Fighting Home

From Fox News:

"Disabled man, 60, fights to keep Pennsylvania home as community rallies to raise funds"

A Pennsylvania man with a physical disability who has lived alone for the last four years is fighting to keep his independence and his home—with a little help from his community. David Murray, who was diagnosed with a rare form of muscular dystrophy known as dystol myopathy at age 22, has been struggling to keep up with the expenses of maintaining his handicapped-accessible home in Flourtown, Pennsylvania.  “My house use to be filled with people all the time and now it’s just silent.  And it gets to me and I’m thinking I don’t know what to do with that,” Murray, 60, told Fox 29. “When she (my neighbor) gets the people together and they come, it’s like they open up their arms and you can just dive in.” In addition, Murray has been dealing with the death of his younger sister, who had the same form of muscular dystrophy, in 2014.  The small community in southeastern Pennsylvania, with a population of just over 4,600, has reportedly come to Murray’s aid in the past, as well, including a fundraiser in 1999 that took in $50,000. Those funds allowed Murray to remain inside his home—which his mother Catherine had built for him and his sister in 1987—and be somewhat independent. However, now that the house needs more repairs, including a new roof, his friend Patricia Sivel and others have set up a GoFundMe account that has raised $8,000 out of a $50,000 goal. The money will go directly to a fund to assist Murray with his expenses. According to the GoFundMe page, Murray will be forced to move into a home-care facility if he can’t maintain his current residence.

^ I can imagine how difficult and expensive it is to keep an accessible house - especially one that was built just for you - and wish there was a way we could help people with disabilities to not have to worry about that op-top of everything else they have to deal with everyday. I am glad for all the crowd-funding websites in recent years that have helped people, like this man, when they needed it. ^

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/09/30/disabled-man-60-fights-to-keep-pennsylvania-home-as-community-rallies-to-raise-funds.html