Ave., Suite 312Delray Beach, FL 33483Please be sure to include in the check "memo" the words "Donation for Deb and Sandy profile/Doc and PK"Thank you so much.
