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Ada accessible ramp to my home

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So.... This is the most embarrassing thing I've ever done. Ask for help. . .

Starting in July I had a weird feeling in my chest. Enough that I was scared and went to the ER....the EMS have you walk down three flights of stairs out of my house before putting me in an ambulance. Up on getting me to the hospital I was told I was having a stemi which is basically a heart attack. I had a cardiac cath which showed my heart was completely clear and actually fine but my lungs were full of blood clots probably from the lipedema in my legs which I had been trying to get treatment for for years.

Over the course of this summer I've used up my 12 weeks of FMLA and then some. All this time has been unpaid because I no longer work for stericycle which was a good company but the new company took away our short-term disability and when you're not working you just kind of screwed so we went through our savings very quickly though we catch our heads above water by letting my credit line take the beating of a fifty shader whos never heard of a safe word.

I've had to go to the ER multiple times and been very weak I've been in and out of the hospital many times with pneumonia the blood clots, plural effusion, pneumonia again, medically induced acute kidney injury which basically means the hypermedication overdose the doctors were giving me shut down my kidneys to 14% And almost killed me. I currently can barely walk and required paying over $1,000 to the fire department to literally Carry me up my front steps into the house because I cannot raise my legs more than about 3 in. I can't bend my knees past the swelling enough to pull my body up one single step. I can't I tried. I do leg exercises hourly trying to push enough fluid out so I can eventually bend my leg on my own. I do these every hour until I'm exhausted and then make myself do 5 more.

Before we got into the hospital this last time I couldn't under my own power but Dad was able to bend my leg for me and shove me like a sack of potatoes over a loading dock and got me in the house somehow but he hurt himself doing it.

We decided for everyone's safety I need some sort of ramp. Even when I'm better from this --and mind you I WILL get better, I'll accept nothing else from life than that -- a ramp is a good idea for safety with my cruddy left knee.

I'm again sorry to even put this where anyone can see it or ask for help but since I only have a years worth of equity built in the house, and the credit cards kinda....maxed at the moment....I thought I'd swallow a little of my pride. I'll be getting my model horses out of storage and auctioning them of course as well as my artist resins but only some of them are SR/VINTAGE/TRULY valuable so the cost could get out of hand. Thus asking for help.
Please don't give a DIME if you don't have it to spare dont feel obligated to share unless you wish to, nothing. I Appricate you no matter what. Thank you.
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    Dana Newman
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    Jefferson City, MO

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