Need to make money, prayer request

Oh, Miranda, I am so sorry to hear of such struggles. Our family will pray for yours and a solution to you needs. The good Lord know all about it and He will provide. I have no advice regarding earning extra income as I would have a difficult time myself, but hopefully others will have some great advice for you.

Praying for you and your dear daughter.

You could try to sell your wares on Etsy. I know some people who have done well selling their particular craft. I have been considering selling my crochet/knit projects on there. I sell baked goods around holidays but I will say that it is time consuming and a lot of standing on your feet. I don’t make a ton of money but it helps pay for the extra expenses on holidays. If you could get into a local flea market type set up and bake throughout the week and then set up a booth on Satrday it would probably work better for sales than taking orders.

Babysitting is always an option but that does create some stress in the home depending on the children you watch.

I have tried to help supplement my husbands income many and I find that a multi pronged approach gives better results. I do graphic design/web sites but those jobs are sporadic although they pay really well. I fill in with my baking and hopefully soon with some natural hygiene products I have folks asking me for. I tried teaching piano lessons for a while too.

I’ve been in desperate situations and I know that the storm does pass. This will too.

Tara

Praying for you!!!

My son, now 11, also had a patch of ezcema on his stomach area which wrapped around to his back. It looked horrible and several times during his childhood I would get calls from teachers concerned that he had a contagious rash. Yes, it got that bad. His rash worsened in the winter and summer months and it took us forever to find a lotion that would help ease some of the discomfort. It was not a cure by any means, but it helped. Honestly, I cannot recall the lotion but we were able to find it in Walmart over in the medicated lotions section. If by chance you have not searched from an OTC lotion, ask your physician…surely they would know of some available to you as I also do not know the specific extent your daughter is enduring with her eczema.

To give you hope, my son has outgrown his ezcema. If that is such a thing, but he no longer has it. He never too any meds for it and just used that medicated lotion as well as every day lotion to keep the skin moisturized.

Again, I am praying for you and your family. I pray God provides you with what you need and gives you peace….

Heres a link.

http://www.aquaphorhealing.com/mobile/

Just soak in water, then get greased up! Lol! It is kind of like a vasoline, but it helps hold the moisture in…it healed my daughter. It was an answered prayer for us.

If you want to work from home and can work a couple of hours in the afternoon and/or evening, you might want to see if there is a household discard program in your area that needs telephone solicitors. I used to make calls for Easter Seals, but there are others–AMVETS, Purple Heart, and others. I’m not much for calling strangers on the phone, but once I tried it, I found it to be easy enough to do. You are just calling people on a list from a certain area, telling them the collection truck will be on their street on a certain date, and asking if they have any clothing or household goods to donate.

In the case of Easter Seals, the clothes were sold in a chain of local resale shops. Some people had a problem with this (“I’m donating my clothes, and you turn around and sell them?!”), but our organization is not in the business of distributing clothing to the needy; they assist people with disabilites (like my son, who received speech therapy from one of their offices). They need to raise funds to pay their professional staff and to maintain offices and purchase necessary equipment for therapies/assistance. So, selling the clothes is how they raise those funds. Also, when money is tight (always!), we have benefitted by being able to purchase clothes very affordably from their shops.

Anyway, if you make phone calls for those organizations, they generally pay you a small amount for each home that donates, and you get bonus payments if you get a lot of donations from your call sheet. It’s not a lot, but a month’s pay could cover a couple of counselling sessions or more. If you do a search for “household discard programs” and put in your city name, you would be able to see if there is such a program in your area. Or, just search for those organization names. I liked the fact that I didn’t have to leave home to work and I could take a quick break when I needed to tame a squabble, answer a child’s question, or put a little one to bed.

My son has suffered with eczema on a few places (armpits, behind the knees, etc.), although that is getting much better as he gets older. He is still greatly troubled by psoriasis on his scalp, and it gets soooo scaly and itchy. We have used a couple of shampoos that help but never completely take it away. As soon as we get it under control, it comes back a few days later. He has sort of learned to live with it, and tries to ignore the itchiness. It makes it hard to get him haircuts, though, but I found a hair stylist recently who has had the same thing, so she was very patient and gentle with him.

I also have had eczema on the backs of my hands, and I put coconut oil on my hands throughout the winter. It calms the itchiness for awhile and makes my hands less dry and patchy. You have to get used to walking around with greasy-looking hands for several minutes at a time, though, and it gets on my sheets when I use it at night. (It generally washes out, though.) I also try to get my son to put it on his scalp for about an hour before he shampoos so it loosens the scales a lot, but he doesn’t like the feel of it on his head. Being a boy, he also doesn’t like to bathe and shampoo very often, even though I tell him it will help his scalp. He’d rather scratch his head every two minutes than waste time in the tub, LOL!

I’ll keep you and your family in prayer, Miranda.

Miranda, so sorry your dd is suffering w/all this.  Praying for her and you…I’m sure it’s tough.  I don’t know where you live, but my area has a Dr. (below, if interested) that people come from around the world to see.  He’s a psychiatrist w/degrees in physiology and biophysics.  He uses a natural, multidisciplinary approach. I think he’s a Christian. I imagine this might be a last resort, but just wanted to share because the natural, Christian nutritionist I use highly recommends him, and my neighbor and her ‘skeptical of natural’ husband highly respect him (they’re seeing him for their son). He might know somebody local to you. Insurance pays for some of their treatments, and I didn’t think the prices were out of line w/what you would expect. I hope your dd finds relief soon.  Blessings, Gina

P.S. It sounds like you’ve tried everything, but when my ds had an excema patch that wouldn’t go away and I didn’t want the prescription the Dr. recommended, what finally worked was neutrogena oatmeal baths, followed by immediately putting lotion on after the bath to seal the moisture in.

Ralph E. Waldo, M.D., P.C.

Ralph Waldo, M.D. graduated from Indiana University, following which he received an M.S. in Physiology and Biophysics.  In 1999 he obtained his Medical Degree from the Indiana University School of Medicine.  Serving as Chief Resident during his final year of training, Dr. Waldo completed his residency in Psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati.  He became Board Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and  practiced psychiatry in Fort Wayne, Indiana for four and one-half years.  There he incorporated molecular medicine and biochemistry into his practice.  

He is a member of the Society for Advanced Clinical Psychopharmacology and has obtained a certificate to practice advanced clinical psychopharmacology.  He speaks on a local and regional level for several pharmaceutical companies.

Dr. Waldo has a special interest in the biochemistry, physiology, genetics and inflammatory responses that occur in the body and gastrointestinal tract affecting our genes, physiology and brain chemicals. Believing that addressing all of these are necessary to fight diseases,  he places an emphasis on treating the body as a whole, searching for the common thread that leads to numerous pathological processes.   In treating a client he looks at the interaction between genetics and the environment, including life style and diet.  By utilizing this approach, it allows his clients to be proactive and participate in the practice of preventative medicine. 

Dr. Waldo uses a multidisciplinary approach, including lab testing, to customize and more accurately guide treatment.  His emphasis is getting to a patient’s core health issues in order to slow disease progression and repair structures when possible.  By incorporating biochemistry, physiology, inflammatory processes, the gastrointestinal system, hormones, genetics and diet,  Dr. Waldo customizes treatment and attempts to reduce the number of prescription medications an individual is taking.

Dr. Waldo treats children, adolescents and adults.  He works with patients presenting with various disease states including, but not limited to, migraines, fibromyalgia, gastrointestinal disorder, allergies, fatigue, inflammatory conditions, hypertension, heart disease, seizure disorders, early Alzheimer’s, high cholesterol,  restless leg syndrome, ADHD, OCD, anxiety and mood issues, insomnia, Aspergers, and autism spectrum disorder.  In addition he treats clients with Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease, arthritis and cancer, addressing genetic and biochemical risk factors. 

Dr. Waldo enjoys genuine relationships with his clients.  He ensures that physicians, therapists and family members are incorporated in the treatment plan, if desired.

Do a google search for “mechanical turk on amazon”.  It is a legitimate way to make some money from home.  There are many different little jobs you can do on there.  Some pay a few cents… some pay a few dollars.  My daughter did it for a couple days, just to see how it worked.  Most of the jobs she did on there were for crowdsource.  She only made about $25, but she did in fact get the money.  You would have to do some looking into it to figure out how it all works, but I do know that it is legitimate. My daughter says that if you get set up to do the transcriptions on there, you can do jobs that pay a little more.  She also said don’t do anything that asks anything about your credit score and don’t do anything that seems to good to be true… like a 5 minute survey that will pay you $20.