Help for Food, Rent, and Medical Expenses
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The last time I reached out to you, my community of friends and peers, I was in a bad spot but barely making it by. The painful flares of my condition put me in the hospital once every few weeks, but I was at least able to somewhat tolerate some solid foods and move around. Now? I am bed-ridden most of the day- malnourished, underweight, and in the hospital almost every week with multiple return visits throughout it. I have a benign pituitary tumor in my brain, causing an assortment of hormone and health issues. Each E.R. visit costs $100 for a copay. I have been there over twenty times in the past few weeks. Upon exiting the hospital I have the additional individual bills of the specialists that see me in it that insurance will not cover, just one of them has a bill of over $500 for one visit. And then there’s the million prescriptions, the expensive and bountiful array of pills I have to take for any semblance of a normal life. Yet I don’t have that normal life, I have not found any stability in my health as of late and the doctors cannot find any explanation for my pain. I am thousands of dollars in medical debt, and this pain is genuinely the hardest thing I have ever experienced in my young adult life. The mental strain alone of waking up, before the sun rises every day, to have such deeply searing pain that it causes me to vomit, is immense. My IBS is so painful that I live on painkillers and still have to use an assortment of other remedies to try and find some moments of relief. I recently had a $3,000 surgery to attempt to remove my endometriosis and improve my symptoms to no avail, I still have intense, inexplicable pain every day. Eating any solid food hurts me in digestion, yet I cannot afford the liquid diet I must have because we can barely afford to put gas in the car so my fiance can get to work. We simply do not make enough to live, despite him working in a solid career paying $45,000 a year. I cannot find remote work despite sending applications tirelessly every single day. I do not qualify for any government support, not even disability, because I do not have a taxable work history and am a dependent student according to my FAFSA. I have exhausted so many avenues, and fought through so much pain to just try and survive, and I am simply unsuccessful. I need help, I cannot survive like this and my entire life has been put at a standstill because of my severe sickness. I was a student, a volunteer, and a full-time worker; now I am a chronically ill woman desperately seeking aid from whoever is willing.
I fight tirelessly despite my health, and yet it has been unfruitful. At this point, I must humbly ask once again for your support, because any little amount helps me so immensely that you cannot imagine. If you have spare, disposable income, I am begging that you take a moment to hear my story and assist in any way you can. I want to recover so I can pursue my dreams of medicine and a life of service. I pray and wish and hope every day that I can fulfill my
I fight tirelessly despite my health, and yet it has been unfruitful. At this point, I must humbly ask once again for your support, because any little amount helps me so immensely that you cannot imagine. If you have spare, disposable income, I am begging that you take a moment to hear my story and assist in any way you can. I want to recover so I can pursue my dreams of medicine and a life of service. I pray and wish and hope every day that I can fulfill my
Organizer
Sierra Snead
Organizer
Toms River, NJ