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This is very hard for us to make and it’s a long one but please bare with us. We are both very strong individuals and tend to roll with the punches life throws our way, sadly our lives have taken an unexpected turn. On August 5th 2017 Shea was in a life changing car accident. Shea was sideswiped by a careless driver, going over 90, on the highway totaling her car and suffering a traumatic brain injury. Even after her accident she trudged forward and continued to work her two jobs. Including continue building her newly opened salon. She continued to push working her day job and working at her salon when she could. Everyday she would come home more drained and In more pain, things kept getting worse. I decided even with everything happening that this is the love of my life and proposed to her January 19th 2019. She said yes and everything felt perfect even with all the bad happening. On June 12th  2019 Shea took a turn for the worst. She had her worst episode yet  and blacked out at work, losing all memory for that day as well as a few days before and after. She has constant body shakes now and random memory loss . She is always falling down, struggling with reading, writing, and talking due to the brain injury. Her legs are covered in scars from it and she even fell up the stairs one night hitting her face on the concrete steps. She now uses the assistance of me or her walker to get around. She was deemed unfit to work by her doctor and has not been cleared to go back. June 30th 2019 Shea had to shut her salon doors and close down her dream business at that location. She is afraid to be by herself because she has fallen while I’m not home and she had no idea how long she was out or even remember falling. This was a real life changing accident, Shea is in constant pain, it has taken a very large toll on her mental and physical health, We are in doctors offices every week with no end in sight. Her medical bills are upwards of 40 thousand dollars and still growing. Shea has had her freedom to drive taken away by her doctors due to her potential to lose consciousness behind the wheel of a car, I now drive her to all her appointments and anywhere else she needs. To make matters more complicated on March 21st 2019, I was on my way home from work at 6:30 a.m. and a man tried to shoot the gap between two cars to beat the light. Sadly he didn’t know I was on the other side of those cars and he t-boned me at over 50 miles per hour. My car (my baby) was totaled and I was brought to the emergency room for my injuries. I had xrays and mri’s done to find my spine had shifted heavily to the right side of my body. My neck has been whipped straight and torn  ligaments. It also compacted two of the lower vertebrae in my lower back. This causes two of my nerves to protrude past my spine making my legs go numb. I now live in constant pain and discomfort every day of my life with over 30 thousand dollars in medical bills. I was deemed unfit to work by my doctor only to be terminated by my job taking away my health insurance. I‘m now struggling to find the right help to take care of me and get me back into working order. I have done everything possible to keep my family afloat and together these past two years.  We have done all we can and exhausted all of our money and ideas for what we can do. We have pushed through the past two years and pushed even harder the past 7 months with no steady income and exhausted all our savings.We have done our best to hold and stay positive but We have been pushed as far as humanly possible and have reached our breaking point. This is the last thing we ever wanted. We’ve worked hard our whole lives just to have everything taken away by two careless drivers.  We are on the verge of losing everything we have. We are beyond broken down. We both live in fear that this may be our last month together as a family. At this point we’ve lost view of the wedding being a reality and are solely focusing on survival, the wedding was the last good thing we had to look forward to and it feels that and anything else that brings happiness has been ripped away and put out of reach. We use all the services we can, whether that be the food bank, churches or house of neighborly. We do understand it’s the holidays and it’s hard times for everyone, But any little bit would help out so much. Thank you for taking your time to read all that’s happening with us and caring. We really don’t know what goal to set, we just wanna make it through the winter in our home as a family.  Happy holidays from - Nick, Shea, Nizmo, and Porche, the future Wolf family.

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Nick Wolf
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Fort Collins, CO

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