Stories of Hope

“I was getting weaker and weaker, and breathing had become very difficult,” Karen recalls.

This was just the beginning of challenges for Karen – an active, healthy mom of 3. She soon received a diagnosis no 48-year-old wants to hear: congestive heart failure, resulting in a need for a heart transplant. Her medical issues required her to stop working and as you know, loss of one income can be devastating. For Karen and her family, it resulted in eviction and 7 years of homelessness.

After three heart surgeries, medical problems and financial difficulties, her family was fragmented.