My adorable, brilliant, funny as fuck and uber-supportive friend, Liz Logan's husband Doug was just transferred to Calvary Hospital (an excellent hospice in the Bronx) as he is dying of advanced Parkinson's Disease and Lewy Body Dementia. He broke his hip 20 months ago and there's been a catastrophic decline since. He's been entirely bed-ridden for months and she's been heroically caring for him at home, but the diapering and the bedsores and the progressive delirium, and now difficulty swallowing informed their joint decision to transfer him to an in-patient hospice after a lengthy hospitalization earlier this month. Liz is beside herself, but relieved that he's in such a great facility (it took her moving mountains to get him there due to an only-in-America purgatorial insurance issue). Sweet Doug either has days or months, nobody can project how quickly he will wind down.

Liz stopped being able to drive at all about a year ago due to extreme anxiety that was partially informed by Doug's decline, which renders her distracted at the wheel. The cost of a Lyft from her apartment in Yonkers to Calvary is $70 roundtrip at the times she usually goes. They have been a single income household for several years but obviously Doug was forced to retire about a year ago due to his rapidly declining health so money is tight. Let's help defray Liz's Lyft transport expenses and maybe chip in for delicious food delivery options for her since there are many occasions when she's at the hospice and can't cook for herself now. I know some of you have already bought Lyft gift certificates for her, she's so grateful, but she's blown through those. I'm posting this on her wall because I know there is an army of us who love and are addicted to all things LL and we care so profoundly for this poor couple, it's been such a long road for them.

Please do share the post on your own wall if you can. I have some beautiful people in my life who wind up donating even when they don't know the person, you might know unicorns like this as well? Sorry if this effort to collect is so scattered. We love you, Liz and Doug!