
Help Shannon Rankine survive her Illness
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Hi Family and Friends.
We are setting up this Go Fund Me for our beloved Shannon (Milne) Rankine. 2023 was not a good year for her with a diagnosis of MCS (Multiple Chemical Sensitivities). This is thought to be an environmental illness caused by scents. She started the year with the students she was teaching to drive wearing scents in the car causing her to lose her voice for a period of time. This resulted in days off work because, as you can imagine, you cannot teach someone to drive if you cannot speak. As the year progressed, her symptoms increased to be severe enough to cause a couple of ambulance trips to the local hospital, her being required to wear a painter’s respirator (with multiple filters) (this is what is hanging around her neck in the photograph) if she leaves her home, carry 2 epipens and liquid Benadryl always. Due to all of this, she lost her job in July.
At 29 years old, her future is bleak for employment as she can even have an attack when in an outdoors area if someone is wearing a perfume or cologne or soap that she is sensitive to. As 2024 starts, she has had to essentially lock herself in her home away from possible exposures.
Shannon is an extremely social person and being locked in her home is now causing mental health issues for her as well. In order to see a therapist for help, she is required to pay upfront and then get reimbursed by the medical insurance. Again, another cost for her from money she doesn’t have.
Her masking has also added expenses she can't afford but requires.
-Mask about $60 plus tax
-6 pack of filter adds are 17.99 plus tax (2 per side change between two weeks and a month depending on how much I am outside home)
-Main filter about 19.99 plus tax( 1 per side change between two weeks and a month depending on how much I am outside home)
Average Monthly cost for filters is 66.67
We are asking your help for Shannon and her husband Emmerson. Her EI falls very short of meeting the monthly bills, and as the cold weather is upon us, they will just fall farther and farther behind. Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you very much.
The family of Shannon Rankine
Organizer
Claire Milne
Organizer
Upper Golden Grove, NB