Help a Senior Artist Help Herself
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Hello. My name is Aleta Greene. https://www.instagram.com/adornability This area was open and blank for so long that Gofundme sent a very nice email to nudge me into action. Yes, this is embarrassingly hard, but here goes:
1. I seek help to fund starting and maintaining a website to read rest-inducing poetry and stories to assist people, including the little ones, to sleep (a project I started work on 5 years ago).
2. I want to get a book published that was written to describe and share with kindred spirits my experience as a hands on caregiver/advocate.
3. Most crucially, I also hope that some of what I raise can go to day to day living until I can again support myself. That was never a problem until I took on caring for my mother for several years through three terminal conditions, then my father for a much more brief period. They were both victims of medical errors to the point where hospital staff apologized to me after their deaths. In the hospital where my mother died I was told that I was the best patient advocate they had ever encountered. (My father's attending physician admitted not knowing what happened, so just put cardiac arrest on his death certificate.) I did what I had to do with great devotion, but like many caregivers I did not come out unscathed and was not able to continue my long career as a singer and voiceover artist because I ignored my own health. I joke that my spine and my heart are unhappy with me now. I also went through all of my assets because my mother's extreme conditions -- ESRD, neurological disease, inoperable bladder cancer, and recurring hospital acquired MRSA -- required me to cease working. Her doctors requested my presence to that extent.
I managed and budgeted for as long as I could, but now I am in immediate crisis. I cannot pay my bills. I want to keep my little house, keep utilities going, feed myself and my cat, restore the sad state of my technology tools that I wore out, stay independent. Just a few days ago, I had to give up my 29 year membership in SAG-AFTRA. I have finally maxed out my credit cards trying to make it. I never paid any bills late, but tomorrow I will miss my first payment, soon to be accompanied by others. A domino effect is now in place. Trying to keep my head up, but sometimes I lose my positive outlook. Pretty terrified to be honest. On the other hand, I'm amazed and grateful that I have managed thus far. I live modestly and carefully. Funny, I used to be able to help others. That is a family tradition. I will be the first to have to ask for help in any way.
My Instagram gallery holds the best examples of my artistry, including a sample from my book, my music, drawing, print design, narration, and storytelling. I produced all of it on an old hand me down android mobile phone! : )
Please visit @adornability to see for yourself. I keep plugging away. I just want to not have to ever ask for financial help in the future. Still trying to smile though. With the help of two of my friends I was able to buy groceries for the first time in two and a half months. Thank you in advance for your kindness to one in her sage years. There is beauty in the world. Thank you for reading.
1. I seek help to fund starting and maintaining a website to read rest-inducing poetry and stories to assist people, including the little ones, to sleep (a project I started work on 5 years ago).
2. I want to get a book published that was written to describe and share with kindred spirits my experience as a hands on caregiver/advocate.
3. Most crucially, I also hope that some of what I raise can go to day to day living until I can again support myself. That was never a problem until I took on caring for my mother for several years through three terminal conditions, then my father for a much more brief period. They were both victims of medical errors to the point where hospital staff apologized to me after their deaths. In the hospital where my mother died I was told that I was the best patient advocate they had ever encountered. (My father's attending physician admitted not knowing what happened, so just put cardiac arrest on his death certificate.) I did what I had to do with great devotion, but like many caregivers I did not come out unscathed and was not able to continue my long career as a singer and voiceover artist because I ignored my own health. I joke that my spine and my heart are unhappy with me now. I also went through all of my assets because my mother's extreme conditions -- ESRD, neurological disease, inoperable bladder cancer, and recurring hospital acquired MRSA -- required me to cease working. Her doctors requested my presence to that extent.
I managed and budgeted for as long as I could, but now I am in immediate crisis. I cannot pay my bills. I want to keep my little house, keep utilities going, feed myself and my cat, restore the sad state of my technology tools that I wore out, stay independent. Just a few days ago, I had to give up my 29 year membership in SAG-AFTRA. I have finally maxed out my credit cards trying to make it. I never paid any bills late, but tomorrow I will miss my first payment, soon to be accompanied by others. A domino effect is now in place. Trying to keep my head up, but sometimes I lose my positive outlook. Pretty terrified to be honest. On the other hand, I'm amazed and grateful that I have managed thus far. I live modestly and carefully. Funny, I used to be able to help others. That is a family tradition. I will be the first to have to ask for help in any way.
My Instagram gallery holds the best examples of my artistry, including a sample from my book, my music, drawing, print design, narration, and storytelling. I produced all of it on an old hand me down android mobile phone! : )
Please visit @adornability to see for yourself. I keep plugging away. I just want to not have to ever ask for financial help in the future. Still trying to smile though. With the help of two of my friends I was able to buy groceries for the first time in two and a half months. Thank you in advance for your kindness to one in her sage years. There is beauty in the world. Thank you for reading.
Fundraising team (2)
Aleta Greene
Organizer
Baltimore, MD
LindaJoy Burke
Team member