On December 15 2011, while watching the GOP primary debate, I suffered a brain stem stroke, the part of the brain controlling involuntary actions like breathing & heartbeat. I drove myself to the hospital and spent the next two months there, followed by 6 months of convalescence.

The stroke left my right side at 60%; I walked with a cane. Then on July 3 2016 I got up and heard a sound in my good leg which can only be described as snapping a bunch of celery in two. Catastrophic accident to my *good* leg, 2 weeks in hospital, permanently assigned a walker.

August 2018: open-heart surgery. All is going well - until my heart goes into rapid beating - 260+ bpm - and a pacemaker/defibrillator must be implanted and drugs administered. Two weeks in hospital, three months in convalescence. Somewhere in here I pass my tenth ambluance trip.

January 2019: My foot slips off the breake - I am wearing a boot for a broken toe - and i drive into a grove of trees, knocking myself out, totaling the car. Pain is indescribable, constant weeping. Two weeks in hospital, two months convalescence. Still, soldier on with new job.

In December 2019 my doctor says I *must* apply for disability. I go to my employer & enquirie about part-time employment. They give me two hours to clean my desk. I've had no money come in since January: Wisconsin disability application won't allow it. On July 28 I was rejected.

No income, six figures of medical debts, disability appeals can take years. Still paying off a used car from 2019. 10 medications daily.And only my left hand functions anything like it should.

Herewith, my struggle.