Get this tumor outta me!

Hey fellow wanderer of the internet, Thanks for checking this out. My name is Scotty, but most of you got here via my Internet Alias, Skullman. I'm a faceless nobody who got 5 min of Pseudo-recognition making Mario maker levels for some YouTubers known as "The Super Beard Bros.", see my playlist of episodes that include my levels below). I also run a small community (~140 ppl) of nerds that play TTRPG's on discord. nothing special. In short: I gotta tumor in my foot, but It's gonna be difficult to get it out without some help. Please take consideration that It is taking a lot out of me to ask for help, but I'm afraid that if I don't, I'm gonna be unable to afford this procedure. Due to overworking myself physically in my youth, bad genes, and the immense stress I have gone through over the years. My body decided to make life worse for me and grow tumors in my feet.   This condition is called Plantar Fibroma (I think that's what my podiatrist said last I could afford to go), Its where your body hates the idea of being able to walk and stand without pain and decides to put a tumor in the arch of your foot. Imagine being a foot that feels so bad that it's not taking up more space in your footwear and is a sadist, wishing there was something worse than a rock in your shoe. So it decides to grow its own rock, that's basically it. I have been dealing with these tumors for the last 10 years, but they used to be pea-sized and not bug me as much. Now it hurts every day and interferes with my life.   Some folks are unlucky enough to meet the criteria to obtain this cursed pain, most of the time its in one foot. BUT NOT FOR THIS GUY. I had one removed already from my left foot (about the size of sticking half a ping-pong ball on the bottom of my foot) and now I can't feel a large portion of it, like at all, but it doesn't hurt *as* much as it used to, but it still doesn't feel great. (Like, try walking on the outer edge of your foot, that's what it *feels* like. Forever off-balance -_-) I couldn't even afford to get that one taken out, I'm still paying it off from the credit card I had to put it on almost a year later, damn interest, let alone all the other financial troubles I come across. (like car repairs, etc.) The last one took about 8 weeks for me to walk unassisted (like without a knee-scooter or crutches) because it was so large. *Usually* they grow to about the size of a mentos piece, or for the young'uns, that candy youtube videos put into diet coke, lol. wanna take a guess what is also a possibility with Plantar Fibroma: It can grow wings enabling you to fly? bing bong, that's wrong... It makes you a faster runner? the opposite is true... sorry It gets lonely and grows its own friends? Bingo! you got it. !Mazel tov! My tumor has a tumor, Yay me. (not to mention the main tumor is larger than my last one now) I'm no hurry to get this taken out since I will also lose feeling in the foot as I did with my last one most likely, and the extensive time outta work since I'm a courier and this is one my right foot, so unless I can walk/drive normally I can't work. which is a LOT of money (to me) in wages lost for recovery alone (we're talking around at least, what, 15-16% of my yearly income, which isn't much already). But IU would like to have this removed by August so I can get my birthday wish of walking somewhat normally. (B-day in Oct.) During recovery though, I don't plan on being a bed-ridden whiner that does nothing, I plan on being a bed-ridden whiner who learns Unity (maybe learn how to make a platformer of my own) and stream to occupy the time. Maybe do some actual D&D planning for my campaigns, like a good DM. If someone really is sketched out that I haven't shown my face, sorry, I don't like the idea of showing my face around since I am not very fond of how I look, but if you want a look at what my other foot looked like after my last surgery here, but be warned, it's pretty gnarly: https://photos.app.goo.gl/G76oQhRDKo3mHY178 Not gonna lie originally, earlier this year, I was gonna use all my Tax refund to go to EVO 2020 since some friends of mine online are going, but now I probably have to back out of arrangements I made, pay my share of what was agreed on so I'm not a total arseface-flake of a friend and go under the knife while Diago gets bodied by Tokido in top 16 of SFV. Why $2500? This is less than the cost of my last surgery, I'm not asking for all the money lost from wages, just the approximate cost of surgery + necessary bills. Last time it was 800 just to have it done in the building, which they would not let me get operated on without paying it in full, seriously... wtf 250 for the anesthesiologist to knock me out, 550 for the doctor fees, 200 for the misc stuff they wanted to do to the removed foot demon (like a biopsy to make sure it was still non-cancerous and that it will never ever come back) 60 per office visit, of which there was 3 (180 total) but let's hope we can get the go-ahead and schedule it within 2 visits so 120 plus the lost wages of not being able to work for at LEAST 6 weeks (10.5x40 per week, 420 per week... nice, 2520 after 6 weeks BEFORE taxes) but I will only include my bills for the month (like rent, duh) which totals to just over 900, but let's say 800 x 2 just in case it needs the expected 8 weeks to recover and bills go down. (1600 total), I lose 500 bucks in saving money from working (or rather payments toward lunches at work and credit payments to be honest), but I will still be able to pay my bills and eat my ramen and practice Streetfighter. so we have: 1600+800+250+550+200+120=3520 mind you this was WITH INSURANCE last time, but insurance doesn't help with lost wages and I didn't hit the total out of pocket cost maximum and would act just as a "discount" since I could afford "Good Insurance". So I'm gonna low-ball by a fair margin and put it at 2.5k. Being poor comes with interest and it sucks, so I wanna try to get ahead of any other bodily demons my life wants to spring on me. well, that's all I wanna go into right now but I'm happy you made it this far, feel like helping some random guy out? if not, how about your friend Scotty? Thanks, Scott T. ("Skullman") Twitter: https://twitter.com/stuckwith1234