My name is Cindy Gannaway I’m 63 and from August 2022 until June 3rd of 2024 I lost several family members, including my mother my uncle my grandmother and the most devastating one my identical twin. I started taking care of my mom in September 2020 and my twin sister had lost her legs in August of 2020. My mother had been diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma and my sister asked if I would take care of her to keep her out of a nursing home and I had already told my mom I would take care of her. I took care of my mom for 3 years my mother passed March 23rd of 2023 at home on hospice. I brought my twin sister home who was  bilateral amputee a quadriplegic  with the catheter and colostomy and eventually had a feeding tube I took care of her until June 3rd of 2024. My  husband had helped me take care of my twin sister until he passed July of 2001 leaving me to take care of her.  I have taken care of my twin sister since our early twenties and at the age of 61 is when she had passed away. After my twin died it was just a few months later I had been diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma myself and severe stenosis in my neck I have to have a back surgery my spinal cord is pinched I’m not able to work my husband passed away almost 25 years ago and I need help with my bills before I lose my house I’m about to lose my car. After losing most of my family I have nobody to help me I took care of my sister till she passed away she was also on hospice she was my identical twin. I’m not a writer I’m not a speaker all I can do is speak from my heart that I would do it all over again to take care of my mom and my sister like I did and let them pass it home with pease and dignity and with family. At least I could do was to let him die at home with family and friends.  but I’m begging for somebody to help me I am so financially and emotionally broken and struggling to pay my bills.  I don’t usually ask for help but I’m at that point but I need help I have nobody to help me I can’t make my payments I’m about to lose my car I can’t hardly make my car payment. I’m going to MU Columbia hospital and it cost me $70 every time I have to go because it’s almost 3 hours away and it’s the only place that agreed to fix my back but it’s taking everything I have to go to doctors to schedule surgeries. My spinal cord is pinched in three places and both my hips are bad I have worked in the construction field and decades of being raised on a tobacco farm and married to a tobacco farmer I’ve done a lot of hard work I’ve done a lot of damage to my body and I need help because I have nobody to help me now so if you can find it in the kindness of your heart to help me I have at least a years worth a medical bills coming up and almost a year of back medical bills so anything will help may God bless you and you have a blessed day thank you for hearing my story and I hope you consider me as a candidate for a donation thank you for your kindness whether you except me or not kindness goes a long ways.  May God be with you .

Papal.me@clgannaway

Hi! My name is Brittany and on July 4th of this year I fell while taking a run. I fell and it resulted in multiple tears in muscles and tendons surrounding my elbow. The doctors were surprised I did not dislocate my elbow with the injuries obtained.

At the time of the fall, I did not have insurance. (any insurance i get now will not cover as it’s a “pre existing condition”) I have been going to occupational therapy 2 times a week every week since in hopes it will naturally repair. I started in July and now it’s November.

I now need to have surgery to repair the torn muscles and tendons. I already owe $15,000 for the therapy received from the hospital, and now looking at just below $20,000 for surgery. I have a payment plan to repay the $15,000 at only $100 a month as that’s all I can afford.

The hospital will not move forward with the surgery until I have my current balance paid. After surgery I will still owe the hospital $20,000. I’m asking to raise the $15,000 needed to just get the surgery done. I’ll have to be ok with being $20,000 in debt after surgery.

I need this Surgery as soon as possible; I’m 7 weeks pregnant and the more time that passes the less likely i will be to getting the surgery till after I have my baby. If i don’t have it before the baby is due, I will not be able to pick up my child and care for it independently.

Thank you to anyone who takes the time to read this and I greatly appreciate anyone who is able to help, even if it’s only a little bit.

my cash app is $brittlorraine21

​My daughter struggled with weight her whole childhood. Her Dad was also overweight most of his life and he didn’t make very wise choices when it came to her diet. We were divorced when she was very young, so I didn’t have full control of her food choices. When she was 18, she was very much overweight, so her Dad basically forced her to have lap band surgery, which is performed to help shrink the stomach and force the patient to eat smaller portions and less often. She didn’t have much luck with it and she was sick from it for a while. She was never told that it should be removed, but she started having major stomach problems recently – she’s now 39 and needs to have it removed, but her insurance does not cover it. I’ve helped her some, but we need an additional $5000 as soon as possible. If anyone can help, we would sincerely appreciate it.

This is my paypal account to use to send the money – paypal.me/KarenCree274

My Name is Tim.

I was being treated by Shand’s for cancer. They started me on a BEP treatment but had to switch to an EP treatment as the BEP put me in the hospital. While in the hospital My cancer doctor told me if I did not follow through with his recommendations to be on the BEP treatment that I would die. His exact words.
A few weeks after the treatment was done, I developed long nerve peripheral neuropathy. I have lost use and feeling in my hands and feet. Lost dexterity as I cannot fully feel what I am doing with my hands and feet. Everyday tasks have gotten difficult and even driving
is dangerous as I can barely feel the pedals. Not to mention that even almost a year later I still have brain fog, partial POTs and some memory issues from the chemo as well. The memory issues along with the neuropathy are starting to affect my job as I am an
Information systems manager and have to use my hands and think critically daily.
It has taken months to see their neurologists and the two I have seen both said all these problems are most likely from the chemo or are consistent with the chemo. They also said that it will not get better as it is nerve damage. The hospital knows they made a mistake and will not do anything about it. Plus lawyers will not touch Shand’s as they have Sovereign Immunity under Florida State Law. Not sure what else to do as my doctors are talking about putting me on disability. I wont be able to afford my home or anything if they do so. I’m looking to get help wherever I can to make life easier when they put me on disability. I don’t want to lose my home or vehicle.

https://paypal.me/Neonomic

Hi! My name is Molly and I am a young girl trying to get back on her feet after I randomly developed multiple severe autoimmune conditions. I take immunosuppressants which have worsened my asthma and I have thousands of dollars in medical bills and I am having a ton of trouble paying them back and applying for disability. All my savings have been going towards my rent, I haven’t been able to afford food or the supplies I need to recover or even start physical therapy. I am constantly stressing about these things and how much debt I am in that I keep on making myself sicker. I don’t know if this will do anything but under the circumstance that someone wanted to help I thought I would post somewhere although slightly embarrassed. I put 300 for the link only, I would really be happy with even less. Just anything would help. https://py.pl/FVHZkd38rPT0ofZOrB7uhQ

 

 

Hi there,

I’m sorry to even have to ask this of anybody, but I genuinely don’t know what else to do. My name is Hannah, and I am 25 years old an an aspiring writer. I currently work full time as a paraprofessional in an elementary Lifeskills classroom, and I absolutely love my job, but it does not pay nearly enough for what is going on in my life right now. A few year ago my mom also ended up with COVID-19, and it almost killed her. She was in the hospital on an oxygen tank for a week, and after she recovered she found out she has significant damage to her memory and ability to focus. We believe she was oxygen deprived and suffered some kind of brain trauma as a result, and this eventually pushed her to make the difficult decision to retire from her job of 30 years as a supervisor in the department of welfare. She is currently on disability, but she only now makes a fraction of her former salary.

As for what I really need help with- my father was in a terrible car accident a few months back, and alongside several major surgeries was placed into a temporary coma. He is back home now and thankfully alive, but his hospital bills are so much more than either of us can handle alone. I am truly desperate for this help. I am in the process of moving into my first apartment and still paying for school online, and my mom is putting every spare cent she has aside to try and pay off the bills. I also work a full time job on top of going to school online, but I am unable to put even a dent into the bills he has. He is the owner of his own business which is a fireplace/chimney company that he started completely by himself from the ground up, and this is the main source of his income. He only has 2 or 3 employees that he pays whenever they are available to work for him, but the majority of the time he is out working alongside them. He is slowly recovering but still completely unable to work or provide any further income than what he has saved away. My parents will never be able to afford the bills they have piling up right now, and I know how scared they are and how much they are struggling. If there is any way someone would be able to help me pay off the hospital bills I would forever be grateful. I would need approx. $35,000

Again, if you are able to help, thank you so incredibly much, and if not I completely understand. Either way, thank you for reading.

https://www.paypal.me/betweenadream

Hi everyone! I am 25 years old and back in February 2025 I had a boyfriend and we had just moved into together. We got pregnant and were so excited. I went in for my first ultrasound and knew something was not right and it turned out to be an ectopic pregnancy resulting in an emergency surgery. I had no health insurance as I had gotten kicked off of my parents at the beginning of the year. I ended up with about 20,000 in medical bills. This entire situation took a toll on me and me and my boyfriend broke up and I had to find my own place. I had the begun my second semester of school in August and my car decided it wanted to get 3 flat tires within 3 weeks and my starter went out. What luck! I work two jobs and 12 hour days almost every day but it feels like I can’t catch up with everything coming at me at once. I don’t know exactly what I need help with first but I do know I need help. All of this has made me feel helpless and I’m asking for anything to help start my life over again and get back on track. Thank you for listening!

Hello everyone my name is Dale Miles. I am in need for money to purchase my prosthetic leg. When the whole Covid thing came about I really wasn’t worried. I had a job where you weren’t in the same place everyday and it was outside. I poured concrete. We had a small crew only seven of us we weren’t around people that often. So I was really worried about contracting this virus. Well I never got the Covid virus, but I did get the Covid vaccine. I really didn’t want to get it because they just came up with it and I’m sure there weren’t very many trials before the started giving them out. So one weekend me and my wife were going to the Seattle Seahawks vs. the San Francisco 49ers game. We got in line to get in and found out that they weren’t letting people in unless they could show that you have gotten the COVID vaccine. Literally they were giving them out rite in front of the stadium.So we sat there pondering if we should do it and we decided to go aged and get them. IT WAS THE BIGGEST MISTAKE OF MY LIFE. So a month or so later me and my wife were at a friend of mine’s wedding and my right leg from the knee down swoll up like you wouldn’t believe. It got so swollen that it started to hurt really bad, to the point where we had to leave and go to the emergency room. Come to find out that I had a blood clot in my leg. They did surgery going in through my growing artery and they were able to fish it out. All was good up until about a month later Cand it did it again. Same surgery same result. This time it lasted about two months before it did it again. This time the couldn’t fish it out so they had to do major surgery take and artery out of my left leg and put it in my rite leg so that it got blood flow. Was in the hospital for three weeks. Came home was good for about a month and it did it again this time the blood clot was going up towards my lungs. They told me that they were going to be able to do the surgery to remove it. The day of the surgery my doctor came in and told me that he wasn’t able to do the surgery not because he wasn’t capable but because do to the Covid virus the help he needed were nurses and doctors that had just started and he was sure if they could handle something like this and for that reason he chose not to do it, but he knew the doctor up in Portland medical center that could do it but there was a waiting list for clients to get admitted. So I sat in the river bend hospital for almost four weeks before they helicoptered me up to Portland medical center. Did the surgery and everything went according to plan was there for 3 weeks recovering. We went home got settled but a few weeks later I got that same thing with my leg swollen up. So we went to the emergency room again to tell me this time that the we’re going to amputate my right leg from the knee down. I was devastated, but I went through with the surgery and they amputated my leg, which didn’t even last a month. I got the same feeling in my leg just higher. So the had to amputate my leg again from the knee up. It was fun. Not really. Now this whole time they were trying to figure out what was causing this but they couldn’t figure it out. They tried everything to stop the blood clots. Even dialysis where they took the plasma out of my blood. Well at the end thank the lord my body stopped producing blood clots I have to take two blood thinners and go once a month to have the plasma taken out of my blood. I deal with pain in my leg every day. Where I fall asleep if I’m not dang near sitting up it hurts so bad that it wakes me up and I have to get out of bed and stand up. So i started to get used to walking around with my walker and going up and down the stairs to my room but I need a leg. It took forever for them to refer me to hanger clinic and then it took them even longer for the insurance to approve my leg. I took them four and a half months to approve it, just for them to tell me that it’s going to cost me 8500$ dollars to purchase my leg. I asked them how it is going to cost 8500 dollars when my insurance covers it. They told me that the 8500 dollars was just a third of the price of the leg and that was what I had to pay to get my leg. You know I’ve had many of things happen to me in my life I’m 45 I had a stroke in 2017 where I had to learn how to walk and talk again. I had an aneurysm behind my rite eye where they had to drill a hole in my skull go around my brain and put a clip on it. And I found out that I had wolf Parkinson’s disease where it make my heart beat 200 times a minute which the were able to care of. They all hurt but nothing like this. I’ve used up all my savings dealing with this stuff and even took money out of my retirement just to make sure that my family got by. But now I’m completely broke and could use some money to be able to purchase my leg and be able to walk again and get back to work I don’t know about pouring concrete but at least getting back to work. If anyone could help me out with a donation to the 8500 dollar bill I would greatly appreciate it like you would believe. Here is my PayPal me link again anything you can donate would be greatly appreciated, here is my link

PayPal.me/DaleM38

I thank everyone greatly.
Dale Miles

I have my hysterectomy scheduled for 10/8/2025. I am getting married 9/13/2025 and my fiance and I have poured our heart and soul into making our dream wedding a reality. We were not expecting my surgery date to be so quickly after the wedding and money is tight at this time.

Since my first menstrual cycle, I had been begging my mom to get my uterus taken out. I hated it every month; I would be in bed sobbing with every heating pad we owned, trying every remedy and medication that was said to help, with little to no relief every time.

I also knew that I was not ever going to want children of my own. Helping raise my younger brother with my single mom -dad passed when I was 3 years old- certainly gave me enough experience with parenting that I knew since I was about 15 that I would never want children of my own. I purposely found a life partner that also has made the decision a long time ago that he also never wanted to have children of his own.

After trying every possible birth control,  hormone supports, etc., there were no more options for me to try to handle my symptoms. Earlier this year I went to my doctor and discussed my options and we decided that it is best to get a hysterectomy.

Please consider supporting me on this journey, as even with my doctors and surgeons approval, insurance is refusing to help, deeming it “elective surgery.” I am looking to have $5000-$10,000 by the time of the surgery for all of my costs and aftercare. Anything will help, thank you all for your time and your help! Below you will find different options to be able to send funds. Thank you!

https://paypal.me/thatlilfella

Venmo: @thatlilfella

CashApp: $thatlilfella

My name is DeDe. I am a 46 year old mom of 2 adults, married to an amazing husband and father.

For years I have dealt with some female issues but it finally came to a head about a year ago. I started my period but then it grew very very heavy and I bled for 61 days. Those days consisted of an ER Visit, urgent care visit, doctor visits, new family doctor, fibroids, prolapsed fibroid, biopsy, new obgyn, heavy bleeding, anemia, lightheaded, nausea, weakness, hard time sleeping, always feeling tired, had to quit my job as a lunch lady, not walking as I usually do, headaches, iron pills, high amounts of birth control pills to help control bleeding, lots of anxiety, waiting and more waiting, never feeling well, etc. it finally ended with getting a hysterectomy and 3 blood transfusions and lots of healing.

And just when I thought my troubles were over – the insurance decided that they weren’t going to cover my hospital stay – despite my doctors writing to them and despite getting pre authorization. They determined that they would pay for all the other stuff but they wouldn’t pay for the hospital stay which ended up being $49,000.

This has been such a hardship for us. My husband works so hard and we try to help people and live a good life. I am a lunch lady and have a small graphic design business. My son is autistic and still lives at home with us and our daughter is going to college. We are struggling with debt and paying for my daughter’s schooling.

If there is anyone who could help us pay this medical debt – it would be a true answer to prayers. Thank you for listening and being our angels on this earth.

Thank you.
https://www.paypal.biz/designzbydede

 

Donate for my FGM Reconstructive Surgeries – End My 12 Years of Pain

My Story

I am a 23-year-old girl born and raised in America. At 11, after finishing my 5th grade, I travelled with my family to a ‘summer vacation’ in their homeland where I was subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) — a violent act disguised as tradition. My stay there was prolonged, and I remained there for several years, returning to America again during my second year of high school.

For years, I didn’t understand what happened to me — only that basic bodily functions became sources of pain. This experience remained a puzzle in the background of my memory, something I didn’t understand but was simply there.

My Struggles

I grew up accustomed to constant pain during basic biological functions:

1. Burning with urination
2. Stabbing nerve pain when sitting too long
3. Throbbing discomfort during walks
4. Tight clothes rubbed my scars raw; that’s why I didn’t wear any
5. Exercise became impossible
6. Every month, I suffer from excruciating pain and extremely heavy periods

yet I assumed it all was normal or something all girls experienced. The chronic pain left me exhausted, anxious, and isolated — I missed out on friendships, dates, and simple joys because I was always in pain. I structured my life around coping with the pain, unaware for years that it wasn’t something every woman endured.

I was struggling mentally and psychologically,, still, with severe depression because I can’t engage in daily life. I feel like a prisoner inside my own body.

 

My Late Awareness

At university, I realized the truth: what they called ‘Purification’ or ‘Purity’ was actually FGM — an illegal mutilation that scarred me for life.

I learned about its effects and realized:

1. The source of my constant physical pain, after even the slightest exertion.
2. The difficulty of living a normal life.
3. The impossibility of practicing any sport I wanted to try due to the physical deformity I suffered.
4. I couldn’t even do jobs that required physical effort.

What I LOST

I missed out on simple joys like cycling because I was always in pain. I grew up wanting to try skating on roller shoes and playing basketball, but physically, I wasn’t able to do so. I grew up suppressing my needs and desires out of pain.

I wanted to get out with my friends more. I wanted to have close friends, but I couldn’t open up to people. I missed out on childhood adventures because my body couldn’t keep up. I wish I had more memories with friends and people growing up, not withdrawing into myself.

My Hope: Reconstructive Surgeries

While there isn’t surgery that can fully “reverse” FGM, there are certain reconstructive surgeries that can help reduce and eliminate pain and reduce FGM complications.

 

After I consulted with several gynaecologists and female reproductive surgeons, they suggested that I need 3 medically necessary surgeries to reduce FGM-related complications. These surgeries are recommended by The World Health Organization (WHO) for FGM survivors with chronic pain and complications.

With these surgeries, I dream of trying to do the sports I wanted to try and finally living without pain. Exercise like normal people do, these surgeries will give me a chance to live the simple joys that I missed as a child and wanted to do while growing up and couldn’t.

How your donation helps me and gives me Hope!

Your donation will help me:

1.  End my daily suffering — no more burning urination, stabbing nerve pain, or mobility limitations.
2.  Eliminate serious health risks caused by FGM complications.
3.  Restore basic bodily functions.
4.  Rebuild my confidence and emotional well-being.
5.  Give me back my future — the ability to work, exercise, and experience relationships without pain.

And beyond physical healing, these procedures represent restoring hope for a normal, empowered life full of dignity.

After 12 years of suffering, these surgeries are my chance to finally heal my physical and emotional wounds.

Though partially funded, I still need $18,000 USD to schedule them by late November.

[https://www.paypal.me/RuellaA2]

Because of your donation, I’ll soon make peace with my owb body. Every contribution brings me closer to healing.

I’m deeply grateful, and one day, I’ll pass this kindness forward.