 As COVID cases begin to gradually decline, many families in our area are still struggling through the financial aftermath of job loss and medical bills that the pandemic has left in its wake. For Johnny and Tammy Day of Stafford'sville, Kentucky, this struggle has been a daily reality for over a year now. Well, I was drawing unemployment, you know, COVID unemployment, and then I got to where I couldn't work, and they quit sending me my unemployment, so I thought they'd messed up on something. When I came in and the woman told me, she said, you need to try to find your job. I said, right now I can't work. She said, do you mean you can't do anything? I said, no. She said, well, you can't draw your unemployment if you can't work. And I said, okay, I just wanted to be truthful with them that I couldn't work, you know, and there's nobody going to harm me the way I am right now. During the early days of the pandemic, Johnny started a new job with a new employer hoping to earn a better living for his family. Unfortunately, following a temporary shutdown of the company, Johnny was not able to go back to work as a result of his own health problems, as well as out of concern for his wife's health as she suffers with lupus and autoimmune disease. If I could work, you can bet I'd be out there working. I've worked all my life just about it. I mowed people's grass when I was younger to make my own money. That was about 12. Started mowing grass. Making my own money. And several times, Johnny's worked two jobs during our lifetime together. He has left work from one of the car dealerships and gone to McDonald's and worked maintenance and cleanup or whatever there. I've had several flare ups. I had to have surgery to have a new Mediport. This is my fourth Mediport, and I have to go and take IV iron infusions quite often. It's just been hard. It's just hard. In an effort to help his parents, one of their sons started a GoFundMe account with a goal of $5,000, which the couple mentions would allow them to make sure they are able to maintain their house payment throughout the end of the year. What we're trying to do is to, everybody that has donated through GoFundMe had honestly given us a house payment. We're holding on to that, to at least pay our house payments. And then with my 500 a month, I'm trying to pay utilities and all that stuff. $500 don't go very far at all. No, it really doesn't. So it's just a struggle every month to make sure that we're going to be able to at least keep the roof over our heads. The couple says that they have been very touched by the donations they have received so far. However, if you are not able to contribute directly to this fund and would still like to help, they are simply asking to not be forgotten as happens to so many people in our area who are facing similar situations. We would love for everybody to be praying for us for sure. And we want to get the GoFundMe out there. We want, we need, we need the help. If you see the GoFundMe and you're not able to help, say a prayer for us and share it. And it might be the next person that sees it can help us. The people that have shared and donated with me and her boss, we just appreciate so much and love them. For more information on their situation, as well as how to donate to this couple, we are including a link to their fund in the description to this story. For Mountaintop News, I'm Joshua Sloan.