Support Simone’s Medical Care & Staying Alive
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My childhood best friend Simone Jennings, the most joyful, beloved human who blessed South Minneapolis starting when we were 12 – needs our help. She has been dealing with serious health issues for the past 10 years, and is currently recovering from surgery and will require more health interventions in the months ahead.
For the past few years I’ve pleaded with her to let me make a Go Fund Me for her, so she could rest and not be stressed working full time on top of the chronic pain she’s been in – but if you know Simone, she won’t let you give her a dollar, less you fight her to.
But following complications from this most recent surgery her body and mind is finally forcing her to rest and she’s unable to work. She needs to recover and receive additional healthcare these next few months. This initial GoFundMe will go to covering her rent and towards her urgent needs for on-going medical care. Right now, she literally cannot work. She can’t even go to the grocery store. She’s living in hell and she’s trying to hold herself together as best as possible.
In August of 2019, Simone fainted and got a concussion. She was diagnosed with depression, anxiety, PTSD and endometriosis. She had been having health flare ups for years and horrible periods, but medical professionals could not give her the care she needed. A very common experience for so many women with endometriosis.
Her health care was interrupted by the pandemic in 2020 and she still has to wait long periods for therapy that she can afford and has had multiple hospital visits in the past four years due to chronic pain. This has greatly impacted her mental health. And her hospital visits have left her in tears as no one offers her any support and dismisses her pain. A very common experience for so many Black women seeking medical care in the US.
From 2020 to 2021, she was having endometriosis flare ups and was experiencing homelessness and displacement. If you know Simone you know she doesn’t like asking for help. And right now she needs it. So please…let her community come together to help her pay her rent and her medical bills so that we can keep her housing & keep her alive.
Simone has been the human who has been there beside me – for every season of my life – since the day we met her first day at Fulton. Just like when we were teenagers and she lived next door, her room was one I could always escape to. When I was pregnant, she was one of the only people in my life who knew whose apartment in Brooklyn I could travel to and break down. She is Naz’s godmama, and has been there Every. Damn. Step. of our journey… a journey I would have been lost on so many times without her.
If you know Simone – and she put that smile on your face? Please let her know how much is loved, even if it’s been decades since you’ve seen her.
If you don’t know Simone? Please understand how singular this human being is– not just to me, but to this world… to every community she graces. Every single human deserves health care, deserves to be able to afford taking time off for one’s health — but so few are given this capacity without wide-community support to achieve it. Please be that community here– Simone needs us, and she deserves all the villages she raised herself through.
For the past few years I’ve pleaded with her to let me make a Go Fund Me for her, so she could rest and not be stressed working full time on top of the chronic pain she’s been in – but if you know Simone, she won’t let you give her a dollar, less you fight her to.
But following complications from this most recent surgery her body and mind is finally forcing her to rest and she’s unable to work. She needs to recover and receive additional healthcare these next few months. This initial GoFundMe will go to covering her rent and towards her urgent needs for on-going medical care. Right now, she literally cannot work. She can’t even go to the grocery store. She’s living in hell and she’s trying to hold herself together as best as possible.
In August of 2019, Simone fainted and got a concussion. She was diagnosed with depression, anxiety, PTSD and endometriosis. She had been having health flare ups for years and horrible periods, but medical professionals could not give her the care she needed. A very common experience for so many women with endometriosis.
Her health care was interrupted by the pandemic in 2020 and she still has to wait long periods for therapy that she can afford and has had multiple hospital visits in the past four years due to chronic pain. This has greatly impacted her mental health. And her hospital visits have left her in tears as no one offers her any support and dismisses her pain. A very common experience for so many Black women seeking medical care in the US.
From 2020 to 2021, she was having endometriosis flare ups and was experiencing homelessness and displacement. If you know Simone you know she doesn’t like asking for help. And right now she needs it. So please…let her community come together to help her pay her rent and her medical bills so that we can keep her housing & keep her alive.
Simone has been the human who has been there beside me – for every season of my life – since the day we met her first day at Fulton. Just like when we were teenagers and she lived next door, her room was one I could always escape to. When I was pregnant, she was one of the only people in my life who knew whose apartment in Brooklyn I could travel to and break down. She is Naz’s godmama, and has been there Every. Damn. Step. of our journey… a journey I would have been lost on so many times without her.
If you know Simone – and she put that smile on your face? Please let her know how much is loved, even if it’s been decades since you’ve seen her.
If you don’t know Simone? Please understand how singular this human being is– not just to me, but to this world… to every community she graces. Every single human deserves health care, deserves to be able to afford taking time off for one’s health — but so few are given this capacity without wide-community support to achieve it. Please be that community here– Simone needs us, and she deserves all the villages she raised herself through.
Organizer and beneficiary
Sofi Shank
Organizer
Minneapolis, MN
Simone Jennings
Beneficiary