Redcloud

I'm 74 years old and have a daughter who is 28 years old and lives with me.. We have no friends or relatives... She has Panic Disorder and PTSD which makes her unable to leave the house... I can't leave the house either because she will go into a Panic attack if she is left alone... It has been over 8 years now that either one of us can get out of the house.. Once a week we have a Home Care service that comes and does our grocery shopping for us..

She stays upstairs most of the time listening to music , or on her computor.. She has never had the opportunity to make any friends, or to work at a job.. She is very intelligent and does a lot of research on her computor ..

I was a over-the-road truck driver and gone during the week and only home on the week-ends, therefore, I never had any friends around here..(We live in Rockford, Illinois).. I did this for 28 years.. My wife passed-away in Oct. 2001 and that left just the two of us..

I am so sad, and heart-broken knowing that at my age there isn't much time left for me here, and when I go she will be left alone and with no means of support, or any friends , or relatives to turn to for help.. All we have to live on is my monthly SS check, so she won't even have that.

The neighborhood where we live use to be nice and quiet, but in the past few years we have had a big influx of Chicago people moving to Rockford and the neighborhood has gone downhill fast.. Cars driving past at all hours of the day, or night, with their bass-units blaring so loud that it shakes the windows in the house.. This causes her to go into a Panic attack and she doesn't know when it is safe for her to sleep.. She tries to sleep at night and that doesn't work, she tries to sleep during the day and that doesn't work.. The people that are causing this either are not aware of how much damage they are causing to someone, or they just don't care

On top of that we have the 4th of July coming up with the firecrackrs going off.. My God, that really hits her hard.. I don't know what I am going to do.. I am constantly on the phone with the police trying to protect her.. She wants to move somewhere that is peaceful and quiet, but we can't because we just don't have the money.. I keep a broken-heart all the time seeing her suffer like this.. Oh I wish we could get away.... Thanks, Bill.