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xvsharrax was kind enough to set this up -- things are going to be very uncertain and scary for a while, and I won't turn down any help offered.I am beyond grateful for how supportive everyone has been. I genuinely have no words to express how touched I am.
Thank you <3
Direct link: https://www.gofundme.com/mghdkdtw
For anyone sharing/reading this who doesn't know me directly (I'll make it a public post) -- my daughter and I have a genetic disorder, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, which is painful, degenerative, and disabling.
My partner of seven years left me today.
He was laid off in October, and we are unable to afford COBRA, so we're without insurance as of January 1.
We have high prescription expenses and normally need to see specialists regularly. I was in the middle of a cardiac workup to try to get some difficult heart symptoms under control, but I won't be able to see the cardiologist again until we have insurance, or I'm able to find a housemate to assist with expenses.
My daughter and I are both on Medicare, so we can't buy insurance through the ACA exchange. Private "Medicare Part D" insurance doesn't cover the majority of our drug costs.
We had been covered through my partner's employer-provided insurance, and if he is able to find work, he is going to try to cover us again, even though we are no longer together. In the meanwhile, we're going to have high medical expenses and no real way to pay for them.
Please signal-boost, and thank you to anyone who can share this or can donate. I am incredibly thankful for the emotional support that my friends have provided, and I hope that we can get through this tenuous and frightening time with a little bit of help.
Thank you, so very much.
ETA: Here are links to FB and Tumblr, if you'd like to share this elsewhere than LJ:
https://www.facebook.com/andi.pants.16/posts/10153720675695351
http://ashbet.tumblr.com/post/136620684614/direct-link-httpswwwgofundmecommghdkdtw-for
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Date: 2016-01-04 02:48 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2016-01-04 03:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-04 04:23 am (UTC)<3!
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Date: 2016-01-04 04:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-04 04:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-04 04:49 am (UTC)I mostly post images to Tumblr, but GFM has a weird embed thing.
*love*
<3!
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Date: 2016-01-04 06:52 pm (UTC)http://ashbet.tumblr.com/post/136620684614/direct-link-httpswwwgofundmecommghdkdtw-for
*hugs and thanks* <3
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Date: 2016-01-04 07:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-04 06:53 pm (UTC)http://ashbet.tumblr.com/post/136620684614/direct-link-httpswwwgofundmecommghdkdtw-for
*hugs and thanks* <3
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Date: 2016-01-04 08:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-04 06:54 pm (UTC)Here's the FB link:
https://www.facebook.com/andi.pants.16/posts/10153720675695351?pnref=story
<3!
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Date: 2016-01-04 09:06 am (UTC)<3
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Date: 2016-01-04 06:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-04 10:18 am (UTC)While I'd be a certain amount of screwed financially if Jason and I ever split up, I cannot imagine being in your position and worrying about basic healthcare on top of that. Very angry-making.
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Date: 2016-01-04 06:58 pm (UTC)Yeah. The US is really screwed up in that regard.
I genuinely think that if insurance and medical expenses hadn't been such an ongoing nightmare for the last 3-4 years, Josh and I might still be together. This has been a HUGE stressor for all of us :(
*hugs*
-- A <3
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Date: 2016-01-04 11:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-04 07:01 pm (UTC)My heart is broken, and I'm still in shock :(
We'd been going through difficult times recently because he started a new relationship and hurt me very badly in the process -- but we'd been trying to work it out, and he had never said (until this past week) that he didn't want to be with *me* anymore. Or that it apparently had been something he'd been repressing for several years.
I'm still processing it all, and I still can't believe it.
*much love*
-- A <3
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Date: 2016-01-04 08:39 pm (UTC)We miss you!
You're also welcome here, anytime if you need to be.
-K
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Date: 2016-01-05 01:12 am (UTC)I miss you guys like crazy. *hugs*
I can't really travel right now because the cats are super-high-maintenance (since Zuul needs daily subcutaneous fluids and Bastian has to be fed separately and watched like a hawk because he's allergic to her food), and it's just going to be me alone here when Kira goes back to school . . . but if that changes, I'd love to.
And you guys are ALWAYS welcome here.
*love*
-- A <3
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Date: 2016-01-04 03:54 pm (UTC)I'm strapped until payday, but I would love to give this a signal boost on tumblr. The doll collecting community there can be quite supportive.
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Date: 2016-01-04 07:04 pm (UTC)I posted it on FB and Tumblr:
https://www.facebook.com/andi.pants.16/posts/10153720675695351
http://ashbet.tumblr.com/post/136620684614/direct-link-httpswwwgofundmecommghdkdtw-for
I really appreciate the signal boost. This is just so awful and sudden :/
*hugs*
-- A <3
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Date: 2016-01-04 07:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-04 07:10 pm (UTC)It really, really is. I don't know how we're going to manage :(
In theory, I really need an able-bodied housemate (I'm not physically capable of doing a number of chores that can't go undone, like taking out the trash), and I'd be willing to trade inexpensive rent for taking over those tasks . . . but all of Josh's furniture and things are still here, so I can't consider renting his room until everything is moved out.
Since he doesn't have a job, he can't get a lease or find a housemate of his own (he's temporarily staying with a friend), so I'd have to rent a storage unit and move his things there, until he could take them.
And at the same time, I don't even want to be thinking about that, because I want him to change his mind and come back ;__;
All the logistics, and having no health insurance, on top of heartbreak . . . it's just awful.
I wish it hadn't ended this way. I wish it hadn't ended at all.
*hugs*
-- A <3
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Date: 2016-01-05 04:38 pm (UTC)(edit - sorry for the double post! dunno what happened)
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Date: 2016-01-07 01:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-07 02:48 am (UTC)Actually, there's a super-easy way to share -- in the bar above the entry, there's a "share" symbol that looks like a sideways green V.
If you click on that, it will give you the option to repost on your LJ, and it's easy to do from the phone or computer.
*love!*
<3!
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Date: 2016-01-07 03:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-07 03:33 am (UTC)And Twitter would be awesome!
*big cushy Andi-hugs*
-- A <3
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