Hello, my name is Deboruah Madonna. I am fundraising for myself. I have inflammatory breast cancer stage 4. It is a rare cancer that ultimately results in death. I’ve have survived almost 4 years and still going strong. My husband and I have paid for all my medical with the help of insurance. But insurance doesn’t cover everything. I had to retire in April after 35 years of working at a children’s shelter. I’ve gone through 6 months of chemotherapy and 4 months of radiation, hysterectomy and a double mastectomy. The chemo left me with severe neuropathy in my calves, feet and hands. I recently got the go ahead to get the Bariatric Sleeve. My insurance will not cover it. If I can get this weight loss operation it will help with my ability to walk, have less pain and improve my self esteem. It has not been easy for me but I still have a lot of life in me. This will give me some a better quality of life. I try to enjoy everyday. This is something I really want to do for my health and hopefully get a few more years of life. Anything will help. Send prayers and good vibes too. Please share as many times as you. Thanks so much ❤️

https://gofund.me/06257f53

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Hello everyone, this story starts out with 32 year old Carl who is a very close friend of mine! His dad was in and out of the hospital, and now just passed away! He has been trying to carry the brunt of the hospital, memorial, and other housing bills himself! But has found it quite overwhelming, as he has needed to take off work and also now caring for his aging mother! He has no close family as he is an only child and has found it quite difficult to find funds enough to reach around. A few close friends have loaned him money, but the hospital bills are quite expensive! So to any of you out there who get Carl’s story and can relate to it, please make a donation so he can get back on his feet again! I THANK YOU VERY MUCH! It will mean a lot to him and his mother! Here is my PayPal link to send your donation to!

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• I am first and foremost sorry to bother anyone. I am just a man that got absolutely destroyed by the pandemic. Due to the damages of the past few years I racked up 65k in debt and I just would like help to chip away and get back to my regular life. My depression is absolutely destroying me and life is hard to live these days. If anyone can help at all I will appreciate it. I’m just giving up and hoping a good person can help me rediscover my passion for life.
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Hello,

I am a mom of 3 kiddos unable to work at the moment following spinal injuries  from 3 different car accidents  that almost took my life. They have certainly taken my ability to drive the hour to town (we live remotely due to my husbands job) to be employed or sit at a desk for more than 10 minutes. My husband works in renewable energy but he is the only one that’s able to work and with the inflation and rising costs of everything we really need help. I have applied twice for disability and of course been denied. I don’t know what to do anymore, have exhausted all of our HSA funds, and am just feeling defeated. I have been looking for remote jobs and have applied for over 300 of them on indeed in the last 2 years. Let me back up a little and say I’m 2018 I had vertebrae replacement surgery in my neck, 3 months post op I drove for the first time on my own since surgery to do some last minute Christmas shopping for our kids. A woman ran a red light as I was making a left hand turn going 65-70 mph and damaged my spine even further. I was feeling better than I had in 10 years after surgery up until that point. Since then, I have tried to pick up the pieces with no luck on a job that I could work remotely therefore we have really suffered these past 4 years. I have suffered every day since then with immense pain that doesn’t go away, tons of dr appointments, tons of therapy, I need 3 different surgeries 1 to put the vertebrae replacement hardware back into place, 1 to relieve the pressure where I’m bone on bone, and another that I have an appointment with the surgeon next month about. I am hoping that someone can help or even give me a remote job so I can earn the money I need. I’m desperate. I feel like a burden and just need to be able to help provide for my children and get the help I need to maybe one day have a normal life again. The pain is never ending and the stress is killing me being unable to provide for our children.

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Hello, my name is Sandra. My husband Daniel is a strong and caring man, who beat a rare cancer but struggles with its horrible aftermath. His journey, during Covid 19 dental protocols, began in early 2021 with a simple toothache. Months were wasted trying to save the molar until the tooth was finally pulled. When the socket would not heal, a biopsy showed a finding of Cancer, more specifically – Verrucous Carcinoma of the lower right jaw. We wanted to experience denial, but we just cried in our shock & grief.
It took more time to find a specific cancer doctor, make appointments and obtain more imaging, but the cancer did not wait and continued to grow – eating away at Daniel’s jaw!  He would require a mandibulectomy with fibular free flap, which means remove that part of jaw and replace it with bone and tissue from his lower leg. Horrible news and even more shock and crying together!
The surgery was complicated and took our doctor along with a plastic surgeon over six hours to complete. But then we received the ominous warning that blood clots are a risk in the next few days, and could cause the graft to fail. The worst fear occurred three days later when a clot blocked a vein in his new graft, so he went immediately to surgery! Daniel was placed in a medically induced coma for three days to ensure the vein remained open. Scary and heart wrenching cannot begin to describe how his life was in such a fragile state, and I just waited and prayed next to him.

Daniel’s recovery took even longer due to muscle atrophy after the coma but the main victory was the graft was stable and no longer at risk. We finally got a win in his cancer journey. Focus soon turned to allowing Daniel to eat puréed food along with some physical therapy to get him out of bed and walking. Daniel was hospitalized for 18 days, and was discharged right before Christmas-an amazing gift!

When I finally brought Daniel home, he was so frail that he needed to be cared for completely. I became his caregiver-feeding, bathing and dressing him for several weeks, under my FMLA. We had a visiting nurse check his surgical sites until I was comfortable changing bandages on his neck and leg (infected soon after coming home). Daniel also worked with an occupational therapist, to get him moving. Eventually, physical therapy appointments started and they were a weekly motivation for Daniel to fully recover!

The next hurdle to climb was dealing with the loss of nine teeth when the jaw was removed. We found one dentist who specialized with oral cancer patients, then he retired during Covid, just our luck. More time was wasted until Daniel was fitted for a denture/ bridge(not covered by dental insurance). Unfortunately, the denture never fit well because the floor of his mouth is a bulkier piece of flesh from his lower leg. So the denture is for show and speech, but cannot be used for eating. Daniel continues to have pain and struggles. He has a ten inch scar on his neck along with facial asymmetry and chronic leg pain, but we are staying strong together.

Our request is for assistance with hospital/dental expenses along with lost income that has reached $44,000 in remaining debt. We just need a helping hand-any donation will be greatly appreciated. We are so very grateful for your kindness and beautiful heart!

https://paypal.me/SD98dream?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US

Thank you,
Sandra and Daniel

Worked for Walgreens for 14 years, then put myself through nursing school (became diabetic) and FINALLY got my RN.

Worked for a hospital in Northern Michigan for 18 months, moving from Nurse to Charge nurse quickly.

Then I got cancer.  Insurance paid for some of the treatments, but not all (I SURVIVED!!!).  The hospital, I thought, would be understanding and sympathetic, but I was wrong.  They transferred me to a completely garbage job, making half of what I had been, even though I was still able to do the job I’d been doing.

Then things got worse.  I had to go through a hysterectomy due to issues with the cancer treatment (survived THAT too), and during the recovery, started having completely insane symptoms that made it virtually impossible to work, and went on short-term, then long-term disability.  Turns out that I somehow got Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, or POTS.  I can no longer stand for more than a few minutes, sit for more than 5 minutes, or walk unassisted for more than 50 feet.  Getting up from a seated position makes me feel like I just finished a 100-yard dash, and navigating simple things like moving a gallon of milk or walking to the bathroom leave me out of breath.  Plus, it screwed up my internal thermometer, so now 70 degrees makes me sweat uncontrollably, and I need the AC blowing almost constantly during this heat to keep sweat from pouring into my eyes.

I went from being a charge nurse at a major hospital, taking care of dozens of patients and managing an entire staff of workers, camping on weekends, and basically being an active member of my neighborhood and community, to spending most of my life either in bed, or lying on a couch WISHING I could go for a walk outside.

Then things got worse.  I managed to navigate the perils of Disability insurance, and the world of governmental aid, when my long-term disability insurance company decided that I wasn’t disabled anymore (?) and cancelled my claim.  Luckily, I was able to get on SSD JUST after that, so I was still able to pay rent and eat and such, but that was about it, as the SSD monthly amount was less than HALF of the long-term disability.

During much of this time (about 3 years, to date), I have been working with a small savings, and credit cards to pay for everything.  I am not HUGELY in debt on the cards, but that is about to change, as my savings is almost gone.  My housing payment is over $1000 a month.  Food Stamps are helping with food, but not enough.  This last summer has been horrendous on my power bill, cuz of my heat problems.  Suffice to say that I need help.

I’m just under $40k in debt, including medical bills, student loans, credit cards (3), and my car loan.  SSD pays $1300.  From this month on, that $40k in debt will increase by about $2k a month WITH SSD helping.

I am hoping that there might be someone out there with the heart and wherewithal to help me in my time of need.  Anything helps.  Thank you so much for reading.

Lisa

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Hello!

I am so embarrassed that it has come to the point where I have to ask people for financial help, but at this point my pride has to take a back seat because I have run out of options. I have had a very hard last few years that has lead me here. I will start by saying I am someone who has worked since I was 14 years old and almost always having at least two jobs to make ends meet. I love my parents dearly but they are of very modest means and helped when they could, but I didn’t want to be a burden to them so I worked very hard to be financially able to support myself, even thought it was extremely rough at times and the choices between food and bills was often a choice, I always managed to get by. I made sure that if anything my bills would at least be paid. Things got bad when I was laid off and for the first time since 14 I found myself without a job, bills and expenses began to get more and more behind as I searched for work and I started to DoorDash and do anything I could to try and catch up but then I had medical issues involving my kidneys and I was uninsured due to no job so my medical bills are around $8,000 on top of everything else. I just can’t seem to catch up and am now at the point that I have bills in collections, my credit is ruined, and my car is about to be repossessed if I can’t come up with the money to pay it, if that happens I won’t even be able to make any sort of income because I live over 45 minutes from the new job I just found. So I am just asking if you are able to help with anything at all it would be so appreciated and I promise to pay it forward once I get back on my feet. Thank you for even taking the time to read my post and bless you for what you are doing to help people. Thank you! My Cash App is $Ashleighvp

At the start of Covid in 2020, I lost my job and things began to go downhill financially from there.  I was forced to move back in with my ex because the rent on my apartment had gone from $625/month to $1100/month in only two years.  It took many months to start collecting benefits and in the meantime, I was only able to pay the minimum amounts on my two credit cards.  I found a new job in early 2021 and have been paying on my credit cards every month, but the interest rate had made the debt balloon to $6,000 at that time.

Between 2021-2023, I also added the following financial debt which amounted to around $9,000.

• My sister tragically passed away and I had to pay some funeral expenses $1,000 and travel costs of $1,000 since my family is on the opposite coast.
• I had some expensive dental work of around $3,000 out of pocket costs for a root canal and a partial denture.
• I have a disease called keratoconus, which is slowly distorting my vision.  In an effort to slow the progression of the disease, I had cross-linking surgery done on both eyes.  The insurance did not cover all of the costs and I was responsible for $4,000.
• I also suffer from lichen planus, a skin disease with no known cause or real cure.  Insurance didn’t pay for the tests or the doctor to the tune of $700.

I’m down to owing around $13,000 now.  Any amount would help and all monies will be paying Citibank and Chase.

Thank you for your assistance!

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Hi there,

I’m reaching out on behalf of my dear friend, John, who is facing an unimaginable challenge right now. John is a Loving single father of three amazing children, and he’s always been their rock, their superhero, their one and only. But recently, life dealt him a devastating blow – he was diagnosed with testicular cancer.

John is known amongst his friends and family as one of the most hardworking and dedicated fathers I’ve ever known. He has always put his children’s needs first, working long hours to provide for them and create a Safe and Secure loving home. But now, his health has taken a toll on him, making it impossible for him to continue working.

With the mounting medical bills, the cost of treatments, and the everyday expenses that come with raising three kids, John is at a breaking point. The financial burden is overwhelming, and he’s on the verge of losing their family home.

We’re reaching out to you, our friends, family, and community, in the hopes that together we can make a real difference in John’s life. Your generous support can help him access the medical care he desperately needs to fight this cancer, and it can also prevent his family from losing their home.

Every contribution, no matter how small, will make a Meaningful impact:

$10 can help buy essential groceries for the family.
$50 can contribute to medical co-pays and prescriptions.
$100 can assist with utility bills to keep their home running.
$500 can go towards covering the cost of vital cancer treatments.
$1,000 can help stave off the threat of foreclosure and keep a roof over their heads.

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Beyond the financial aspect, your support will also provide John and his children with something Equally valuable – Hope and the Knowledge that they are Not Alone in this difficult journey.

Please consider donating and sharing this opportunity with your friends and family. Let’s rally around John and his children during this challenging time and show them the power of Community and Love. Together, we can help them navigate through this dark period and look forward to a brighter future. Lots of love, Stay Blessed!

Thank you for your Compassion, Generosity, and Kindness. Plus for being a source of Strength for John and his family. Your support means the World to them.

With gratitude,

J-Bird’s and the Community for John’s Family

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