I want to start off by saying, to any and everyone who finds it in their hearts to help my family and I, will forever be in mine! Knowing that a complete stranger cared more than enough to help more than my own blood would, let’s just say I am and will be beyond grateful of y’all! I apologize in advance for the novel y’all are about to encounter, for it will definitely make y’all’s head spin (hopefully I won’t make them spin off). Here’s goes, nothing…
My husband and I have 8 kids total (blended family). 20 year old twins, 17 yr old, 16 yr old, two 13 yr olds, 10yr old, and a 2yr old (yea, we’re crazy, I know)!
As I find myself sitting here cuddling with my sleeping 2yr old, watching my 3 teenagers laugh with and at each other, trying to type all this out, all while trying to hold myself together fighting to hold back countless tears for the sake of my kids, definitely ain’t easy! Again I apologize in advance!
In 2021, my husband decided that it was time he follow one of his many dreams. With a new baby on the way, and all of my support for him and the down time I had, I got everything ready minus the name for what was going to be our family Tree Service business. Days went by, we were getting closer to welcoming our daughter, things were good, and we were happy. On July 22nd we got the call around 930pm saying they were ready for me to come in for my scheduled induction due to being put on lovenox earlier in my pregnancy. So we pack up and we were off! Got settled in, and given that they still had covid restrictions in place, him and my mom were the only one allowed to be with me. We started the induction process without any problems. My stubborn butt was hellbound on having a completely natural birth minus of course the Pitocin for the induction. My husband went out to move my moms and our cars and to get the rest of our stuff, and in a matter of 2 hours I was already a 6-7. He went to get coffee and check on our other kids, and that’s when it hit me, something wasn’t right. I looked and my mom and she knew! She ran and yelled for my husband, the nurse, and the anesthesiologist. Epidural went smoothly, but something still wasn’t right. So the nurse came back in to “check” me, and that was when it went from what was supposed to be the happiest moment to the absolute WORST moments of our lives. I will NEVER forget the look on that nurses face. She RAN and got the Dr. And when I tell you that everyone rushed into my room, my heart dropped! The Dr checked me and they thought she had just moved, because the fetal monitor wasn’t picking up. She moved alright, until he looked again and thats when he looked at me and said “Darlin, if we don’t go NOW, we will lose BOTH of you!” I was hysterical! And in that moment, I was living in my worst fear! They rolled me into the OR, and I hear them ask my husband if he was sure he wanted to go in because there was an 80% chance neither one of us were coming out alive! I felt time stop y’all! He jerked those scrubs out of their hands and said “Get the F out of my way, I’m going in!” Needless to say not a soul stopped him. A 45 minute surgery took 2.5 hours! I flat lined 3 times before they had to dislocate her shoulder (because it was hanging out down south) in order to get her out. She was born lifeless. I asked “why isn’t she crying”, they worked on her for 4 minutes, yet it seemed like forever. The moment I heard her sweet little yet loud cry, I hear them say “sir we’re losing her”! I flatlined again. I ain’t never had an out of body experience, like this one…I was standing over my very exposed body and my husband as I placed my hand on his shoulder telling him “not yet baby, it’s ok, hold on!” Slowly but surely, I came back around! The look of relief my husband had, was more than enough for me to know, we were finally all ok! And he didn’t go to jail (if you knew, you’d understand)! We got to come home just 2 days later and that’s when I realized that I fell deeper in love with my husband, and that the hole in my heart was finally filled! That was our first traumatic event.
A few month go by, and we finally pick up where we left off with my husbands dream, just with a little twist. Instead of it just being him, he decides that his best friend of 20 years he was going to be his partner. Which was great because it also extended our business from NC up into VA, where we also became a part of a legal and licensed cannabis farm. Which was going to be a branch off of our already established Tree Service business, we were going to legally distribute to the local dispensaries in NC. Everything went great until our so called best friend/partner stole right out from underneath us, leaving us with all the expenses on top of everything that we had already funded solely ourselves to begin with. So business was really off to a rocky start come 2022. Which leads me to where it really all begins.
The last week in January 2022, even after all we had already been through, we get a call from one of our friends saying she didn’t have a place to go because the girl she was staying at the time was crazy and kicked her out for no reason. So I tell my husband, let’s go get her! She can stay until she gets back on her feet. We picked her up and brought her home, fix her up a place in our basement, things were good. She was working on getting her, at the time, 9month old daughter back that was only 2 months older than ours. So I had a really really big soft spot! She was on the right path until she got back into an old crowd we had no idea about, which caused her to fall back into her addiction. One thing left into another, she stole the hemp we had just brought from the cannabis farm in VA, because she thought it was marijuana, not hemp. One thing led to another, she got into some trouble. Which led her to falsely accusing my husband and I, in order to “save” herself. That’s when all of the alphabet and when I say all…I mean every single one of them busted into our home, throwing me and my kids down on the floor holding us down at gun point. ALL because of false allegations this woman gave that ended up making her case EVEN worse. Long story short, my husband was the ONLY one who took charges because this woman was no where to be found, with the exception that if they find her these would be dropped against him! Well after me spending countless hours trying to figure out how I was going to come up with $10,000 for his bail, we was finally released back to me. While all of this is going on we get a knock on our door, and it’s our lovely sheriffs department, they said they were here to severe us papers. Confused as ever, we looked and it said Notice of Eviction. My heart and soul went entirely black! My husbands ex father in law (who’s never lived here a day in his life but helped him and his ex wife buy and build this home from scratch) was trying to take his grandchildren’s home away from them for no reason other than misunderstanding of a situation that we had became victims of. MY husband and his ex father in law finally talked and the eviction of thrown out! We were relieved! During all that, we fell months behind on bills, multiple disconnections of power, didn’t know how we were going to feed our kids much less ourselves. But we had managed to somewhat gotten back on track, and just when we thought we could breathe, we were proven wrong.
Which leads me to our current situation. As Iv stated before, we own a tress service business. Well that obviously means that my husband is constantly in and out of woods, sometimes deep heavily woods. And there’s some critters that I just done do very well with like spiders and snakes! Well needless to say, about 6 weeks ago, my husband had a really bad encounter with both of those critters. And him being that hardheaded stubborn type of person that just doesn’t like go to the dr, he finally went. But of course it wasn’t until August 26, 2023 at 2:27am, when I had to do CPR on him after our 16yr old found him unconscious on our couch! Whatever had bit him caused his left arm to completely swell to the point it had developed blisters and came close to busting open on its own and caused him to go into cardiac arrest. I got him back, I carried him to the car on my own and became a nascar driver in order to get him to the hospital (which was 45 mins away). Thankfully I got him there in time, and they said if we would have waited even an hour we would have lost him due to the severity and how rapidly the infection had spread and where it had spread. He had became septic which on the verge of multiple organ failure. Thankfully the IV antibiotics slowed down that process enough for him to have surgery on August 29th, where they were unsure of if they could save his arm or not. After an extensive surgery, they finally came and told me that surgery went good and that they were able to save his arm, but he’d be out of work until further notice due to having to go thru physical therapy. Which he wasn’t happy to hear that, but at least he’s still here with us. I still have my soul mate, my better half, and my kids still have their father! So he can be a little mad that he has to rest and take it easy for a bit! Now here’s the beautiful disaster, not even 2 hours after his surgery, we get a phone call from one of the deputies that serves in our county. Asking if we were home because he had some papers to serve us. I lose it and tell him want was going on and what we had just went thru, mind you my husband was knocked out from the pain meds, this man sat straight up in his bed and said give me the phone! And to our complete disbelief, his greedy ex father in law, had yet again served us with eviction papers. This time it is solely based on the market being up and his greed. Now might I add, our house in under what we thought was a life estate. But since the divorce of my husband and his ex wife, the way the paperwork was filed, it caused my husbands ex father in law become the replacement. In other words, my husbands name was removed and replaced with his ex father in laws name. CRAZY I know! And I’m not sure how that’s even possible after all the research Iv done and phone calls Iv made! But it was enough for them to grant the eviction and gave 10 days to turn over our home!
I can’t keep from asking myself…What are we going to do? Where are we going to go? How are we supposed to tell our kids that their papaw has taken the place that their daddy built with his own two hands, the ONLY place they’ve ever known and the ONLY place they’ve ever called HOME, away from them?
Again I apologize for novel, but I couldn’t keep it in any longer. More so I literally don’t know what to do! I have exhausted all of my options, which is why I’m here trying this out. In hopes that something good will come of it. And a miracle happens so that my kids can keep their HOME! I really don’t know how much more my family can take!
If y’all find it in y’all’s hearts Iv created a cashapp and a PayPal.me link.
PayPal.me: https://paypal.me/wildlingstree?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US
Cashapp: $yours4rightprice