Make A Miracle for A Single Mom

Let's Make A Miracle for a Single Mom With A Chronically Ill Child with a Life Threatening Condition

Picture this:

You are a single mother. Your ex lives overseas, and provides no financial support for your children. And yet, for many years, you survive and thrive. You take out loans and put yourself through school. You land a great corporate job and successfully juggle work, kids, and one of your child's rare but manageable medical condition. Thanks to your thrifty nature and great money management skills, you even manage to put away a decent emergency fund, just-in-case.

And then, suddenly, everything changes.

Your company gets bought out and you get laid off.

At the same time, your son’s medical condition, which was manageable with severe but infrequent “flare-ups” every few years -- goes from acute to chronic. Suddenly, you’re frequently in “crisis mode”, having to run to Sick Kids Hospital at a moment’s notice.  

Uncontrollable and unstoppable bleeding and infections are becoming more frequent. 

Over the next two and half years, late-night Emergency Room trips, sometimes via ambulance leading from multiple days to a week's worth of admissions with transfusions and multiple other treatments, have gone from once every few years, then to twice a month, and now can be weekly. 

Even when you are at home, you can’t relax. You feel for your second child, who you hate to trek around like a backpack at a moment’s notice for her brother, not knowing what fear and anxiety she has had to endure through all of this. But you can’t pay attention to your second, because you are  coordinating clinic appointments, follow-ups, blood tests, treatments, transfusions and surgeries with six different departments at Sick Kids. You’re always on guard, always looking for signs of the next spontaneous bleed, or other life-threatening symptoms that may crop up at any moment.

And, even though you would desperately need to go back to work and would love the break from the life of living in perpetual survival mode — it simply isn’t possible. You are a full-time caregiver for your son. No job would possibly allow you to take time off for necessary medical appointments at five different departments and repeatedly drop everything at a moment’s notice.

Slowly, despite your best efforts, the nest egg that you saved dwindles until is it is completely gone. You seek out help from family members and from community services, knowing that it is never enough. Your credit cards are putting food on the table and paying for hospital parking fees, food for you and your daughter while you wait, and paying for care to watch your son when you can’t. Everyday becomes a struggle. You feel hopeless. Who wouldn’t?

On top of it all, Purim, Passover and more surgeries are on the horizon.  Holidays are a joy, and yet you worry about covering the basic costs. It  feels like another source of unrelenting stress due to the two and half years of your so-called life.

And preparing for nerve-wracking surgeries, on top of everything else...You watch yourself go deeper into debt & slowly slip into depression...

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This is my dearest friend’s struggle. I have watched her go through this, helping as much as I could. But, I can’t watch it anymore. I, alone, cannot make a dent in alleviating her problems.

So I am asking my friends to join me in this Fundraising Campaign for her.

If you even feel a little for this amazing woman, please give what you can.

With Purim & Passover Coming, please help give this worthy lady the Miracle she deserves.