Dawn Briggs

When my daughter was just five months old, her life changed forever. She went from being a healthy baby to a blind and disabled child after a violent act by her biological father. He wrapped his hand around her throat and squeezed till she stopped breathing, then he decided to perform CPR to bring her back to life. He had also admitted to the police that he had violently shaken her to get her to stop crying. Since that night, our lives have been a constant struggle. I spent 5 years focusing on getting her better. We've spent many days at Green Apple Therapy trying to build all her strength so she could possibly walk, talk, and have a semi-normal life. She was fed through a tube till she was able to swallow by mouth again. It took her 6 years to be able to eat solid food. She is now 11 years old but developmentally like a five-year-old, blind, and the list goes on. Every day is a battle. Caring for her is a full-time job, and I have lost job after job because I can't find anyone to help. I have absolutely no help, no family, and only very few friends. We have been homeless many times, and I have no family to turn to. I've been dealing with reliving the trauma for 11 years. It's slowly tearing me apart. I have bad nightmares. It gets so bad sometimes I wake up from a deep sleep screaming and crying because I thought it was happening again. I battle with keeping a job because when my daughter gets sent home from school or gets sick, I have no one to watch her, and I'm having to call into work. They fire me, and now I'm left with no money to pay my bills, leaving us homeless. And this is a repeating cycle I can't seem to get out of because I never can get ahead. I'm always worried if I'm gonna lose everything again. I'm tired of living like this. I'm on the verge of having a complete breakdown and eventually giving up on her and myself, and I know I can't because I'm all my daughter has. So I'm asking the community. I'm asking and reaching out for help because I can't do this on my own, but I have no one here to help. If I can find a stable home that I own, it would give me the opportunity and chance to finally heal from the trauma. I can concentrate on my mental state so I can properly give my daughter the stability, safe, and happy home she absolutely deserves. We won't have to worry if it would be our last night in a warm bed. I would be able to concentrate and work on building a career for myself so I wouldn't have to worry about if I'll be fired or not. I would go get a degree and work for myself. But this will never be possible if I don't see the help from someone. I'm not picky about the condition; I'm willing to fix it up. I'll take a fixer-upper; I would even be okay with an RV that I own if someone would be willing to donate it to us. Then all I would have to worry about is land. I would be okay if we can find just that one person to hear our story and help us. I just need someone to understand the real struggle I'm going through and be willing to help us. I'm crying out for help. What I want is to give her the stable, consistent home she needs to feel safe and thrive. With your support, we can finally start to heal and build a better future. Please like, comment, and share this post so more people can see and donate. Thank you for caring about my daughter's and my future. if you have a RV that your willing to donate to my daughter and I. that would be a miracle itself and it would give us a place to live and be stable till I'm able to purchase us something bigger. I will be able to pay for a spot to put it with my daughter SSI check.