Dear Ellen,

I am writing you today to ask youfor some help.I watch your show and I see the many people that you often help. I am 50 years old and I have been married for 25 years I have wonderful children that try to help but they have their own lives and children my husband was dignosed with rectal cancer in may of 2008 he was always the bread winner of the family he had major surgery in oct 2008 to remove the cancer but they did not get it all and still have not yet recoverd he still has to back and forth for chemothepoy almost 2 hours away every week I have been taking care of my husband so I have been unable to work with the health problems that I have. We have no income and we are barley making it. I am at the point of loosing everythig that I have. If there is any way that you could find it in your heart to possible help me I will greatly appercaite it. Thanks and God Bless

Dear Ellen, Thank you so much for your show. You are the most polite comedian I have ever seen on tv. I love your show because you smile and you are so out there for animals. I watch everyday that I can. I am very interested in the stimulus show. My fiance and I are both in our sixties. We are currently living in our travel trailer. We just bought a used mobile home because we need more room. We have three dogs and two cats. We can't move in until we put in a septic system. We can't afford it yet. We are on fixed incomes and just don't make enough to pay outright for one. Well, that is my request. I do hope you will consider us for the stimulus package.

I live in a garage in the Az heat. Worked for 30 years consecutivley and have been unemployed for about a year. Can't find work yet, I seem to be over qualified for most jobs. I am a grandmother helping to rear my 5 grandsons. There are no programs out there to help a person like myself. I just wanted someone to know. I am healthy and able to work but no one is hiring a 55 year old. I do not watch your show, I am not a talk show kinda person I do not watch Oprah either. I do see your commericals, and red carpet apperances, and your wedding photos. Grandmothers what would the world do without grandmothers, we need help too. I would like to be part of your stimulis package, I need a hand up not a hand out. It is 106 inside this garage. Thank you

Dear Ellen,
Well I am writing again, hope ya had fun in las vegas, how about a quick trip to L.I NY? I am way determined to convince you how badly I need your'e really generous wonderful giving side to show thru! As I am recovering from my surgery, I have suffered a major setback and am hurtin bad! Our fire alarm in our house was activated 2 days ago at 4:47 a.m EST., and without thinking about my health I was more concerned about my family 2 young kids 10 and 6! Well I ran down to the basement to check boiler room for smoke, now I have been running a temperature and have signs of internal tearing from hysterectomy surgery on the 16th! I am waiting it out to see if temp goes down, not into an expensive emergency room visit! Our outdated oven has set our detector off in the past and we aren't sure if that caused the false alarm! Anyway that electric oven really needs replacing,, asap. I am still bummed out over 4th hand me down tv..deserve to recover with a big flat screen tv to watch u dance on! I also need the dishwasher replaced and **Maytag front loading (on stands) blue or red washer/dryer set. I was thrilled that my friend alex wrote to you again to persuade you to rock my world with a tv and appliance makeover. I am in trouble still medically and if these things arent' replaced it is going to be a nightmare for my family if I am hospitalized again! I have offered to dance to any medley of music (even if it hurts!) to win you over and charm you into the tv and appliance giveaway mood! I am still anemic too and may need another transfusion. I have been staying home (not totally resting as kids need me in between resting breaks) I have to watch that small tv thru my dresser mirror reflection, it bytes so bad Ellen! I also wanted to tell you that I have premonition dreams, I have dreamt of how and when and why relatives and friends are going to die. I have predicted 13 out of 15 pregnancies (got my own daughter wrong..thought she was a boy cause she kicked the daylights outta me and fractured my ribs while pregnant. My first born didn't that is why I thought it was a S.o.b boy! he, he! Ellen I had a premonition dream last night that yu were driving one of your ellen tractor trailers with super mario apparel on ( my all time favorite video games!) Therefore if I dream't it...it will eventually come true.. I know it in my gut that yu are going to help me! Please come soon before & if I wind up back in the hospital. Or it is going to be a tough time on my husband and family with the failure of my tv and appliances! Oh p.s Tell portia she looked great on your bigger better longer show! Gotta luv that david blane and the lady you handcuffed to the bench, that was hysterical!!

Please contact me & early in the a.m or late in evening by phone is best.. You have my e-mail as well to contact me! I am beyond desperate now! OR YOU CAN MAKE MY DREAM I HAD COME TRUE AND SHOW UP AT MY HOUSE....PLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEASSSSSSSE ELLEN!

THANKING YOU IN ADVANCE FOR CONSIDERING ME ELLEN AND PORTIA. VALERIE KUEHN AKA SUPER MIGHTY MIDGET!!!LOL!

Ellen,
I watch your show everyday when I am not working. i am a single mom of two beautiful children.I live with my parents because after my really bad divorce I had nowhere to go. My parents have bills that keep getting over and over there heads. i want to help them and I do with my paycheck.They feel I am doing too much and really I give them everything i have.I wouldnt have it any other way. I love them for everything they do for me and my kids. They take care of them when I am working. My dad even took on a part time job to make ends meet and it just isnt meeting.... anyways my dad is 66 and he shouldnt have to work anymore. Please help them with whatever you can... i would be totally indebted to you.Please thanks just for reading this...........

I JUST LOVE YOUR SHOW!IT WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU WOULD BRING YOUR GOLD DIGGER MACHINE TO MY HOUSE.MY 2 TEENAGERS & I COULD REALLY USE SOME HELP.I HAVE ALOT OF ANIMALS SOME THAT I HAVE RESCUED.WE ARE IN NEED OF HELP.BILLS ARE PILING UP AND I CANNOT FIND A JOB.I LIVE IN SHERIDAN,AR. . WE MOVED HERE FROM CALIFORNIA LOOKING FOR A BETTER PLACE TO RAISE MY KIDS.MY DAUGHTER AND I WATCH YOUR SHOW EVERYDAY.YOU ARE SO FUNNY.YOU MAKE MY DAY FILLED WITH LAUGHTER.THANK YOU.

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Hello Ellen,
My name is Alex Troge. I am writing to you today because back in may I entered the big stimulus contest for my college classmate Mrs. Valerie Kuehn. I once again will enter with a bit of details for the record. Mrs. Kuehn has to be one of the most loving mothers of two very young aged children, Holly 10 and Emily 6. Every monday night of class she would bring in her digital camera (now broken) to show off photographs and videos of her children from daily events. I have never met anyone who loves their children as much as she does, other than classwork, and her health issues that is all she talks about. Mrs. Kuehn's children as she said have learning disabilities and even though her health isn't what it aught to be.. she goes to great lengths to do things to bring them happiness. She was afraid that her upcoming surgery was going to claim her life and was totally frightened of what was going to happen to her husband and children with out her. Mrs. Kuehn has had a battle with anemia for a while and her physician said the surgery was a risk but with out it there was a 1 in 99 chance it would turn into cancer! I personally know her and her family, and know how ticked she is not to watch you on a flat screen television during her recovery. She had been requesting one for a few years now, however her 3 surgery's in a year have financially crushed her and the chances of saving for one. I wish I had the money for one to buy her but I am in college from 8 a.m til 5:30 and all my funds go towards my car and schooling. I give her credit for taking college to better herself so she can go for a job that makes better money. Thank the lord financial aid helped her get to our class. I also am aware of her failing dishwashing machine, Electronic Oven and Rotting Washer and dryer. She's not recovering well and I know she told me that to dance with you would be her lifelong dream, she isn't the type of personality to take something for nothing and told me she's going to rock you and Mrs. Portia's world with her dancing abilities.,(Believe it ellen she is fab at it!_. This is the most giving person I know, and when she was in the hospital recently a fellow roomate hadn't had visitors or flowers, so Mrs. Kuehn gave the nursing staff her last $4.15 to get a trinket of flowers from the gift shop from her to the young lady!! Mrs. kuehn is very depressed and that is not very good for her recovery. I would like to ask of you a big stimulus package for our friend we call TWEETY because she is funny and tweet's like a chickadee, bobwhite, etc. To end I would like to say this would be very noble and kind of you to grant her wish for someone who is great at making other people happy. Also for taking the most wonderful care of her family when she is and isn't feeling very well. Please lift her spirits and help her and her family Mrs. Ellen and Portia Degeneres. From Alex Troge

Hiya LN (Ellen)!

If you really read these stories and happen to read mine..please let me know. Just knowing you read it will make my YEAR! So my name is Phyliss, I'm from Alabama currently residing in Las Vegas. One of my New Year's Resolution was to get to your show this year but it doesn't look like I'll make it due to financial circumstances at the moment. I don't know how you choose to bless people with the stimulus package but I just had to say I scream and cry just as much as they do everytime I watch u change someone's life. I too have financial hardships right now as well as emotional stress but the reason I'm writing is I would LOVE to get to a taping of your show.
I know you're swamped with many of the same request so if I don't hear from you i will truly understand..Well c ya 2morrow at 3pm...
All the patients get excited when it's "Time 4 Ellen". Thanks for reading!

With Much Luv!
Phyliss

Hi Ellen this is for my Mom she has had such a hard life. As a child she worked long days in the fields and gave every penny to my Grandpa she dropped out of school in 6th grade and continued to work she ended up pregnant with my sister at 18 had to get married to a abusive man then had me she finally divorced him after yrs of abuse. She had my little sis at 30. She raised us the best she knew how she worked long hrs to put food on the table sometimes not much. she went through 2 more failed marriages I think all she wanted was a man to love her and us. She is 50 yrs old now and struggling she just got let go from her job and is starting to go to school to become a medical assistant. I believe in her because I know she is a strong women but like I said she dropped out of school in 6th grade and she dont know how to spell,read, and type the best she stays hrs after school with the teacher just to learn how to spell correctly. There is so much to say not enough space but I believe she deserves this she has never had anything handed to her and I would love for her to have a awesome moment that she will remember always.