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Mom of 3 in desperate need!!

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Many of you know my story but for those of you that don't.. I am a proud mother of 3 beautiful children. Kaylee is 13, Landen is almost 6 and Lynzee is 2 and a half. They are my world! Kaylee and Landen have always been very healthy and no trips to the doctor except for check ups. Lynzee had to be the one to really make me work for it! :) She was always delayed as a baby but we thought she wasn't reaching her milestones (sitting, rolling over, crawling, etc..) because she was chubby and wasn't strong enough. She was always very quiet and never liked to be held. When she started walking, we noticed she always walked on her tip toes, loved spinning in circles and flapping her hands. At 18 months she had never even attempted to speak a single word. I was getting worried and needed answers. Google told me she had autism. Her dad told me no way and to not speak of it again. Life continued on as it had until just after her 2nd birthday. We were on our way to Branson for a family trip and had just went thru the Chick-fil-a drive thru when I had this feeling like something was wrong. I looked in the back to see my 2 year old baby all curled up, shaking, eyes rolled in the back of her head. She was having a seizure!! I will never forget that day. After she stopped seizing she just went limp and her mouth, hands and feet were blue. I thought I was watching my daughter die. It was the worst feeling ever! That day started her journey into the world of tests, Dr appointments, poking and prodding.. At a follow up appointment from that seizure we were told it was just a febrile seizure and that also she had almost all signs of autism. We immediately started her in speech therapy and went on trying to adjust to our new normal. Since then Lynzee has had 4 other seizures and they now think she has epilepsy handed down by her father. Our lives have been changed greatly by all this going on with sweet Lynzee but that is not the worst of our problems. Right after I started recovering from a head on collision caused by a teenager texting and driving my family and I were hit head on again this time by a drunk driver. My husband was the only one working at the time and had to take off work for almost a year due to his injuries. During that time we never received any money from the driver's insurance company. We were living off the small amount of money my husband got from disability thru his work and money donated from our family. We ended up getting kicked out of our house and had nowhere for all of us to go together so my husband lived with his mom, Kaylee and Landen lived with their dad and Lynzee and I lived with my mom. It was horrible being split up. We stayed that way for 4 months then finally got back on our feet, rented a duplex and shortly after got a small settlement from the accident. We lived in the duplex for 6 months and decided we needed a house again. We found a 4 bedroom very reasonably priced that would let us rent until we got a loan to buy it as long as we paid the down payment up front . We have been here for 2 months now. Life was really looking promising until about a week and a half ago Lynzee's dad left to go get us some breakfast and decided to never come back. He didn't just leave though.. He emptied the bank accounts knowing all bills were due and took our only reliable vehicle that he got for me and the kids and left us here like we were unwanted trash. He and I hadn't been getting along for quite awhile but him just leaving like that came as a total shock. He never would accept what was going on with Lynzee. She is his only child. I don't know if the stress of having a child with special needs finally got to be too much for him or if he just got sick of having a family. All I do know is I need help!! I am just a substitute preschool teacher but I will be changing to full time now. Lynzee was approved for SSI and I will be getting child support from Lynzee's dad. So eventually things will be fine. Right now though I just need enough to pay this month's bills.. Rent and utilities plus insurance. I HATE having to do this and it makes me so much more angry at my husband for putting us through this but like I said, my children are my world and I will do anything and everything to protect them. I listed $2600 as the goal amount because that's how much our bills are for 2 months but I will be more then grateful for any and every dollar that gets donated. At this point anything will help!! I want to thank each and every one of you for taking the time to read our story and thank you in advance to anyone who can help. It means more then you will ever know!!

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Mandee Ludwick
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Lincoln, AR

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