Before I tell my story I’d like to thank you for reading this. The fact that you and I have never met and you are taking time out of your day to see what has brought me to this site to ask for help is a wonderful thing and I truly appreciate it.
Before April 18th of 2017 I was an optimistic person. I truly believed everything happened for a reason. I kept my positive outlook in spite of the fact that I had divorced my husband after 2 years of marriage preceded by 17 years of friendship. I had been fired from my job that I had for 7 years (the first and only time I’ve been fired) because my boss (my brother’s mother in law) was angry that I lost weight and started a rumor that I was bulemic. She threatened my job over her lie, told me to digest what she said, harassed me for a year and even made me come back from my honeymoon a day early because she forgot to do my review before she fired me. Because of that I lost my house. I was buying it from my cousin and only owed $8,000.00 after paying him $23,000.00. I missed 3 payments and he took it back. I even kept a positive outlook after my youngest Chihuahua Abby and her puppies passed away due to complications during her labor. I let my ex husband take our cat Wesley and I took my terrier Fez and my chihuahuas Jayden and Scrappy and briefly moved in with the man I was dating at the time. He had a few mental conditions and became extremely abusive. My best friend introduced me to her good friend and he acted as if he was my knight in shining armor. By this time a close friend had given me her Chihuahua named Cricket and I knew that 4 dogs was a lot for the new man in my life to take on when he moved me out of my exes and into his home. Cricket was pregnant as well so I talked to my brother and he took Jayden and Scrappy for me. The plan was when Cricket’s puppies went to their new homes I would pick Jayden and Scrappy up and bring them home. Everyone agreed that it was a good idea-until the day the puppies went to their forever homes. My brother wanted one of the puppies so she was the last one that I dropped off that day. As I kissed her goodbye I got my babies back and I was so happy. When I got home that evening I brought them in and was so excited to have them all together again-until my boyfriend looked at me and said that they were too much and we all had to go. My dear friend Liz and her husband Tony had just bought the house they had been renting and offered me and my babies a place to stay. The house needed a lot of work and they knew that I was capable of doing the work with them. I was also working for an interior designer at the time that would sell me the materials that they needed to me for a very low price. Everything seemed like it was going to be ok. That lasted for about 2 weeks.
I was at my boss’s house doing his landscaping. I left around noon to pick Liz and her husband up and drop them off at her doctor’s office for an appointment she had that day. Her brother in law was going to pick them up whenever they were ready to go home because I had to get back to work.
At the end of each work day my boss would go to the bank while I finished up whatever needed done and I would leave when he returned. Not long after he left my phone rang and it was Tony’s brother telling me that the house was on fire. I tried to call my boss as I was running to my car to tell him I was leaving but he couldn’t understand what I was saying. I drove as fast as I could and had to park my car a block or so from my house. There was a very large crowd of people from the neighborhood and I fought through it only to be told that I couldn’t go near the house. No one knew where my babies were. I stood there for 4 hours waiting for the fire to be extinguished so that animal control could go inside and locate my 4 pups and Liz and Tony’s dog and their 3 cats. He found my babies curled up together in my bed. The smoke took their lives. I thank God the fire didn’t touch them. My whole world turned upside down that day and it’s still hard to get through each day without breaking down. 3 months after the fire I told a stranger that I saw walking his Chihuahua that she was adorable and he asked if I wanted her. I could never replace my babies but Zadie came home with me the next day and she’s been my sidekick ever since. Every time I think things are getting better life surprises me with new obstacles. That brings me to the reason that I’m here asking for your help.
On November 17th of 2022 I was using my f-150 to help my Mom. My grandparents had went into a nursing home in June and their neighbor was going to buy the house from them. The closing was in a few days and the garage still needed cleaned out. My grandpa passed away the night before I was going to clean the garage and my Mom was a wreck. I loaded the bed of the truck for the first trip and headed back into town to unload it and make a 2nd trip. I decided to stop to get something to eat. While I was at a complete stop with my turn signal on waiting for traffic to pass so that I could turn into the restaurant a man driving a Ford edge ran a red light and rear ended me. The police later told me that he was going at least 45mph in a 35mph zone and never touched his brakes. He hit my truck so hard that the bed folded like an accordion, the dash popped off, the back windshield busted out and my face hit the steering wheel so hard that it knocked me out. I remember telling myself to open my eyes because if I didn’t I was dead. The pain was excruciating and it was terrifying thinking that. I’m assuming I thought that way because of an accident that I was in in August of 1997. That accident put me in a coma for 11 days and left me with no memory of the weeks before the accident, the day off the accident, being in the hospital and even the first couple of weeks that I was home. This was due to a fractured skull and the swelling of my brain that required emergency surgery. The pain has gotten worse and my quality of life went downhill fast. I went to physical therapy 3 times a week for more than 3 months. This did not help me at all. I saw a doctor a couple of hours away and he sent me to get an MRI. The results showed that my L4 and L5 vertebrae are herniated. The damage to my L4 is pressing on the root to the nerve in my right leg. This has made it impossible for me to walk more than a couple of feet without having to stop and try to position my leg so that the pain subsides. I was referred a spinal surgeon and and I am scheduled to have surgery on my L4 next week. Although the surgery is scheduled on my birthday I am very hopeful and very excited. The only issue is that my surgeon is about 3 hours from here so the appointments have been difficult to get to. I’m addition to my surgery I have 3 post op appointments to go to. My Mom and Dad have paid for the trips so far and my mom and my aunt have driven me to them but I know I can’t keep depending on them to do the same in the future. In addition to this I am living in a bad situation. My friend allowed me to move in to their house and I appreciate it so much-the only problem is that there’s no power and no water. It’s getting cold. There is a generator that I can use from time to time but that is expensive and I have no source of income other than my family giving me a little money from time to time. I have an attorney but I have no idea when the case will settle. It’s getting harder and harder to get by. Fortunately a video popped up on YouTube and that is where I learned about this website. I would like to get $5,000.00. This would cover my balance I owe to the power company and a few months of service, the fee to turn the water on and the service for a few months and the travel to my spinal surgeon’s office for my surgery and my post op appointments. I’m hoping after a few months I will be feeling fantastic and that I will be able to work again. Hopefully by then I’ll know when I’ll get a settlement and how much I will get. $5,000 is my goal but any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you again for your time!
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