<div>I’m a graphite, pencil artist from New Orleans Louisiana. I’ve been using skateboards as a canvas to express my art for the last 20 years. I’ve been traveling around to art festivals all over the country during that time winning awards and selling thousands of pieces of art all over the world. 2024 was a slow year for me and a lot of other artists, but I was looking forward to the start of a busy show schedule starting up in January 2025. While setting up for the first art fest of the year this past weekend I started to slowly get a pain coming on in both of my lower forearms. It continued to get extremely bad over the weekend and just taking care of myself ended up being excruciating experience. On Monday after the event I drove 11 hours to get back home to go straight to an emergency room that is in my network. There were some tests done and some speculations, but the docs are still pretty stumped. We’re trying to figure out what’s going on, and they have been specific in not giving me any reassurance that this won’t happen again each time I try to draw, make art and set up for any art festivals. There are a lot of random ailments I get all the time that don't have explanations yet. Sharp pains that switch on and all over my body at any given moment of any given day. It's been a battle for a couple of years now. Coming out of a slow art festival year all of my funds were just about completely depleted. But with a busy show schedule I wasn't freaking out about it. But now I’m not able to do any of these events which is my full-time gig. So I’m trying to raise money just to pay monthly bills try to keep the lights on and food in the bellies of me and my family in our modest home. Any money raised will also help with the medical bills that have been piling up from this and other recent visits and treatments for other medical issues that have been plaguing me.
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Help a New Orleans Artist Suffering from a Medical Emergency

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