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Brian Wood Medical Fund

Update 4/4:

Thank you everyone. We have found a lawyer to help us and hopefully this will all be over soon. We cannot tell you how much your love and support through this means. We are forever humbled by your generosity. 

In November of 2016 Brian developed a tumor in his chest. After a false cancer diagnosis (terrifying), it was determined to be a locally aggressive fibromatosis that still needed to come out. He missed a lot of work going for CT scans, MRIs and doctor appointments. Surgery was a success.

On 1/18/17, his second day back at work after surgery, he was out on deliveries at night during the snowstorm. Coming down a walkway covered in snow, he stepped down on what turned out to be a ledge, rolled his ankle and snapped 2 ligaments. His ankle is blown up like a balloon, he's in physical therapy 2x a week and is just starting to be able to walk again in very short spurts.

As of now, he's been off work almost 11 weeks and has not been paid any kind of workers compensation. They've gone so far as to call him flakey, questioned his work ethic and told him "this stuff moves at the speed of government" (he's a mailman). The medical bills are piling up and without his income, we are finding ourselves in a pretty dire situation.

As many of you know, we lost our business last Summer. It left us with nothing and destroyed our credit, making it impossible to get a loan. Putting this link out into the world feels really shitty, but we are out of options.

Thanks for taking the time to read this and share this. We firmly believe in putting good into the world and when this nightmare is over, we will hopefully be able to help others in need.

Organizer

Lisa Wood
Organizer
Portland, OR

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