Please Support Karen's Healing Journey
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Karen is a beloved wife, mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, friend, homeopath, birthing and dying doula, health coach, gardener, natural food chef, and so much more, living in Southern Oregon. Service is Karen's passion, and she has dedicated herself to the care of others: through her healing practice, through her pro bono healing seva, and through extended projects some of which she has created and overseen, others that she has been asked to help with.
Karen was the chief breadwinner for her immediate extended family. Her income recently ended in late September 2022, as she began to lose her ability to walk or use her hands. She has begun to assemble an excellent medical team, but so far they have no clear answers to why she suddenly developed a tremendously painful and profoundly limiting condition. More lab testing and health practitioners are needed.
It has been more than three months since Karen was able to tend to her livelihood. In addition to loss of income, she has mounting out-of-pocket medical, lab, housing, dietary, supplement, and caregiving needs and expenses. These have only been partially met, at a cost of several thousand dollars. It is unknown how long it will be until she is able to return to the health and livelihood she enjoyed prior to the onset of this mysterious and debilitating condition.
Karen has dedicated herself in service:
- to her Indigenous People's Project, providing holistic health care to members of 70 different nations;
- 6 weeks in service at a Birth Camp in the Philippines after Typhoon Yolanda;
- 12 weeks of service in Mexico and New Mexico for a beloved seedsman after he fell ill;
- 6 months caring for a client with cancer at a holistic hospital in Mexico;
- the urgent care and ongoing "raising" of her beloved adult "differently-abled” stepson, who moved in with them 5 years ago during his own serious health and life crisis;
- 3.5 weeks in service to a dear family member after his accident and devastating injuries.
Service being Karen's passion, she is beyond grateful for these experiences and opportunities to serve, grow, and learn, and to contribute to solutions to the kinds of situations we all may encounter in ourselves and our communities in our lifetime.
Karen's situation has taken a toll on her immediate family members, including her husband, an elder, who is facing an upcoming essential surgery, and her stepson who is dependent as well.
In Karen's own words: "I must humble myself and receive in order to not only survive, but to thrive, and emerge from the ashes of this condition, better than before, with ever more to share with friends, family, and communities I love."
Thank you for your love, prayers and support for Karen's healing journey. All contributions are honored and deeply appreciated.
Organizer and beneficiary
Larry Morningstar
Organizer
Talent, OR
Karen Ferreira
Beneficiary