AllyB

My mother died in my brothers arms on July 30th of last year, and him and myself, after Mom's burial, had to move into an apartment and take care of my grandfather full time (He had dementia, just recently diagnosed). While we were doing that, my uncle spent all of my mother's life insurance money (the leftovers from her funeral) on his bills, leaving us with no money other than my grandfather's pension and Social Security. On March the 5th of this year, after a long fight with a septic infection, my grandfather died as well, leaving me and my brother as the last of our family. My uncle then blamed my brother and I for our grandpa's death, even though the doctors said we did nothing wrong, and proceeded to disconnect part of our utilities and take all of our Papaw's life insurance, land, and even our car, and left us destitute. We've been trying to look for jobs, and my brother started therapy and has been diagnosed with severe PTSD and depression, but no jobs are available in a small town like the one we live in. We're BARELY making it now, even less so since our apartments AC has been out since April and the portable unit the complex brought us tripled our electric bill. We get $150 a month from child support backpay from our father and that's it. The bills are always over $180 every month, so we flounder trying to pay them and get household things, food, etc. We've been to food pantries this month and last month already, and we can only go once a month and have already exhausted those. It's just...a lot, and it's hard to stay strong during it all. I just don't know what to do when we have nothing and right now. I feel like there's nowhere to turn, especially with another bill being due that we have to pay when we can't even afford groceries and necessities right now. I just feel...hopeless and lost.