Unemployed Father With Disabled Wife Seeks Government Grant Money To Save Family
by Jason Amott
We were a happy young family with promising careers and a bright future ahead of us. Now I'm looking for government grant money or any help really to avoid possible homelessness. Over the next year, my wife and I began to experience unexplained illnesses. In May of 2006, I contracted CMV, which is a childhood disease that usually results in a cold-like illness for one to three days. I ended up running a 103+ fever for 36 days and was eventually hospitalized with kidney and liver failure. Through a miracle I survived. Heidi began experiencing severe muscle and nerve pain throughout her body, which doctors could not explain except that it acted like severe rheumatoid arthritis. However, all of the tests were negative. By July of 2006 my wife was unable to work any more due to the pain in her body. In August my wife lost 45% of her vision due to a neurological issue, which the doctors could not explain. My son Michael was covered with a cracking, bleeding rash during this time as well. His pediatricians said it was like eczema but it never responded to medications. Finally in October of 2006 I began having seizures and was forced to quit work as I would have as many as 20 per day. However I was not epileptic. We tested our apartment to see if anything was in the environment that was making us ill and found that it was contaminated with methamphetamine in excess of 140 times the limits deemed hazardous by the Health Department. We were then forced out of our apartment with nothing but two garbage bags of clothing and the Health Department sealed the apartment. We lost everything and had no income. My family and I ended up sleeping on an air mattress in the living room of my mom's trailer. Today I have recovered from the exposure to meth and so has my son. However the constant exposure has left my wife Heidi permanently disabled and partially blind. I have lost multiple jobs because of the time off needed to help my wife and to take her to and from doctors. Today my wife needs constant help in the home as her medicines make her unable to even stay awake most of the time. I am a struggling father with a five year old and a wife I love more than life itself that suffers daily from this affliction. I have now been unemployed for more than a year and face daily the realization that we may again soon be homeless. If someone can help me save my family by directing me to government grant money or other resources, we would be so grateful.
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