Letter To Physician Assisted Suicide

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Dear mr. Ferguson I'm Kendra hammock a United States veteran honorably discharged and I'm also 29 years old a single mother and a full-time student at the University of West Georgia currently my health is not doing as great as it could be I have been diagnosed with narcolepsy type one with cataplexy I've also been diagnosed with depression and degenerative joint disease and both my left and right knee which is secondary to my service-connected injury which includes my left and right ankles that have been injured since 2008 I am currently awaiting Social Security disability and I am aware of the length of the process but I have used every resource that I possibly can to keep me and my daughter off the street but unfortunately all of the resources …show more content…

Ferguson there is no cure for narcolepsy and there is no cure for arthritis and this is not even including me being diagnosed with ovarian cyst, fibroids, heel spurs and tendonitis and both my feet folliculitis and this is not even including the new evaluation of my ears needing to be evaluated because of tendonitis in those I feel like a freaking 90 year old woman and I have never asked anyone for anything but at this point in my life I don't know what else to do and I'm scared I'm scared that I can have a heart attack and die and leave my daughter I'm scared at the VA move so slow that they're waiting till I die to help me and I'm scared that I will not get the assistance that I need and I'm going to lose the little bit that I do have so I'm begging you and anyone who would hear me can you please help me and my sister old daughter her name is Sanaa Pearl

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