Three weeks ago, I suffered Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss with 0% word recognition in my right ear, along with severe vertigo, dizziness, and tinnitus. I had just started a new job and was a month away from qualifying for excellent benefits, including health insurance and short-term disability. Now, unable to work or drive, I am in a race against time to undergo treatments that could restore enough hearing to be helped by a hearing aid or cochlear implant. With only three weeks left before cochlear hairs die, the urgency is overwhelming.

These funds will go towards my immediate medical treatments and living expenses while I am unable to work. This could not have come at a worse time. After many months and tens of thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket expenses for holistic breast cancer treatments that insurance didn't cover, it is crushing to be facing this without health insurance. Craig has been interviewing for a new position for several months, and while he's been consulting in the meantime, it is not enough to cover our basic expenses—something we were relying on my income for. It will be months before I can work again, if ever.

Friends and family, I have never been so scared and in so much need. It's humbling and difficult to ask for this help, but after days of praying for answers and a way forward, I'm not sure what else to do. I love you and appreciate you deeply.