New Wheels

If you don't know this beautiful human this is my mom Tammie Cox. She is a community navigator who helps people in our community and near by communities get any help or resources they may need but can't afford and or access. For 9 years she has time and time again helped strangers who needed help and asks for nothing in return.

Free meals delivered twice a month up to 100 people and offered to anybody who needs or wants, grants to people who needed heat, free work on an elderly man's broken chimney, help providing resources such as food, diapers, clothes and so much more. We have taken in multiple people who had become homeless in our area. She has done amazing things for our small town and those surrounding. All for no reason, she just has an amazing heart to love and help for others. And drive to continue to, she works though in pain and with the help of family and friends. But she will not ask for it for herself.

Unfortunately for the last 2 years her body has started to reach its point of giving up on her, mobility wise. It started with nerve pain to which we learned was bone spurs in her spine pinching and causeing nerve pain. And her knee issues to which they need to be replaced but they refused because she is "Too Young". But thats not even the problem anymore. Late last year she was diagnosed with vascularitis and peripheral neuropathy. She has lost some mobility in her right hand and in her feet. Her legs are weak and falls have become a frequent occurrence. Today she has been in pain from a fall on the 10th and a x-ray from the doctor now shows that she has severe arthritis in her lower back.

Due to all these issues and the chronic pain she is wheelchair bound. We had a nice wheelchair in December but the wheel had bent making it unusable. So we had gotten another one thanks to a beautiful human being. Until this morning when we went to depart for her appointment. The wheel on the new wheel chair had bent again due to the snow and frozen ground. We are making it work for now but it will only get worse until it's not usable.

As of right now we cannot afford another one. We just spent a hearty amount of what we did not have and then some for our family dog Pixie who had to be tragically sent to the rainbow Bridge yesterday due to her hip dysplasia and a cancerous tumor that had wrapped around her leg.

In our time of grieving we have now lost something my mother cannot go without. And unfortunately they will probably continue to bend with our Maine weather. We are hoping to raise enough for at least a regular wheelchair but what we really need is a used electric scooter for outings like her appointments, to where they would have to face the harsh conditions.

We will probably never not see her in pain anymore, but we are hoping our small community will help her like she has helped them.

With love from our family to yours ❤️