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UPDATE AS OF 09/09/19:
With your help of raising 50% of the full treatment cost I was able to secure a deposit towards some of the surgeries. My first surgery is tentatively booked for Friday Sept. 20th, 2019 - wherein I will have a Sinus Bone Lift and moderate grafting on my upper jaw. This is only phase one of a multi step treatment plan meant to take upwards a year to complete. I still need to try and reach the full goal in order to make advance payment for further surgeries prosthetics and implants. Please read on for originally provided information - and check out my weird self effacing video updates where I try to keep you updated on how your positivity and support has been helping me through this. Thank you. <3
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I am in urgent need of a series of surgeries to save and reconstruct my mouth. Without necessary treatments I am prone to losing all my remaining teeth as well as permanent irreversible damage to my bone and sinus cavities. I am working with a team of Dentists and specialists committed to fully restoring my mouth once and for all. This is it guys - the final stretch - all or NOTHING- literally...
The treatment plan is extensive and will take upwards a year to complete. But the time has to be NOW. I have to begin surgeries as soon as possible and am trying to at least raise a deposit so my Dentists can move forward with booking appointments and building prosthetics. My initial appointment on this new treatment plan is September 4th.
3 years ago I posted a GoFundMe asking for help to raise money for emergency extractions and dentures. Friends and donors showed up en mass and I raised upwards 65% of my goal in only two days. I was able to scrape together the balance and was saved just in time by a donation from my old boss at Marina 59. The overall plan back then was to have the emergency extractions, get dentures and then systematically budget a savings for the future to afford bone grafting and needed implants.
Welp, over the course of 3 years life continues to happen and other emergencies and major expenses had to take priority. I still managed to save a very considerable amount in hopes of affording to pick up where I left off on the "Rosie the Toothless Sea Hag" campaign. However three years with only dentures and persistent bone degradation apparently destroys your gums and teeth. In short, my teeth are actually even worse now than they were back then.
My old dentist has since retired and I was referred to an AMAZING new Dentist in Manhattan from a very good friend. I've been a patient of this new dental practice since March of this year. In these last 5 months I have spent upwards $20k, fully depleted my savings, and have taken out loans - just to cover the initial treatments to get a new set of dentures. After further assessments and excavation of my mouth, my dentists found many more medical issues, non cosmetic, that need to be addressed immediately. (I can map out details of this new treatment plan and the very generous discounted portions of the cost later for those who are curious). My dentists have worked tirelessly to bring down the overall cost as much as the practice could feasibly afford. Even with all their generosity and support...
The total damage is $36,500.
I thought I could do this alone. I can't. I thought loans and lines of credit that I'm currently paying down would cover it. It won't. I'm drowning in debt and don't know how to move forward. I really need your help.
Please donate if you can. <3
AND I *promise* I'll post something way more fun and uplifting later. There's happy motivations and silver linings behind all this and I want to be able to share that with you too. Just got to get this puppy off the ground because I first thing I really need to act is HOPE. Hope is more important than money - And that's the TEE(th)!!
I love you all very very very much. <3
With your help of raising 50% of the full treatment cost I was able to secure a deposit towards some of the surgeries. My first surgery is tentatively booked for Friday Sept. 20th, 2019 - wherein I will have a Sinus Bone Lift and moderate grafting on my upper jaw. This is only phase one of a multi step treatment plan meant to take upwards a year to complete. I still need to try and reach the full goal in order to make advance payment for further surgeries prosthetics and implants. Please read on for originally provided information - and check out my weird self effacing video updates where I try to keep you updated on how your positivity and support has been helping me through this. Thank you. <3
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I am in urgent need of a series of surgeries to save and reconstruct my mouth. Without necessary treatments I am prone to losing all my remaining teeth as well as permanent irreversible damage to my bone and sinus cavities. I am working with a team of Dentists and specialists committed to fully restoring my mouth once and for all. This is it guys - the final stretch - all or NOTHING- literally...
The treatment plan is extensive and will take upwards a year to complete. But the time has to be NOW. I have to begin surgeries as soon as possible and am trying to at least raise a deposit so my Dentists can move forward with booking appointments and building prosthetics. My initial appointment on this new treatment plan is September 4th.
3 years ago I posted a GoFundMe asking for help to raise money for emergency extractions and dentures. Friends and donors showed up en mass and I raised upwards 65% of my goal in only two days. I was able to scrape together the balance and was saved just in time by a donation from my old boss at Marina 59. The overall plan back then was to have the emergency extractions, get dentures and then systematically budget a savings for the future to afford bone grafting and needed implants.
Welp, over the course of 3 years life continues to happen and other emergencies and major expenses had to take priority. I still managed to save a very considerable amount in hopes of affording to pick up where I left off on the "Rosie the Toothless Sea Hag" campaign. However three years with only dentures and persistent bone degradation apparently destroys your gums and teeth. In short, my teeth are actually even worse now than they were back then.
My old dentist has since retired and I was referred to an AMAZING new Dentist in Manhattan from a very good friend. I've been a patient of this new dental practice since March of this year. In these last 5 months I have spent upwards $20k, fully depleted my savings, and have taken out loans - just to cover the initial treatments to get a new set of dentures. After further assessments and excavation of my mouth, my dentists found many more medical issues, non cosmetic, that need to be addressed immediately. (I can map out details of this new treatment plan and the very generous discounted portions of the cost later for those who are curious). My dentists have worked tirelessly to bring down the overall cost as much as the practice could feasibly afford. Even with all their generosity and support...
The total damage is $36,500.
I thought I could do this alone. I can't. I thought loans and lines of credit that I'm currently paying down would cover it. It won't. I'm drowning in debt and don't know how to move forward. I really need your help.
Please donate if you can. <3
AND I *promise* I'll post something way more fun and uplifting later. There's happy motivations and silver linings behind all this and I want to be able to share that with you too. Just got to get this puppy off the ground because I first thing I really need to act is HOPE. Hope is more important than money - And that's the TEE(th)!!
I love you all very very very much. <3
Organizer and beneficiary
Rosemary Stevens
Organizer
Brooklyn, NY
Rosemary Stevens
Beneficiary