<div>At the encouragement of my close friends and family, I am writing this. I need your help. I need my village.


</div>


<div><br />


</div>


<div>In June 2024, at the end of a long work week in &gt;115 Las Vegas heat, I went to the hospital with a horrible ocular migraine and stroke symptoms. The right side of my body had gone numb. I was admitted for 4 days and completed more imaging, multiple tests, and a lumbar puncture. My MRI showed multiple brain lesions. The hospital neurologist told me she suspected a demyelinating disease, possibly Multiple Sclerosis (MS). I was to follow up with an outpatient neurologist for further diagnosis. In October, I was seen by an MS specialist and diagnosed with Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis. I started my first MS medication in November.


</div>


<div><br />


</div>


<div>Multiple Sclerosis is an autoimmune disease where the immune system attacks the myelin sheath on the nerve fibers of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord), causing scars (sclerosis)/lesions. Myelin is the coating around nerve cells, kind of like insulation. This eventually leads to permanent damage of the nerve cells. Some people lose the ability to walk, move, talk, swallow, and experience profound fatigue, pain, neuropathy, numbness, cognitive issues, vision problems, etc.


</div>


<div><br />


</div>


<div>Over the last 8 months, I have struggled with my health. I have had upper-respiratory infection, influenza B, and norovirus. Along with the diabetes, the MS has made it difficult to stay well. I also started having significant vision issues, for which I’ve seen an ophthalmologist, neuro-ophthalmologist, and retina specialist. I suffered a rare side effect from the MS medication (macular edema). It is still being treated. I can no longer drive at night, and my vision is still impaired.


</div>


<div><br />


</div>


<div>My Multiple Sclerosis symptoms have continued to get worse. This disease has affected my balance, strength, vision, mobility, and has caused profound fatigue, heat intolerance, numbness, pain, neuropathy, headaches, migraines, and tremors.


</div>


<div><br />


</div>


<div>My MS specialist suspects I may have Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis (continual decline in function vs. relapses/remissions). I have a lesion on my most recent MRI classified as “tumor-like” and I may have Tumefactive Multiple Sclerosis, which is a more aggressive form of MS. I am hopeful about a new medication I am starting in about a couple weeks or so. It is a chemotherapy drug that is supposed to essentially reset my immune system, so it stops attacking my brain.


</div>


<div><br />


</div>


<div>I am terrified of what is to come and the fight that is ahead of me. Cross your fingers and pray this medication works!!! I am hopeful and am trying to remain as positive as I can. I have never been this sick or needed this much help. I am at a point where I cannot do this alone. I am asking for help paying medical bills (adaptive equipment, insurance premiums, copays, deductibles, medications, physical therapy, etc.), my regular bills (rent, utilities, insurance, etc.), and living expenses like groceries. My medical bills have been outrageous (I currently have at least 10 specialists for everything ... lol). I have been unable to work since end of May of this year. As many of you know, I am a single mother and am the sole-provider of my household. I hope to return to work soon!!


</div>


<div><br />


</div>


<div>ANY help would be appreciated. Even if you’d like to just send me a “hello” and words of encouragement, I could really use it right now.


</div>

Lyzel Krebs

Matt Schreiber

Iris Fullerton

Anonymous

Josue Acosta

Christopher Szymanski

Cassandra Leonard

Mayda Mifflin

Aaliyah Fears

Rebecca Jensen

Laura Peters

Melissa Shake

Chani John

Nancy Villeneuve

Jessica Bates

Wendy Carballo

Adina Dalmeida

Collin Chen

Help Lynda McIntosh fight Multiple Sclerosis

platform

Platform is iOS

Android

Adyen Google Pay Development Audience

$opt_dummy_attribute

English only

Deprecate Stripe Legacy

dyn_template_ids

Adyen V6 Bene Transfer & MyMoney Campaign Organizers - test01

Bene transfer V6 and AdyenV6MyMoney Campaign Organizers - production

OneTrust next-app audience

fundCountryCode

NextDoor Share Option Users

Fundraisers with Reactions feature capability

fundCurrencyCode

US + Non-charity COs Only

locale

fund country is US and user language is English

personId

comms-internal-person-ids

Enhanced Story Experience Users

Suggested Goal Experience Users

user language is English and fund country: US, AU, DK, FI, IE, NO, SE, CA, GB; 

Poster share - new funds eligible (newest 9/18)

Streaming widgets beta user

paymentProcessor

3DS payment method

user language is English and fundCountry: US, AU, DK, FI, IE, NO, SE, CA, GB; 

currencyCode

Money Box Donation List Prompt Experiment Audience

GoFundMe Employees

ipAddress

Mark Rieth IP Address

Version 9.2.0 and above

Fund is in English speaking country

desktop

Android v12.11.0 and above

Platform is Android

paymentMethodType

checkoutType

Payment method type group to be vaulted on success

admin pr kit prod

EUR Donation Upsell

Share Text generation Skip Fundraiser

(prod) new funds eligible for amp12 (UGC gallery)

fintrac_cad_idv_form_v2 audience

paymentProcessorAccountId

fallback mode accounts

proCampaignId

p2p legacy startfundraising page

AMP24 New Funds Only PROD (DO NOT MODIFY)

countryCode

charityId

UKCharities

Federated Search Internal Testing

route.pathname community

US Donation Upsell audience 

Auto Thanks Feature Audience

Supporter Comments Eligible Funds

International Only

fundId

braze fundraiser group 

Payment Identity Transfers ATO Risk Check (Targeted) - Production

Fundraiser Saved Payment Method Rate Limit Bypass (Production)

leaderboard-partner-id-audience-givepanel

Version 9.2.1 and above

AUD Donation Upsell audience

fundraiserCountryCode is US/EN

Active Fundraiser - Smart Default Cadence

DAF Internal

Vault on success card payment method

Platform is iOS v11.0.0 and above

Desktop users

Person ids

United States (US) users

allow yuno fundraisers for test

Mexico country code

Posters INTL

NPO Profile Opted-In

iOS at or above 12.4.0

non-US recurring donors

Canada Campaign Owner Group

Fundraiser Without Meta Link

Scheduler payment tester gorup

charityCommunityId

Charities allow to be claimed unclaimed (PRD)

Canada (CA) users

UC Tipping v20250115 International

pymk_production_xplr_fe_team

Android at or above 12.2.0

Profile photo entry point audience

smart goals (fundraiser/manage) on test01

Activity Tracking v1 Beta Testing

start gfm intl allowed locales

Platform is iOS v11.2.0 and above

NPO upsell education category

unclaimed charities

prod_ach_audience

AI Chatbot Audience

amp13 only new funds (prod) (anyword auto)

UC Flow Enabled (Prod)

Payment Identity Beneficiary Verification - Production

shared notification bell audience

Custom users

ach frontend audience

Android v11.0.0 and above

Users Receiving Payments Paused Notifications

smart goals test01

Manage Coach - US English Organizers Only + new funds only

Team EGG - IP Address list

NPO recommendations prod

Fundraiser Without Instagram Deep Link

Native 11.4.0 and above

UC Tipping v20250107

Users Receiving Braze KYC Validation Failed

Native 11.3.0 and above

ai_title_page

anyword

openai

control

manual_entry

userEmail

template_id

userId

fundUrl

isCharityCo

email

appVersion

shouldBucketIntoExperiment

partnerId

donationCadence

isActiveFundraiser

isPartner

isMobile

npoProfileOptIn

fundIsLinkedWithMeta

hasSessionDonation

categoryGroup

isCampaignOwner

fundHasInstagramDeepLink

Native 11.4.0 and higher

New funds eligible - Video Sharing (PROD)

GB Donation Upsell audience 

Auto Thanks V3 Rollout Audience

Thank you V3 testing whitelist

isRecurringFriendly

Is Recurring Friendly

Excluded funds - Video Sharing

NPO upsell animals category

NPO upsell disaster relief category

Logged In Users

CH Donation Upsell audience

Android v10.6.0 and above

NPO upsell essential needs category

NPO upsell medical category

userCurrencyCode

Localized Currency

NPO upsell cancer category

v11.5.0 and above

testAudience

pathname

Survicate

appVersion is at or above 12.8.0

Non-charity fund

isChallengeFundraiser

challenge-fundraisers

Payment Identity Launch Verification - Production

New funds eligible - Posters v2

CAD Donation Upsell Audience

Braze Email Tester

NPO Profile Opted-Out

iOS App Version

hasKnownDonors

PYMK has donors

iOS v12.3.0 and above

Just $790$ to go! Make an impact.

Help Lynda McIntosh fight Multiple Sclerosis

Just $790 to go!
Make an impact.