Help me get medical help
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My name is Madhavendra Popoff, but because that's way to long my friends call me Puri. You say it like Corey but with a P at the front, its my middle name. The reason that I decided to make a go fund me is because I'm an in dire need of medical help. After a traumatic head injury working landscaping because of the negligence of my boss sporadically throwing around 20 foot heavy stalks of mature bamboo off a mechanical lift, I was left with a serious brain injury as well as a neck and spine injury from the downward force on my head. I was left in debilitating pain, and was confined to only looking in certain directions or my head would explode in debilitating intense pressure and extreme pain instantly. I was left constantly disoriented for months, i couldn't look at phone or tv screens without experiencing extreme disorientation and pain. I couldn't drive or be in a moving vehicle or i would be in extreme disorientation and pain. If i happened to look in a certain direction for too long, weather it be up down left or right, if would feel like someone had stabbed me in the face or poured battery acid on my head or lit my head on fire, and i would desperately have to reposition my head to find a direction to hold my head and then slowly the pain would go away. This pain from looking in certain directions was always random and sometime I couldn't look down for hours, or sometimes i couldn't look up, sometimes I couldn't look left or right. Sometimes I'd feel like my head was on fire or freezing and I was almost always extremely disoriented and dizzy and in constant debilitating pain. If i happened to look at a tv I would start spinning in circles and get so disoriented that I couldn't move or do anything but lay down for hours.
At the time of my injury I was renting a house and living alone working 40-50 hours a week. I couldn't pay my rent after this and was soon evicted. I don't have any family, and didn't have any friends willing to let me stay with them. I started to sleep in my car and didn't know what to do. Id sleep mostly in Wal-Mart parking lots. A friend of mine had told me Wal-Mart has a policy that lets travelers sleep in their cars in the parking lot as long as they don't cause trouble, so id alternate between the 4 walmarts in Gainesville. Sleeping in my car was difficult and I was constantly struggling to find a way to lay my head without being in extreme pain. I didn't sleep very much. When i did, I would always wake up extremely disoriented and would have to take a few hours for the disorientation to calm down. If i moved my head in my sleep from the position of not being in pain, I would wake up so disoriented I could barely think or function.
This went on for 6 months. I tried to stay At the homeless shelter in gainesville ( Grace marketplace) and would sleep outside in the grass because the occupancy was always full. In the week i was sleeping in the "tent city" outside the shelter, I had a knife pulled on me, I had crack smoke blown in my face while walking by, and another homeless guy was run over and killed in the parking lot. So i decided i couldnt stay there any more, I was seriously injured and i was scared of that place. I started sleeping in my car again. I would panhandle to eat, mostly in front of liquor stores or gas stations, or walk around grocery stores like publix or Wal-Mart and ask people for a few dollars to get some food when I wasn't too disoriented. I'd take that money and eat and also pay my gym membership which was $10 a month so I could take showers. Id drive to the Gym either in the morning or at night and shower once a day.
At the same time, unknown to me, underneath the carpet in my car was a bunch of black mold and I fell extremely ill. It was also in the evaporator core and AC core, which pumps the air for the AC. At the time i didnt know there was mold in the car but I knew that the AC smelled terrible so I would never turn it on, which in summertime in Florida was difficult. I had nowhere else to go and i was always in intense debilitating pain and disorientation, so I had no choice but to stay in the car. Eventually i got violently ill from the mold and knew there was something wrong with the car. A few months later me and my friend tore the carpet out and found the mold on the underside of the carpet as well as all sorts of weird things from the previous owner. I thought the issue would be solved but 3 months after that the weird sickness I had got, and the smell in the AC, did not go away. My friend who was a mechanic offered to look at the AC and we found the AC cores in the car filled up with black mold as well. At that time I was violently ill from the mold and was still dealing with the head injury. My friend changed the parts out of the AC, took the dashboard apart and bleached all the vents and put it back together. By then id lived in a moldy car for 6 months and the damage was done. I was violently ill, and I was permanently sick from it. I sold the car and got enough money to eat healthy food for a couple months. I paid people I knew to let me crash on their couch, but it was always a big inconvenience for them, none of my friends really wanted me around. The sickness from the mold was almost worse than the head injury. Some nights I could barely breath and I was always in constant exhausation. I could barely think. My lungs were destroyed. I was always violently ill and had constant chest pains. It hurt to think and it felt like my lungs were rotting. I went the ER 5 times and they constantly turned me away telling me I wasnt dying and that i needed to see a primary care doctor. But i felt like I was dying and i was constantly permanently ill. I went to the mental health clinic and they couldn't help me. I went to a free mobile bus clinic and they couldn't help me. I went back to the ER and said I really needed help and i was dying and they turned me away again after telling me they have no resources there to help me.
After that I ended up sleeping in the woods behind a waffle house for 6 months. A cook I knew before I got hurt told me if I came in after 1 am he'd feed me for free, so I got 1 free meal a day and i lived for it. I was permanently ill from the mold and more then a year after my injury I was still dealing with my head injury that left me in constant pain and disorientation. I was violently ill from the mold. I would panhandle to eat and was constantly violently ill and in constant pain. With the money I made panhandling I went to see an allergist who said I had CIRS or SIRS from the mold and i had the lungs of an 85 year old man at 23. He gave me some medicine and an inhaler that didn't help at all, and then the doctor said i needed to see a specialist doctor but that it was probably out of my price range knowing I didn't have health insurance. So im desperately trying to get medical help.
So now in June of 2020, I'm still homeless, I've been starving, ive lost 80 pounds since my head injury, and I have a permanent debilitating violent illness from mold, its a condition that leaves my entire body in constant inflammation and its slowly destroying all my internal organs, it left me with heart damage, lung damage, and kidney damage. The mold condition, CIRS, or SIRS wreaks havoc throughout the whole body through intense inflammation, and its done serious damage to my heart and lungs and kidneys and now and I'm starting to go deaf because my inner ear is constantly inflamed because of this condition. It got that far to the point of where this sickness from the mold is going to leave me deaf as it continues to cause inflammation throughout my whole body. I'm still dealing with my head neck and spine injury and am in constant pain. I made this go fund me to try to give myself a chance to get my life back because ive been trying so hard to get up every morning and survive and have no means to get the medical help i need. That's why I'm resorting to go fund me, I'm desperate, i have no other options and I'm constantly violently ill and it's only getting worse. I don't want to go deaf. I don't want to die sleeping in the woods panhandling to eat. If i get medical treatment i can beat this illness and get therapy for my head injury. Im still dealing with the head injury everyday and am still confined to only looking in certain directions. Im still constantly disoriented and in pain, and am also permanently violently ill from mold poisoning. I don't have any other options and have no way to get medical treatment. Please help me get the medical treatment i need, i just want to live again
At the time of my injury I was renting a house and living alone working 40-50 hours a week. I couldn't pay my rent after this and was soon evicted. I don't have any family, and didn't have any friends willing to let me stay with them. I started to sleep in my car and didn't know what to do. Id sleep mostly in Wal-Mart parking lots. A friend of mine had told me Wal-Mart has a policy that lets travelers sleep in their cars in the parking lot as long as they don't cause trouble, so id alternate between the 4 walmarts in Gainesville. Sleeping in my car was difficult and I was constantly struggling to find a way to lay my head without being in extreme pain. I didn't sleep very much. When i did, I would always wake up extremely disoriented and would have to take a few hours for the disorientation to calm down. If i moved my head in my sleep from the position of not being in pain, I would wake up so disoriented I could barely think or function.
This went on for 6 months. I tried to stay At the homeless shelter in gainesville ( Grace marketplace) and would sleep outside in the grass because the occupancy was always full. In the week i was sleeping in the "tent city" outside the shelter, I had a knife pulled on me, I had crack smoke blown in my face while walking by, and another homeless guy was run over and killed in the parking lot. So i decided i couldnt stay there any more, I was seriously injured and i was scared of that place. I started sleeping in my car again. I would panhandle to eat, mostly in front of liquor stores or gas stations, or walk around grocery stores like publix or Wal-Mart and ask people for a few dollars to get some food when I wasn't too disoriented. I'd take that money and eat and also pay my gym membership which was $10 a month so I could take showers. Id drive to the Gym either in the morning or at night and shower once a day.
At the same time, unknown to me, underneath the carpet in my car was a bunch of black mold and I fell extremely ill. It was also in the evaporator core and AC core, which pumps the air for the AC. At the time i didnt know there was mold in the car but I knew that the AC smelled terrible so I would never turn it on, which in summertime in Florida was difficult. I had nowhere else to go and i was always in intense debilitating pain and disorientation, so I had no choice but to stay in the car. Eventually i got violently ill from the mold and knew there was something wrong with the car. A few months later me and my friend tore the carpet out and found the mold on the underside of the carpet as well as all sorts of weird things from the previous owner. I thought the issue would be solved but 3 months after that the weird sickness I had got, and the smell in the AC, did not go away. My friend who was a mechanic offered to look at the AC and we found the AC cores in the car filled up with black mold as well. At that time I was violently ill from the mold and was still dealing with the head injury. My friend changed the parts out of the AC, took the dashboard apart and bleached all the vents and put it back together. By then id lived in a moldy car for 6 months and the damage was done. I was violently ill, and I was permanently sick from it. I sold the car and got enough money to eat healthy food for a couple months. I paid people I knew to let me crash on their couch, but it was always a big inconvenience for them, none of my friends really wanted me around. The sickness from the mold was almost worse than the head injury. Some nights I could barely breath and I was always in constant exhausation. I could barely think. My lungs were destroyed. I was always violently ill and had constant chest pains. It hurt to think and it felt like my lungs were rotting. I went the ER 5 times and they constantly turned me away telling me I wasnt dying and that i needed to see a primary care doctor. But i felt like I was dying and i was constantly permanently ill. I went to the mental health clinic and they couldn't help me. I went to a free mobile bus clinic and they couldn't help me. I went back to the ER and said I really needed help and i was dying and they turned me away again after telling me they have no resources there to help me.
After that I ended up sleeping in the woods behind a waffle house for 6 months. A cook I knew before I got hurt told me if I came in after 1 am he'd feed me for free, so I got 1 free meal a day and i lived for it. I was permanently ill from the mold and more then a year after my injury I was still dealing with my head injury that left me in constant pain and disorientation. I was violently ill from the mold. I would panhandle to eat and was constantly violently ill and in constant pain. With the money I made panhandling I went to see an allergist who said I had CIRS or SIRS from the mold and i had the lungs of an 85 year old man at 23. He gave me some medicine and an inhaler that didn't help at all, and then the doctor said i needed to see a specialist doctor but that it was probably out of my price range knowing I didn't have health insurance. So im desperately trying to get medical help.
So now in June of 2020, I'm still homeless, I've been starving, ive lost 80 pounds since my head injury, and I have a permanent debilitating violent illness from mold, its a condition that leaves my entire body in constant inflammation and its slowly destroying all my internal organs, it left me with heart damage, lung damage, and kidney damage. The mold condition, CIRS, or SIRS wreaks havoc throughout the whole body through intense inflammation, and its done serious damage to my heart and lungs and kidneys and now and I'm starting to go deaf because my inner ear is constantly inflamed because of this condition. It got that far to the point of where this sickness from the mold is going to leave me deaf as it continues to cause inflammation throughout my whole body. I'm still dealing with my head neck and spine injury and am in constant pain. I made this go fund me to try to give myself a chance to get my life back because ive been trying so hard to get up every morning and survive and have no means to get the medical help i need. That's why I'm resorting to go fund me, I'm desperate, i have no other options and I'm constantly violently ill and it's only getting worse. I don't want to go deaf. I don't want to die sleeping in the woods panhandling to eat. If i get medical treatment i can beat this illness and get therapy for my head injury. Im still dealing with the head injury everyday and am still confined to only looking in certain directions. Im still constantly disoriented and in pain, and am also permanently violently ill from mold poisoning. I don't have any other options and have no way to get medical treatment. Please help me get the medical treatment i need, i just want to live again
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Madhavendra Puri
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Gainesville, FL