My Nonprofit Reviews

My name is Mike. I was a successful IT executive for many years. I really enjoyed my job and the people I worked with. Things were going well for me and my family, and I looked forward to at least another decade of work before retirement. Then, I got sick and could no longer work. After almost a year and seeing a whole host of doctors, I was diagnosed with ME/CFS.

The disease is devastating. You want to work, you need to work, and you can’t work. You’ve supported your family all these years, through tragedy and triumph, and now you can’t. You were the provider, now you’re the patient. Other people have to step up and work so you can pay your bills. Others have to cook, clean, and do a hundred other things so the family can continue. Through the years, we were blessed to be able to help people. Not anymore. That change, from ‘having’ to ‘needing’, and the knowledge that the change is permanent with no chance of recovery, is the worst part of the disease. You feel awful all the time, you can’t work, the bills pile up, and you realize you can’t do it on your own. You need help.

Someone told us about AMMES. We needed help and reached out. They were wonderful. They helped us pay our bills during a really hard time. I honestly don’t know what we would have done without the kind people at AMMES. We needed help, desperately, and they stepped in. The young lady we worked with, Erica, was especially nice. She was courteous, warm, and efficient. AMMES was there for us when we needed them. I would recommend them to anyone suffering from this terrible disease.