Help me access critical medical care
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I am not be able to afford critical medical care for my chronic, incurable neurological condition. My quality of life depends on your help today. Reaching this goal will provide up to two months of medical care while I work to overcome unexpected obstacles and delays to accessing government benefits and continue the legal battle with my long term disability provider.
How fibromyalgia decimates my life, my daily fight to truly live, and why your help decides whether I walk or crawl...
I wake up in pain and clutch my joints. I’m so tired, my eyes can barely focus on the screen of my phone as I text my wife. I fall back asleep, believing that if I just sleep it off, I'll be better in a few days. If only that were true. Weeks go by and I can't stay awake and frankly, I don't want to be awake because every joint, muscle and body part that I can't identify hurts. My skin feels itchy like it’s crawling with beetles or on fire, sometimes both. I can't remember conversations that I had an hour ago. When I can think, I wonder how long it will be before I lose more of me. The world is grey and full of triggers to new symptoms. Honking cars and other loud noises that I once brushed off now make me jump; the world is overwhelming and full of sudden movements. I keep looking for the reason behind my crumbling existence, even just a hint, just a pill to make it better but it’s been months. Everything I put years in to feels like it’s fallen to bits. I have begun to wonder if it's worth anyone's time to keep looking because there might not be an answer. Maybe they should just let me sleep.
This has been my experience from January through to now. I eventually found out that I have fibromyalgia, a neurological condition not yet fully understood by medical science. It can be partially managed with medication, diet & movement but there is no cure. In less than half a year I went from maintaining our home and family, exercising daily, and doing small jobs here and there, to alternately asleep or dizzily stumbling in increasing pain and confusion.
Once I received my diagnosis, my NP prescribed medication to begin to mitigate my symptoms. Because fibromyalgia is still not understood, there is no single medication to treat all of its effects. A lot of days, I appear to live a normal life despite the ambient pain and bizarre neurological phenomena that break through. I have been able to reduce some symptoms through diet as well as mental and physical conditioning. I still have days when I wonder if I should go to the ER but definitely not as many.
Due to the daily medical support required, my life comes at a high price, which up until January 2019 was mostly covered by my LTD insurance. Since then I have been in a legal battle with my disability provider and trying to pay for any treatments I can. The costs are mounting and my access is dwindling quick. I have no ability to pay out-of-pocket for even one of my medications any longer, not to mention any medical services I need. My goal of $1600 will cover up to two months of my medical needs. Without your help, without medical care, my life will rapidly degenerate to endless days in widespread pain, unable to get out of bed and without the ability to even concentrate when lying there. I'm about to lose everything that I have dragged back from the clutches of fibromyalgia: my mind, my ability to step outside and smell the air, the freedom from pain that allows me to walk my dogs, call friends and family members or just ask my partner how her day is. It has all come down to the cost of sustaining my quality of life, which I will be able to carry on my own once I have government benefits. Please help to carry me through these next two months. A contribution of any amount literally buys me time to live outside of my bed. Whether or not you can help monetarily, please share this page with those you know. It's as easy as sharing a cute cat video. Thank you so so much :)
Any funds received beyond the amount requested above will be used to pay off the significant amount of medical debts that I have incurred.
How fibromyalgia decimates my life, my daily fight to truly live, and why your help decides whether I walk or crawl...
I wake up in pain and clutch my joints. I’m so tired, my eyes can barely focus on the screen of my phone as I text my wife. I fall back asleep, believing that if I just sleep it off, I'll be better in a few days. If only that were true. Weeks go by and I can't stay awake and frankly, I don't want to be awake because every joint, muscle and body part that I can't identify hurts. My skin feels itchy like it’s crawling with beetles or on fire, sometimes both. I can't remember conversations that I had an hour ago. When I can think, I wonder how long it will be before I lose more of me. The world is grey and full of triggers to new symptoms. Honking cars and other loud noises that I once brushed off now make me jump; the world is overwhelming and full of sudden movements. I keep looking for the reason behind my crumbling existence, even just a hint, just a pill to make it better but it’s been months. Everything I put years in to feels like it’s fallen to bits. I have begun to wonder if it's worth anyone's time to keep looking because there might not be an answer. Maybe they should just let me sleep.
This has been my experience from January through to now. I eventually found out that I have fibromyalgia, a neurological condition not yet fully understood by medical science. It can be partially managed with medication, diet & movement but there is no cure. In less than half a year I went from maintaining our home and family, exercising daily, and doing small jobs here and there, to alternately asleep or dizzily stumbling in increasing pain and confusion.
Once I received my diagnosis, my NP prescribed medication to begin to mitigate my symptoms. Because fibromyalgia is still not understood, there is no single medication to treat all of its effects. A lot of days, I appear to live a normal life despite the ambient pain and bizarre neurological phenomena that break through. I have been able to reduce some symptoms through diet as well as mental and physical conditioning. I still have days when I wonder if I should go to the ER but definitely not as many.
Due to the daily medical support required, my life comes at a high price, which up until January 2019 was mostly covered by my LTD insurance. Since then I have been in a legal battle with my disability provider and trying to pay for any treatments I can. The costs are mounting and my access is dwindling quick. I have no ability to pay out-of-pocket for even one of my medications any longer, not to mention any medical services I need. My goal of $1600 will cover up to two months of my medical needs. Without your help, without medical care, my life will rapidly degenerate to endless days in widespread pain, unable to get out of bed and without the ability to even concentrate when lying there. I'm about to lose everything that I have dragged back from the clutches of fibromyalgia: my mind, my ability to step outside and smell the air, the freedom from pain that allows me to walk my dogs, call friends and family members or just ask my partner how her day is. It has all come down to the cost of sustaining my quality of life, which I will be able to carry on my own once I have government benefits. Please help to carry me through these next two months. A contribution of any amount literally buys me time to live outside of my bed. Whether or not you can help monetarily, please share this page with those you know. It's as easy as sharing a cute cat video. Thank you so so much :)
Any funds received beyond the amount requested above will be used to pay off the significant amount of medical debts that I have incurred.
Organizer
Austin Flynn
Organizer
Kimberley, BC
