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Truck accident at work has me losing my house

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I'll be shocked if anyone helps me.  I am just a normal guy that worked every day to get by. This hell started in August of this last year.  I was a truck driver driving a route from Wisconsin to Minneapolis every night. One early Thursday morning my reactions changed my life forever. I was driving on 694 in Minneapolis when I reached down to grab my soda.  I took my eyes off the road for only about a half second, which we all have, and when I looked back up I saw something in the middle of my lane out of the side of my eye.  I instinctively swerved towards the ditch and by the time my brain realized it was a deer, I tried to counter steer my reaction.  It was already too late.  I took the truck down into the ditch and then started to recover and bring the truck back onto the road.  From here my memory is very fuzzy but I remember the truck tipping and then the next thing I remember is someone yelling through the windshield if I was alive as I hung five feet from the ground suspended by my seatbelt.  I was later told that my rear tires of the trailer hit a culvert in the ditch which caused the trailer to flip. I'm sure there will be some people that make comments about how I shouldn't have served for the deer and whatnot.  Trust me, I know.  I didn't swerve for the deer.  I tried to swerve back to it after I realized what it was.  It was the unknown object in the middle of the night that shocked me and caused me to swerve. My job fired me the day after the accident. I was taken to the hospital in Minneapolis and released and then was admitted to the ER in my hometown of Wausau a few days later.  I had a concussion, my whole body was bruised up, I recieved a hernia on my stomach where the seatbelt dug in that is in need of immediate surgical repair,  my lower back is messed up and they still don't know what is wrong to this day, 6 months later, along with my neck. Workers comp helped for 4 months.  Then they had me see their independent medical examiner which they stated that my injuries could not be proven to be work related.  They cut off all of my healthcare and also my income.  I am like every other person out there.  I have house payments, car payments  credit cards......all over due now.  If I cant get money in the next few months, I will lose my house and everything i have worked so hard for in my life. Treatment is taking much longer than expected.  I go into surgery for my stomach on Feburary 6th for which after that i won't be able to pick up more than a gallon of milk for 6 weeks.  I want to go back to work and have job offers waiting for me.  I can't get back to work till i am healthy and will lose everything without help.  I am not one to ask for help but these are desperate times. If you have any questions or want more details, please message me.  I am willing to talk to anyone about this. I am also enclosing a copy of my mortgage statement. I was unable to pay for it this month(January) and February is due in a few days.https://www.google.com/amp/amp.fox9.com/traffic/semi-rollover-closes-wb-i-694-in-white-bear-lake-for-over-5-hours

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Peter McGreck
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Wausau, WI

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