We are a family in crisis. We need help.

We are a family in crisis. We need help. A culmination of traumatic events has led us here, a position that nobody would envy. Asking others for help because we have reached no other option. We usually combat difficulties ourselves, but this is all too much and our lives and our health are at great risk.

Recently, our daughter suffered a physical and emotional breakdown as the result of a horrific life changing event and has been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. It is harrowing watching our daughter living each day in limbo. So frightened. So bewildered. So broken. We have always tried to protect our daughter. She developed Epilepsy as a young child and following a particular severe episode, she was left unconscious for too long a time. The seizure resulted from an elevated level of medication in her system and she became toxic. This medication was incorrectly prescribed as it interacted with her Epileptic drugs. Her condition worsened and a learning disability developed, that culminated into a crippling anxiety disorder.

Despite her brain injury, she is beautiful and intelligent. Home-schooled because of bullying, she passed all her exams but her memory and auditory processing are damaged.

All the while, my husband's health has declined even further. The sorrow of what his already fragile daughter has endured became too much, he has found it difficult to function. Financially, things have become dire. Along with many other debts, the bank wants to take our house. Our home. Our haven. This is the only place our daughter feels safe. We need to keep her safe. She deserves that security.

This intense worry of losing our home which we have worked so hard for, attributed to my husband suffering a breakdown, resulting in hospitalization earlier this week. His hopelessness questioning the validity of his own life. Watching our distraught daughter and son witness their father engulfed in grief, being bundled into an ambulance by the emergency services was too much to bare.

We have tried for so long to sustain everything ourselves, we have no living extended family for support. Ill health and circumstance have broken that continuum we tried to sustain.

Our once reliable 1994 vehicle, has finally given out. Transport is a necessity, particularly now when the need is essential. We feel vulnerable without our car. It is a safety concern and a continual worry.

The extensive pressure from the bank to take our home is overshadowing our ability to concentrate on our daughter's healing and recovery.

We are sincerely asking for your compassion right now and will appreciate greatly whatever donation you may be able to give to keep our home. This will help to heal our family and maintain a stable environment at this crucial time.

Funding will be used to save our house and possibly buy a new car.

Thank you.