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Hey, my name is Aaron.... i hate that it has come to this point but I've been in so much pain lately i don't know where else to turn....
A little bit about me .... i grew up in California until the age of 8 when my father passed away in a tragic car accident.... my mother moved me and my four sisters to Utah where we tried to rebuild a family that was completely broken... after moving here my mom was unable to handle all five of us kids...being that my father was the authority figure now gone our entire family did whatever we wanted without consequence... or so we thought... my mother began dating and partying with boyfriends that dabbled in things my mother had no business touching... meth being one of them... after (for lack of a better word) neglecting us as children by not caring if we went to school or if we had dinner most nights my moms boyfriend at the time also passed away due to a brain aneurysm... i believe this is what finally broke my mom.... developing schizophrenia, bipolar, and severe depression she could no longer care for us which put me into the foster care system... i went through a lot of abusive and uncaring homes for years when I finally landed in a home where I stayed for 8 years... where I excelled in athletics and landed a football scholarship at 18.... 2 weeks before graduation i had just gotten surgery on my shoulder which required an insane amount of pain pills and opiates... i had taken a bottle of pills to school where someone had let the school officer know i had them... i was arrested that day and charged with a first degree felony because i had given one out.. thinking it wasn't a big deal... i had lost my scholarship.. my ability to walk at graduation and my foster home i had lived so long... being 18 with an addiction to numbing psychological and physical pain, homeless without a clue on how to take care of myself being that the foster system did mostly everything for me... i was lost... i found heroin and stayed with it for 8 years... maybe more if I count relapses.....i can say proudly I've been off and clean for a few years... but i continue to fight and stay clean each and every day with a beautiful woman by my side that helps me every day....
The reason I'm humbly asking for help today is that through my childhood and until now I didn't care for my teeth like I should have and am now suffering... with several already pulled out and even more infected and rotting im overwhelmed with the cost of having to go into specialist because my roots are so long... my insurance doesn't pay for much and now will hardly pay for one single root canal which im in need of several.... at this point I have trouble chewing as it is or I'd pull them all... but i like to eat.... im struggling to consistently be at work due to several dentist turning me away and agonizing pain from infection which will eventually spread... im now on my second round of antibiotics in a month and have really no place to turn.. anything helps.. i know these are tough times for everyone and I could only wish to have the income or credit to do this on my own... but i dont... i love you all my friends and family... anything helps at this point. Thank you
Aaron...
Organizer and beneficiary
Lindsay Mashburn
Beneficiary

