Join Abby in helping families through December

In April 2014 our son Wyatt, 18 months old, fell into our pool. He was gone about forty minutes before they got him back. I was pregnant with our fifth. That first Christmas I learned what a brain injury costs, and how little of it is covered.

I have spent the years since finding money for other families: grants, equipment, therapies, the van. I am good at it. But a grant takes three to six months, and the copay, the gas and the December power bill are due now.

Every family here is in a stretch like that, where the bill comes before the help does. A lot of what is on these lists is something I have sat at my own kitchen table trying to figure out. Pick one. Cover it.