Help Lori and Mike through this difficult time
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In Lori’s words:
Friends, please pray for us! After his hospital stay last month, where he had an internal bleed into his kidney, and 3 days before his follow up appt that would have released him to return to work, Michael was fired from his job citing a safety issue (that he was a safety risk). Adding insult to injury, his former employer fought the unemployment claim and we just found out he was denied his unemployment. This is just blow after blow after blow after all we've already been through these last few years. I've been praying faithfully every single day for a good and righteous outcome for us and we really don't know where we go from here. Obviously we'll appeal but we are just at an utter and total loss right now. We cannot pay our mortgage without his income - we'll likely lose our house - our dream home. We really just don't know. It's the holidays and, as a mother, it will break my heart to not be able to have Christmas for our kids. This may break us period. This will test our faith and strength like no other time ever in our marriage. I really don't know how some people sleep at night. Yes, Mike has health issues, but he has never put the truck or others at risk. If he didn't feel fit to operate then he didn't. He either stayed home or parked the truck and came home. Each time when asked for a medical release, he provided one. That's doctors stating that he is cleared to work and it just didn't matter. In fact, this last time, he wasn't even given the chance to provide the release - he was fired ahead of the appt. And even if we could understand the safety concern, you already took the man's livelihood, so why fight the unemployment?!! You say he was more than driver, you say he was the best employee you had in 30 years then why not let the man have some dignity and a way to still be able to support his family while he tries to find work. If there was misconduct of some sort then, ok, that makes sense to fight it. But Mike is a hard worker, takes pride in his work, and gave everything he possibly could for the last 3 years just for the gut punch that none of it really mattered. His body may be breaking down but this has broken the man. I really don't understand life sometimes. We are good people. We aren't perfect but we're still good people. We don't want for or ask for much. We don't deserve this. We don't deserve to lose all we've worked for. I just don't understand. I will continue to pray everyday that God hears our prayers. That he shows us his love and grace and let's us know we'll be ok. We just want to be ok. Please God bring us to that place, bring us through this hardship, let us know your plan for us so that we can know our faith is just. Keep us in your light and show us the way. Friends, your thoughts and prayers means the world to us. Praise be to God. Amen!
Organizer and beneficiary
Camy Jo DeFord
Organizer
Cedar Rapids, IA
Lori Stevenson
Beneficiary