Please Help Delynn Elliott Bridge Troubled Waters
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Hi everyone!
I am writing first and foremost to thank you all for your support. I could not have made it through this past year without your help. I will be eternally very grateful!
I also want to update you and tell you that I have been making a lot of progress. But since the first of January, it has been 2 steps forward and 3 steps back.
I had been working and supporting myself. But 2 weeks ago, in the middle of my radiation treatments, my oncologist told me she wants me to stop working and not to start again until my radiations have treatment has ended and I have had a month or so to get stronger.
So now I am now facing a two-month financial challenge. I am out of funds. And I am out of options.
The first and hardest challenge is for me to turn to you again and ask help because you have all already been so generous. But some of my friends have insisted I try another GoFundMe Campaign. So here I am.
If it is at all possible, can you help me bridge my current troubled waters and launch me into a better, more independent life in 2 months from now?
Here are the medical and financial challenges I have faced in the last 6 months.
In September 2019, my company dropped me from my Aetna medical insurance policy. I didn’t learn I had been dropped until the end of October, when the medical group and the pharmacy told me nothing had been paid since September. They would not continue to treat me until payment had been made in full.
If it had not been for your contributions to my GoFundMe account, I could not have continued treatment. I used all the GoFundMe funds to buy a Cobra policy to cover four months (from September to January). Without your help I would not have been able to do that. With you help, I was able to bridge September to January when my new Medicare policy kicked in.
And then, in January, my short term disability ended and I was denied my claim on long term disability because of a pre-existing condition – CANCER! That was a surprise – and a body blow. I was relying on those funds to get through the month.
On the flip side, I was healthy enough for my oncologist to start radiation treatments in February. So that’s great! Now radiation is underway. But radiation has been brutal. None of us – not the doctor or my cancer friends or I – were able to anticipate the severity of the effects of the radiation treatments.
Overall, cancer has been a huge struggle, both physically and emotionally. But it has not beat me yet! My doctor is encouraging. She says once I get through this series of radiation treatments, we will be able to manage the disease.
I can’t do this alone. Will you join me – one last time – to help me through this 2-month financial challenge? Sending you all heartfelt thanks.
Much love,
Delynn
I am writing first and foremost to thank you all for your support. I could not have made it through this past year without your help. I will be eternally very grateful!
I also want to update you and tell you that I have been making a lot of progress. But since the first of January, it has been 2 steps forward and 3 steps back.
I had been working and supporting myself. But 2 weeks ago, in the middle of my radiation treatments, my oncologist told me she wants me to stop working and not to start again until my radiations have treatment has ended and I have had a month or so to get stronger.
So now I am now facing a two-month financial challenge. I am out of funds. And I am out of options.
The first and hardest challenge is for me to turn to you again and ask help because you have all already been so generous. But some of my friends have insisted I try another GoFundMe Campaign. So here I am.
If it is at all possible, can you help me bridge my current troubled waters and launch me into a better, more independent life in 2 months from now?
Here are the medical and financial challenges I have faced in the last 6 months.
In September 2019, my company dropped me from my Aetna medical insurance policy. I didn’t learn I had been dropped until the end of October, when the medical group and the pharmacy told me nothing had been paid since September. They would not continue to treat me until payment had been made in full.
If it had not been for your contributions to my GoFundMe account, I could not have continued treatment. I used all the GoFundMe funds to buy a Cobra policy to cover four months (from September to January). Without your help I would not have been able to do that. With you help, I was able to bridge September to January when my new Medicare policy kicked in.
And then, in January, my short term disability ended and I was denied my claim on long term disability because of a pre-existing condition – CANCER! That was a surprise – and a body blow. I was relying on those funds to get through the month.
On the flip side, I was healthy enough for my oncologist to start radiation treatments in February. So that’s great! Now radiation is underway. But radiation has been brutal. None of us – not the doctor or my cancer friends or I – were able to anticipate the severity of the effects of the radiation treatments.
Overall, cancer has been a huge struggle, both physically and emotionally. But it has not beat me yet! My doctor is encouraging. She says once I get through this series of radiation treatments, we will be able to manage the disease.
I can’t do this alone. Will you join me – one last time – to help me through this 2-month financial challenge? Sending you all heartfelt thanks.
Much love,
Delynn
Organizer and beneficiary
Marleen Kassel
Organizer
Ardsley, NY
Delynn Elliott
Beneficiary