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Donate to Support Sonya's Journey to Health and Stability, organized by Madison Olson

Hello, My name is Madison, and this is my mother, Sonya. Recently, we have been going through some really rough times. My mom has worked for the UPS hub for the last 10 years and has loved every second of it, from the people to all the different jobs she had at the facility. But, for the past 3 years, my mom has been in excruciating pain as a consequence of her hard work outside work, doing odd jobs for extra money and caring for our family. The pain was coming from her spine, caused by three disks constantly slipping with any move of her body, pinching her sciatica. This caused my mother to not be able to go grocery shopping or even attend her grandson's football games. Due to her injury, she was not able to work. She was on disability, but it had run out 2 weeks before she had a surgery scheduled. We had no insurance and no money coming in. My mom had no choice but to go back to work to get the insurance back. I remember her coming home every day in tears from the pain, but she couldn’t stop; she had to keep going. After a few months, she had insurance back and was back on disability. We sought out medical help immediately. After a few tests, it was determined that my mom had to get spinal fusion surgery on her lower lumbar spine. The surgery was successful, thank God, but her insurance ran out three days after her surgery. My mom couldn’t get her medication for after her surgery to keep the pain down; all she could take was Tylenol. (This part is a little gross but important for later.) Her back started swelling up, and we didn’t know why. We went to the hospital, and they tried to squeeze it, but it popped inside of my mom, and they sent her home because there was nothing they could do. I cleaned it every day, and the swelling went down eventually. After two months, she could drive again. The universe decided that day to give us an extra challenge: my mom's engine blew up. She now had no car, no insurance, her registration was almost due, and no money coming in due to disability ending. Thankfully, we have a family friend who built her a new engine in the meantime, and we could pay him back later. This last week, my mom has been experiencing high fevers of 103° every night. After a few nights of restlessness and crying through the night just like before, she decided she needed to go to the emergency room. She got there, and they couldn’t figure out what was wrong with her until I got the call that she had a staph infection in her blood. How? I have never heard of that before. In order for my mom to come home, she needs a nurse to come twice a day to administer her medication; if not, my mom could die. I’m asking for $9,000 to help pay back the cost of the engine rebuild and also to help pay our water, trash, electricity/gas bill, which we are behind on as well because of my mom's inability to work. I try to work as much as I can to make up her portion of the bills, but I can’t do it all. Please, if you could find it in your heart to even give $1, that would help so much. Read more

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