Hello and greetings whomever reads this. I’ve finally sat down to do this since I have never asked anyone to help me financially except through getting car loans in my younger years. I don’t want empathy or sympathy to help me with my situation. I just want to do what is right and do honorably what I promised to do and get the help I most needed if I can’t.
I lost my job as a Lyft driver in July 4th, 2020 due to a nasty legal/divorce situation for which I was accused of verbally threatening my then wife for which was false. I had three witnesses present at that time and even with that, the judge and prosecutor still found me guilty therefore unable to work because of the legal record applied to my background.
I had lived off my unemployment during the pandemic and my mother helped me financially throughout that event since it is very expensive here in the suburbs of Seattle. I have four children that I singlehandedly provided for and housed with no help from my ex.
My unemployment ended on September of 2021 and continued receiving financial help from my 81 year old mother. I have promised to re-pay her since she is receiving her SSI $2400 and a pension of $600 per month. She provided nearly 90% of her fixed income to keep me afloat in rent and other expenses. She was able to to do this as she was living in a different country and my uncle was taking care of her.
Actively looking for work was difficult due to the pandemic mandate and hiring freeze when on January 24, 2022, I got Covid. I was at the NW Hospital in Seattle from January to the end of February. During that time, I was at the ICU. My oxygen level was below 80. Normal range is 95-100. I was diagnosed with Hemoptysis or Hemothorax. Bleeding of the lungs but I wasn’t coughing blood. Just through my nose emanating from my lungs. Double Pneumonia was also diagnosed. When a Doctor told me of those prognosis, he was very solemn. I, at that time, realized I had to accept the inevitable. I was not to leave this world without forgiving others and asking for forgiveness.
For two weeks I was in a coma, medically induced for intubation, cutting a hole through your larynx/trachea in order to get more oxygen in. The doctors thought I wasn’t going to make it and asked my children when to pull the plug. That was on a Friday, February 18, 2022 for the decision for Sunday, the 20th of February, 2022 for my last, here on Earth. Fortunately, inexplicably, according to the doctors, I was moving my toes, which should not have happened, maybe it was my foot, I don’t know. They postponed the pulling the plug.
I was transferred to the Everett Rehab Center in the beginning of March of 2022 till November 23, 2022. My Mother continues to provide financial help towards me. I am now temporary wheelchair bound due the weakness of my lungs and legs but improving. I wish to pay my mother back for the help that she so lovingly devoted and sacrifice for my situation. The total amount I wish to pay her back is $54,000. She doesn’t know that I am planning to pay her back. She doesn’t ask for it at all. I have medical records to prove my case. I thank you for your time! paypal.me/RayPhillips66