On September 11, 2019, my daughter and I were t-boned by another car. From this accident I recieved a traumatic brain injury.  Since I am an Uber driver as my main source of income this has created a severe loss for us as a family unit. Being a single mom of two daughters, Kyra age 19 and Jamie age 11, the financial hit has been quite daunting. The doctors and physical therapist say I will be out if work indefinitely. Due to my prior health issues chronic migraines, myalgic encephalmylitis, fibromyalgia and PTSD, my recovery is complex and very very slow. I'm attending physical therapy 3 days a week for at least an hour and doing home exercises. This leaves me very exhausted often I take a nap during the day as well.  I had been improving but recently returned back to almost square one for reasons unknown.  My cognition has suffered a severe blow with my injury, I'm easily confused, struggle to follow multi step directions, cannot focus on tasks very long, get lost easily. I struggle to do some tasks, like grocery,  outside my home without assistance. I'm easily overwhelmed by crowds, noise, bright light. I struggle greatly with short term memory. I have aphasia, speech issues and word recall issues, things come out backwards and opposite.  In addition to the very frustrating cognitive issues, I suffer headaches almost constantly,  some bad enough to wake me up at night . I get dizzy and lose my balance. I am frequently nauseous although we have managed to get that somewhat under control. I have had amazing support from my mom and my amazing 19 year old.  I'm still able to run our pet sitting business (my pride and joy) successfully. Thanks to some larger jobs recently and contributions from my mom and Kyra we have been able to stay above water. Unfortunately it is becoming clear that my recovery is going to be much more lengthy than we initially anticipated, and we can only maintain so long without needing some help. I have applied for SSI and SSID but that too takes a tremendous amount of time.  In addition I'm starting to feel the stress of worrying about this is probably hindering my recovery, kinda funny how that works I have to recover enough to be cleared to work but the stress of not working makes recovery harder.  Anyway anyone who knows me even a little knows that asking for even a little help is extremely difficult for me. Being independent and taking care of myself and our family is generally of upmost importance to me. But I've been encouraged by several people that right now the best thing I can do to take care of us is to ask for help. So I'm trying to get enough raised to pay two months rent, I'm trying to remain hopeful that in two months I'll be back to happily driving Uber or doing something better suited for my new me.  Know that I appreciate beyond words any support given to us.  I cannot believe that I even feel I have to consider this. Thank you. Jen, Kyra, and Jamie