39 Year Old Disabled Single Dad Seeks Government Business Grant

by Chris Niemeyer
(Seattle, Washington, USA)

Me and my son for his first Christmas

I am a 39-year-old single dad. My ex was three months pregnant when a car hit me and left me on the side of the road.

Luckily it was December and cold, which made me get hypothermia and slowed my blood flow down or I would have bled to death! Here are the links if you want to read the stories:

http://www.seattlepi.com/jamieson/303755_robert15.html
http://www.seattlepi.com/jamieson/296711_robert21.html
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/5024456.html

I now have Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and have lost 3-5 years of memory and have very so-so short-term memory!!! Being in the hospitality industry and a restaurant owner, my brain will not let me do what I love and enjoy!!

I am taking the good with the bad, I am a dad now and believe that my son is my life and he is why I fought so hard to survive and be his dad!

But I am missing something in my life and that is work and adult fellowship. My ex fiancée left me a year after the accident. I still struggle to understand why!

I am looking for help to get enough funds to open a coffee shop/deli for my neighborhood and see if I can get back to what I love to do… serving my fellow friends, neighbors and kids so they can be happy.

My goal is to one day be self-supporting again and be able to afford keeping food in the refrigerator, clothes on my son and me knowing I am gonna make it!

The reality is that house is in foreclosure and I have about two months before they foreclose. That is unless a miracle happens!

So if anyone out there has any good ideas or thoughts I would love to hear them, and if anyone can help a man that has fallen and is working on getting back up I would pay it forward!!!

Thanks for your time and have a wonderful and meaningful life! Chris Niemeyer, Restless in Seattle.