Help Maria Maglio with Medical Expenses

**UPDATE 7/15/2025

I’m very sorry for not updating this sooner! Life can be insanely busy.

First off, We want to thank everyone who donated, shared, and/or prayed for Maria. You have helped her more than you could ever know! The fundraiser has helped her immensely in paying for bills and other important expenses, and we know all the prayers have been working!! Her seeing so many people caring and thinking about her really touched her heart. ❤️

Maria is still unable to work due to her disabilities, but she is keeping positive and still has her hilarious sense of humor through it all. :)

Again, THANK YOU, thank you, thank you for your help. Please continue to pray for Maria, and if you could, please share and/or donate so that she can continue to stay afloat and keep marching forward!

God Bless you all!!

Rachel Barr

**UPDATE: 7/9/23**

Thank you SO, so much to those that donated and shared!

An unfortunate update, but due to Maria’s spinal damage, she is now unable to work. Thus her situation with her bills and expenses have become more dire.

Please keep sharing this gofundme, and if possible, maybe donate just a small amount. Every dollar helps! If you can only donate $1 that’s fantastic and very, very much appreciated!

Most of all, please keep her in your prayers!

Love to all,

Rachel Barr

Hi, My name is Rachel Barr, and Maria Maglio is a wonderful friend of mine. I've known her for a long time, and she and her family are dear friends that are close to my heart.

Maria is a beautiful person, with a wonderful heart and a wicked sense of humor. I love her like family, and to see her suffering like this breaks my heart.

Maria has come down on some very difficult times. She has a myriad of health problems, which are struggles in and of themselves, but they have also made it difficult for her to pay her other essential bills, such as electric.

Maria's health problems are:

An enlarged heart, aorta valve damage, and a stent just recently put in the left side of her heart

A large herniated/slipped disc in her neck, that, if she is not careful, could make her a quadriplegic. It is inoperable.

A fractured sternum that is now calcified

Carpal tunnel in both hands, needs to wear braces at times

She's had a slow brain bleed since she was 16 (car accident)

She has Diverticulitis, a gastrointestinal disease.

Both knees were recently replaced

She was born without any heel bones, and her left leg has perineal nerve damage causing dropped right foot

She has inoperable disc damage mid and lower spine. (Herniated and calcified ) Severe sciatic damage too, also inoperable

Reflex neurovascular dystrophy

Severe asthma and allergies

Lastly, she has severe depression and anxiety, plus adhd and sleep apnea (She uses cpap. Machine )

I am reaching out to ask for help for my friend. If you could do one, two or all of the following things, we'd be forever grateful:

1. Donating-- any amount, every tiny bit helps.

2. Spreading this GoFundMe

3. (Most Important) Praying for Maria. Perhaps comment here to let her know she is in your prayers, to help encourage her.

Thank you so much for taking a moment to read this. Thank you, and God Bless.

Rachel Barr

**UPDATE: 7/9/23**

Thank you SO, so much to those that donated and shared!

An unfortunate update, but due to Maria’s spinal damage, she is now unable to work. This her situation with her bills and expenses have become more dire.

Please keep sharing this gofundme, and if possible, maybe donate just a small about. Every dollar helps! If you can only donate $1 that’s great and very, very much appreciated!

Most of all, please keep her in your prayers!

Love to all,

Rachel Barr