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Please help a good person who's life has changed through no fault of her own [1]

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Date: 2025-03-01

Hi everyone. I'm posting this to help raise money for a long time family friend Donna Taylor, a disabled woman who also has a disease causing severe weight loss that doctors still haven't figured out. She lost 60lbs in 3 months and they have stabilized it somewhat, but they still don’t know the reason for it. This came several years after she went on workman’s comp disability for work related health issues. She was able to get to her many medical appointments, until a driver pulled out in front of her and totaled her car, injuring Donna in the wreck.

The driver's insurance company is Progressive and they completely ignored her, never returning her calls or requests for a rental car, until she got a lawyer to call them. They then said they approved a rental car for 3 days and stopped communication again. This was a FULL MONTH after the wreck. She went all that time with no car, having to re-schedule appointments, no fault of her own. She couldn’t arrange a way to go pick up the rental car until only 1 day was left that Progressive said they’d pay for, so she didn’t bother to go get it, only to have to return it the next day. The next she heard, they had paid off her car and she got nothing and has no way to replace the car.

She bought the car before her disability and was still paying for it. They will not give her a car loan now that she's on a fixed income. She is suing for her injuries and loss of transportation, but Progressive is stonewalling every step and meanwhile she has torn collarbone cartilage and other injuries from the wreck and her other doctor appointments to get to. They say she probably needs surgery on the collarbone injury.

She lives way out in the country on bad roads and can't get Ubers or cabs to come there. She's on her disability income only, and raising her granddaughter on that as well. So while this is listed on GoFundME as a medical fundraiser, it's more about raising money to buy some sort of used car to get her to medical appointments. Just to get her by until she gets a settlement from the insurance. There's no telling how long this will take, the way things are dragging.

It's just such an injustice that this woman was having so many health and financial issues, but still getting by on her own, until this was all changed and made so much worse by a careless driver and a heartless insurance company. The pic is before her weight loss. She hasn’t got a pic since then, but the difference is shocking.

Thank you for reading all this and for any help you can give. Crowd sourcing works because if a lot of people give a little, it all adds up, so even a little can help. I know times are tough right now with all the uncertainty, but if you can help, you can make a huge difference in this lady’s life. She is a good person who has had more than her share of bad luck. Here are the links:

gofund.me/

www.paypal.com/...

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