Help Britt Overcome Disability & Debt

Ahoy! Thank you for caring and I appreciate you. A share or a read through go a long way and we're praying for miracle. Our home is being foreclosed on because I had nothing to supplement my income when shifting from temporary disability to permanent in work comp.

My name is Brittany and I am a single mom trying to save my house from foreclosure and crawl out from under a PG&E debt while fighting disability and poverty. I was disabled by my job in 2021 and at that point, gravely disabled. I did go through worker's compensation as well as filing a uniform complaint; however, the complaint was buried and I fought against initial WC case denial unrepresented and seriously in need of caretaking and advocacy. During the course of that case, my employer fired me from an accommodation meeting moving my start time to prevent me from dropping off my kids at school in spite of the WC recommendations to flexibility of start. I never had OSHA for the retaliation, representation in WC to guarantee me humane care and treatment, or anything to buffer the utter turmoil we enter as a result. For instance because I had no advisement, I elected to refund my fully vested CalPERS contributions rather than filing for disability through my retirement and lost any opportunity to. I am now disabled with PTSD, major depressive disorder, anxiety, and a variety of associated inflammatory issues that kind of destroy any sense of normalcy or self confidence in life and am borderline agoraphobic. I had a 75k a year salary, letters of recommendation for a CSW masters program, and a million and one goals and plans in a life I consider to have ended in November '21.

As of October 2023, Work Comp declared me permanently disabled but because I did a pretty terrible job representing myself, I guess I didn't get the QME's needed to prove the health side of my case so they're acting as if I filed a WC case in October 21 for depression and anxiety and stress induced migraines- and they are responsible for the PTSD following my ultimate hospitalization with pancreatitis in November, but not any of the associated health case that put me in the hospital or bodily injury or costs or disability rating in PD. I know that I can prove these things in my medical record but I need time and being unable to pay my back mortgage is like being in the bottom of a hole where every time I try to climb out, the walls crumble further on me and it fills with water. Every month I receive a third of my mortgage from their PD payment until November this year. I end up in a fight to keep the fridge filled and the lights on month after month. Can't even pretend to be able to afford the mortgage and bills. And I haven't even completed my SSI app because I don't have help and the waiter on it is 6-9 months.

SDI was applied for with help but sadly we didn't pay into SDI at my ex employer so the effort was somewhat wasted.

I have a monetized Tiktok post where we are trying to fundraise this via commissions on sale of an award winning game Trekking Through History in hopes of self sustaining while others get some enjoyment out of helping my family. The game is packed with historical facts and can even be played alone. Also an awesome gift for families on summer break, libraries, and publicly funded day care centers. 435 sales would be enough to pay the house debt. Just sharing this GoFundMe or Tiktok would be helpful.

I find it very difficult to ask for help with nothing to hand in return already, but the sequence of events that occurred in 2021 left me with extreme post traumatic stress related to asking for help or self advocacy. I shouldn't have gone to HR and asked for help, or to a hospital, or anywhere else rational thought and reasoning would tell you to go or do because I lost nearly everything over it. And I just don't want to lose my house.

I fought for everything I had in life and ended up without a shred of pride in myself, unable to pay my student loans for essentially worthless degrees, or pay for my kids chiropractic and braces. I hold a lot of hope in my initial medical evaluations and the idea that stability would solve so much of my PTSD anxiety that affects my day to day functioning, and being out from under the debts would alleviate an extraordinary amount of stress. I still believe I'm capable of great things but this hasn't been treading water, I've been underwater for years and trying my hardest to keep resilient & teach my kids not to give up or give in.

Funds raised will be applied to housing and utility debts. If we somehow went beyond the initial goal, funds would go to basic necessities, debts, health and welfare for my children etc. No funds from this GoFundMe will be used in any manner which would be considered wasteful or disingenuous.

My Linktree is here and doesn't currently have much on it but I was going to feature the commission earning posts to highlight.

Thank you again from all of us.