Optimism still reigns in the outlook and words of a 43-year-old mother of five in Powell, Wyoming, and her oldest son, whose devastating accident capped a bad three months that turned their family’s world upside down.

It began when their property flooded on Memorial Day weekend in 2024, Cindy Anzurez said.

Then on July 4, the family’s possessions burned up in a garage fire. Less than a month later on Aug. 1, Anzurez’s then 13-year-old son Gonzalo was paralyzed from the shoulders down in a life-changing car accident.

While Gonzalo spent the next six months in a Denver hospital recovering, Anzurez’s husband couldn’t handle the pressure and left the family and the state.

They are now divorced.

“He still hasn’t come to terms and doesn’t accept he has a disabled son,” said Anzurez, who als

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