[Posting 9/11/19] Hey, everyone! You may have seen my last donation post going around, unfortunately I have to remake the entire post because Tumblr is an amazing website and I didn't crop out my hospital bracelet last time. On 8/26/19 I was driving my girlfriend home from work. I had quit my extremely stressful sales job the Friday before and this was 3 hours after my car (2019, 4k miles) passed inspection with Uber so I could work and hopefully have a slightly less stressful job with flexible hours so I could focus on securing an apprenticeship at a tattoo parlor. Unfortunately, as I was driving down this road, an older gentleman decided that stop signs don't apply to him. He accelerated directly into my vehicle. I noticed a split second before the crash and attempted to brake and shift into lower gear. This caught my face on either the steering wheel, airbag, or lovely combination of the both of them, leaving me with an injury to my eyeball and a very fractured nose. My right (dominant) arm remained on the gearshift while the rest of me moved forward in the collision. I fractured my right elbow as a result.
Unfortunately, I was unable to afford personal injury protection or underinsured motorist protection on my car insurance. I've spoken with a lawyer who has told me that this means the maximum settlement I can get (and probably will get) from insurance is 25k. This includes what they're paying for my vehicle and my injuries. Unfortunately, my injuries have included an ambulance ride, a CT scan taken at the ER, a set of x-rays taken at the ER, numerous follow up appointments, medication, additional imaging, and now I've been informed that I need surgery to reconstruct my nose as the bones are definitely Not Where They're Supposed To Be. So now that 25k has to go to paying off my car (not worried, have GAP insurance), paying all my medical bills, getting another vehicle and making an insurance premium, compensation for time out of work, and Literally Everything That Requires Money Like Food And Shit.
I want to thank everyone who donated and shared the last post. I have a total of $500 to my name right now and I'm so so so so so grateful that everyone has helped me afford pain alternatives (I use topical and ingested CBD. I was prescribed Vicodin, but due to a family history of... severe opioid dependency I don't like to use them & they don't help with my eye ball), food, and even words of support and advice. I was planning on camming to make up the difference with bills but with an upcoming face surgery & the swelling & recovery time I'm.... not sure how that's going to go. If you have anything to spare that could help me get through this, I only have paypal, $10 is a few days worth of busses to run errands. I'm terrified about not making rent next month due to the fact that we're having a roommate change and there is now One employed person in out apartment.
I'm expecting my medical bills to far outweigh the insurance settlement. I will be making a gofundme as soon as I know what the total will be after settlement (still don't have my nose surgery scheduled). My paypal is [email protected] please please spread this around like the last post! I will be offering art for sale or beats for sale once my arm heals up and I regain my full range of motion and most of my strength.
[update 9/16/19] so insurance probably (definitely) isnt going to be able to cover the reconstructive surgery I need on my nose. Insurance won't settle before my car bill is due. I have to come up with november rent (480) car payment (370) (yes for a totalled vehicle- loan wont get paid off until insurance settles and GAP has yet to get back in touch with me) prior medical bills (130) (found out the lump on my chest isnt malignant but i still need a mammogram which quite frankly is taking a Very Back Seat on my list of things to do) I still don't have enough information to fully and accurately set up a gofundme, but it looks like i'm gonna have to delay my recovery and start camming to make ends meet until insurance settles & even then i'll still be in the negatives. Please please please continue to spread this & thank you so much to everyone who has already!
[Update 9/19/19] Surgery's tomorrow, insurance isnt covering anything, will have to see if the medicaid they set me up with in the ER will. Please spread this! I'm honestly fucking desperate at this point!
[Update 9/25/19] I'm late on almost all of my bills and desperately searching for a job. I still have no car and no income source and the $20 someone donated last 8 days ago has since run out. My new roommate has agreed to help with rent if she can, but my share is $484 I don't have and won't until I can get a job. I'm not being reimbursed for time spent out of work as I had gotten hired by uber 3 hours before the crash and don't have a base wage to set everything off of. Please please please continue to boost this, my stress level is off the shits completely right now and literally anything would help. There's barely any food in the house and my gf is having breakdowns over having to support us on her minimum wage high stress job that she wants to leave but now can't. Her GERD is getting way worse because of this. Literally anything would help.
[Update 9/27/19] thank you to literally the five people who reblogged this. I have $200 left over for rent (which is $484) and I'm still $600 behind on utilities and 2 payments behind on my credit card now literally all I'm asking is that you boost this so maybe someone who can help can see this I'm honestly about to go find another car to hit me at this point if I can't get another job. We can't afford food. We can't pay the bills. We can't afford to be evicted please please please reblog I still need to afford to go to my appointments too and pay my phone bill
