Boozhoo (hello), my name is Ken, I am a disabled Ojibwe artist from northern Wisconsin who has recently relocated to northern Minnesota to be closer to my children and have better access to healthcare. I am writing this post because I am having a hard time making ends meet and any donations I could possibly receive at this time would be greatly appreciated. Recent events have left my bank account depleted and I am still having to help cover the utility bills back home on the reservation for my father who is also disabled.
I do have PayPal, that is really the best way to donate at this time, the email I use for that is: baapimakwa@gmail.com, or you can click here.
All I want for xmas is bars in my shower, please help if you can.
This is the October 2018 edition of this post, and hopefully the final version.
Dessie is now ten years old. Yay!! For the last two years, she’s held steady at 22% total kidney function, in Stage Four Chronic Kidney Disease. At her last nephrologist visit, her creatinine has gone up. She says she’s tired all the time.
We think she’s tipping over to Stage 5 CKD/End Stage Renal Disease. Her next visit to the nephrologist is in December, and I’m expecting to get the diagnosis then. If not, great! But I’m not hopeful.
I think we’ll need to make another trip to Seattle Chikdren’s Hospital then, so they can run their own labs and make her active on the deceased donor transplant list. Normally, I’ve been told by them, once a child is active on the last, they typically receive a donor kidney within six months to a year. So I think 2019 will be her year of the transplant. Possibly dialysis before then — I know her local nephrologist wants to avoid it if we can.
The transplant itself requires we stay in Seattle for three to four months, with frequent follow ups afterwards. (First every month, then every two months, then every three months.). Each trip by car takes 6.5-8 hours each way, and usually two tanks of gas. Special Mobilty Services can help with gas, and lodging, if we can give them two weeks notice.
The transplant will be a journey in every sense of the word. I would love it if this could be fully funded before then.
If you have a spare kidney and want to try to be her living donor, here’s the Donors need to between 21-45, in reasonably good health, and O+ blood type. No smoking or drinking alcohol, not even occasionally. If this is something you’re interested, please contact the University of Washington’s living donor program at 206-598-3627, and mention you’re interested in donating to Dessie McAdams. That begins the process.
I’m a single mom, with three kids. To deal with my hideous finances which have put us in the negative regularly since May of 2017, to get us back on our feet, we are moving in with my mother for at least the next year. Perhaps longer; she hasn’t put a deadline on it. I think I’m going to have to declare bankruptcy to get our from under, which will tank my already bad credit score. So I’m not sure of our prospects afterwards; if I could, I’d rather buy a place than rent, but even renting will be hard, with bad credit and high rents.
In the most immediate future, we need about $300-500 through October to either rent a dumpster or hire a junk hauling service to clear out the backyard, garage, and basement. There’s a lot of heavy stuff my mom and I can’t handle.
This move to my mom’s also gets us away from my ex and his family, and Imbin the process of getting the parenting agreement modified to supervised visitation. He molested Dessie, by her account, sometime while we were married, around when she was 4-5. (I reported it to CPS and the police as soon as I learned of this, but as it was some years after it occurred, there was no evidence and they did nothing).
He’s also verbally and emotionally abused all of us.
His family may decide to bring in a lawyer for him with the requested change in parenting plan; I don’t know.
I guess what I’m saying is, once we move we’ll be doing better than we have in a long while. But help is still needed. A miracle, even, if it could be so, to get us through her transplant and from there to a safe place to live independently. Please get this fully funded (or more) as soon as possible, if it can be done.
If you don’t want to use the GoFundMe, that’s fine. We also have
PayPal.me/kerryren
Venmo@KerryRen
SquareCash $KerryRen
And CirclePay at kerryren@yahoo.com
If using these, please let me know who you are and if you’d like to be publicly thanked. Not all the apps are conducive to interactions, I’ve noticed.
We are incredibly grateful for all the help we’ve received through tumblr so far. You guys have literally helped keep us alive.
If you can’t donate, don’t worry about it. If you don’t want to, don’t bother me about it. Boosts and reblogs still help, though!
Here, have a cute pic of Dessie with a plush kidney a mutual sent her!
On 12/18/18 we’re going to see her nephrologist, where I fully expect to learn that she’s tipped into Chronic Kidney Disease, Stage Five/End Stage Renal Disease. Then I’m pretty sure we’ll need to make another trip to Seattle Children’s Hospital to activate her on their deceased donor list. (She’s on it, but st on-hold status).
As they prioritize children as donor recipients, typically once active in the list, a child receives a needed kidney within six months to one year. So it’s quite likely 2019 will be her kidney year.
If there’s any way we can get this fully funded before then, I don’t know how I’ll express the depth of my and my family’s gratitude.
Few months ago I started asking for donations because my sister’s husband left with another woman and has move to another country. We didn’t know where excacly. He doesn’t pay for anything, he doesn’t send any money. He is a piece of shit. He was homophobic towards me, he cheated on her when she was pregnant. He was controlling and jealous of everything. But my sister stayed with him because of the child.
Also she had to leave the place they live for the last 9 years because it was bought by his parents and they told her to move out. They never liked her and us because my family is poor.
She is back now in our parents home where I sill live too. There’s only two small rooms in the house, kitchen and one bathroom. All of this for 5 people now. They sleep on the floor in my bedrooom.
Also a two months ago my sister had a car accident and her car was completely trash. And she needs one because we live 5km from school and there’s no bus on my street or the next one.
For the last couple of months we raised 843$. It goes for bills, school payments and supplies and meds.
My sister is really depressed now and we need to help her with everything. She started taking antidepressands. They are not cheap and she still doesn’t work. So I ask you to help us a little more, maybe a month or two. You can find the rest information here.
Also we all are strugling so much. We only have my father’s pension. that’s 1300zl for five people for the entire month. My health is not letting me work right now. I have asthma attacks almost every day. and I may have SM like my mom. Right now i don’t have money to buy meds. I have 4zł in my bank account. I don’t know what to do. All my meds:
Please if you can spare even a dollar, it would be amazing. I need at least $300 to the end of next week. Paypal: monicakil@mail.com
UPDATE ON TUESDAY DECEMBER 4: I LITERALLY DON’T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO BUY MY MEDS TOMORROW AND BECAUSE OF THE COLD MY ASTHMA IS SO MUCH WORSE RIGHT NOW. I CAN BARELY WALK OUTSIDE. SO I REALLY NEED THEM. SO PLEASE PLEASE IF YOU CAN SPARE SOMETHING, PAYPAL: MONICAKIL@MAIL.COM
**this is a donation post – no one is obligated to help and i ask that you please scroll by or block me if you don’t want to see or interact with it””
hi there…i hate to request assistance on here at such a busy time of year, but it doesn’t look like i’m going to be able to get out of paying this medical bill and i don’t have the extra funds to pay it right now because i’m still not back to work.
about 4-5 months ago, i woke up to a large, reddish-purple spot on my face that was extremely swollen, painful, and itchy. weeks went by and it seemed to be getting worse, growing larger, burning, and waking me up in pain at night when i rolled on my side in my sleep.
i began to worry that i had staph on my face or some other sort of skin infection that needed professional attention (i’m sure if you go back on my blog you can find posts i made about this), so i decided to make an appointment with a dermatologist. i have medicaid and called both medicaid and the dermatologist in advance to be sure that the version of medicaid i have would be accepted, then made an appointment. it turns out that the spot was/is just an acne cyst – it is still healing.
because acne treatment is considered a cosmetic issue, i was denied coverage for my initial office visit even though i went in thinking i had a serious infection. had i known the spot was just acne, i would have handled everything differently. i told family members who are assisting me with some medical expenses that this expense would be fully covered; they are now unwilling to help me because they think i incurred this “frivolous” expense carelessly EVEN THOUGH i did everything i knew to do to be sure i was covered. I DID NOT KNOW I WOULD BE GETTING BILLED.
the total cost of the office visit is $160.00. proof of the bill is under the cut – all personal information is censored, including my real first name (which i do not use here). thank you very much in advance for reading, helping, or reblogging.
venmo: supermerk cashapp: $Supermerk paypal is also available but my account has my full name attached and i don’t feel comfortable posting it publicly – please send me a private message if this is the best method for you!
I recently rescued a cat named Kirby from a place he was not wanted and upon getting him home, we noticed he had a hernia that needed to be treated ASAP. He’s an absolute sweetheart and I want to give him the love and care he deserves.
Unfortunately right now I don’t have the money to spend on a surgery like this and I need help. My friends & family are also tight on money and can’t afford to help me out which is why I’ve turned to here.
If you can help me cover his surgery, that would be amazing.
The estimate I have gotten from the local vet is around $750 so I would need at least that amount to get him his surgery.
I hate to make a post like this but earlier this evening we came into the custody of the nicest little kitten in need of a home we can’t supply (We already have 5 cats and my dad is deadset on not taking in another).
She was given to us by a small herd of children in our neighborhood going door-to-door to find someone willing to take her in after whoever had her before felt they had the right to throw her in a dumpster. My mom and I being suckers have taken her in for the night and if we can’t find a proper home for her we’ll just have to pray that theres a no-kill shelter somewhere around here with space for her.
She’s super friendly and downright loving (shes sleeping in my lap even as I type this) and has a little collar with a mangled little heart charm on it.
If you or someone you know might want her, please DM me for more info. Signal boosts would be appreciated!
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