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Let's Help Laura Get Healthy!!

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Lovers of Laura!

Anyone who knows Laura loves Laura, loves Zack and Elliot, and absolutely knows how talented she is, side-splittingly funny, caring, giving, incredibly bright...the list goes on. You'll also know how sick she has been though and consequently how insanely difficult life has been for the Cohns the past few years.

For once though, there is a light at the end of this crazy long tunnel because finally a doctor is offering a treatment that will restore her to health. Yay!

But what's not "Yay" is the cost. Of course, this treatment plan is not covered by their insurance. It's going to cost them upwards of $20,000, of which they have zero because of the state they're in due to Laura's illnesses. 

I asked Laura to put into her own words how life has been....

"The last three years have been really difficult. I was diagnosed with postpartum depression a few months after my son was born and it was almost the end of me. After therapy and medication, I slogged through my recovery, but then started feeling very, very sick. These were (and still are) some of my symptoms: Exhausted to the point of nodding off while driving, painfully swollen, achy joints, hair was falling out by the handful, mood swings that made Regan from 'The Exorcist' look reasonable, horrible depression, weight gain, chronic fatigue, and anxiety attacks like none I have ever experienced. I had a battery of tests done and it was finally revealed that I had not one, but TWO autoimmune diseases. I started taking more medication and changed my diet, but was not really feeling any better. My team of doctors continuously told me it was just my imagination because my numbers were “fine”.

At the same time all of this health insanity was happening, our bathroom flooded, causing serious damage to the floors and walls of our home. The slumlord we were renting from refused to fix the mess, so our house became infested with toxic mold. Because I was already immune-compromised, this caused a very serious, chronic fungal infection in my blood stream. Fast forward to today: I now have tiny lesions all over my lungs from breathing the mold spores every day for two years and a white blood cell count that’s scary high from my body constantly fighting off infection. Had we not moved when we did two weeks ago, the house would have continued to slowly kill me. I have found an incredible doctor who has created a treatment plan to restore me to health over the course of the next 12 months, but his services are not covered by our health insurance. 

I am currently unable to hold a regular job, my husband is only working part-time while going to school (in addition to taking care of me and our son), and we have exhausted our savings and our credit. We have fallen behind on all of our bills and have no money to pay for my desperately needed medical treatment. "

And so, please, let's band together and help. If there's anyone deserving, it is certainly Laura. I call her my "go to," as do, I venture to say, all of her friends because she's that knowlegable, resourceful, and just damn funny when you need a laugh. But, I've found one thing she is NOT good at...asking for help. Now is the time. She needs us to be her "go to." Let's help her and Zack get it done!

Thank you!!

Noelle
Lover of Laura

Organizer and beneficiary

Mele H
Organizer
Los Angeles, CA
Zachary Cohn
Beneficiary

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