Cara Mickens needs dental surgery
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Help Cara get her teeth fixed
My Mom needs dental surgery real bad. She's 70 years old. She lives in a small town in Ohio, where options for subsidized medical care are not great; and she's on what you call a fixed income. She raised my brothers and I as a single Mom over the course of three decades, working jobs in the non-profit sector and earning a graduate degree from Pacific Oaks College. After working in a repertory theater company in Kansas City, she moved to Los Angeles and worked full-time for the pioneering Women's Resource Center at UCLA. I've always thought of Cara Mickens as a small sort of hero, and now she's in dire need of support from her friends and family. This GoFundMe is my best effort to help, since I am also super poor at the moment and living on the road.
Here's what she told me about it:
"We spent a long time yesterday at the Case Western Dental school downtown. After rays and molds and so forth, and checking with their supervising teachers, they determined that the complexity of my work, especially the roots in my gums near the bone, meant that a resident in oral surgery needed to do it rather than a student. The final cost would be $3,000. Although this is far far less than other dentists, it is still out of reach."
This is the heartbreaking state of things in the United States. On the other hand, I've seen a lot of folks raise enough money for their medical bills through crowdfunding sites like this one, and I'm hopefuly that we can all come together as a community and get my Mom's teeth fixed. The situation is really bad - constant terrible pain, a very limited ability to eat food, and pretty embarassing in a cosmetic sense. I'm asking for $4000 instead of $3000, because I want to help offset her costs for transportation and medication too.
I know that times are tough all over, but if you can help, please do. Every penny of this money will go straight to Mom, aside from the small percentage taken by GoFundMe.
My Mom needs dental surgery real bad. She's 70 years old. She lives in a small town in Ohio, where options for subsidized medical care are not great; and she's on what you call a fixed income. She raised my brothers and I as a single Mom over the course of three decades, working jobs in the non-profit sector and earning a graduate degree from Pacific Oaks College. After working in a repertory theater company in Kansas City, she moved to Los Angeles and worked full-time for the pioneering Women's Resource Center at UCLA. I've always thought of Cara Mickens as a small sort of hero, and now she's in dire need of support from her friends and family. This GoFundMe is my best effort to help, since I am also super poor at the moment and living on the road.
Here's what she told me about it:
"We spent a long time yesterday at the Case Western Dental school downtown. After rays and molds and so forth, and checking with their supervising teachers, they determined that the complexity of my work, especially the roots in my gums near the bone, meant that a resident in oral surgery needed to do it rather than a student. The final cost would be $3,000. Although this is far far less than other dentists, it is still out of reach."
This is the heartbreaking state of things in the United States. On the other hand, I've seen a lot of folks raise enough money for their medical bills through crowdfunding sites like this one, and I'm hopefuly that we can all come together as a community and get my Mom's teeth fixed. The situation is really bad - constant terrible pain, a very limited ability to eat food, and pretty embarassing in a cosmetic sense. I'm asking for $4000 instead of $3000, because I want to help offset her costs for transportation and medication too.
I know that times are tough all over, but if you can help, please do. Every penny of this money will go straight to Mom, aside from the small percentage taken by GoFundMe.
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Noah Mickens
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