On March 4, 2009, my husband, David Mitchell, fell 12 feet from a ladder onto concrete, at work. He was working as a Construction Superintendent, managing four crews on university campuses in Dallas Tx. He sustained traumatic brain injury, fractured collar bone, four fractured ribs in multiple places, collapsed lung, among other injuries. He was in the hospital for 2 1/2 months. He is now going through outpatient rehabilitation and is receiving physical, occupational, speech, and cognitive therapy. He suffers from short- and long-term memory loss still, along with seizures, severe daily pain, and other afflictions associated with his traumatic brain injury.
On the same day that David had his accident, our daughter, Zoe, at 2 months old, had surgery for pyloric stenosis. She was in the hospital for two weeks.
Just a couple weeks ago, we were informed that David's employer will no longer be paying him, as they had been all this time since his injury, because they "felt badly" that they do not carry Workers Comp insurance. My health insurance has been covering all of his medical needs so far.
With David's income, we were able to meet all of our financial needs with no problem. Now that we will not have that income, we are in financial dire straights. We have rent of $750 due in two weeks, an electric bill of $200, plus all our other bills, food, diapers, wipes, etc. My paycheck goes to pay other bills such as child care for our twins, car payment, insurance, telephone, food, gas, prescriptions, and doctor visit copays for David and our daughter Zoe. I have applied for Social Security Disability and Supplemental Security Income for David, and they are supposedly trying to expedite that since it involves a traumatic brain injury. Otherwise, we would be stuck in appeals and red tape for possibly years. Hopefully, within the next few weeks, we will start receiving checks for him from Social Security. However his disability won't begin (IF it is approved) until October.
I am doing my best to keep my faith and "keep it together" to provide for my family right now. It is a difficult task, but I continue to praise and thank the Lord every day for all of our blessings. I know that somehow He will make a way for us and we will use this experience to glorify Him and help others one day. That is my hope and my prayer. I work full time outside our home (though my job is now in jeopardy from having to take so much time off to take care of David and sick babies), and then go home each night to take care of twin babies (6 1/2 months old) and a wheelchair-bound, injured husband. I thank God that I am able to do that and that David was not killed or paralyzed. We have no family here (our families are in Kentucky and Alabama, as well as Houston). Our situation could certainly be worse, though.
I am writing this to you to ask for assistance. email me to let me know if you can assist us.
It would be ideal if I could find a way to get compensation to stay at home and take care of my husband and our twin 6-month-old baby girls. I worry about my husband having to be by himself so much when he is still having seizures and memory loss. We really cannot afford childcare anymore without David's paychecks coming in anymore.
HELP!!!
