https://gofund.me/77ce70771

Jasmine is a 2 year old Great Pyrenees mix and is the heart of our family. She developed a fungal brain infection a few months ago and we've been on a long road of recovery since.

It first presented as what we thought was a stroke, but it quickly became apparent it was something else. She was wobbly, confused and not at all the same dog that we had brought home as a puppy. She was walking in circles constantly and her eyes were glassy and drifting to the side. We initially took her to our vet and they ran the standard tests and x-rays to determine what was going on. The X-rays showed nothing out of the ordinary, and the blood tests only pointed to a liver issue. We left the vet a bit disheartened, as we felt from simply observing her that it had to be something more. Something neurological. We decided to take her to a specialist.

The neurologist took one look at her and immediately confirmed our suspicions that it had to have something to do with her brain. They did an MRI and a spinal tap to pinpoint what it could be. What we all thought was a rare occurance of a stroke in a young dog turned out to be fungal brain infection on the left side of her brain. This immediately explained her symptoms, her head was spinning because of something attacking her motor functions. The neurologist gave us his recommendations and prescriptions for antifungal, steroid and antibacterial medications. We took her home with a little more hope than we started with.

Our slight elation was short lived. Jasmine took a turn for the worse in that first week of treatment. She lost the majority of control over the right side of her body and she couldn't walk (or even stand) without significant help from the two of us. I was carrying a 100lb puppy outside, or at least to a pee pad, every hour and we had to hand feed her and give her water with a syringe as she was unable to do anything herself. She began deteriorating rapidly that week, so much so, that the neurologist was starting to sound worried about her quality of life. He gave us the weekend to see how she progressed and to contemplate our next steps. We were devastated. We were doing everything we could to not have to think about that, but we knew we had to do what was best for Jasmine.

The neurologist called us on Monday, we gave our report of how she was doing (not great) and he told us that if she was still not responding to treatment, that it might be time. Then, out of the blue and almost immediately after that call, Jasmine stood up. We were gobsmacked. She hobbled over to her food and started chowing down. It was a miracle.

From there she began improving a little more each day, gradually becoming more and more like the old Jasmine. She wasn't anywhere near out of the woods, but she was determined to fight the infection. She was walking by herself (somewhat sideways) and eating/drinking without the need of help from either of us. Her path to recovery seemed possible all of a sudden. She may be unable to sense anything on her side, and may not be able to see out of her right eye, but she was clearly wanting to stick around.

We informed the neurologist of the good news and he came to the same conclusion - Jasmine is a fighter. He drew up a battle plan for the medication regimen she would be on for the foreseeable future. Each week she became stronger. Each week she became more of the dog we missed, showing more of her old spark. While she still can't feel her right side, and can't rest on it at all, she became comfortable with just resting for recovery.

Unfortunately, she has suddenly developed a new issue with limping on her left leg. What started off as a very minor complaint has become a very serious concern. She no longer puts weight on her leg, struggles with walking for anything longer than a potty break, and has shown that she clearly is in a lot of pain. We have now become worried that this could mean that the infection has spread while we thought it was getting better. We have taken her to the vet this week to have exams and tests done to determine whether this is the case, whether it's neurological or simply from muscle strain on her favored side - that being the best case, as it will heal on its own.

We are so glad that we were able to manage to pay the monthly premium on her insurance, which we squeezed into our already tight budget so that we could say ‘yes’ right away to tests and treatment. But with all these vet visits, tests and medications we have blown through the amount of money we can claim back. As you can imagine, as you've seen from other posts on here, vet bills are no joke. Tests and scans are both expensive and necessary, and we know we have many of them to come. With Jasmine's new (possibly related) injury, our vet and neurologist are recommending we do further x-rays and examinations to rule out all possibilities and find out the cause of her pain.

We are both scared and worried what these will find. While we're optimistic that it's simply a bump in the road to recovery (and that her leg is just a minor injury), there is every chance that it may be related to her brain. If that's the case more will have to be done to find out just what is going on, and whether she is actually getting better. All this to say, we're in a financial bind and would greatly appreciate any help from anyone. We started a gofundme at the beginning of this journey, but it didn't originally meet it's goal, as we only shared it with a few of our friends and family. We'd be so grateful for any amount that we receive towards Jasmine's recovery.

https://gofund.me/77ce70771

I am looking for help covering the remaining cost of my Dad’s cremation and later service. He is in the second photo posing at his 71st birthday a month before his passing.

He just recently lost his battle with a multitude of medical illnesses that end with him spending the last month after his 71st birthday in a hospital and then on hospice.

I am one of his four children, and only two of us have jobs so it is up to us and what we can make happen. We are looking at almost a $3000 total cost. The other photo was him at his 71st birthday party, exactly one month before his passing.

https://gofund.me/a38fe8bce

https://www.wilsonofpondcreek.com/obituaries/marvin-neilson

I’m asking for financial aid in helping my partner and I pay off my cat’s veterinarian bills and end of life care costs. We took my cat Lucky Mittens into the vet because he wasn’t eating and he’s diabetic so that’s problematic.
They told us that they weren’t sure what the problem was, so they ran a bunch of tests and came back to say that he was in DKA.
We took him to the emergency vet immediately after, and they told us he would have to stay there, and quoted us for 3 nights. We didnt have all the money so we went with scratch pay which we had just learned about. Over the next few days they ran tests to figure out the reason and on the 3rd day they called and told me he had acute pancreatitis. They said he was getting better midweek, and a day or so later they told me that he got worse overnight leading to a longer than anticipated stay, in the end, I couldn’t afford to keep him in the ER, and they had told me to consider human euthanasia as he was just not getting better, and would not get better without a longer stay. Unfortunately I just couldn’t get any more financial assistance to pay the amount required for his potential recovery, which would still lead to him living a life of pain afterward, so I had to make the gut wrenching decision to say goodbye to him. This all happened a few weeks ago now, and when i started writing this there was no past tense, but even having to write this makes me break down so it has taken a while, and choosing pictures is hard as well.

Since losing my little Luck Mittens I have felt like a steak pierced through my heart. I’m very lucky to have a good support system right now for my mental well-being. I’m currently off of work due to a mental health crisis that is not covered by insurance. My partner has taken on the responsibility of all of our bills, and this is put a great strain on us both financially as we were not in a great financial place before this.

I’ve had Mittens since he was tiny, he was just shy of 13 years. He meant absolutely everything to me. We were separated for a couple years and I had just got him back two months ago, my best friends parents were kind enough to take him in while I was struggling financially and did not have a stable living condition, I worked really hard to be in a position where I could have him again.
On his last night my brother, and my best friend came over to watch “Totoro” with him as it was a comfort movie, and then took him on a night walk in his stroller i had just purchased for him, he had only been in it one other time.
He had made so many friends along the path of his life, he was so loved by everyone.
Lucky Mittens, you will be missed so terribly, and you will be forever loved. Rest peacefully my little one
https://www.gofundme.com/f/lucky-mittens-vet-debt?utm_campaign=natman_sharesheet_dash&utm_medium=customer&ts=1784608023&utm_source=native_options

hello friends! My name is Atlas, and I’m currently scheduling a double mastectomy for the end of August.
I, thankfully, have health insurance, which will be covering a large majority of the cost, but I’m still responsible for $1,641, as well as the cost of post-op care and medications. I’m a type-one diabetic, so recovery and healing is a little bit more difficult, but I’m hopeful that with adequate down time, and the right post-op care, everything will go well.
Thank you in advance for any support. Sending love (and a picture with my dog, for tax!) 🤍

https://www.gofundme.com/f/atlas-topsurgery

goal met!!

edit: goal met!!! any additional funding coming through will go to offset transport costs we accrue while waiting for GoFundMe to process and the new bike to ship ☺️

on the night of Thursday the 16th, I got sick and thought I'd be okay to leave my ebike, sans battery, locked to the railing on the ground floor of my gated apartment complex instead of carrying it up to my apartment. big mistake. that night, someone came in and cut the lock, stealing my bike and possibly someone else's bike next to it. now I don't know if someone's out there pushing around a 45 lb ebike with no battery, or if it got parted out and sold for scrap as soon as they had it- but either way, I'm out the moving portion of an ebike i'm still paying off. i still have the battery though.

I'm my disabled fiance's primary caregiver, and this bike is my primary mode of transport for picking up medications, food, running general errands, and getting to jobs. before I had it, we were spending more than we had using public transport and Lyfts to get things done that i can easily get done on the bike. my mobility allows us to save train and Lyft fare for the really crucial stuff like doctor's appointments and big grocery runs. i'm going through all the right channels in case my stolen bike still exists in a way that can be found- open case with the police, registered on project 529 and Bike Index, but getting mobile again is top priority.

thanks to friends, family, and a few beautiful strangers, I've already raised enough to pay off the stolen bike between the gofundme and a couple off-site donations. all I need now is the last bit required to finance the replacement(and a new, better lock). I'll be paying it in 4 again so this final push is for the first payment. the rest of the replacement bike will be paid for out of my own pocket. and no- I will not be leaving it locked outside overnight anywhere ever again. lesson learned.

thank you for reading and if you're able, for helping!!

goal met!!

https://gofund.me/1a431af86

I wanted to share a fundraiser that is very close to my heart. On Sunday July 19 I will be hosting a bake sale at the Fremont Sunday Market in Seattle, Washington, with 100 percent of the proceeds going to Cakes for Apes and International Animal Rescue. If you are in the Seattle area, I would love for you to stop by, grab a treat, and help support an incredible cause. You can find the market address by searching for the Fremont Sunday Market in Seattle.

Cakes for Apes is a volunteer driven fundraiser brought to you by International Animal Rescue, that supports orangutan conservation through community bake sales. Every dollar raised helps fund the work of International Animal Rescue, an organization dedicated to protecting orangutans, rescuing animals in distress, and preserving the rainforests they depend on. Their teams rescue orphaned and injured orangutans, provide medical care and rehabilitation, and when possible, return them to protected forests where they can live wild lives again.

The situation for orangutans is incredibly urgent. Their rainforest homes continue to disappear because of deforestation, illegal logging, mining, and the expansion of palm oil plantations. Many young orangutans lose their mothers to habitat destruction or poaching and are left alone with little chance of survival without human intervention. Orangutans reproduce very slowly, with mothers raising a single baby for many years before having another. That means populations recover at an extremely slow pace, making every loss devastating to the species. Without continued conservation efforts, these remarkable animals face an increasingly uncertain future.

If you are local, I hope you will come say hello, enjoy some homemade baked goods, and help make a difference. If you are not nearby but would still like to support the fundraiser, sharing this post or contributing through the GoFundMe would mean so much. Every donation, every purchase, and every share helps give rescued orangutans a better chance at survival. Thank you for reading and for supporting wildlife conservation. This was my girlfriend’s idea to post here and I am incredibly grateful for anything you guys are able to do to support this. I’ve been putting so much effort into this and am thrilled to finally make it happen

I never wanted it to come to this, but my family is running out of options and we need help. our landlord suddenly raised the rent and even started charging us for animals out of nowhere, and now we’re in the process of being kicked out of our home. it’s been scary, exhausting, and honestly overwhelming trying to keep everything together especially since I wanna help my mom so much but don't know what to do.

We’ve tried so many different options already to avoid ending up here, but nothing has been enough. i’m asking for help now because i do not want my family to become homeless. if you’re able to donate anything, even a small amount, it would mean more than i can explain. if you can’t donate, sharing this would still help us a lot.

please read the gofundme if you want the full story and more details about what we’re going through: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-tatianas-family-through-tough-times

Ps this is the only proof my mom was able to find...

Bugs is our 1 year old kitty who has been the absolute best addition to our family. He started straining and using the litterbox often so we took him to an emergency vet, and got him started on treatment. This was at the first of this month

That worked, and he was feeling better again, but soon the same thing followed. We rushed back to the vet and attempted a few more treatments, but after 5 emergency vet visits he still wasn't recovering and his condition continued to deteriorate. He was unable to eat, drink, or properly use the box. He was constantly leaking bloody urine, and in pain at this point. The vet reccomended a specialist, but it was the weekend and they were closed.

He was not able to wait. In the middle of the night, he was uncontrollably leaking nearly straight blood, and foaming at the mouth. We rushed him to an animal hospital.

They reccomended a 48hr hospitalization, and said he needed treated as if his urinary track was blocked. They needed the minimum quote / $3950 deposit to start treatment. (Pic 4)

We paid this deposit and they got him treated. His file/results of the stay can be found on picture 6.

After 36hrs, he was released and we were charged with the invoice in picture 5. We took him home and while he was happy and lively again, he showed the same symptoms within an hour. Couldn't use the box at all and bleeding/in severe pain. They had us wait, but he did not use it for 6+ more hours. We took him back in, still within the original 48hr hospitalization time frame.

They said he needed hospitalization again, and likely a PU surgey. They quoted me for 24hrs ($2500) and said they will talk to their surgeons about seeing if its possible to get a PU done in the next 48hrs for upwards of 5k.

They would need immediate payment for stabilization, and no discount for his previous stay besides unused credit would be possible. I was $200 short of this, they reccomended euthanasia.

We called around, and found a specialist able to perform a PU that same day if we got him over within the hour.

He has received the lifesaving PU surgery, and is doing well but is still hospitalized at this point. They said he may need kept/monitored until Monday.

We spent collectively around $1250 at the first emergency vet. (I35 marketplace animal hospital)

Another $3,360 on his hospital stay and second "recheck"

(Thrive animal hosital)

We had to put a $1500 deposit at the specialist, and they quoted around 3-5k total bill for the surgery and expected aftercare.

I have not received a final bill from the surgery, but I will update with a final amount and paperwork when it is finalized.

I was able to afford the first and second visits because I had just sold my mother's car, (planned to get her an suv) and had a decent bit of savings, and a few donations from family.

As for the emergency surgey I did not qualify for any care credit / financial help, so I am currently putting everything onto a line of credit.

I really appreciate you taking time to read. Theres more details in the go fund me itself.

I understand everyone's situation can be difficult, and I thank you for anything, even if it's just thoughts, prayers, or sharing our fundraiser. God bless.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-save-bugs-our-beloved-support-kitty

Edit: My verification picture is with one of our other kitties, as Bugs is still hospitalized, but photo 2 is Bugs and I, laying on my wife.

Hi! I’m trying to move out of my roommates house that I’ve been living with since 2024. For personal reasons, my cat and I need to get out.
I’ve been trying to save but it’s not been going well. My job wasn’t paying well enough and I’ve started a new one that will be paying better/more frequently but I won’t get my first paycheck until close to the end of the month (29 July) but the move in fees and dues have to be paid by the 24th.

I’ve been doing what I can in the meantime by DoorDashing, taking out loans, and selling belongings but I still don’t have enough to move yet.

My parents and a friend will each be able to help me with about $100 each but I still need to get closer to the goal before I can get help from them.

Link here

Hi Reddit, I’m at the point where I’m ready to ask strangers for help.

Last year, in an attempt to better my work-life situation, I moved to a state (USA) with a much better cost of living ratio. Things were going better in that direction and now they are suddenly…not. I’m temporarily laid off (school based job) and my credit card is maxed out from paying medical bills.

I found the culprit to why I’ve been sick for months and have had no improvement with immunotherapy. The culprit is mold in the HVAC, which home insurance won’t cover.

While the amount wouldn’t be terrible for most people, my allergy level is life threatening and I have had anaphylaxis before while living here. Ironically, my dad is an industrial hygienist and while he can take samples for lab testing for me, his company does not do remediation (he also lives on the other side of the country). Based on the severity of my allergy, he said it needs to be taken care of asap.

Screenshots of the estimate for remediation on here, this was the cheapest company in my area. Can share my bill for immunotherapy since moving here as well as bloodwork results if anyone needs proof.

Advice or financial help, whichever you can give!
Before anyone asks, no I cannot simply move to another house.

Gofundme: https://gofund.me/b8e38b137
^link fixed

It is with a shattered heart that I report to the community that my mother passed away on June 29, 2026 from a long and courageous battle with lung cancer.

My mother was a super strong woman, and even throughout her cancer diagnosis, she remained incredibly optimistic and always kept a smile on her face even throughout the toughest times.

I am my mother's only surviving son and I am proud to say I took care of her as best as I could over the last few years.I did everything I could to keep her happy, comfortable and as healthy as possible.

Sadly, my mother did not have a retirement plan, nor a pension, or even life insurance. I am being faced with colossal debt to get her final expenses in order. I am doing my best to navigate such a difficult time mainly by myself.

I am almost embarrassed to ask for financial help but somebody mentioned this Reddit community and I thought it would be worth a shot to ask for help here.

If anyone is in a position to please help me give my mother a dignified goodbye, I would be forever grateful from the bottom of my heart. Thank you <3

Gofundme link for Daisy Argueta

My elderly, diabetic, retired, fix-income parents have to replace their rotting roof before they get dropped by their insurance or a hurricane tears it off. I'm disabled and my ability to help is extremely limited. We live in Florida.

The homeowner's Insurance is threatening to drop us if we don't get it replaced or deny coverage if a hurricane damages the roof. We suspect the leak was caused by improper installation of solar panels (the company that sold/installed them did so fraudulently, lost a class action suit over it, and shut down to avoid paying compensation).

$13,855 is the minimum quote for removing the panels, replacing the roof, then reinstalling the solar on the new roof. The $20,000 is for the same plus all the bells and whistles that will prevent this from happening much longer.

After recently and unexpectedly losing my job of 11 years, my family and I are looking to relocate somewhere with a better job market and lower cost of living. My job paid enough to cover living expenses but not much more and without those funds things have been tight. My unemployment was initially denied and I am currently waiting on the appeal process. I cashed out what little I had in my 401k and used it to pre pay most my bills while looking for work, but those funds have mostly run out. I have paid this months rent with a pay over time, but that is just pushing things back. My wife and I have both been applying for work during this and have taken odd jobs to help make ends meet and donating plasma.

We are hoping to relocate to Georgia as the job types I am looking for are abundant there as well as a much lower cost of living. Our best friends moved there a little over a year ago and are able to inspect rentals and help set things up before we move.

We are planning on selling our 2nd vehicle but realistically wont get much for it ( its a point A to B beater but it does what is needed ) but our other car that is more reliable had a rock severely crack the windshield last month and ideally would get repaired before a cross country drive. Im trying to get quotes on the replacement but there is a 500 dollar deductible on any insurance coverage

We are hoping to gather enough to cover moving expenses, windshield repair and a couple months rent to get established there and find work.

Thank you for your time and any support offered.

https://gofund.me/277db9ec8

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-michael-beat-lymphoma

In early 2023, I was diagnosed with stage 4 mediastinal lymphoma. Since then, I've been through six rounds of chemo, radiation, and CAR-T cell therapy.

The treatment took a serious physical toll. And partway through it, I lost my job and my health coverage.

Thank you for reading.

proof: https://imgur.com/a/4vuj5KR

Hi, I’m u/cooking_owls or Jess if you prefer.

I’m a 39 year old woman, married to the nicest guy(43m). We’ve been married for 10 years in October. And have been trying to get pregnant off and on for 10 years. I am disabled and currently have Medicare as my primary insurer. My husband works as a home health aide for me and gets paid by my secondary insurance. There is income coming in from both sides, though it isn’t much. We make ends meet. We live in a 2 bedroom apartment, in NJ.

Now Medicare will not under any circumstances cover fertility care. Neither will my secondary insurance.

I just recently had a hysteroscopy to figure out why I was having prolonged bleeding. Findings were that I had a large polyp and a cystic uterine lining that was covering my tubes.

My gynecologist recommended we try a round or two of IUI within the next two months to try and get pregnant. She thinks the likelihood is high.

The fertility clinic here will not even see us unless we have $550 for a consult as I just got off the phone withm them. I have attached the chart for IUI, but I’ll be able to get a more specific one after the first $550 in donations. This is because we will be self pay.

I really appreciate even if you could only like and share. Getting visibility matters too!

Help Us Grow Our Family GoFundme

[EDIT] Fixed the GoFundMe link at the bottom

Hello everyone! I messed this post up the first time a couple of days ago and forgot some info and the gofundme link. If theres anymore information required that I forgot again this time, let me know and I can redo this again.

My name is Nolan and im a 20 year old who's been attempting to move out to Savannah Georgia from out near Pittsburgh PA. I will try to provide as much information as possible

The love of my life and wonderful soulmate started attending SCAD to pursue his dream of concept art and comic art. Hes majoring in Sequential Art to try and achieve this dream and i wish to be there to support him while attending this extremely stressful school.

In pursuit of trying to move out there to be with them, quit my job, got a new job at Walmart so I could transfer down there easily, and started searching for a place to live online. While searching i was contacted by someone who had what would've been the perfect room for the perfect price. All of this being too good to be true, I suffered from a rental scam that drained me of all of my savings. I thought I could trust this person after seeing the place online and connecting and chatting with them for weeks, even submitting and completing a rental application, and so I had sent them the money that I would've needed to secure the room in my name. After a couple of "transaction issues" and back and forth, I had sent all the money I could to truly hold this room in my name. While waiting for a lease agreement to be sent, they had blocked me on everything and removed any source of contact I had with them.

I had drained my entire savings account that included all of my savings I had saved since graduating high school and my late mother's inheritance who passed away when I was 14 due to her long battle with alcohol addiction. It wasn't a lot of inheritance to begin with considering her addiction but its still something my mother left behind for me. Even after opening a police report and giving all the information to my bank, because of the ways I sent the money, there was nothing they could really do to get me my money back. I've been trying to get back on my feet with the support of my wonderful sister and deadbeat dad but they're currently the only support I have in terms of family. After plenty of car troubles recently, I just haven't been able to catch back up before more bills come in and take away all my progress.

Luckily I have found a legit place recently! I've done everything right that I did wrong before and I just need to be able to save up some more money for the deposit and 1st month and some emergency funding in case my car decides to fall apart again.

I appreciate any support anyone can bring. I thought I'd be able to recover on my own but its just been difficult to stay above the water without drowning. Any support helps and i appreciate it more than you could ever imagine. Thank you to anyone to helps in any way.

GoFundMe

https://www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-of-lynette-bedella/sms/s?attribution_id=sl:3e49a6fe-cb57-4ce9-a01f-08a29e824e3d&lang=en_AU&ts=1783729445&utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_content=amp20_t1&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=sms

Mum had a seizure in November of 2025 that almost killed her. My sister saved her life by performing CPR. Turns out she had lung cancer that spread to the brain, on 6th of July she passed away at the age of 65.

We helped mum the best we could over the next 6-7 months, taking her to every appointment and making her feel like she mattered, and that she wasn't a burden.

Unfortunately mum never had any savings or life insurance, which has left us in a tough spot. We have managed to secure and pay for a plot with our savings, but the actual burial and funeral service is a lot more than we thought it'd be.

I hate asking for money, especially from strangers, but it's already booked in with the funeral home.

She was the most loving mum and Nana anyone could ask for, she would do anything for us and her grandkids, and the least we could do for everything she has done for us is give her a proper send off. Any donation helps.

Thank you

https://gofund.me/a525403fe

His story (personality, then medical story and plea for help): We lived in south central PA and I met my husband in 2022 when I was going through divorce and staring my fight for custody of my son who was 8 at the time. He was very understanding about my situation and gave me as much encouragement and help as he could.

The night after one of my first custody overnights (because I had no family around, I gave my son up so he could be around family who can take care of him (while my ex mooched off the family)) and my parents had just left after a visit, he invited me over to hang out with him and his sister to watch American football. He knew it would be hard to be alone then so he gave me someone to spend time with.

That's the kind of person he is. He officially asked me out after we spend a couple hours hanging out under a giant tree behind his apartment in the rain and as it got heavier, he brought me out from the tree cover and we danced to Frank Sinatra and that was when he asked me to be his girlfriend officially.

Occasionally he would bring me outside to watch the stars and cuddle on a blanket or start dancing for no reason. He is a goofy guy that way. He can't sing but he sings anyway and I love it. He is very passionate about music.

His passion also goes to food. He loves cooking because it is a love language for him. He had a goal to open a food truck and the theme was macaroni and cheese and smoked meats. He once made one with 5 kinds of cheese and 3 smoked meats all mixed together and it is always delicious.

As a kid he was into football and an injury took him off his original position and he was then a quarterback. He had moved schools because he had a rough time as a kid, youngest of 3 and Keynan became a solid figure for his mom, her favorite kid (not that she openly admits it).

A couple years after school, he was going down a bad path so he joined the military. The day he went to join the marines, the door was locked to the enlistment office so he went next door to the Army enlistment office. He ended up becoming a Ranger. Served 2 years in combat before an injury took him out and he opted for a medical discharge rather than sit behind a desk. He cannot sit still for long.

When he left, he had a rough time moving on because of what he had gone through and it was a dark time. He initially helped his mother start her business and then used what was leftover in his GI bill to go to culinary school. Graduated from Le Cordon Bleu in Orlando FL before coming back. I met him 10 years after this.

He had previouslt sworn off his girlfriends of past because he was broken from what happened with them but he took a chance after seeing me on Facebook dating.

August / September of 2023 we moved into our own place and got engaged. Married on Star Wars Day of 2024. A week later my ex husband abandoned his son to me and we became fulltime parents. In June 2024 a jar smashed in his hand and cut into an artery and he got emergency surgery and almost died.

January of 2025 he was diagnosed with his cirrhosis, after he was getting sick badly when he had just started a new job and was released because he was in training. It wasn't explained about the seriousness. He started deteriorating and he once even had a ER visit due to his ascites (fluid buildup in his stomach) that went he had to emergency run to the ER for in severe pain while I was out of state. In August of 2025 we moved to the Poconos where he had family and friends living with the hope that having a community around we know, it could help make things easier, as well as be around a hospital system that has done more for the family than what PennState did for us personally.

After getting here, he was told bluntly how severe his condition was. Until we moved and his first serious hospital visit days after moving, he continued to drink. It was his coping mechanism to numb his memories from military time. He had flashbacks and moments where he needed brought back. Once he had this first St. Lukes visit here in the Poconos, and was shown what it was doing to him, he quit cold turkey and I am damn proud to say he has never had another drop, even pushing away non acoholic beer because he could tell the alcohol content was in it and he felt he may get sick if he tried to drink it (and that was one time on our anniversary).

We had to fight for months to get medical assistance and racked up some bills because how much was going on, and he was in and out of the hospital at least 1 to 2 times a week at the ER before he started getting appointments set up. The MA trouble was due to irresponsible state record keeping telling the state he had a post office job when he was out of work for 8 months already with no pay, and I was struggling at the time to get a job in the area.

His cirrhosis has been slowly getting worse but now he is showing improvements, we see the inches as milestones, even if the battle is not at its worst yet. His doctors are finding what works for him.

Another bad instance was a hernia that developed because his ascites got too bloated. It ruptured a few months ago at 5am and he was taken to a hospital that was closest that did nothing before he left against medical advice and went to his normal hospital where he got transported to Penn Medicine in Philadelphia to have surgery on it and days later additional surgery for his cirrhosis to slow the ascites. Both myself and his mother were there for days with him because we were scared of losing him.

Since then we have had luck working towards the liver transplant list placement with the help of Penn Medicine but he was told he would likely die on the list. He is still doing everything to get it in place but it is truly difficult. Constant medical visits where he has to travel 2 1/2-3 hours for new patient visits, labs and evaluations.

He has some difficulties now as symptoms and side effects show from the disease and medications, but he's stubborn as ever, but it doesnt stop the financial or emotional strains we go through to keep things together and make things easier on him. He hates to put so much pressure on me to take care of finances when I don't have a great career, but I am desperately trying to do what I can to help make things easier, which is getting harder and harder by day due to the symptoms that affects every day with him and stress from emotional and financial burdens.

He wants to be there for his family, for his stepson who adores him. For his mom who has already put so much of herself into helping others at her own expense past her own family. He is continuing to strive to share his love of food and music and put others first, so I am putting him first.

Thank you for listening.

Hi all! I was fortunate enough to receive a life-saving transplant due to an autoimmune disease this past September. Unfortunately I hit significant complications from the beginning, including severe AMR rejection, infections including bouts of sepsis, and while that has settled, my ducts are still giving some trouble filtering, leading to further infections and issues. Out of the last 10 months, 4 have been spent inpatient dealing with this and not letting me work. I have a private practice and teach, and had to step away from teaching during the year because I couldn’t reliably be there. Additionally, when I’m in the hospital, I can’t see clients. Because I work when I’m not hospitalized, and the rules around liver eligibility can be different, I’m not eligible for supplemental programs. I saved quite a bit preparing for the surgery and had some help initially, but did not expect to be dealing with issues for this long. I do so appreciate any help and am hopeful I am back to stability in a couple of months.

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My best girl June has torn her CCL (like an ACL but for dogs). Pet insurance will not cover this as bilateral injuries are considered a pre-existing condition. I’ve had a financially tough last few years and just don’t have the emergency funds to cover this. I made her a go fund me and have been painting pet portrait commissions like crazy to come up with even some of the funds I’ll need.

Thank you and we appreciate your time!

June’s gofundme

My sister lives in another state and is not on Reddit. I'm asking for the community to help with my sister with my brother in law's funeral expenses. I don't have pictures of my brother in law but I've added one of the few where my sister and I are close to each other. Additional photos of my sister and her children on the donations page.

Last week my sister called me after my brother in law ended his life while their family slept. He left behind three children and my sister, his wife.

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