Hi nerds <3

Most of you know me as Sawah/Sarah and already know what's going on. I'm someone who struggles with chronic pain and auDHD to the point of disability; and I cannot and do not work due to these things. This time, I have a huge medical bill that's coming up because I chose to get quality, experienced, and expert care that, naturally, is not covered by my medicaid insurance.

Why did I choose to do this? Because it is an issue deeply tied to one of the possible, major sources of my chronic pain. I can only say 'possibly' because that's all the doctors can say. Chronic pain is a game of guess work and throwing paint at the wall in hope you hit something that works. And, even though I shouldn't have to choose between quality care for my own bodies and coverage, but that's the reality of the country I live in right now.

I have discovered I have a severe tongue tie and the cascading, myriad, issues this has caused in my body as I've grown are numerous. Thus, it's very likely coalesced into one of the main causes of my debilitating pain. Tongue ties can cause migraines, spinal issues, TMD, chronic pain of all sorts, life-long warped posture, gastrointestinal issues, and much more. All of the above that I mentioned? I have. Tongue-ties are something midwives used to be on the look out for at birth and would cut the baby's tongue if noticed. And this is something that has fallen greatly out of favor in modern medicine due to the general lack of respect for traditional midwives of the past.

If you want to know more about tongue-ties and chronic pain? I'm going to link the video that first got me suspecting I had a tongue tie by a wonderful woman who's community I've since joined and have gotten to know her better as well. Her name's Irene and her channel is The Thought Spot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOSUyoMR8n8

Anyway, the final bill for all of this will be around $11,000. I am lucky enough to have a single mom who is still alive who's credit card can cover the initial $2k+ price that will be due in a few days on the 9th. But this will still be $700 due every month for a while after to fully cover the price. While Care credit or Cherry are not good options for us. My mom is also over 70, still working full time, and I am on government benefits that prevents me from having an income over $80 a month.

So, we need help. I have precious little energy both physically and mentally to push this gofundme on socials but I will be trying very hard to at least stream every day with the gofundme linked. I'll make posts on my socials... eventually. But I don't really have reach either. So even if you can't give? Passing around this link and my story would help immensely. It's gonna be the only way it gets seen at all!

Thank you all so much for your time, I love you bunches.