Life Saving Treatment for Xochi

** UPDATE:

The initial plan was to raise money to buy the treatment Xochi needs in the U.S. However, this is not realistic; it simply would take too long.

So the Revised Plan is Medical Tourism; purchasing the medicine abroad (likely India) for a fraction of the cost.

This will still be expensive, so your donations are still very necessary and greatly appreciated!

If anyone has any information on either the cost or logistics of medical tourism, who to contact about hiring a guide in India, or any other considerations, please reach out!

Thank you.

-Michael

In Xochitl's words:

"My mother contracted Hepatitis C in her youth, so I was born with it.

Five years ago, my mother died. Slowly and horribly. Her death was completely preventable.

I am not in hospital right now, or in imminent danger. Hep C kills, but it takes years. Decades even. As long as we act now, we have time.

The Treatment: Hep C is a viral infection that kills from the liver out, but there is treatment for it. That treatment is so effective, it wouldn't be unreasonable to want to call it a "cure". All it is: 2 pills a day for 8-12 weeks, at the end of which, my viral load could be reduced to a harmless amount, if not absolute 0.

So why did my mother suffer the way she did? Why am I fated to eventually suffer in the same way?

Because it's ridiculously expensive. And insurance won't pay for it until the infection is so severe that it's too late. They knowingly killed my mother with negligence, just to save some money. They are willing to do the same to me.

Every day, I deal with extreme dietary sensitivity, fatigue, pain as if my liver was desperately pushing against my ribs. And it'll just get worse and worse and worse until it eventually kills me in middle age, like it did my mother. I want to have kids someday, but I can't because I don't want them to be born with this.

 After treatment, I could eat like you do. I could have a family. It would completely change my life, I can't even imagine".

ANYONE WHO KNOWS XOCHI AT ALL KNOWS THAT SHE IS A BRIGHT, BEAUTIFUL, FIERCELY LOYAL, EMPATHETIC, HARD-WORKING, LOVING SOUL. WE CAN SAVE HER LIFE.

RECURRING DONATIONS, NO MATTER THE SIZE, IS THE BEST WAY TO CONTRIBUTE. THANK YOU. PEACE AND LOVE.