Extreme Makeover, the fantastically popular reality program hosted by Ty Pennington is looking for families and communities for their next round of fantastic renovations! In just seven short days you and your family or community could be enjoying a completely remolded home, school or community center.
Does your family have a compelling and heartwarming story? Does your school or community center need a re-haul ? You could be featured in an upcoming episode! Millions of people watch this touching program every week and now they could be watching you. Auditions and casting calls will be going on soon for the all new season of Extreme Makeover so submit yourself or someone you knwo today.Here is the application information: a.abc.com/media/primetime/xtremehome/apply/EMHEApplicationS7.pdf Be sure to leave a comment below and stay tuned for all of the exciting updates.
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I am writing for a friend. Her trailer caught on fire in Grinnell, Iowa she has a 3 year old and a 7 month old she had got her 3 year old son out of the trailer safely and had went back in to resuce her 7 month old baby girl she became trapped inside and collaped she was in a medically indiced coma and her baby girl was on life support she woke from her come and she lost her baby girl she lost everything in the fire i hope they can be chosen for this makeover
She found the love of her life she just got her wedding dress the day before the fire and she lost everything
Hi, i'm writing to ask for Y'alls help. I watch the show, everytime its on t.v. and everything you guys do for the less fortunate people, and the people who have lost everything is truely amazing, and it touches my heart. My family and I are from Birmingham, Alabama. We were blessed and fortunate enough that the April 27th storms, skipped over our house. Our family consist of Myself, Patience 16 years old, My aunt, Mandy 34 years old, My great grandfather, Talmedge 85 years old, and grandmother, Debbie 52 years old. I also have a baby on the way. We have a two bedroom house, my aunt, grandmother, and myself share a bedroom, and my baby is about to join us. The floors are falling in, and there is mold, the roof is sunk in, and the plumbing is terrible. My great grandfather has owned this house for 56 years and before he bought it it was a store and before that a bar. There is barely room for the four of us, and now im bringing a baby into the mix. My great grandfather has lung cancer and is battling it, and he wants to fix up his house for us, but he doesnt have the money. My aunt mandy, barely makes enough to feed us, and my grandmother, can't work due to medical problems. I was taken by dhr and placed here with them, and i've never had a nice home before. It would really mean so much to have our home remodeled and fixed. So please please help us. Thank you!
Hi! My name is Barbara, but everybody calls me Barbie! i am 12 years old.I love your show, and I truly think that my family needs this. My dad is currently in kidney failure. He has been since Spring of 2010. He hooks up to a machine every night and has to do Dialysis. My dad has gone through a lot in his life. When he was only 16 his mom was killed in a robbery. It was November 22, 2005 when A carbeurator blew up and my dad was caught on fire. It was a devastating Thanksgiving and Christmas. He spent 1 week in the hospital and came home to a long recovery. My family struggled through that time and made it because we had each other. Like I said earlier my dad and family has gone threw so much! On November 1, 2010 my 9 year old sister found out she had Juvenal Diabetes. She was in the hospital for one week. She has to take 4 shots per day. 1 shot for every meal and 1 24 hour shot at night. Every day my mom or dad has to go to her elementary school to give her insulin for lunch. My mom has to work 50 hours a week to get this family going. Our house is practicably falling apart. The windows are old and wind gets through. We have mold which can cause my dad to get a serious infection. He was a maintenance man working Firestone Building Products, and if he was able to he would still be working today. He would also try to fix the repairs we need in our house, but he can no longer do that. The floors are falling through. We only have 1 functional bathroom. My parents struggle everyday just to get by. We really need your help ABC. Please consider us for a Extreme Home Makeover! I would really appreciate it! Thanks for taking the time to read this.
~Barbie
I really do not know where to start as we are still struggling and coping with the news. My niece who lives in the UK has a three year old son who is suffering with cancer. Last year when our little Mckenzie was 2 he became extremely sick and due to hid mum Danielle being so courage and not giving up he was diagnosed with a brain tumor, he had the tumor removed in the UK but then came to the state where I reside and under took an extreme course of a new procon treatment in Jacksonville Florida. He returned him in June last year 2011 to the UK and was doing well until Christmas when he began to get very sick again. After many. Ore trips to the doctors and hospitals he had an appointment on Monday 1/16/2012 and on waking him up my niece discovered that he could not stand. She rushed him to the hospital and he was given an MRI through his excruciating pain and it was discovered that he has a tumor wrapped around the lower 8 vertebra of his spine. This little man has been through so much along with his parents who have been so considerably strong I am just blown away. Mckenzie will be sent home this weekend with pain management for the rest of his days, we have been told to look at weeks and possibly months but they will not promise longer than that. This is so overwhelming for all of us and with him not being able to use his legs anymore there is lots of obstacles for them to overcome when they arrive home.
I know this letter is coming with a major short time of a plee for help but I am sooooo needing for help for them, with me being so far away from them I am trying to help in anyways that I can.
I am clinging to that while there is hope for this little guy I want him to have the help to make his last few days as comfortable and to be as fun as possible so that he can have the best time of his life while he is with us.
We are so longing that we can celebrate his 4th birthday which is April 1st, this child in his first few years has been through so much and hospital is actually becoming a way of life for him.
I understand that with them being in the UK that a home makeover may not even be possible but this child has been through so much that maybe there is some way to even help provide some of the comforts that he will need, any help that you can give will improve his time with us so much as we are so at a lose as to where to start, what to do for him and who to even go to help for this little guy.
I soooooo anticipate any kind of help from you if even if it contact numbers we just desperately need help.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this email Michelle Lorentz the aunt of the most amazing little boy that anyone could meet.
I'm a single mom with four kids without a home. I stay were I'm not welcome at all. When I leave here I have nowhere 2 go. I suffer everyday just 2 have a roof over my kids head. I don't have no money 2 rent a place I just wish u could help me and my family so we can have a home for us. It doesn't got 2 b the biggest or the best. We just want a place we can call home. Plz Ty help me. I'm. 33 and I feel like I'm at the end. Plz help me and my family. We live in London, Ky P.O box 153 Pittsburg ,Ky is my address. Plz. Plz. Help us. Tks tammy
i would also like to add that she is the best mum in the world and for her bedroom to be sorted out would be wonderful i dont ask for much i even told her not to buy me for christmas because she was stuggeling, she has wanted her bedroom to be done for years as i can remember she always put's others before her self and im not gonna write you no sob story like everyone eles just so my home gets done, im just asking you will you make my mum's dream come true?
My name is Vanessa, and i have turned to you in hope that you would chose my family to help. On December 18th 2010 i had a brain aneurysm rupture in my head, i was taken to Clark Co.Hosipitol, then to U. of KY Hosp. then flow to U. of Cinn. where they did brain surgery. I dont remember much of this time but i came to in Feb. 2011 and by the grace of God i also came home. The problem i have is that we own our own constrution company. At the time of my accident we were doing pretty good, but after taking a 3 month break, because my husband was sitting by my bed side everyday a long with 3 kids, it took its toll on our finaces. We had our dream house picked out and had worked out payment plans with the owner. We have fought hard to stay on top of our bills and keep the business going, but with everything that has happened to me i am unable to do what i did for the company before my accident. I have balance issues, problems mixing up words that i know but cant get to come out right, and i have memory loss. i just ask that you might consider my family to help. Thank you
my name is demi im 18 years old and live at home with my mum, dad & little brother i would really like to be chosen for a make over in my home because my mum has always wanted her bedroom to be somehwere she can relax and rewind after a hard day she is loving & caring and has always give her last penny away and strulled for weeks on end she cant afford to do her room up, she also suffers from dvt's and blood clots in both of her legs which stops her from doing most things for this to happen would be the best thing ever for my mum to see her face light up and just so she would no i appriciate everything she does for me and my family
Hello, My husband and I are both disabled. We have multiple medical issues which do not allow us to work a job or get around that easy, as my husband has only one leg. My home burnt in March of 2010 and the insurance denied our claim. We are now struggling to live without our home and would appreciate help from Extreme Makeover to have our home rebuilt for us to live. Please consider our need, we are in a position of losing our home coming this March 2012 if we do not get help soon. Thank you.
Hello, I am a 44 year old mother of two. I have been a nurse for 16 years, helping people of all ages and illnesses. Nursing is back breaking work to say the least, in October 2009 I sustained a sustained a serious back injury helping a 96 year old woman who I found in her home in critical condition and had no choice but to life saving care on my own before the ambulance arrived. I have since undergone a very brutal and extensive back surgery, which has so far made the problem work. I have not worked in over a year, I receive workmans compensation, which is a fraction of my usual income. The only exits from my house are down long deck steps which I have fallen up and down many times. My laundry room is outside around the front of the house in an outdoor room which I have to maneuver the steps to even do my laundry, my bathroom is falling in and my shower/tub is an old trailer tub that is very difficult to get in and out of. I cant even shave my legs without fear of falling. My kitchen requires a step down which has caused falls and the floors are falling in on part of the house (someone built a wood framed addition onto an old trailer) My daughter does not even have a wall for her bedroom and she is 15. The floor to my sons room is falling in on the shower side of the wall due to constant leaks. The wiring in this house is old and scares me. We have tried to fix things as they happen but since my accident things have just gotten worse. I feel like a prisoner in my own home. I have taken care of people my whole life, patients, family and now I cant even do my own laundry for fear of falling. I know there are many deserving families but I do feel I am one of them. We live in a very rural part of Louisiana on a lake and it is impossible to get any one to take on the job that this house desperately needs without spending our entire retirement and college funds. I would appreciate your consideration for my situation. Thank you, Amanda Reese
Hi, My name is Vicki. Let me start off by telling you alittle about myself. I work as a nurse and a volunteer firefighter in my local community. I really don't feel so deserving of a new home from Extreme Makeover because there are so many people out there that are in bad shape and need help too, probally more than I do. I'm not asking for myself but for my family. My daughter, granddaughter and husband. They all deserve something better than this. I bought my house as a foreclosure knowing it was going to need some repair.(it was my family home) and I was so excited that me and my husband was going to embark on this new adventure together. Well, all was well until I had an xray done at the hospital (for a kidney stone) only to get a call back saying I needed to get back to the hospital. I was taking for emergency surgery to find out that I had a carcinoid tumer of my appendix. It kinda went down hill from there. Since then I have had multiple surgerys. I don't think I have that many organs left anymore(appendix, gallbladder,right colon,uterus,ovarys,cervix) all gone!!! I sould be really skinny huh? Just joking. I still continue to work as both a nurse and firefighter and I will not quite until I absoutly can not do it anymore. To anyone who has ever had cancer, I don't care if you are completely cured or if you are standing on your last leg, everytime you hurt, feel bad, or get sick, in your head you know IT'S BACK. My life has been spent on trying to help my family, friends, community and a few strays along the way. I'm not a marter just a survivor. My home is in very bad shape, broken floor beams causing saggy floors. the cabinets have seperated from the walls because they are so bad, large holes in the roof and sides of the house, termites, the bathroom is about to fall through the floor, very little heat in the winter,(thank god for plastic.) There is way to much problems here to mention in this note. I would do the repair myself but I can only squeeze out so much money, and I have had to borrow from one to pay the other for so long now just to what I do have it has taking most of my paycheck just to keep going. If you see fit to help me and my family it would be greatly appreciated and if you choose to help others in need instead, that will make me happy too. God bless all of you that are willing to help others in need.
My family is not able to Volunteer or anything like that but I do help others when they ask cause I dont know how to say no.We are in need of a new home we got 3 kids we live in a 3 bedroon trailer its in my dads name we pay the bank it will be ours after its paid off.But we have had alot of problems the ceiling in 3 rooms has cracks and 2 of those rooms are in the kids rooms the bathroom wall has black mold on it the window frames has mold on it due to mistureI have cleaned it up but it comes right back I am worried about my kids health.I am disable to work due to my seizures and they cant get my dilatin up where it needs to be I have spent money after money on different kinds of medicines my husband works long hours and we just dont have no money to fix anything.Please help us.
We are from a small town about 30 miles north of Auburn Alabama called Valley. My sister and I are writing to you to explain our momma's situation. She is the most caring person in the world. She has been living in the house that we grew up in since August of 1992. My sister was only a few months old when we moved into the house and I was five. There are so many things wrong with her home. The house has extrememly bad mold, the roof leaks througout the house, the porch is falling in, it has asbestos siding on it and it is falling apart. There is no heat in the house. My son is four years old and has had RSV, a respiratory infection, since he was one month old. We cant bring him to my mother's house because I am afraid the mold and asbestos will affect his RSV. This breaks my momma's heart to pieces. She is a waitress at a resturant in our small town. She barely makes enough to support herself. She recently broke her wrist in three places and had to have surgery. She has been out of work for the last three months. She has no income right now but is supposed to go back to work within the next month. Our mom has always supported us in everyway possible. We didnt have the best childhood growing up financial but it meant nothing to us because she always showed us love was the most important thing. We just really want to help her out but we cant do it by ourselves. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE consider helping our momma. Thank you so much!!!!
I am writing not on behalf of myself or my own home, I am writing for orphans from Haiti. For the last 6 months I have taken children into my humble home on the border of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. As of right now, my fiance and I are taking care of 10 children. All of them sleep in one room. They range in age from 11 yrs to 1 year. All of them are severely malnourished and do not have family to care for them. It is tough to make bills and feed so many mouths, but we are doing it by the grace of God. There are more children like them that need out help and we will never turn any of them away. We desperately need an Extreme Home Makeover to be able to care for our children. Please help us!
Hi my name is Shannon and I live in Piedmont, SC. My reason for applying for the home makeover is because I am a 31 year old mom of thee children and I suffer from breast cancer, this is my second round of cancer in two years. We live in a 3 story house that is full of mold, leakes, countless electrical problems. Because of all of my health problems that I have all the mold is making me quite worse. I also know that our roof is leaking. All 3 of my children suffer from severe allergies but since living here they all have developed asthma. I worry about my kids health worse than my own. I know what I have wrong with me but I wonder being around all the unhealthy things in here what will happen to.them. we also do not have a furnance that works correctly so we use space heaters all over the house to keep it warm. I am begging for your help to help prolong my health and for the health of my small kids. I am unemployed due to my cancer and there is no way I am physically able to do this on my own.
Sincerely yours
Shannon p
Hello! I am writing this on behalf of 5 children who really need a new home so that we can all become a family. Let me explain. I am a single father of 2 amazing children. 3 years ago, their mother had an affair with a student at my children's school and ultimately ended up leaving our family and filing for divorce. It was devastating to my kids and myself. In addition to that loss, my ex father-in-law who i worked for, fired me right before Christmas 2009 just to be unkind and he blocked my unemployment so I had no income and no way to provide for my children. They did this to try to say I was unable to provide for my kids in order to try and take custody away from me. I love my kids and would do anything for them. I almost lost my home because of all the legal hoops they made me jump through and all the frivolous legal actions they took, but I fought for my kids and never gave up. I even had to hold a sign asking for help and work just so I could put food on the table and keep my home. The last 3 years have been very hard for my children and me and I have spent almost $25,000 trying to keep my custody of my children. Needless to say we have been through many challenges in the last 3 years, but I have made my children the #1 priority and have worked multiple jobs to keep my home and keep my kids. It has been a lonely and difficult road for the 3 of us.
I have always wanted my kids to have a happy home life and have wanted to meet a loving woman who would be a great mother to them. I recently met an amazing woman who has had a hard road as well. She is a widowed mother of 3 children. 2 years ago when her youngest, Charlotte was born, her whole world was turned upside down. Her husband had a lawncare business and was in their garage working on a big mower when the jack gave out and the mower fell on his head and killed him instantly. Erica had just hours before brought the new baby home from the hospital and was wondering where her husband was so she sent the middle child, Isabella, out to check on her dad. Isabella, who was 4 at the time, found her father dead underneath the mower. Needless to say this family has been through alot and the children have had to grow up without their dad. The baby has never had a father. In spite of all this, Erica has raised the children by herself and has one of the most positive outlooks on life you will ever hear.
Fast forward to current times and that is where my request stems from. God brought 2 families together who have both suffered extreme loss. Erica and I met and have truly fallen in love with everything about each other. We both love each others children and we know that we have a love that is better than a fairy tale. I have been a father to her children who have wanted a father for years and who really needed a man to love them as his own. My children have bonded with Erica's children and everything is just falling into place. Everything except the fact that we need a place to live. I want to ask Erica to marry me and i want to adopt her children, but I can't afford to buy a home big enough for all of us. My plea is that you will find it in your hearts to help 2 broken families be able to come together as one happy family and have a home to call their own. We need your help so thst this fairy tale can have a happy ending. Our five children have never been happier and they so want to be together as a family. I would give anything to make these amazing children's dream come true and to be able to marry Erica and have us all live together under one roof. Please help Charlotte, Isabella, Tyler, Bailey, and Gavin have a home. Thank you for your time and God bless you for all you have done to help families in need.
Sincerely,
Drew Perkins
Hello, my name is Hayli Pinkham. I'm 14 and im a freshman at Southside High School in Chocowinity NC. I'm contacting you in hopes that you will help Ms. Ronda Brooks. She is an employee for my mother at O'Reilly Auto Parts in Washington NC. She lived in Bath NC. Ms. Brooks only works for my mother part-time while waiting for a full-time position to open. Since I've known Ms. Ronda she has had so many things happen in her life that are so tragic and heart breaking. About one year ago, I think, she lost her husband in a tragic car accident. Leaving her & her two sons, Jonathan and Stephen at a loss. Well just this past weekend her house caught on fire-luckily her & the boys were fine with minor burns & monoxide poisoning. Sadly, they lost everything with nothing salvaged. Such as clothes and memories that could never be brought back. Please help Ms. Ronda get back on track. I really hope you can help Ms. Ronda if you could that would make mine and hers dream come true! Shes a wonderful person and she doesnt deserve to go through what shes going through right now.
Thank you,
Hayli Pinkham
HI MY NAME IS JOANN BAEZ I WOULD LIKE TO START OFF BY SAYING I LOVE WATCHING AND WHAT YALL DO FOR ALL THE FAMILYS WHO ARE IN NEED OF A NEW HOME.THATS WHY AS WELL I'M WRITING FOR MY MOTHER AND FATHER TO BE SELECTED. MY MOTHER IS VERY ILL AND MY FATHER IS JUST DOING THE BEST HE CAN .MY MOTHER LOST HER LAST KIDNEY THREE YEARS AGO AND HAS DIABETES SHE IS ON DIALYSIS AS WE SPEAK .HER LIVING CONDITION ISN'T THE BEST MY SIBLINGS AND I TRYED PLENTY OF TIMES OF RESTORE HER HOUSE TO MAKE HER HAPPY AND TO MAKE IT SAFE FOR HER AND MY FATHER .. I LOVE MY PARENTS W/ALL MY HEART I CAN'T THANK THEM ENOUGH FOR RAISING 9 KIDS .MY WISH NOT TO HAVE A BIG HOUSE FOR THEM JUST SUMTHING THEY CAN JUST AT LEAST BE SAFE IN BECAUSE THE HOUSE THEY GOT ISN'T IN THE BEST CONDITION .PLEASE EXTREME MAKEOVER HELP MY FAMILY I KNOW EVERYONE THATS ON HERE DESERVE'S IT AS WELL BUT I HOPE AND JUST PRAY MY MOM BEFORE SHE PASS OR MY FATHER THAT THEY CAN ACTUALLY HAVE THERE DREAM HOME THEY ALWAYS WANTED .THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO READ THIS NOTE THAT COMES STRAIGHT MY HEART GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
Hi im a 16 year old girl, i am an only child. Im writing to you in hopes that you will help my single parent mother who is suffering from type 1 diabetes. She works two jobs to make sure i have what i need to survive. She is a CNA and went to school for medical assistant. She takes care of the elderly as well as our heroes of war. I see her caring for other peoples needs and not so much of her own. She also loves animals, if we could take in many stray animals she would do it. We currently have 2 stray cats in our home. My mother was a foster child who had many disappointments. Her mother past away of a overdose at the age of 36, when she was 17. Her father recently pasted away in a house fire in April 2011. We live in a small blue house in chicopee, mass , our ceilings are leaking water everytime it snows or rains. Our sink leaks right through the pipes, so we can barely use it. Our basement is less then 4 ft high and our support beams are being held up by metal poles. The wood is very old so we can not hang any pictures nor memories. The foundation is falling apart, the house isnt leveled. Because of that the tiles in the kitchen are all cracking. My room is just not big enough to fit what i do have. My mother doesnt really have any of my baby things besides one thing which is hanging in my room, we lost all my baby stuff when my cousin didnt pay for his storage unit he had that we stored some things in there. My grandparents who own the place know about all these things but dont pay any mind to it, so were suffering to try to help make our lives healthier. People say we should call the board of health but because family owns it i dont feel we can do that. My grandparents fostered my mom and her sister since they were two and five years old. They have also adopted two of my cousins and helped raise two others. My grandmother is on SSI and basicly survive on my grandfathers income. My grandfather works as a school bus driver. He actually drove a bus for one of your shows you did, i think in Conneticut. If you can help my mother and I that would be a life changing experience for us. Hope to hear from you soon, thank you for your time.
Hello,
My name is Brianna Atkins. I am going off of faith here an dfilling this out for my Granny. She is 73 years old and in need of help. She currently lives in Detroit, MI. with my two mentally challenged uncles David and Bobby. Throughout my grandmothers entire life, she has taken care of someone. From animals to people. My Granny has adopted of 13 children and leaves her home open to any and everyone in need. She has health issues that keep her in and out of the hospital facing surgery to surgery and her home is falling apart. Her home has been over taken by roaches, mice, cats, and clutter. She struggles to make it around her home and she is currently sleeping on a hospital bed in her living room because she is unable to make it to her room which is in the attic of her house. She gave the one bedroom to my uncle who cannot make it up and down stairs without assistance and my other uncle sleeps in the attic still. My granny has helped the community and so many families in any and every way possible and she is to the point where she is barely making it. From hospital bills and medical bills and still trying to take care of everyone in our family she is withering away and my family and I just really want her to get some help. We know that she does not have many years left here and we want something like Extreme Home Makeover to come and show her that all of her help and good deeds were not for nothing and they didnt go overlooked and unappreciated. I'm sorry this may be flustered but its so much to try and summarize.If possible someone can contact me and I will be able to explain her situation more clearly or have my aunt or a friend of the church do it because it is just too much to summarize. All I can say is an awesome and courageous woman who currently lives in Detroit, MI is in need of help and I am begging you to help her..PLEASE!
Hi my name is cortney and i cant seem to find a application for extreme makeover but my story is about my boss and a small town ice cream parlor that has been around for over 75 years and he is tryin everything to kepp his business and the bonnie doon factory still going and its fading because of money and its hard for small time businesses right now hes only 32 and struggling i have many papers that our small town community has written up bout bonnie doons back in the day and how for generations and generation come in its all old school drive in and dine in also we have classsic cruise inns on sundays but my awsome boss cant keep up with working 40+ at the fatory and 20+ hours at the dinner the building itself for being 70+ years old is holding up but falling apart at the same time and he has recently closed bc of money he is tryin to figure out what he can do as of right now he has for sale sign up bc he cant handle this is the only thing we have in this town left thats been around for 75+ years we need help we cant loose this place very family oriented and brings people together heres the facebook that shows how well loved this place is from people that dont even live here anymore that still come back just for bonnie doons thank you for ur time
I'm begging on bended knees to please choose my Grandmother, Mrs Clara Houston for an Extreme Makeover. She and my late Grandfather have been Foster Parents for dozens and dozens of children, opeing up their home and hearts to children in need for over 30 years, adopting 1 of the children and with many failed attempts, trying to adopt a little girl she had in her care since she was 3 months old. Year after year, she and my Grandfather would try to adopt the little girl, but never succeeded, but they stayed prayerful. Now besides taking care of children, my Grandmother did mission work, taken care of and praying for the sick and shut-in, even taking in family with no where else to go or just in need. Later, my Grandfather was striken with cancer, but that didn't slow her down from taking care of him, the children and others in need. In October of 2000, after years of suffering with cancer, my Grandfather passed away. Shortly after, Grandmother became ill and had to have two knee surgeries. My Grandmother stayed strong and continued to be a Foster Parent throughout her recovery, and continued the fight to adopt the little girl she and my Grandfather cared for all these years until around 2008. With sorrow in her heart she left her beautiful home in Saint Petersburg, Fl for she could no longer care for children and decided to move to the home she grew up in as a child, her mother's home in High Springs, Fl. After a long fight, in 2008, she was granted the adoption of the little girl she raised from an infant, that young lady is now 17 years old. But instead of relaxing and enjoying retirement, my Grandmother is constantly trying to patch up her home. The floor dipps when you walk on it, the walls are falling apart. In the bathroom, the floor feels like it is going to give way anytime, the sink has pulled away from the wall and the cabinet underneath, you can just about see the ground. When you sit on the toilet, it sinks to the ground, so you just pray you dont fall through the floor. The tub is on it's last leg and not big enough for her support chair when trying to bath, so she mostly wash up in the sink or a bucket. My husband and I have done all we can do financially, and none of the family can help, yet Grandmother is still making room for others and cooking Sunday dinner for everyone in her deteriorating kitchen. My husband and I recently purchased a new- to- you stove and vent for her and noticed the floor in the kitchen is starting to dip now and the upper cabinets have pulled away from the walls and the lower cabinet under the sink has callasped,so she just sits her pots on the floor. Grandmother never complains, just keep helping others, cooking and praying…saying the Lord will provide,she aint worried. But we are….Please, please help Grandmother,we tried everything to get her home restored, but no success. Grandmother Clara has provided a home for so many Foster Children and others in need, and now she is need of an Extreme home make over…Please help!!!
Sincerely yours,
Erika Boone
We are the Brown/Simpson family and we need your help for a safe and healthy home. Our house was built in the 1920s and it has lead in it..our seven year old son was tested positive with lead when he was younger. He has learning disablities now and just found out our three year old son is severely allergic to dustmites and outdoor mold. We live in the country and it is impossible to keep the dust out since our house leaks, we have mold in walls due to leaking, upstairs is sagging down to main floor and so on…I know there is lots of people out there that needs help…but I would like your help and I will help you if needed…I am trying to get my license for foster care, but I cant cuz my house isnt fit…please help me so I can help more children….please
My name is Laura. I am 20 years old with a 2-year old daughter. I am recently engaged to my wonderful Fiance' and we just got our own house about 4 months ago. We love the idea of having our very own house, however it needs alot of work that we just cannot afford. the floors all need to be replaced because they are extremely bowed. there are alot of holes and cracks everywhere bringing in the cold weather and running our bills way too high for us to be able to pay. we have tried to do a few small things to the house to make it more home-like, but we just cant seem to get ahead enough to do much more. I watch Extreme Makeover Home Edition all the time and admire the work you all do. I would love for my daughter to have an amazing room that she would actually enjoy as well as be proud of as she gets older. It would be AMAZING and wonderful if you would makeover our house and make it a better, more energy-efficient home for our little family! Thank you for your time!:)
My name is chelsie I'm 17 I live with my grandparents and we have 11 people that live in our house its 4 bedroom and my grandmother has a pace maker and its so hard for us cause she has to have surgery on January 23 because they had a recall on a wire in her pace maker and its hard anough to worry about with the bills cause my grandmother is my best friend I would die with without her its stressing her out really bad because of the bills and we don't get that much please I'm begging you from the bottom of my heart for help please she helps out total strangers and would help themout before she would worry about please I'm begging she needs this
She would do anything in the world for anyone please
Dear ABC,
I am writing you because I am my brother's voice. Almost two years ago now, my perfectly healthy 34 year old brother, John, got sick. We didn't know what was wrong until it was too late and by that night he was in the ICU fighting for his life. He had contracted rare bacterial endocarditis, a heart infection, and he wouldn't survive the night without open heart surgery to remove the source of the infection and replace one of his heart valves. We, his family, made the choice for him when the doctor told us that he could have a stroke if we proceeded, but he'd likely die that night if we did nothing. We chose surgery, and he suffered a devastating stroke from which he will never recover. My brother is now almost completely paralyzed from the eyes down. He has the use of one eye and limited use of his left hand and leg. He cannot stand, sit up, or even hold up his head. His thinking mind has not been damaged at all but he cannot speak. I am his voice now. He is a single dad with two little girls, so after he spent 6 months in the hospital my two children and I moved in with them. I am here to take care of him and help him raise his girls, who would be lost without him. We make do, but our house is very small and over 120 years old. I could go through all of the repairs that the house needs, from the roof to the foundation, but suffice it to say that it is falling apart around us. We do our best to keep it standing. The worst part, though, is that because of the way houses were built back then it is completely unable to accommodate a person in a wheelchair. The hallways are too small, each doorway too narrow, and steps and stairs make it impossible to navigate. Our family and neighbors helped us to get the house ready so that we could care for him at home. Our only choice was to remove the wall between the one tiny bathroom and bedroom downstairs and make it one room. There is just enough room to get him from the bed to the toilet. He has a motorized wheelchair that was made just for him and it is his only source of independence. Unfortunately, though, he can't drive his wheelchair in his house at all and we can't even push him in a manual one into any room but one. We can only get him from his bedroom to the living room. His silly little girls do their best to put on little shows for him and make him smile…….They are just about the funniest kids I've ever seen and I am blessed to be able to be raising them. As long as he has his girls around him he's okay. He lived for them. I do my best to make him comfortable and help him find joy in this life. It isn't enough, though, and now that I have to be his voice in this life I have to fight his battles and find a way to make his life better. I fight the insurance company to get the medicine he needs, I fought to get his wheelchair, I fight for his rights and to make sure everyone knows that he is still in there; still completely aware of what is going on and still the same guy he was two years ago, just not able to talk or move much. We have always been good people, but to tell you the truth we are just regular people. John and I have done our best to help others, from being a foster parent to volunteering at a women's shelter. To tell you the truth, though, we are just regular people. My brother was just working, trying to raise his kids by himself and trying to get through each day. Then he got sick. Now our lives revolve around how to get him what he needs, how we will get out of the house to go to the kids' basketball games, how we will get the wheelchair through the crowd at the football field, who will sit with John while I go to the store, and how in the world we can make his life just a little bit better. Please help. I know a lot of people need and deserve your help, but I am my brother's voice now, and I have to ask. I have to beg, even, if that's what it takes. Please help us.
Successfully I am the CEO & Co founder of Streetline Percussion Entertainment. As of right now we have the only positive organization in Macon Georgia geared towards civilizing young people (14+) in the direction that’s beneficial to constructive lifestyles. I have been so focused on taking care of their needs that I have failed to take care of my own needs which also benefits the kids. My home is in dire need of repairs. It is large enough to conduct business meetings, cookouts as well as free play, but unfortunately I cannot comfortably accommodate all of my children (streetline) due to the needed repairs and the modernization.
I would like to begin with my screen porch by redesigning it into a sunroom with a ½ bath for year round activities. I also need a larger storage room added for instrument storage. My upstairs living room and bathrooms need remodeling because Streetline utilize these areas when we have our leadership meetings. Downstairs is where my children (streetline) like to hang out but the entire downstairs need some major improvements.
I really need my home to be repaired and modernized. I have a large back yard in which I would like a full basket ball court and a large deck. I Love my organization. I Love what I do for these children. My home is also their home and I much rather have them here where I know they would be safe & comfortable. I don’t need to spend money on renting buildings; I can save money and do so much more for these children within my own home. I need to make my home an enhanced relaxed environment for Streetline Head Quarters.
Streetline is a Georgia Non-Profit 501(c)(3) Corporation.
I would like to nominate the city of Tuscaloosa, ALabama. There was a devestating day of deadly storms in Alabama on April 27, 2011. The reason I am asking for Tuscaloosa is because a deadly tornado came through this huge college town and devestated most of the business and apartments (occupied by some of the University of Alabama students). This town is still torn in shreds and some houses still have tarps in place and no repairs being done. We live about 1 1/2 hours away but were in the community today and it is still heartbreaking. This college town once was an absolutely beautiful and amazing place to visit and enjoy when going to ball games. It is still enjoyable for the football games, however the rest of the town really needs to be repaired and homes repaired to be liveable again. Our State of Alabama would love a makeover like Joplin received to assist this community. Thanks for your consideration! God bless your show and your consideration for your help to this wonderful community!
Dear extream makeover,
I'm writting this letter on behalf of a friend that was involved in a terrible accident and is now living in an assisted living building where he gets help from HCAs (like a nursing facility). Ron is 38 years old and is a quad. (Paralyzed from the cheat down and very little motion and use of hands). His hands are clenched mostly shut which limits what he can do himself on a daily basis. He lives in a small apartment that isn't made for his power wheel chair. His accident effected his eye sight and he is now very sensitive to bright lights. This leaves his room very dark and hard to see when helping him around the house. He's always had a dream to have a house or a place to himself where he can get around and be more independent with his daily needs. He trys his best to do his dishes and help clean his apartment but the use of his hands limits what he can actually get done. Thank you for your time and concidering changing his life!
There is the Brady family and has a lot of health issuse. The mother has Carple in both of her wrists and has hoshimotos. The father has to work from 6:30am till 4 am to make enough money for the family. They only have 3 hours together on Sundays for church. They give to those who really need help. They are struggling with finical needs and house needs . They have a home that is from the 1920's and is breaking. The mother barley ever gets some alone time and has to deal with her six children and one of them is two and destroys the whole house . The mother has to wake up ten times every night to give the eight moth old baby a bottle. The mother has to wake up at four thirty in the morning to take care of the fussy two year old. The kids have to all share a room and there are not enough bedrooms for the eight of them. They help the people in need the most and always have others first. The parents bathroom skylight is falling apart and the roof shingles are falling off and it is getting dangerous for the children wiphich are eleven and under. The mother never gets a break from the kids and is always tired
Hello Extreme Make Over,
I am writing on behave of my grandparents. Yesterday their home of 50 years and everything they own just burned down. We are grateful for their survival. They are both in their late 70's and my grandpa is a disable vet paralysis for the waist down. They live off of a very small budget (SS). They had a very small insurance policy that we found out is based on depreciation. They will not be able to replace their home. I guess you could say I am looking for a miracle…they just need a place to lay heads. I want my grandma to stop crying and maybe even smile. She deserves this…she has had a hard life. Please Help!
My Grandma is an amazing women who desrves to have a better home. She always allowed my mom and us four kids and her son to stay with her & my grandpa in a 3 bedroom home trailor. My grandpa passed a few yrs ago and now we all have moved out except my uncle. But in 2008 west terre haute experieced the worst flood in years i remember my grandma had to rescued by the firemen in a boat because water was so high it had gotten into her home. She loves the house that she is lving in for the memories but its falling apart sience the flood she cant pay to have it fixed because she doesnt make enough money she had to shut down one room complety because of the mess the good caused and when you walk in you can see the damages around the floors from the flood. I know sending this is a long shot and i know a lot of people need help but i know that if my grandma and uncle keep living there something may cause problems with their health more then she is already experiecing now. PLEASE HELP MY GRANDMA AND GIVE HER WHAT SHE DESEVES
Hi "Extreme Home Maker Over”, I’m submitting this application because I have no where else to turn. My aunt is in despite need of help with her home, Its falling apart I see her stressed out and crying about this situation almost every day and it hurts my heart to see her this way she has even begun taking anti-depressants’. She's a single mom with two teenage boys; we live in the small town of flint in Michigan where the chances of finding a job are slim to none. Its winter time and the roof has started to cave in. There are leaks in almost every part of the house, And the pipes must be busted because whenever water from the sink goes down the drain it leaks onto the basement floor which is causing a bad smell, also there are two or more windows that need to be replaced because the mixtures of hard cold winds, rain and ice that has cracked them over time, it never stays warm in the house. The carpet has many rips and spills from the previous owners a few years ago, and the paint is chipping in every room of the house. If you can, Please help my aunt Extreme Home Makeover" thank you very much.
Hi my name is Kelly im 13 and feel my family should recieve a new home. My mother is 42 and is raising my 6 year old sister and I along with my father. She cannot work because she has had over 8 mouth surgeries in the last year,and 3 more to go, one involving her hip.But yet, this doesnt stop my mother from helping others. She volunteers for school activites, makes lollipops for a dance studio, watches a 3 month old baby,and trys to provide for this home with no pay hoping that someone will help us. This house is falling apart. Unfourtanetly, 1 year ago we had a house fire. My mother was making breakfeast and the oil splattered onto the the microwave and the fire started. Still my house isnt even near complete.Since my mother gets no pay i do along with volunteering. I babysit children and any money I make goes toward the house along with running marithons for cures for cancer and I raise money for St.Judes hospital. Last year I raised 563 dollars the money was well appreaciated. My father and I have severe athsma.In this house the heat doesnt always work in the winter and in the summer the air doesnt always work. My father works at a shipping company but doesnt make alot of money so he paints for people trying to get a little extra so we can stay in this home.Also, my father needs foot surgery which we cant afford because he fell off a ladder trying to cover a neighbors air conditioner(two stories high). We don't have any family on my mothers side because we had gotten into a fight over my nanas death . Its been over 2 years since weve spoken to those people I truely miss them but this house is my number 1 priority.I want my sister to have the childhood that I never had at 6. Kepping her in a home is somthing that I will never give up on. She has an eating dissorder along with dislexuia.My mother and father care about everything except themselves all they want is to help others. They have too much on their plate and I feel like its thier time to sit down relax and for all this weight to be lifted off thier shoulders.I think its time for my parents to be rewarded for all their hard work and love for life.Everytime I feel like giving up my parents always say theres a little hope left so keep going. So please choose us we really need this.Dreams can become reality as long as you pray and Ive been, this is the one chance for my parents to live the life with no fear. Thanks so much I appreaciate you reading this!
Kelly.
It seems that your show is going off the air but I was hoping that you could help out clients of mine (I am a realtor)who have been displaced due to a fire in their home (uninsured). All personal posessions have been lost including photos of the wife's grandparents signed by Norman Rockwell. I believe they posed for Rockwell back in the day… The wife is from Stockbridge and their home is in West Stockbridge. I have just listed the home so they can hopefully sell it "as is" and pay off the mortgage but they would certainly prefer to repair it and hold on. They have no financial resources to make repairs and desperately need housing. The wife is currently unemployed and the husband is a contractor with no current jobs. If you can help or have contacts who would like to "Play it Forward" please email me.
I am a single parent raising a son who is 8 years of age. We are living in a house that was built in 1958. This house needs a lot of repairs and is causing health problems for my son. Due to the foundation of the house the floors are falling in because it is sitting to low to the ground. The plumbing is so old and there are leaks in certain places in the home that with both of these issues are causing the walls in the house to have mold and mildew. The house also contains lead paint also the electrical wiring is so old I am afraid that this house may get burned down that would be unfortunate because this is the only place we call home. The roof is leaking basically the house is really just falling apart inside and out. With the mold and mildew issue it causes my son to stay sick constantly with his asthma and allergy issues. I have had to take him to a specialist for them to tell me exactly what keeps causing him to stay sick. I desperately need help on trying to get this house remodeled in order for me and my son to live without all of the medical problems. I want let him have friends to stay over because the house is in such bad shape. I don’t want the other kids making fun of him saying that the house has a smell and the floors are falling in, the smell is due to all the mildew in the home.
This home is the home I grew up in and needless to say the community. If I had to give this rural community a name now it would be the forgotten community. Aldrich once was a mining community it really should considered being a historical community. Years ago the City of Montevallo came around and offered some of the people in the neighborhood to sign a petition to join in the city limits. Well little did they know that by doing this it was not going to help the community instead it actually hurt the community. They apply for grants and this community never see any improvement in their area if they do they are very minor. The majority of the money is spent fixing up the town of Montevallo. We cannot get them to repair our roads and should keep those repaired due to the garbage trucks that are sent out to collect garbage and also trucks from other area dumping material in that area. If anything happens as far as storm damage you will have to call and try to get help. This is a one-way in and a one-way out community. There are a lot of people who have moved out this neighborhood because of the condition it is in at this time. The neighborhood is quite for the most part and it is good to raise kids in this area because we all look out for each other. There is not a lot of traffic in and out of the community so we don’t have that fear that they are not able to play outside. There are a lot of mobile homes in the area but there are also houses that are in the area that are still there from years ago. A lot of the homes in the area need work and unfortunately these are elder people who are just trying to survive off their Social Security.
This is a despaired cry for help I feel like I am living in a poverty stricken area and it should not have to be this way if we could get help. I am a member of Green Chapel Baptist Church and I am also the Secretary of this church. Our congregation is trying so hard to come up with something for the kids to do in their spare time so that they want have to turn to the streets. A community center is this area would be great for the single parents who have kids and is trying to come together to try and raise children that will one day grow up and change in the world. Thank you for your time and I hope to hear from someone soon.
Hi my name is Brandi Tijerina I'm 32 years old. My husband been working hard to support our family. He a lineman he works on the powerline poles. He had a wonderful job with Tessco he was making really good money we were buying a 4 bedroom house. 2years ago his work at tessco the jobs started to slow down he a lineman for the oilfield. The oil prices started to be low on the oil was selling at a low price. I oilfield company didnt want to spend money on fixing poles or building new powerline poles. The oilfield company didnt want to use tessco any more. While tessco lay my husband off. He started to work at K-bar texas Electric where he took a major pay cut from tessco he took a $13 pay cut to work at K-Bar Texas Electric. Now we are living in a 1 bedroom home that my husband grandfather gave us to live in. And his grandfather gave us the lot to so we could put a trailer house there or built one, but we don't have the money to do either of the two. We have 5 beautiful kids my oldest is 13 years old and my youngest is 2 year old. They are 13 year old boy a 12 ya
I have a 13 year old boy and a 12 year old girl a 9 year old boy a 8 year old girl and a 2 year old baby girl. I'm hoping you could built my family a house to live in. We have lost everything we work hard from our 4 bedroom home and our car. We have to call our family or friends to give us a ride to go to the store. And husband been unemployed for 2 weeks he been going out everyday finding a job. But he hasn't had any luck on finding a job. Just to have money we go collecting cans and finding metal to sale just for us to gets us by the day. My and my husband go a day without eating just for our kids to eat a meal. If we are not 1 of the family pick to get a extreme house makeover I just want to tell y'all God Bless you on y'all journy on building houses for the other family. Y'all wonderful people for giving people hope, drean, happiness, in there life. Y'all are angel from heaven sent to this earth to give family joyful in there life GOD BLESS YOU.
Hopeless In Alabama,
I would like to nominate my 74yr old mother who lives alone. She has over the past 7yrs lost all of her siblings except l. She lives in a small mobile home with a little shabby ramp that was built for her mom who began disable after a stroke. she died in 2002. She is the care giver in our family. When my aunt Josie's lukemia in 2010 returned after 12-yrs, my mother was there in Arizon. When my aunt Rosie in NewJersey in 2011 passed from liver cancer my mother was there. She is also the Mother of a little Baptist Church in Wetumpka, Alabama.
She often says it would be so nice if I had a litte apartment house connected to your home. Please help. I love the show, every time a see a episode. I think about my Mother.
Hi my name is Tereshova Teresa for short..I live in shreveport la I'm at home with my mom I moved from Dallas to come help her out my father past away q year ago my mom had congestive heart faliure my youngest sister also had the same including kidney faliure.. she's been living in this house for nine years and it is a health hazard me and my sisters live here with her two kids and my three the house is just a little to over crouded I'm do afraid to leave her bcause I the want a replay of loosein another parent she is such a great woman she true to make a home for all of use we are packed like rabbits but she trust to keep her family together extreme please help us live better she deserves it..ice never seen u guys in shreveport la come down and see how great the city is.
dear extreme home maker my name is brittney i am a 26 yr old mother of 3 wonderful children ages 4 5 and 2 ive been fighting thyroid problems sence the age of 20 (m writing today in regards to hopefully be picked sence i am barley able to work due to my sickness we've had to move 4 times in a year's time now i think ive found the perfect size place for my family but the only problem is that its a "fixer upper" and i do not have the money to fix it so we do minor things by finding scraps of wood o fix things like the holes in the floor.i recently found out my 4 yr old son kristopher has a severe case of adhd he has become a hazard to himself at school and at home.although im trying to purchase the home so we have to no longer worry about being evicted i dont have the money for that either PLEASE TY HELP ME!
dear extreme makeover,
i am 42 years of age and am the father of five amazing children and a caring wife.we live in a small home that is bassicly falling apart.if you pull out a cabinet it will fall off the shelf. our appliences work on and off. there are holes in the walls and they are unpainted and ugly.there is no space for our children to play. and we can not pay for toys for them or even food for our little kitten.my son broke two bones a month ago and repetivly ingures himself again by slipping on our pore tiled floor.we are a seven people family with only 3 bedrooms. weve always wanted hardwood but could never afford it our carpet is stained smelly and needs to be replaced its covered in paint and we always have to clean it with bleach wich makes my son with asma have to go sit in his bedroom intul its aired out. we also dont even have a bathtub our four year old daughter has to take a bath in a plastic bin.we wish more than anything to have a house that doesnt fall apart if touched and doesnt injure my son more than he already is. if you could just read this it would make me and my children unbelievebly happy.
Hello to all from Extreme Home Makeover people…
My name is Tabatha Simms and I am asken for your help for my Brother Inlaw Albert Corter and my Sister inlaw Shasta Corter, they are in real need of a new home. They have 4 Kids from the ages of 10yrs old and youngest age of 4yrs old and then two of their kids have been pronoused with ADHD and then their youngest daughter was born sick and they just cant figure why she gets sick like she does every year, she ends up in the hospital every year. Now I know that I can say this they are the type of people that will help you if you are in need, like if you have no where to live they will open up there front door and welcome you in to there home and let you stay with them. I have experience it myself and I have 3kids of my own… Now their Trailer Home that they live in is in real bad shape the house has almost cought on fire twice in less then 6months lucky we was able to catch it before it did the whole trailer. The wires inside the home are shorting out those out the house, we have done tryed fixen it the best we know how to but it cont.. Then on top of all that the home in fallen in, in the bathroom.. There are lots of thangs that I can tell you that is wrong with the trailer. So I am on here asking you for help for them and there family they really do I beleave the deserve a chance to Win there Dream Home that they wish for everyday… Thank You and please take the time and read this letter that I have writen to you and my brother inlaw and sister inlaw family…… PLEASE!!!!!!!
hello my name is pamela i am 13 years old.. i think that we should haave a new home. my mother rosa works soo hrad that i basicly only see her an hour a day everyday. we havent had a vacation in about 5 years because of the money my grandma is 74 and she everything around the house. she basicly raised me because my mom is always working. we almost lost our home because of it.the celing in my room is cracking and about to fall. our house almost caught on fire because of our fireplace. my grandma is getting to a piont where she wont be able to do all the work that she does already. sometimes i have to stay after school for extra help because my grandma doesnt speck english she only speaks spanish so its hard for me to do my work at home with nobody to help me. in our dining room the wall is also falling apart. sometimes my mom has to work on the weekends but on the days she has off she trys to keep the house in better condition but its not really working out. about a month ago i fell and my knee cap went to the side of my leg my couzin had to call the ambulance to come and get me. then a week later my mom got a bill from the hospitial that was about 300 and something. she has to barrow money constantly because she cant pay the morgage. my dad and my mom arnt together anymore and my dad send my mom 75 a week and that doesnt help her. i told her that when i am able to get a job i will give my paycheck to her to help her. PLEASE we need help….. 🙁
Hi my name is Betty we live in Starkville Mississippi. I'm writing you as well as all the other people that write you I am requesting a new and better home for me and my family I know some of these stories are really sad but here is my request for my family. we are in need of a bigger house I have always had to struggle to have what I have I first bought this house which is called a farmers home house when I was 23 years old and it some repairs that I know that I am not ever going to be able to afford because my health is not good anymore and I have worked hard as I know how to give my family the best that I know how. I have two children that are still home with me and my husband. I am 46 years old and my husband is49. my husband has become disabled he will not be able to work any more because he had to have open heart surgery in June of 2008 and he found out he has artery disease and I don't know the name for this but it is that his hips are worn out and they give out from time to time he receive steroid injections every six months at the most and I have always depended on him and the good lord. I have went back myself and took some classes and took some computer training to catch up on some things. My health I am not able to do any physical work like I use to because I have helped the elderly a lot until my body is in a bad shape until my body is not strong enough to do this work any longer. I have a son who is 29 now and he works and he's married and he just purchased a new home I am so proud of him. My daughter who is 20 now was diagnoised with a mental condition is still home with us my son who is 17 is still in school and plays here on the home football team I am so proud of him if I can just keep him on the right track. Extreme home make over threw god all things are possible I never give up you don't know until you ask Thanks for this opportunity for being able to tell my story.
i see alot of children writing As a mother i chose to write today. I am the mother of 5 bautiful. kids. i am married to a man who still thinks hes a soldier. we been married almost 8the house years and together 10. His name is sgt dad, raymond lewis webster. my husband went ti iraq in 2003 and return in 2004 we was buying a house and we gooten approval late. and even though we paid alot of money into the house they remove our family out of it , we went to court was the judge ask them to give us more time 3o days later we moved. the whole neighborhood was so upset this miltary family was removed. we are out of the army after ten years, my poor husband has a dead end job our oldest girl now 24 moved out, our yougest girl is a Airman is the US navy 19 years old. and we have our boys at home with a grandchild who we are raising her mom left her 3 years ago. ask me why im writing. well as my health dwindles from a surgery im not healing froom we now live in a house we are renting. our last month here is in 2 months, we may not have no where to stay. An active duty soldiers family. i have not told our families because i dont want to burden them, as my Sailors writes momi just wonder when i come home again mom where will you be and will you be ok.shes in the arabian sea and on the USS Abraham Lincoln..My yougest son is 18 he is graduating soon, but the survivor benefits will end, my husband job wont allow overtime and from 2200 every 2 weeks to 800 and i dont forsee this army wife and Navy mom having no future and to make it worse we had to cancel my insurance,sign forever a military family
Dear extreme home makeover I am rmailing you this post bc of the struggles my family has been through. During 2006 we were a happy family getting by just fine and then one day that all changed. My dad was the first to have significant health issues as he was diagnosed with hepatitis C and the chemotherapy/ sickness slowed him down then other problems occurred as Er found out the pretty much the bones in his back were slowly breaking down. We still had my moms income and then that income came to an end when she started having problems swallowing and holding objects with her hands. We took her to many doctors and at this time she was forced to resign from her job at the local DHR office. As time moved on and doctors entered our lives one doctor finally diagnosed her with upper torso dystonia a rare disease that effects the muscles and makes them draw or have ticks. At this time I was 16 and our normal income was normal went to 300 a month. As most would say how can you live of that. My answer is God blessed us and always watched after us. One day I passed by a local welding shop and they gave me a job working nights. I went to school and then went straight to work so I knew each paycheck could provide us with food and or there medicine to keep them going. Which at anytime I would have went without eating just so they could have there daily medicines. I worked that job and then they helped melting around my schedule so I could play football my senior year which was more than I could ever ask for bc I felt like a kid again when I stepped on that field. Well things got better but bills have stacked up over the years and they finally received there social security but then my mom got worst with something else and eventuality was bed ridden for almost a year and half where she missed valuabletime with family. She finally got diagnosed with Rheumatory Arthritis. Which in her case could have killed her. My parents have raised me to be the man I am today and all the hard times have made me stronger. I work as inspector for an engineering firm making enough to make ends meet and pay bills. But I want to give them something that they can be safe in and bugs gone since its an older house. Because with my mom she can get sick over anything and it scares me bc sometimes the bugs could carry diseases and make her sick. Plus this could be something for them and I not have to worry about them not being in a safe environment when I'm gone or working. I ask you to make a miracle in our lives and come to Alabama to fix my house. This would be a huge weight off my shoulders and be more than I could ever give them as they have gave to me in my life. Ty I'm not asking for a big house just your help on redesign this house so they can be independent and have no worries.
Thanks and may God Bless
Jacob
Hi my name is Richard I live in a medium sized house but not really good house,with my beautiful daughter Stephaney , we have been through some tuff times first my wife Carrie died when Stephaney was only there years old , and her great grandma just died her grandma has cancer and her grandpa isnt doing so well I have a son and another daughter but they grew up and moved out. And I just need your help I can hardly keep up with everything. Please help
l would to thank for the wonderful work you do lm so touched .is it possible to do an extreme makeover for a family in africa who works so hard to help pple at the same time they are struggling to make ends meet
Hello I'm writing on behalf of my Sister and adopted Grandmother.Although she and my adopted Grandfather was never able to conceive kids of their own they collectively raised one of my older cousins, my mom and once my mom became pregnant with my older sister they adopted her and then myself once I was born!! My Grandmother was always the one to put her life on hold for others and my sister wants nothing more then to get a career in Human Services and be a pillar of comfort to all,she has even saved money before and bought tons of food prepared it herself and went to bridges and alleys and fed the homeless that's not something most 25 year olds are interested in.As for my Grandfather he was very active in the church and love God dearly as for the rest of the family as well but,back in 2007 he passed away from lung cancer it devasted our entire family. My Grandmothers health begin to fail and she has become unable to maintain the necessary up keep and maintenance of the house. I think my Sister and Grandmother deserves for the house to be livable because they always busy assuring that everyone else is happy but at the end of the day their not as happy as they could be due to their uncomfortable living conditions. Please Help!!!!
Hello? my name is ora greene and i'm writting because my mother goes to a church that really needs alot of work done to it because when hurricane wilima came throught it had messed up the church u can't even sit down on the church chairs because u could fall because the only thing that they have to hold the chairs up are some wood but that's not working very good also the church a/c does not work it really needs to be bulid up the church is locate down in the florida keys which is in marathon on 42nd street they used to have a full house but once the the church got really bad no seems to come anymore so can u please help out
I'm a single who has been through more then anyone can think of. I was in the Army Reserves for 10 years and qualify for vet benefits. I am a survivor of Demestic violence more then 3 times. I have 4 children. One is 18 and going to college. The second one is 14 and she believes her dad over me. My son is 11 and I am trying to get custody of him and he wants to live with and not dad. My 5 year she had a dad that wants nothing to with her. So I'm trying to raise her myself. It's been hard since I have not been working for 3 years, and now I have cervical degenerative disk dease and can barely do house chores. I just moved in with my old high school sweetheart and his house is too small for the 3 of us and I don't have room to put my when he comes home. My fiancee and were planning on getting married this November 2012. It will be hard since he is the only one with the income. He knows how much I've been dealing with my sons father on this custody issue. My depression/anxiety, sleep apnea, and neck pain are so hard to hide, but I get up every morning with a smile and push myself till I can't move. I am on the PTA at my daughters school. I try to stay involved in my church. There again it depends on my neck and when I can't move I feel doggy poo.
hi my name is kayla brooks i am a 23 year old mother of two children , we just found out that my four year old son has md the fatial kind i also have a daughter she is two she has lead level real high from where we have lived . their father is a real hard worker . but we are renting a house that is not not good for my son or daughter . but we cant afford to help our son . hes a very out going little boy . but this place really isnt suitable for my family. the house we live in is very cold lots of things that need to be done and we just cant afford to fix it up , and our landlord wont help either,. so please choose me and my family as we are truely in need of your help
Hello my name is Raven Hayes and I am 17 years old. And I believe my family deserves an extreme make over. My house is the worst it can ever get there is nothing at all good about my house. My pluming is all over messed up. My family isn’t able to take showers unless we go over to a family member’s house. Are shower have been messed up for about a year now. And we are not able to run hot water in our kitchen it takes About 5 Minutes FOR OUR WATER TO even heat up in our bathroom sink. Also in the living room of my house are selling is fail in when it rains it comes into my house. We have mold in every room of our house and that is not safe a 7 month year old baby to leave in. About 5 months ago criminals had broke into my house and stole our kitchen cabinets. And out living room selling fan since then we have been living in a 2 bed room apartment until we will be able to afford renovation which will be never because its impossible for my mom to afford that and pay for apartment that were living in . My family has so many memories of that home. The house has been in my family more than 34 years. Its apart of my family history
My family lives off one income because my dad ran away from our family about 3 years ago and doesn’t communicated with anybody unless it in a text message. My mom only makes 600$ dollars a month with an 850$ rent fee and taking care of 5 children. It very hard for my mom sometimes I wake up to my crying about the bills that my father has left us with. My mom is elderly care giver and every job that she worked at everyone says she the best at what she do. My mom has very bad body from work she can’t afford to miss one day. My mom is a very hard working and it would be nice it my mom was blessed with a beautiful home. Please help me this house mean more to my family then anything.
Raven Hayes
I would like to be on extreme makeover home edition because i haven't had a home since i was 8 and my parents got divorced. My mom and my 2 brothers along with my pets have been bouncing around from place to place since then. Most of the time we have been at my grandmothers house. I'm so tired of being told that we have to go somewhere else, i would like to finally have a home where i can't be kicked out of. I know there is probably other families worse off than us but i figured i would give it a try. I'm not sure if it will work though because we don't have property and the families you usually help have their own land. Thank you for giving everyone the opportunity to have a better life!
Sincerely,
Molly
hi,its shyanna again because i not only want you to build me a home,but my other brother that doesn't live with me.my grandmother took us and cared for us.his other grandmother takes care of him now.my little brother knows nothing about our mom also.he has to move out of his house in sometime jan-feb of 2012.he is not wealthy and has nowhere to go.he has to move out of his house because the guy that ons the bbuilding wants to remake it.and they hae to leave.i don't want t see my little brother end up on the streets.can you please help him also! thanks
hi,my name is shyanna and i am 11years old.when i was younger,mymother left me.i never knew who she was and still don't.i was too little.but when i was left,my other brothers were ttoo and we all don't live together.one of my brother is blind and autistic.we want him to come home with us and tae care of him,he's at a blin school with all the blind.my house has a small kitchen are and the foor in the kitchen is a little ripped up.there's not much space and i baely can have friends over because my room is small.all i want is to be with my brother but in a good home.i need your help so if you're listening,please help me:)
it has a small kitchen area.sorry if i spelled words wrong:)! pleas try to understandtpugh
hi my name is briana and in 15 and i would love it if yall could give my mom a home make over she is a single mom of 5 kids and she has a boy friend my moms birthday is coming up and i would love to see her happy again my mom is not perfect but all of her kids love her she is the best mom in the world and i would love it if u could give us a home make over thank you and god bless you
Hi my name is Evelyn we live in Philadelphia we are a family of 6 my two teen live with my parents because my house is to small sour dream is to have a big house
I am 16 years old and my mom,Leslie Amos has always wanted a place she could call home. She works at the meat department in Super1Foods Market in Monroe, Louisiana. My family which are five women including me, live in Kingsway Apartment, which we have lived for up to 8 years or more. We hate it here and have been looking everywhere to found someone new to live. Someone where we do not have to worry about gun-shooting, (which doesn't happen most, but still scares my family)fighting (which shouldn't be happening all the time), and just plain mess. I want my mom, my sister Tomeka (Mimi), my cousin Tamara (Tammie), and my Auntie Bertha to live in a place where they can be at peace and have fun with having to worry something bad will happen any minute. M
I don't have to sob story about any of my famliy members having a disease, but we I do have a family that wants to have a place to call home and a place to be their selves. I'm not trying to make our situation any more worse than others, but just to say we want to live life to the fullest and be happy. We wish nothing more to travel and be a family something we cannot do, because we have to keep paying rent and because of all the bills and not having much food (sometimes having to ask people for scraps of money of some food). We will have to use all our money to go buy things that matter and never get to do the things will would love to do.
My mom tells me how much she would love to meet the Great Ty Pennington and how she would always loves to say "Bus drive, MOVE THAT BUS!" Something I believe the rest of our family would love to say too.
To get my personal with my story is that my sister Tomeka who will call Mimi or Meka has diabetes and she wants to have a weight loss surgery so she can be move active with the family. She is my best sister out of all the five kids including me my mom has had.
I PRAY IN MY HEART YOU CHOICE THIS FAMILY AS YOUR NEXT MISSION TO HELP THE WORLD!!!
Hello my name is SFC Michael Carter I am a Soldier in the US Army. I am writing in regards to my mother who is the most loving, wonderful, caring and spiritual person I know. I am not saying this because she's my mother, I am saying this because its true. My family moved to florida in 1991 due to my mothers job transfer, which was the best move for us. There was trouble all around us where my oldest brother ended up in prison and myself and my middle brother was incarcerated and put on probation. My mother got us out of there in time before we ruined our life. Her struggles during these years with my oldest and lawyers and the law went on and I can see her fading away. She worked so hard to feed, clothe and house three boys and one girl but she did it. My mother was diagnosed with scholiosis which is a deformity in her spine. She reached out to a doctor in Jacksonville to do the surgery so that she would not have to suffer from the pain any more and is abble to do all the things she wanted to do.She recieved the surgery in 2001 which was not successful. Once the surgery was complete my mother was left in a dark room with no clothes on wrapped in a back brace and no covers over her. She could not go to the bathroom on her on and was lying in a pool of her on urine for 3 hours crying in pain before anyone came to check on her. After the surgery she was placed in a rehab where all her belongings was stolen from her by the staff, I was so upset but there was nothing I could do because I was deployed to Bosnia. Her back is even worse then it was before she walks with a hump and gets tired when she walks three feet. She is not able to do the things she use to do nor that she wants to do because she is ashamed of the way she looks and she does not have the energy. She cant cook, clean, drive,work or bathe herself because of it. She lay in the bed all day watching television and taking pain pills. But through all of this my mother still goes out of her to make sure that every one else is takin care of. She takes care of my older brother who lives with her and has no job, she takes care of his four kids because he cant support them, she cares fo my sisters two kids while my sister works not the way she wants to but she tries. She pays all the bills with her small disability check which she has nothing left over to do for herself. My mother cries at night because of this I hate seeing her like this and just want to make her happy. I know there are others out there in similar situations but I am asking if you could make her proud and give her house a makeover and make it accessible for her to do the things she wants I would really appreciate it. Thank You SFC Michael Carter.
To describe the problems in her house, she was robbed a couple of years ago and all her stuff was stolen. She had buyers insurance which the insurance company did not pay. When the storm came thru it knocked her fence down in her back yard into the neighbors yard. Her plumbing is so bad that she has to wash the dishes in a bowl and dump the water out the window because the pipes are clogged from inside the walls and it would cost thousands to fix money she cannot afford. The plumbing in her laundry room also leaks so bad that it gets into her carpet and has to be vaccumed daily to keep it dry. During the summer she has to raise the windows for air because the AC goes in and out due to bad installation from the previous owners.
Hi, my name is Jennifer Proper and I'm 28 years old. I'm writing to you guya in hope that my family will be choosen to be helped out. My husband is the most caring person I know and has made helping other people his life. He has been a fireman and EMT since he was been older enough to join our volunteer departments. He is now the fire cheif here and I know that it kills him to see all that he does and know that any second that it coulod be our house. We have tarred and rubberized our roof to no success. It still leaks and its to the point now that it is leaking down in our walls. Our daughters bedroom is the one room that leaks the worst and thereis mold on her ceiling b/c of it. I kow that can't be good for her healthor the health of my other child and we would move her but there is no other place to. Our bedroom walls get mold on them due to th moisture inside them also. We had to put an older woodstove in our basement b/c our furnance quit at the beginning of wintera couple years ago and I know that has only made the stress to rise. He has high blood pressure and Im afraid that one of these days something is going to happen to put it to an heart attack. I hate knowing that I cant help him anymore than I am now. That's why Im writing to you cause I really have run out of options. We have 3 income in our household and still cant stay ahead. He works so hard and such long hours that our kids will go two whole days without seeing. He will go to work at 7am and work til 7am the following day come home get a shower and change uniforms and be back at work at 8am that same day for his part time job. he will work til 4pm and come home see the kids and me then have to go to a meeting or training. He belongs to so many volunteer service and gives himself to the commuinty. He is part of Haz-Mat, CAVAS(CambridgeSprings Vol. Ambulance Service), MAAS (Meadville Area Ambulance Service, Venango Vol Fire Dept, Strike team for CAVAS.
He has been down to the New Jersey area with the Strike team for cleanup from Hurricane Irene too.I would just really like to see people giving back to him even a little of what he has give to others. Thank you.
my name is brandy im from lakeland flordia and i want to nomiate my dad and mom for extreme makeover home edition im 25 year old and just found out my dad only has 3%of his liver working and dont know how long hes got left and he really need your help to give his family a good home to live in right noe there 4 of thim my mom who is 43 my dad who is 55 and my nicece and nepwew who they took in because my sister couldnt they live in a sigle wide trailer that falling apart only two room my dad is a great man who helps me alot and would give the shirt off his back to help someone in need please help his dream come true before he passes away god only know how much time he got left tey live in balm flordia on scant st they really need your help right now
Good day all☺
i would be so greatful if Extreme Makeover Home Edition could help a family I love and admire so much.
The Barends family..4 adoreable sons raised by a single Mom.
This woman is so strong and inspiring,always motivating hersele and her kids.She believes and always talks about how GOD will bless them one day.They live in Parow Cape Town and I would love you guys to come and meet this family and make a difference in their lives.
they are currently staying in a 1bedroom hanmade place.They struggle to meet their everyday needs.They have very little and I very seldonly see them becuase I cant stand seeing the circumstances they have to deal with on a daily basis.There is no source of income.Only the Mother does ironing & house cleaning for Church people in the area & gets about R120.00
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HELO MY NAME IS MATTHEW IAM 14 AND I WOULD LOVE MY MOM DAD TO HAVE THER OWN HOME 24 YEARS RENTING AND NO MONEY TO BUY ONE I WISH I COULD BYE ONE THER THE BEST MY MOM WORKS SO HARD AND VERY SICK AND STILL GOS TO WORK. MY DAD IS HART SO HE CANT DO MUCH CLEAN THE HOUSE FOR MOM PLEASE HELP US MAKE A DREAM THANK YOU MATTHEW.
i think i should win because we had this house fr over 7rs and is been falling aprt and we dont have that kind of money o fix them we also dont have any furniture
hey my name is emilyn and in dominican republic I have a family who lives right across from my grandmas house. its a family of 13 but has gotten smaller maybe like 8 people now. they live in a very very small house built of cement. the only one that helps out is the father he doesnt make much as he is a person who fixes people clothes. they all sleep in the same room no doors just cement dividing the rooms they eat on chairs only have a small table. and have the kitchen out side der house and it not even a regular kitchen. my aunt wear raggedy clothes and hardly have enough for there kids to go to school . if you would please help them im tired of seeing them live in that condition.
Im Samantha and I know their is alout of people looking for a home makeover but.. I feel so sad I'm starting to cry right now my friends Kiana and Anne and their dad Steve are going through alout of hard times right now! They lost so much, because their house burnt down);
I know you might not pick them for your home make over but it's worth a try! Their dad Steve has been working and fixing the house for many many months but all his hard work came to a tragect end! Their dryer wasn't working right and began a fire); on December 26 around 4:00pm! That was the worst Christmas present that could ever happen to them I'm just glad they are okay I don't know what I would have done with out my most best friend ever ); shes like a sister to me!
And now Steve has to rebuild the house all over again! I just feel so bad for them I gave Kiana and Anne lots of my clothes to help
But if they get this home makeover It would meen the world o them and every time I would walk in the house I will always remember u guys and this very message!
Thank you sooo very very much
And if you do help them ohh my gosh I would be soo happy so so happy(;
Thank you for reading this (:
Hi, My name is jessica. Im 21 years old and Im from a very small town called commerce oklahoma. I have a 2 1/2 year old son named Cameron that I had at a young age. I live with my parents and two younger sisters who are 12 and 14. My sons father and I moved in after I had my son in april of 2009. My parents both work fulltime jobs and my sisters both attend school. Its very hard to get everyone where they need to be with one vehicle. Which is my grandpas becauseboth of my parents vehicles are broke down and they each would cost 3 grand a piece to get fixed. So they share my grandpas truck. Things are always very stressful and everyones always on edge because my great grandma on my dads side just died a few
months ago and this was the first christmas without her and not only that but my mom is the nicest woman in the world. She always puts everyone before herself and makes everyone else happy before herself even if it means her suffering. She even puts complete strangers in need before herself because she feels as though they need help more than herself. Now she feels very lonely because her parents moved 2hours away and they were very close now she only gets to see them a few times a year and we dont have a big enough vehicle or reliable enough vehicle to get down there to visit them. Also we live in my dads parents old house and its a 3bedroom house which is very small and t+e wholehouse as so much mold in it and one bedroom is soo bad we cant do anything but use it as a storage room. My dad sleeps in one of the rooms and the floor is falling in and my middle sister sleeps in her room sometimes and my mother sleeps on the loveseat and my youngest sister on the couch and then my son and I sleep on the floor. Which is very uncomfortable. We also have a den in the back of our house that is like an extra living room and theres a bathroom in there that has a shower and toilet n sink and the shower has so much mold and its awful. The den is where we keep all of my sons toys and now im worried about letting him play back there because hes been hospitalized twice since birth for pnuemonia. The roof in the den also leaks so bad the floorgets soaked and molds the walls and carpet. The shower in the den also leaks and runs through the floor and its making us all sick. My grandparents never got all of their belongings out so theres barely any room for all 7 of us. I feel like a failure because my son is having to live in these conditions. My family
is falling apart and I need a miracle. Im hoping
you guys will be my miracle not just for me but
my son and my family also. We need a safe
spacious home for all of us. We each need
privacy and I desperatly need your help. I dont
like to ask for help but athis point im begging
for some help. Please help us. I know you all can work miracles. Ive watched it. please help my family be a family again. Thank you for your time! Sincerely, Jessica & Cameron
Hi, Im Brooke Canada. My Grand-Mother needs help with her house. It's her only home, She live's on a Farm and She has sold half of her animals cause she couldnt feed them cause all her moeny she gets out of her rent money and her check goes to her land payment and horse feed & dog food. She has to get money off of her kids to get dog food with and for other stuff as well. She has let her son and his family move in and now has my mother and brother living with her as well and its a 4 bedroom house and her grand kids that live there are David witch is 17, Amber 17, Jason 10, davin 7, my mom and my unlce his wife and 7 dogs. and her house is falling throw and they dont have teh kind of money to add to the house it has to be re-dun. because where it rains its been eating the roof and turing it green and Black. and its caving inside there hole house. This is the worst it has ever look. she has to keep on a breathing treatment daily sometimes 7 times a day. she needs help so bad. I just wish they was something I could do. :'( please she needs your help. the bathroom is even fallin down its a small room anyways the walls are goin in and the toilet is always running its hard to make it stop. the bathtub is all yellow looking and u have to only take baths in it. cause the shower is all missed up. she has another bath tub that dont have a sint in there they tore it out to re place it and hasnt had the help to do it. her room has 3 beds in it and some sleep in the floors. with the dogs they have in there. she needs your help!!! asap.
Raquel,
I was reading through these after applying for myself and my brother and our children. Your story is heartwarming and I truly hope that your family is chosen. Hood luck!