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Help disabled Clinical Social Worker Ashlie West with her overwhelming medical expenses from six major hip surgeries before her next surgery on August 15.
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ASHLIE’S HEALTHCARE CRISIS
Five years ago, Ashlie began to experience major incapacitating pain in her left hip due to a congenital hip defect (hip dysplasia) and early onset osteoarthritis, causing significant damage to the soft tissues in the hip joint (torn labrum, ligaments, and cartilage). Additionally, she has an underlying connective tissue disorder (hEDS - Ehler's Danlos Syndrome Hypermobility Type ), which makes her recovery and healing process more difficult. She had three surgeries to attempt to preserve the left hip before agreeing to have a total hip replacement in her late thirties — so much earlier than is usual for a total hip replacement. Blessedly, that surgery was successful and she regained pain-free mobility in her left leg.
But just as she thought she was out of the woods and would be able again to give back to others, her right hip began to fail. She has now had two surgeries on that second hip to no avail. As with her left hip, her only recourse is to have the right hip totally replaced. She has agreed to schedule this major surgery for mid-August. Her doctors predict the same success with her right hip replacement that she has experienced with her left, and are cautiously optimistic that she will regain full mobility.
Ashlie is only forty-one years old, but has endured 6 major surgeries on her two hips in the past 5 years. For the past half decade, she has been in severe pain, unable to walk without crutches, and in challenging physical therapy regimens. She has not been able to work, travel, complete chores around the house, or even walk her dog without assistance for all but a few weeks of that time. She has tried costly alternative treatments for managing the pain, as well as seen multiple specialists in the hopes of avoiding further surgeries. However, despite all of her efforts, she has had to face numerous failed efforts and ever-expanding medical costs. And she still has another surgery scheduled for August 15, 2018.
WHAT ASHLIE’S TEAM IS ABOUT
Few of us have gotten through life without the direct and powerful help of a healthcare worker at just the right time in our lives. Maybe your grandmother had a fall, or one of your parents was hurt in an accident, or maybe it was you — maybe you wrestled with a bout of depression or struggled with an emotional challenge — and a qualified healthcare worker intervened at just the right time with the support that helped you through the crisis.
For many of us, the timing of our crisis often kept us from adequately thanking the healthcare worker who had such a significant impact on our lives. Whether you thanked them then or not, here’s a chance to honor that healthcare worker (or another healthcare worker or institution of your choice) by helping Ashlie now.
WHO WE ARE
Team Ashlie is a group that is made up of long-time friends of Ashlie, a licensed clinical social worker with over ten years of experience as a Therapist and Clinical Supervisor. We have known her to be a highly skilled, compassionate, and competent healthcare worker. For over a decade, Ashlie provided meaningful, life-changing support for hundreds of patients who were suffering a major crisis in their lives. She worked successfully with clients in outpatient clinical settings and with in-patients at a major public mental health hospital.
Although Ashlie has always been the one to help others, she now needs our help. We have launched this Go-Fund-Me campaign to give her the help she needs right now to get back on her feet and return to a job she loves. It is also our goal to provide donors with an opportunity with every donation to recognize and thank a healthcare worker or institution for the compassionate care they have observed or received in the past.
ASHLIE’S DREAM
Ashlie’s dream is to return to her prior job as a clinical social worker in the public setting, helping some of our most vulnerable patients and their families as they navigate the challenges of a mental health crisis. Ashlie loves being able to help others and to work in the Social Work field, particularly as an inpatient Clinical Social Worker at public psychiatric hospitals. But she needs our help to get her over the last hurdles - her medical bills and the total hip replacement in August (and resulting rehabilitation).
OUR FUND-RAISING GOAL
Even with health insurance, the medically related costs surrounding Ashlie’s surgeries and rehabilitation are astounding. Her debt has accumulated — bit by bit, bill by bill — until the total costs over the last five years have grown to over $25,000. And she still has one more major surgery ahead in August, which will continue to add to her medical expenses. Additionally, Ashlie’s 2002 sedan is facing major repairs and maintenance. Unfortunately, Ashlie is unable to afford a down payment on a newer car, and if her car dies, she will be without transportation.
We hope to be able to raise at least $25,000 to help Ashlie pay off her medical expenses and go in to surgery in August without concern about her finances.
PAY IT FORWARD BY DONATING NOW
If you have experienced the compassionate support of a healthcare worker when you were in need, consider honoring that person (or their healthcare institution) by helping Ashlie now.
A donation of any amount, no matter how small or how large, is welcome and will be a step toward getting Ashlie back on her feet – physically and economically – so she can fulfill her dream of helping patients again when they need her help the most.
If you would like the person (or institution) you are honoring to know of your donation, we would be happy to send them a personalized thank you note from Team Ashlie. A member of Team Ashlie will contact you following your donation so that you can provide us with the information we need to send a healthcare provider (or institution) of your choosing a note thanking them for their care. We are happy to include any specific details of the way in which they have helped you, or to provide an anonymous message, per your desire.
We thank you in advance for sharing our concern for Ashlie and our respect for the valuable, life-changing work that so many healthcare workers provide. Thank you for your donation and the sharing of this project with your family and friends.
paypal - [email redacted]
ASHLIE’S HEALTHCARE CRISIS
Five years ago, Ashlie began to experience major incapacitating pain in her left hip due to a congenital hip defect (hip dysplasia) and early onset osteoarthritis, causing significant damage to the soft tissues in the hip joint (torn labrum, ligaments, and cartilage). Additionally, she has an underlying connective tissue disorder (hEDS - Ehler's Danlos Syndrome Hypermobility Type ), which makes her recovery and healing process more difficult. She had three surgeries to attempt to preserve the left hip before agreeing to have a total hip replacement in her late thirties — so much earlier than is usual for a total hip replacement. Blessedly, that surgery was successful and she regained pain-free mobility in her left leg.
But just as she thought she was out of the woods and would be able again to give back to others, her right hip began to fail. She has now had two surgeries on that second hip to no avail. As with her left hip, her only recourse is to have the right hip totally replaced. She has agreed to schedule this major surgery for mid-August. Her doctors predict the same success with her right hip replacement that she has experienced with her left, and are cautiously optimistic that she will regain full mobility.
Ashlie is only forty-one years old, but has endured 6 major surgeries on her two hips in the past 5 years. For the past half decade, she has been in severe pain, unable to walk without crutches, and in challenging physical therapy regimens. She has not been able to work, travel, complete chores around the house, or even walk her dog without assistance for all but a few weeks of that time. She has tried costly alternative treatments for managing the pain, as well as seen multiple specialists in the hopes of avoiding further surgeries. However, despite all of her efforts, she has had to face numerous failed efforts and ever-expanding medical costs. And she still has another surgery scheduled for August 15, 2018.
WHAT ASHLIE’S TEAM IS ABOUT
Few of us have gotten through life without the direct and powerful help of a healthcare worker at just the right time in our lives. Maybe your grandmother had a fall, or one of your parents was hurt in an accident, or maybe it was you — maybe you wrestled with a bout of depression or struggled with an emotional challenge — and a qualified healthcare worker intervened at just the right time with the support that helped you through the crisis.
For many of us, the timing of our crisis often kept us from adequately thanking the healthcare worker who had such a significant impact on our lives. Whether you thanked them then or not, here’s a chance to honor that healthcare worker (or another healthcare worker or institution of your choice) by helping Ashlie now.
WHO WE ARE
Team Ashlie is a group that is made up of long-time friends of Ashlie, a licensed clinical social worker with over ten years of experience as a Therapist and Clinical Supervisor. We have known her to be a highly skilled, compassionate, and competent healthcare worker. For over a decade, Ashlie provided meaningful, life-changing support for hundreds of patients who were suffering a major crisis in their lives. She worked successfully with clients in outpatient clinical settings and with in-patients at a major public mental health hospital.
Although Ashlie has always been the one to help others, she now needs our help. We have launched this Go-Fund-Me campaign to give her the help she needs right now to get back on her feet and return to a job she loves. It is also our goal to provide donors with an opportunity with every donation to recognize and thank a healthcare worker or institution for the compassionate care they have observed or received in the past.
ASHLIE’S DREAM
Ashlie’s dream is to return to her prior job as a clinical social worker in the public setting, helping some of our most vulnerable patients and their families as they navigate the challenges of a mental health crisis. Ashlie loves being able to help others and to work in the Social Work field, particularly as an inpatient Clinical Social Worker at public psychiatric hospitals. But she needs our help to get her over the last hurdles - her medical bills and the total hip replacement in August (and resulting rehabilitation).
OUR FUND-RAISING GOAL
Even with health insurance, the medically related costs surrounding Ashlie’s surgeries and rehabilitation are astounding. Her debt has accumulated — bit by bit, bill by bill — until the total costs over the last five years have grown to over $25,000. And she still has one more major surgery ahead in August, which will continue to add to her medical expenses. Additionally, Ashlie’s 2002 sedan is facing major repairs and maintenance. Unfortunately, Ashlie is unable to afford a down payment on a newer car, and if her car dies, she will be without transportation.
We hope to be able to raise at least $25,000 to help Ashlie pay off her medical expenses and go in to surgery in August without concern about her finances.
PAY IT FORWARD BY DONATING NOW
If you have experienced the compassionate support of a healthcare worker when you were in need, consider honoring that person (or their healthcare institution) by helping Ashlie now.
A donation of any amount, no matter how small or how large, is welcome and will be a step toward getting Ashlie back on her feet – physically and economically – so she can fulfill her dream of helping patients again when they need her help the most.
If you would like the person (or institution) you are honoring to know of your donation, we would be happy to send them a personalized thank you note from Team Ashlie. A member of Team Ashlie will contact you following your donation so that you can provide us with the information we need to send a healthcare provider (or institution) of your choosing a note thanking them for their care. We are happy to include any specific details of the way in which they have helped you, or to provide an anonymous message, per your desire.
We thank you in advance for sharing our concern for Ashlie and our respect for the valuable, life-changing work that so many healthcare workers provide. Thank you for your donation and the sharing of this project with your family and friends.
Organizer and beneficiary
Jennifer Hilger-Muller
Organizer
Durham, NC
Ashlie D. West
Beneficiary