
The Williams Family
Our Story
I am a single mom of an 11 year old boy and 18 year old girl. My 18 year old is a single mom of a 10month old baby girl. We live a modest life in Arizona. I worked full time as a staff accountant living comfortably. I support all of them. I also for the past 10 years have been over seeing my 87 year old mom's care. My brother was homeless for years and I lost contact with him up until last year. So I got him a bus ticket and moved him in with me. He is unable to work. Life was great until 09/22/2023 when I was heading into work, when a dump truck took a right turn from a left lane and hit me pushing my SUV up a side street and causing my vehicle to whip around. He didn't stop to look before turning, he didn't look to see that I was driving beside him for about 100 yards. It caused a herniated disc in my lower spine pushing on a nerve causing what feels like lightening going down my leg and across my lower back. It caused a herniated disc in my neck, causing 24-7 headaches and constant sharp pain. My left shoulder has inflammation so bad my left arm feels like I played softball nonstop for 6months 24-7. My knee has a meniscus tear. That is the only injury that has healed enough to not cause me massive pain. My pain got so unbearable I couldn't get out of bed most mornings. I had multiple injections in my lower back and in my neck that were so excruciatingly painful, I wanted to die. I had injections in my shoulder that worked for a couple of days. I tried working full time through all of this, but by December I no longer could. After exhausting everything the doctors could, because of how serious my lower back injury is, I will be having surgery to repair the herniated disc. I will also be having a procedure called Tenex on my shoulder. I had 5 injections at one time in my neck 2 weeks ago. That was BEYOND traumatizing because I was not sedated for that. For 5 days after the injections my neck and back felt like they were on fire. I have trauma therapy once a week to help me not give up, because too many people depend on me. I have fallen so far behind on my rent, car payments and bills. I have maxed out my credit cards and the creditors are hounding me daily. I have exhausted every avenue of help. I applied for rental assistance through our county but they take 2-3 months to process the application. My landlord filed for eviction for non payment of rent and won. I have until March 18 to pay Feb and March rent plus the court costs or they will file a writ to have a sheriff remove my family. My anxiety is through the roof because I have no family I can move us into. I don't have money to move us. I am in so much pain I can't even pack us up. The medication I am on until I have surgery puts me to sleep 23 hours of the day, I am not functional at all on this medication. So my brother has taken over the cooking, cleaning and helping me with my son. My daughter is desperately trying to find work but she has no experience and is going to night classes to get her high school diploma. I do have a lawyer for my lawsuit, however he can't submit a demand until after my surgery and procedure on my shoulder. My neck is still pending if the injections will work or not. We get SNAP to help with some of food costs and I work less than 4 hours a week in small increments from home to help with some of the bills but it's not enough. I am praying for a miracle to help my family stay in our home and keep our vehicle so that my daughter can get to school, do the grocery shopping, get her brother to appointments and her daughter to her doctor appointments. We live in a small country town where there is no public transportation. Once I get healed and back to where I was before the accident I will be going back to work full time and get us back on our feet. We didn't even have a Christmas because I had no money. Our tree is still up for when I get better and can go back to work. I am the life line to my whole family. Please help.