A Middlesex County mother says that she had to spend hundreds of dollars to send a care package to her son who is stuck in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.

Janet Rivera says that she spent $866 to ship a 95-pound box of supplies to her son Jarret, who has been stuck in Isabela, Puerto Rico, since Sept. 9. Rivera says that her son has told her that he and his friends have not received any aid from FEMA.

“He said, ‘Mom, I have no food and I have no water,’” Rivera says.

Rivera says that FedEx will ship the package to Aguadilla Airport, about 20 miles from where Jarret is currently staying.

“They said he definitely should have it by [Wednesday],” Rivera says. “All canned goods, hot cereals. Anything that doesn’t need to be refrigerated.”

Rivera says that she also sent her son medication he uses to treat multiple sclerosis.

Isabella is in the northwest corner of the island. Many of the roads were washed away and supplies are thin.

The U.S. Coast Guard has been airlifting food into some areas of Puerto Rico. FEMA says that they have set up 10 staging areas for the mayors of all 78 municipalities to pick up food for their residents. But officials say that the lack of electricity on the island is making things difficult.

"The bottom line is that we are making progress every day in conjunction with the governor,” says FEMA administrator Brock Long. “In regards to the power failure, we're restringing a very fragile system every day."

FEMA says 65 percent of the stores are open and the Army Corps is working to repair roads. But there are three- to five-hour long lines for ice and the bank.

Rivera says that she is ready to send another package to her son if the first one gets there on time.

The next available flight Jarrett can get off the island isn’t until Oct. 23.