Help Emily Replace Her Bones

Hi, it’s Emily. My bones are melting, and I really need your help.

Most people who know me know that in 2001, a car accident liquified the left half of my face, requiring dozens of surgeries, a lot of metal, some implants, and a Cronenberg-esque three years to get somewhere back to normal.

The Bad News

My body is rejecting two of the titanium implants that doctors placed in my upper and lower jaw. The placement and design of the original work is actively causing the rest of the bone in my face to disintegrate. Without immediate implant removal and new prostheses, I’ll soon be in a lot of pain and will require much more complicated surgery.

The Worse News

Insurance covers none of this. “Wanting bones” is considered cosmetic. Additionally, I will not have insurance for much longer because, due how America is right now, Tulane is not renewing my contract for next year, and I will be unemployed as of July.

The Good News

The entire problem can be solved with money. $30,400, to be exact. For this amount, the bad implants can be yanked, what’s missing from my skeleton can be replaced with cadaver and cow bones, and new prostheses can be crafted to correct the mistakes doctors made the first time around so that I never have to think about this again.

That’s where I need your help. Anything you can donate right now will help me for the rest of my life.

What You’ll Get

This is the only time I will ever ask you for money, I swear. If other parts of my bones start melting, we will just ignore it like the Louisiana state government ignores coastal erosion.

My promise that when I am able, I will absolutely help someone else get whatever life-enabling equivalent of new bones they need. I now know what it’s like to come to the internet with a sad story and my hat in my hands, completely terrified of what happens if the hat stays empty. What I want–even more than a face full of cadaver and cow bones–is for the present to hurry up and become the future so I can turn around to help someone else.