Medical Fund for Adiel

Have you met my impossibly brilliant, hilarious, kind, generally stunning sister, Adiel? If you haven't, you would fall in love (trust me), and if you have then you may already know that she has been fighting a seemingly impossible, painfully unresolved medical battle for over seven (yes seven) years now. She experiences a debilitating level of pain every day, in so many ways, it's hard to imagine she still carries on with such love and care for others. But she does. She is no longer able to work and is limited in a way we generally refuse to admit- until now.

Hundreds of doctors, vials of blood, and tens of thousands of dollars later, it seems our family is at the point many Americans find themselves these days...ready to ask for some support, and here is why:

Adiel has recently begun a new, very aggressive treatment for her condition (which I'd rather not discuss for her own privacy but if you feel so compelled you can message me, her sister, here). This treatment alone will be $4,000 a month, she must do AT LEAST 4-6 months of this intravenous treatment. This does not include the other treatments she receives. What we're asking for here is a hopeful fraction of the total monthly cost.

I don't know if I should talk about what it's taken for us as a family to get to this point-- to have more than our share of ongoing medical scares. I don't know if I should tell you about how painful it is to watch a sibling, a person with so much fire and grace, and ability, be suddenly cut off from the life she knew and the future she saw, no matter how hard she has tried to fight and fix her illness. But I should tell you, for sure, that we are hopeful. That my sister and all she is, is just on (what I call) a "low simmer" right now, but she'll be back at it with so much perspective it'll blow our minds, and she will continue to make the change and be the force that she is.

I should definitely tell you that money is not everything, but when it comes to healing the people you love, it becomes so much, and so we need it. And so we thank you so, so much you cannot believe it, for supporting Adi, my real-life, sometimes-blonde, Eric Cartman-impersonator superhero.