Please, I need your help.

I never imagined I would be writing something like this, but right now I feel like I have no other choice and it breaks my heart to ask.

I’m 19 years old. I was recently in a car accident, and now my only car is completely wrecked. I work full-time and I’m also a full-time college student trying to build a future for myself. On top of everything, I have a surgery scheduled next week on my left shoulder a surgery I’ve waited for, and suffered for, for years.

What many people don’t know is that I used to be a professional athlete. I dedicated my life to my sport and had dreams, goals, and a future that revolved around it. But nearly four years ago, I suffered a serious shoulder injury that forced me to leave it all behind. Since then, I’ve lived with chronic pain, mental and physical battling depression, hopelessness, and a deep loss of identity. I fought every single day just to hold myself together.

And finally… finally… I was approved for the surgery that could give me my life back.

But after the accident, everything is now uncertain. My car is gone. Medical bills are piling up. I won’t be able to work after surgery, and I don’t have enough to cover everything I need let alone the added expenses from the crash.

I’m still working every single day, up to the very last possible moment before my surgery. I’m doing everything I can. But it’s just not enough. The stress is overwhelming. I cry almost every night because I don’t know how to make it through this alone.

I have all the proof MRI results, documents, photos of the wrecked car. This is real, and I wouldn’t be asking if I weren’t truly out of options.

Even $1 would mean so much to me. Anything. If you can help it would mean the world to me.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.