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*NOTE* If you‘ve already received info. about Pinky’s situation via Meal Train, sorry for the redundancy of the following appeal.
I'm reaching out to you because I'm starting a GoFundMe campaign for my friend Pinky Zalkin. Recently she had major surgery to reconstruct her right foot, which developed an extremely debilitating condition called advanced, complex posterior tibial tendon dysfunction last year. The day before she was due to go home from Wolf Creek Care Center, where she’d been since the surgery, she was taken to Sierra Nevada Hospital's ER via ambulance. After a CT scan it was discovered that her shortness of breath, which had been going on for some days at the convalescent center, was due to blood clots in her right lung. Pinky spent a few days in the hospital and is now on blood thinners to dissolve the clots and prevent new ones. After returning home, Pinky went back to the ER 3 times but is now recovering at home with the help of caregivers and in home physical and occupational therapy. She won’t be able to put any weight whatsoever on her foot for 5 long weeks. Since insurance won’t cover many of the home care services Pinky will need, we want to raise $6,000 to pay for them.
Most people in our community know what a powerful advocate for all that’s good and right Pinky has always been. Many, many are the overnights she’s pulled at Sierra Roots’ cold weather shelter, taking care of homeless people’s needs and providing them with the comfort of her extraordinary compassion. For years she was a monitor at Hospitality House, and in her gifted capacity as a volunteer fundraiser produced the Empty Bowl, car washes, yard sales, and other events extremely helpful to that organization. And let’s not forget Pinky’s great advocacy as editor and publisher of Critter Magazine on behalf of our beloved dogs, cats, horses, and other animals.
She herself has helped raise thousands of dollars for others in our community who were injured or sick. She has driven countless incapacitated friends for countless hours over countless miles to doctors and hospitals, sometimes staying with them in those hospitals. She worked her ass off to pass the [albeit unsuccessful] California single payer health care bill in 2017-18, lobbying, demonstrating, and producing (with others) a town hall meeting at the Nevada Theatre. Folks, if we could all be like her, we wouldn’t have to make these kinds of funding requests!
These days we talk a lot about paying it forward. With the following statement I hereby announce my candidacy for the title of Greatest Understatement Maker of 2021: Pinky Zalkin has paid it forward. She has paid and paid and paid. Now it’s her turn to be on the receiving end.
Please support this worthy effort. Send some money to our friend! Share this GoFundMe campaign with your network.
With many thanks,
Joanna Robinson
I'm reaching out to you because I'm starting a GoFundMe campaign for my friend Pinky Zalkin. Recently she had major surgery to reconstruct her right foot, which developed an extremely debilitating condition called advanced, complex posterior tibial tendon dysfunction last year. The day before she was due to go home from Wolf Creek Care Center, where she’d been since the surgery, she was taken to Sierra Nevada Hospital's ER via ambulance. After a CT scan it was discovered that her shortness of breath, which had been going on for some days at the convalescent center, was due to blood clots in her right lung. Pinky spent a few days in the hospital and is now on blood thinners to dissolve the clots and prevent new ones. After returning home, Pinky went back to the ER 3 times but is now recovering at home with the help of caregivers and in home physical and occupational therapy. She won’t be able to put any weight whatsoever on her foot for 5 long weeks. Since insurance won’t cover many of the home care services Pinky will need, we want to raise $6,000 to pay for them.
Most people in our community know what a powerful advocate for all that’s good and right Pinky has always been. Many, many are the overnights she’s pulled at Sierra Roots’ cold weather shelter, taking care of homeless people’s needs and providing them with the comfort of her extraordinary compassion. For years she was a monitor at Hospitality House, and in her gifted capacity as a volunteer fundraiser produced the Empty Bowl, car washes, yard sales, and other events extremely helpful to that organization. And let’s not forget Pinky’s great advocacy as editor and publisher of Critter Magazine on behalf of our beloved dogs, cats, horses, and other animals.
She herself has helped raise thousands of dollars for others in our community who were injured or sick. She has driven countless incapacitated friends for countless hours over countless miles to doctors and hospitals, sometimes staying with them in those hospitals. She worked her ass off to pass the [albeit unsuccessful] California single payer health care bill in 2017-18, lobbying, demonstrating, and producing (with others) a town hall meeting at the Nevada Theatre. Folks, if we could all be like her, we wouldn’t have to make these kinds of funding requests!
These days we talk a lot about paying it forward. With the following statement I hereby announce my candidacy for the title of Greatest Understatement Maker of 2021: Pinky Zalkin has paid it forward. She has paid and paid and paid. Now it’s her turn to be on the receiving end.
Please support this worthy effort. Send some money to our friend! Share this GoFundMe campaign with your network.
With many thanks,
Joanna Robinson