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Aid Liam's Family: Struggling After Broken Arm

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Hello all, I tend to be a deeply independent person so this is very hard to even do or ask from anybody, but my family overtakes my pride and we need help! My name is Liam and this is my small family of 4, me and my girlfriend were blessed with twins roughly 2 years ago which changed our world, I was a partier as we lived in Vegas and we were both in our young twenties when she got pregnant. We had a very hard time from the beginning as I made decent money ( a restoration crew chief at the time ) but neither of us wanted to raise our kids in Vegas for their safety as we lived in the hood of Vegas ( some apartments on the backside of the strat for anybody familiar with Vegas ) we moved three times before making it to Michigan ( where I am originally from ) a few months before the girls were born and settling down. Things settled down and we slowly started stabilizing financially after about two years, I am now a restoration crew chief for a company in Michigan who has more than less done well by me as I’ve invested thousands of hours of overtime in the company the last few years becoming the most reviewed employee they have solely to attempt to provide better for my family ( who I am the only provider for ) I can not emphasize enough that we live off of overtime. I need to make around 4-5 k a month to comfortably afford all of our bills, food, transportation, etc… about a month ago I was doing an overtime job on a Sunday and was removing some crown molding, I’ve been doing this for roughly 8 years without injuring myself beyond a sprain or bruised rib, but my luck did not last. When removing the crown a nail broke on it and I went flying off of the ladder I was on, there was tools under me so I extended my arm to avoid being impaled on a hammer or pry bar breaking both my radius and ulna in the process. My company shafted me on workers comp as the comp adjuster said if they make an opening for me and I deny it I will not be paid out, so I was forced to return to a manual labor job on “light duty“ I have a one pound restriction on my arm so any overtime is off the table as our overtime is mainly consistent of demo or moving equipment that requires two hands to move. To make matters worse for the first 14 days I was off and forced to use my holiday pay for the year. We had to pull out a couple 1000 dollar loans to keep our bills from falling behind during the two weeks I was home. Now that I’ve gotten back to work the lack of overtime and added payments have pushed me into a negative spot with my bank. The bottom line is we need financial help significantly. We’re both from very poor families as a whole and have been doing our best to scrape by with the money I make, I understand if nobody has the capability to help, and we will push through no matter what, but around 2 k will help get us out of the whole we’re in and pay off all our backed up bills. I’ve had to use apps like earnin or Dave to buy groceries since I broke my arm which has just been making it harder and harder to catch back up. Thank you for the read and the support
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