I’m a single mom of a 17 year old young lady. I must say that I am very green when it comes to borrowing or asking for money. I’m the type of person that if I can’t buy it, I don’t need it. At this point in time I have no choice. It has taken me a week to come and post this, but we’re in diar need for some help and I have no one that can help me, so here I am.
It all started on September 3, 2020 I woke up and got ready for work like I always have, not knowing my life would be totally changed by that afternoon. I worked for Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services as a case analyst. A co- worker and I were on our wayback to the office to call it a day. We we setting at a red light when we were then rear-ended. I don’t remember much of it except for the excruciating pain and telling my coworker I couldn’t move. Next thing I know is paramedics we’re putting a neck brace on me and putting me onto the gurney.
On April of 2001, I ended up having to have neck surgery because of the accident, which now makes me disabled and unable to work due to the surgery and back injuries.
While on medical leave for my surgery, I was terminated from LADCFS by my review stating (summing it up) that I refused to follow orders from management and i wasnt learning fast enough. Which it basically meant that I did not to take children out of their homes, away from their families and into the state’s custody. So by that, I lost my job, a nice income.
I’m still receiving workman’s comp disability. My bills got behind but before I ran out of my savings I called each one of my creditors and asked to use my insurance that I purchased for my credit cards or if they had some type of hardship assistance. Needless to say, I was denied both and was told that they would not look at my account until I was further in debt. My credit cards started going into collections, along with a few judgements.
Then on May 7, 2024 I almost lost my son in a collision with a big rig. His truck was totalled and I thought I’d never see him again, but thank God, he was able to walk away from it with a rod in his leg, so he could walk again, and several scars. He’s doing great now walking with a little limp, but he’s here and walking.
This has all taken a toll on me, not to mention the overdue bills, especially an overdue electricity bill that I have been having to pay an extra $100 on a month. This is all so very hard to do especially when you can’t even do for yourself much because you have limited movement and at times you can’t even walk.
Doctors still do not know what is wrong with my back from the accident in 2020. They’ve said possible surgery but they want to do more injection procedures first to see if that helps me be able to walk, stand and sit normally because I can hardly stand to take a shower, but I fight through the pain to get it done.
All I do really know is I have to keep fighting to keep my head above water so that I can pay off my truck ($28,000) and I can get us a forever home. Then when I got my check over $450 was taken out of my bank account, for God only knows what but that money was part of half of my truck note, so now I’m a half of a month behind on that and still fighting with the company that took my money.
Now I have to figure out what to do so that my checking account doesn’t go south with everything else, which it probably will. It’s already hard to make it on the income that I have, but now it’s even harder to catch up.
My father was helping me financially, but now he says that he can’t help us anymore, because he’s paying his girlfriend’s bills and he’s retiring in October even though the deal when I moved here, was that my father would pay all the utilities for me and my kids, which consists of the electricity, gas, and water. It’s mostly because it’s his house and all the utilities are in his name but he doesn’t live here.
I wish angels would come and assist me with these financial burdens. That way me and my daughter can move back around my mama where we know we would live happily ever after.
I was able to get in touch with FHA, but since all my credit cards had messed up my credit I have to get that taken care of first. It will take at least $1,000 to fix my credit, so that we can move into our forever home and we would finally have a house that we can call ours. If those angels are reading this and can assist me financially, I would be forever grateful.
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