Hello, my name is Vonda and I am a 51 year old disabled woman who is also an amputee as well as a Cancer patient with an incurable lymphoma Cancer. Up until about three and a half years ago my life was pretty normal by my standards anyway. But then came the cancer, then the amputations, then cancer again and now more amputation and in the middle there two rounds of chemotherapy and losing all my teeth and becoming wheelchair bound thus far for over one and a half years. I am losing muscle mass and strength and get fatigued easily. And now because of the amputations I cannot push with my feet to help scoot around in the wheelchair. I just want to be able to have some mobility and normalcy and quality to my life.

My doctor has recommended I switch to a power chair at this point because a manual wheelchair is no longer feasible in my life. I can't push it around by myself and my partner can't and don't need to as she has four fractured vertabraes in her back right now.

My insurance should pay for most of the power chair however with my insurance there will always be my 20 percent plus the cost of ramps by the back doors and widening doorways in the house. Plus the cost of a trailer to haul it, possibly a bigger hitch mounted on possibly a bigger vehicle that we CANNOT afford monthly payments on. Of course the ideal would be a handicap van but they are so very expensive.... But am thinking our little Hyundai Elantra GT won't haul the trailer for a power chair very well.

Of course I do need teeth with gum reconstruction ect..the chemo really ate me up!!! But was quoted around $24000 just for the bottom teeth to be done!!! So I'm thinking I might just have to keep choking and live toothless the rest of my blessed time on this earth as right now I need my mobility and freedom and quality of life the most because ultimately that is how important that is to me. Without it I become bed ridden in time in and just shrivel and give up.... I don't want to do that. I want to fight! Please help me fight.... Fight the cancer, fight the limb loss, the disabled beingness, the being stuck in a no win situation and trying to save something.....dignity, freedom, mobility, ability to move and be and be in space...anything is appreciated, even a gas card, a Walmart card anything, I've got so many doctor appointments gas cards would be a Godsend!!! Anyway the funds would go towards these things I have mentioned. To improve the mobility and function of my life so I can cherish the blessings I have left in this time and place with my loved ones and all of you. Bless you every one!

Always, vonda