Mixed Blessings

Hey everyone, as some of you may know, I've been having continually worsening back problems. Over the past three months, my pain and other symptoms have increased to the point where I have been unable to perform my work as a chemical health assessor. My job requires me to be able to sit for 60 to 90 minute interviews with clients, which cannot be done when I'm unable to sit comfortably through the pain, let alone give clients the undivided attention they deserve. My job has been very understanding and accommodating of my medical issues, and there is short term disability which I'm hoping to qualify for to make up 60% of my lost income. Unfortunately I still have to lose two weeks pay before that kicks in and with all our expenses and my new car and having used all my paid vacation and sick time being out with back pain, we have about a $2000 deficit for the month of April. The good news is I'm cleared and scheduled to have surgery on April 5th and hope to be back to work within four weeks after that, and doing my side gig driving for Lyft. I put a lot of thought into whether or not to do this fundraising for my own personal needs, but a good friend challenged me in that so I decided to do it. If you can help, in any way, it would be so greatly appreciated. Thanks for reading my story.