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For her whole life Pat Courtney helped others. Now she needs your help to save her Life.
Pat Courtney was the young girl who inspired the best selling book, “Rusty’s Story.” A book about a young girl with epilepsy who was misdiagnosed by inept medical system, loaded with drugs, told she was a “Paranoid Schizophrenic,” and placed in a mental institution from the time she was 13 to the time she was 19.
Her parents were poor and powerless. They knew no way to stop what was happening, and she was forbidden to go to school though she always yearned for an education.
For many years, she was misdiagnosed—as technology and education caught up---a sane young woman in and out of psychiatric hospitals--until she found a smart and compassionate doctor who diagnosed her properly and helped her get back on her feet.
Despite the horror of her adolescence, Rusty loved humanity and went on to help others who needed her. She was never bitter.
She was determined that no one else would suffer the pain and humiliation that she had. She was always there with a kind word and a helping hand, for anyone who needed her whether they could pay her or not.
Several years ago she moved to Texas and continued her good works.
She began to set up a nonprofit to help house the homeless.
It was scheduled to be launched this year-- but again she got caught in the medical system!
Stricken with cancer, she endured several rounds of chemotherapy and radiation. But there is no Medicaid in Texas for someone in her position.
So due to the cost of medical treatment, her bills mounted and she was forced out of the home in which she lived.
Now she is unable to go any further with her treatment-- though the doctors assured her with some surgery she would recover and be able to go on, get well, and back to life! To be productive again.
But she can’t do that without help from you!
Because of the exorbitant cost of medicine, her treatment, and being unable to work, she was unable to maintain even a meager lifestyle.
Now she is unable to get out of bed, or even stand, until her surgery.
She has no more living family and her friends have chipped in and helped care for her and her loyal dog Dakota for several months. Dakota refuses to leave her side.
Now, her friends are requesting help because they have done all they can financially.
Can you chip in-- during this time of additional need-- to help her stay in the house where she now lives, have someone to help her with her care, her dog, meals and help her get her surgery? That will keep her alive!
The thing that’s keeping her going now is her dream of that day that she can help again until she can get well enough to go back and complete her work for the homeless veterans.
Sometimes all that’s left is courage, sometimes that’s enough--But sometimes we need help from others and that makes all the difference.
Pat Courtney was the young girl who inspired the best selling book, “Rusty’s Story.” A book about a young girl with epilepsy who was misdiagnosed by inept medical system, loaded with drugs, told she was a “Paranoid Schizophrenic,” and placed in a mental institution from the time she was 13 to the time she was 19.
Her parents were poor and powerless. They knew no way to stop what was happening, and she was forbidden to go to school though she always yearned for an education.
For many years, she was misdiagnosed—as technology and education caught up---a sane young woman in and out of psychiatric hospitals--until she found a smart and compassionate doctor who diagnosed her properly and helped her get back on her feet.
Despite the horror of her adolescence, Rusty loved humanity and went on to help others who needed her. She was never bitter.
She was determined that no one else would suffer the pain and humiliation that she had. She was always there with a kind word and a helping hand, for anyone who needed her whether they could pay her or not.
Several years ago she moved to Texas and continued her good works.
She began to set up a nonprofit to help house the homeless.
It was scheduled to be launched this year-- but again she got caught in the medical system!
Stricken with cancer, she endured several rounds of chemotherapy and radiation. But there is no Medicaid in Texas for someone in her position.
So due to the cost of medical treatment, her bills mounted and she was forced out of the home in which she lived.
Now she is unable to go any further with her treatment-- though the doctors assured her with some surgery she would recover and be able to go on, get well, and back to life! To be productive again.
But she can’t do that without help from you!
Because of the exorbitant cost of medicine, her treatment, and being unable to work, she was unable to maintain even a meager lifestyle.
Now she is unable to get out of bed, or even stand, until her surgery.
She has no more living family and her friends have chipped in and helped care for her and her loyal dog Dakota for several months. Dakota refuses to leave her side.
Now, her friends are requesting help because they have done all they can financially.
Can you chip in-- during this time of additional need-- to help her stay in the house where she now lives, have someone to help her with her care, her dog, meals and help her get her surgery? That will keep her alive!
The thing that’s keeping her going now is her dream of that day that she can help again until she can get well enough to go back and complete her work for the homeless veterans.
Sometimes all that’s left is courage, sometimes that’s enough--But sometimes we need help from others and that makes all the difference.
Organizer
Shawna Johnson
Organizer
Smithville, TX
