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 I was diagnosed with Long COVID in August 2021 and dysautonomia in January 2022. I have been disabled for over four years with no income. I have lost basically everything.
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 I previously had a dental fundraiser where I raised about half of what I needed to cover the cost of my emergency root canal. I still have to pay off the remaining balance before I can get the second root canal that I need. (This doesn’t include the bills and expenses that have accumulated over the past four years.)
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 Most Long COVID patients have at least one source of financial support. Unfortunately, I do not.
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 I have virtually no access to specialized healthcare. I have had no MRI, no MRA, and only one CT scan in the emergency room, which provided no answers. A family friend paid out of pocket for a transcranial Doppler (TCD) study, but they are no longer able to financially support me.
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 Before becoming ill, I developed strong scientific research and pattern recognition skills, and I have used those abilities to help educate and advocate for the Long COVID community despite my own illness.
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 Any donation, no matter the amount, will help me pay for essential medical care, dental treatment, and basic living expenses while I continue waiting for disability benefits.
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 Thank you for taking the time to read my story. Your support, prayers, donations, and sharing this fundraiser mean more than I can express.
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Support for Long Covid Patient with No Income

<div>Hi everyone, I'm Hana! And I'm putting this fundraiser together for my dear friend Akari.
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<div>We met in 2021 working in the service industry, and over the years have become best friends and each other's support system. Long Covid is a complex and multi-symptom disease that has severely impacted Akari’s capacity to support herself financially, and has affected her ability to live life fully. I have watched her live with debilitating fatigue for over two years, and I’m here to help gather financial support so she can take time off work to rest and fully recover.
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<div>Akari was once extremely active, and an important contributor to the local bay area food and wine community. This all came to a halt in 2023, with only small, improvements since then. A common side-effect of Akari’s Long Covid is severe multi-day crashes from overexerting herself - this looks like a struggle to even get out of bed or even feed herself.
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<div>As many of us in the service industry know - our work is physically demanding, and this has forced Akari to significantly cut back her work hours, completely change the way she socializes, and to fully stop engaging in activities that used to bring her joy and a sense of self in order to avoid/reduce the severity and frequency of her crashes.
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<div>Over the last 2+ years, Akari has spent most of her savings in order to seek treatment and to account for working less hours due to her chronic fatigue. I'm asking for her community to help her during this time, so she can pause work and focus on healing.
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<div>Any amount helps &lt;3. Sharing the page helps just as much, especially with anyone in the long covid community who might recognize her experience. Thank you for reading, and for caring about Akari!
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Help Akari Recover from Long COVID

<div>Hi, I’m Shelley (Michelle). I’m a professional artist, teaching artist, and intuitive. I'm passionate about creating space for folks to connect to themselves, their intuition, and their innate creativity, but mostly I love helping others to see their own significance, to create, to heal. I created a professional life I loved, working with folks of all ages, teaching intuitive art classes through multiple organizations, and offering healing intuitive sessions with individual clients.
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<div>In October 2025, my life changed dramatically when I became sick with COVID for the first time and didn’t recover. What followed has been many months of Long COVID. More recently, I was also diagnosed with ME/CFS, a debilitating illness related to Long COVID. These illnesses have significantly limited both my physical and cognitive capacity and have left me unable to work since October. Before becoming sick, I had been supporting myself through my work as a teaching artist and through my own intuitive practice. Having my ability to create, teach, connect, and work suddenly taken away has changed nearly every aspect of my life.
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<div>One development I am incredibly grateful for is that, after several months of my primary care provider trying to get me in, I have been accepted into both the Long COVID and ME/CFS programs at Stanford and have an appointment in September. Having the opportunity to finally be evaluated by specialists who work specifically with these illnesses gives me hope.
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<div>My state disability (short term disability) are ending next week. I began the process of applying for Social Security Disability (long term disability) in early spring, but I later learned that the process is extremely unpredictable and can take up to a year or more. That leaves me facing a potentially significant period without the disability income I have been relying on to live.
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<div>I am doing everything I can, within the limitations of my illness, to find a way through this period. Because my cognitive capacity is limited, I’ve used AI to help me search for financial resources and have reached out to organizations for assistance. I’ve found a couple of grants that I’m working on applying for as my capacity allows, and I was also extremely fortunate to receive a $1,000 grant from the AMMES Foundation, for which I am deeply grateful. After months of searching, however, that is the only financial assistance I have been able to receive so far. There are very few resources available for people trying to survive this gap between short-term disability ending and long-term disability potentially beginning.
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<div>So I am doing something that is not easy for me: I am asking for support. Donations will help keep me afloat while I wait for long term disability and cover basic living necessities such as:
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<div>Every contribution, no matter the amount, will make a meaningful difference. If you aren’t able to donate, sharing this fundraiser with friends, family, your community, or on social media is also an enormous help.
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<div>I am hopeful. As an artist and spiritual person, I have returned again and again to the symbol of the phoenix. Years ago, during another extremely challenging period of my life when my father was terminally ill, I created a painting of a phoenix rising from the ashes, strong, alive, and steadfast. For me, that image has always carried the message that even through extreme challenge, we can still rise.
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<div>Right now, I am doing my best to stay afloat long enough to give my body the time and care it needs, access specialized medical care, and continue hoping for more healing and life on the other side of this. Thank you for reading my story, for sharing it, and, if you are able, for helping me through this incredibly difficult time.
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<div>With gratitude, Shelley (Michelle)
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<div><a href="https://wickedpainty.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><a href="https://wickedpainty.com/" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://wickedpainty.com/</a></a>
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<div><a href="https://shelleychamplin.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><a href="https://shelleychamplin.com/" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://shelleychamplin.com/</a></a>
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Help Shelley Stay Afloat With Long COVID

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Rachel's Journey to Healthcare Treatment

<div>Hi everyone, I’m sharing this on behalf of my friend who could really use some support right now.


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<div>They don’t usually ask for help, but their health has taken a difficult turn. Their Tarlov cyst disease has progressed, and recently their back locked up while they were trying to work to cover medical expenses. 


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<div>While doing advocacy work, a chiropractor recommended shockwave therapy and EMTT (Electromagnetic Transduction Therapy) as treatments that could potentially help relieve some of their pain and improve function. They’ve been offered 3 sessions at $250 each, totaling $750.


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<div>If you’re able to donate, share, or even just send encouragement, it would truly mean so much. Every bit helps them move closer to getting the care they need and continuing their advocacy despite these setbacks.


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Help a Disabled Long COVID Patient Access

<div>I am going on five years of living with long covid, and it has changed every part of my life. For the first year, I was on disability, but now I work full time despite significant debilitation. Many of my medications are not covered, and the cost of my care is astronomical. For example, a single session of OT/PT has a high copay for tier 1 in-network, and I had to go once a week for years. I have had to buy many disability tools and appliances just to get by. There are days where I skip meals to save money, and I have cashed out my retirement, but it’s still not enough. I am so close to filing for bankruptcy. Because I have post exertional malaise, I can’t pick up shifts to make extra money. When I am flared up, I often have to use FMLA, and much of that is not paid or I lose my PTO. I don’t need OT/PT anymore, but I have so many plans for medical bills I’m paying over time. I have truly done everything I can—downsized my apartment, canceled so many things, and haven’t been on vacation in almost three years. My long covid is severe, and I have POTS, dysautonomia, post exertional malaise, and other complications because of it. 
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<div> My total debt from long covid is overwhelming, and I am at risk of bankruptcy if I can't raise enough to cover the most urgent bills. The amount I am asking for is the minimum I need to avoid bankruptcy, but anything raised above that will help with other urgent expenses, like ongoing medical treatments, hair loss treatments, and medications that aren’t covered by insurance. I have done everything I can to manage, but I am at a breaking point. 
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Help Me Avoid Bankruptcy Due to Long COVID

<div>Hi everyone. I’m Amira, a Palestinian-American community organizer. For the past 15 years, my life and work have been rooted in fighting for justice, care, and collective liberation in my communities.
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<div>Since May 2023, I’ve been living with <strong>Long COVID, a chronic, full-body illness </strong>that has deeply reshaped my daily life. I experience severe fatigue, brain fog, pain, immune system and nervous system dysfunction, with symptoms that fluctuate day to day and can be triggered by exertion. At my worst, even basic things like cooking, showering, or walking short distances left me completely wiped out for long stretches of time. It’s been a long, humbling, and often isolating experience.
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<div>Like many people with Long COVID, I’ve also faced disbelief and real barriers to care, which has made getting consistent treatment and support much harder than it should be.
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<div>Over the past several months, I’ve been part of a Long COVID clinical trial receiving IVIG treatment. <strong>Progress has been slow, but with this and many other treatments, I’ve reached a place of greater stability and increased functionality.</strong> My health is still unpredictable, and I continue to live with an invisible disability, but I’m actively working to rebuild my life and prepare to return to work as my body allows.
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<div><strong>Being unable to work consistently for the past two years has created significant and ongoing financial strain.</strong> Medical expenses, living costs, and rent have continued to pile up, and much of this has gone onto credit cards while I’ve focused on staying afloat and pursuing care.
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<div>Sharing this is vulnerable and not easy, but I know that recovery from chronic illness takes community. If you’re able to support or share, I’m deeply grateful. And if not, thank you for taking the time to read and for holding me with care.
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Support a Palestinian organizer's recovery from Long COVID

<div>Being sick is EXPENSIVE!
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<div>These funds that have been raised have covered numerous care fees (check update for details) but the needs are ongoing.
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<div>The money that i make from working can either pay for *some* medical expenses for me, pay for *some* medical expenses for my daughter, or pay to keep a roof over mine and my child’s head - it can’t do all three. And my ability to even work at all is becoming more and more impossible daily.
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<div>My goal right now is merely to not die and remain somewhat functional for as long as I possibly can because I do not know what the future holds for my child or how she will need me as she ages. And in order for me to do that I have to keep pushing with my own medical care.
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Support a Black single mom with Long Covid

<div><strong>Daryna is a 29-year-old woman with very severe ME/CFS, Myasthenia Gravis (MG), and multiple other comorbidities. After years of enduring both her illnesses and the war in Ukraine, she has evacuated to Berlin, Germany, but she remains bedbound, entirely dependent on hired caregivers for daily survival, and in urgent need of ongoing support while she works to secure stable medical care in a new country.</strong>
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<div>We are asking for your ongoing support to cover Daryna's rent, caregiving, and medical costs for MG and ME/CFS.
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<div><strong>Donations go directly toward Daryna's essential daily needs: rent, the caregivers she cannot survive without, food, medicine, and doctor's appointments.</strong>
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<div><strong>Her story so far</strong>
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<div>Daryna first began experiencing symptoms in late summer 2021. After three years of endless doctor visits, tests, and misdiagnoses, she was diagnosed with both MG and ME/CFS in late 2024, with other suspected comorbidities. In addition to ME/CFS and MG, she lives with immune deficiency (chronic EBV reactivations and susceptibility to infections), autonomic dysfunction (POTS), mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS), secondary adrenal insufficiency, a combination of conditions that each worsen the others.
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<div>While she was still in Ukraine, her condition deteriorated due to lack of specialized care, ongoing war stress, housing and financial instability, and an inability to access proper treatment. <strong>Despite objective test results confirming her diagnoses</strong>, both her MG and ME/CFS were heavily psychologized by doctors there, who treated her as though her illnesses weren’t real. That medical neglect nearly killed her: in May, Daryna suffered a myasthenic crisis, a critical MG exacerbation that stops a person from breathing, and was hospitalized on oxygen, IV fluids, and glucose, narrowly avoiding tube feeding. <strong>She was discharged while still in crisis. It was this discharge that prompted an urgent medical evacuation to Germany.</strong>
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<div>The crisis also caused her ME/CFS to progress from severe to profound. It has since come back down to very severe, but she remains bedbound and unable to eat or use the toilet without help.
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<div>About two months ago, with the help of this community, Daryna was able to arrange medical transport to Berlin. She has since found an apartment, hired local caregiving, and is in the process of registering as a refugee, a process that takes time and has not yet been completed. A doctor in Berlin has confirmed her diagnoses, and Germany's public health system has more resources and understanding of both ME/CFS and MG than she had access to in Ukraine.
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<div>But please don't mistake this progress for stability. <strong>Daryna is currently in the worst physical state of her life</strong>. She has no income of her own and does not receive any government support. <strong>She is navigating a new country, a new healthcare system, and an overwhelming amount of logistics almost entirely alone, while bedbound, with no family nearby.</strong> A caregiver comes daily to prepare her food, feed her, help her with toileting and hygiene, and manage laundry and medications; without this support, she cannot survive.
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<div>ME/CFS and MG are chronic; they don't go away, though they can sometimes be managed with the right care. Daryna has a long road ahead of her, and right now, that road depends entirely on this fund. <strong>Without continued support, she will have no choice but to return to Ukraine. </strong>
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<div>Your donations cover: rent, daily caregiving, food, medications, and doctor's visits, totaling approximately $4,733/month. None of these costs are currently covered by government assistance. A full breakdown of monthly expenses is below.
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<div>If you can donate any amount, even $5, it will go a long way. Please consider a monthly recurring donation; it provides not just financial support, but some predictability in an otherwise very unstable situation.
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<div>This fundraiser is organized by Sarah, a close friend of Daryna's, along with co-organizer Jon. We are committed to full transparency about how funds are used, and to updating this page as Daryna's situation evolves.
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<div>Thank you for your support.
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<div><strong><em>If you’re unable to donate, please consider liking and sharing this fundraiser.</em></strong>
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<div>Hi, I'm Sarah. Daryna and I are friends, former roommates, and former colleagues from when we both lived in Denmark. We met while working at Lenus eHealth in Copenhagen in 2022. We quickly became friends, which is easy to do when you both like similar music, thrifting, cooking, and trying to make a new PR. Daryna also moved into my flat and we became roommates before she moved back to Ukraine. We had some hyggeligt times together in our small unit! I have since also moved from Denmark to the US. I created this GoFundMe to help Daryna cover her medical needs.
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<div>All funds donated to this GoFundMe are transferred to me, Sarah Payne, and as soon as any of those transfers are completed, I directly transfer the money to Daryna through PayPal. I regularly audit my bank account to make sure I don't accidentally miss any payments. Daryna really needs the funds. As mentioned above, funds are used for her direct medical care, caregiving, rent, and food.
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Completely Bedbound: Help Daryna Survive MECFS & MG

Clean Air Club

<div>Hello! We are <a href="https://cleanairclub.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clean Air Club</a>,  an organization dedicated to providing cleaner air for Chicago artists and organizers. For the past two years, our entirely volunteer-run, scrappy organization has provided free purifiers and Covid-safety gear to thousands of people around the city; purified the air on tours across North America and Europe; and redistributed resources to people with Long Covid. We're so proud of the work we've done!

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<div>At this point,<strong> the operational needs of our lending library have outgrown what our volunteers can do in their free time</strong>. Logistics issues are getting stuck, purifiers are not getting handed off efficiently, and our back-end system needs some fine tuning, despite our best efforts!

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<div><strong>This is why we need you</strong>: we are fundraising so we can pay someone who knows our system to solve these problems, restore efficiency to our operations, and improve the purifier handoff system for all of our borrowers. As Clean Air Club has grown, we have had to pivot internal strategies many times, and this is no different. We are hoping that fairly compensating someone to do this work, first on a trial basis and then hopefully on a recurring basis, will be exactly what the lending library needs to thrive in its third year. 

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<div>Thank you for all of your support! As always, all of our past financial reports are available on our <a href="https://www.instagram.com/clean.air.club/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">social media</a>, in which we disclose all expenditures and donations that you generously donate to us. We are committed to radical transparency! 

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<div>Thank you for helping us in this next chapter! 

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