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Please!! NEED HELP, Surgery Cost
This is NOT a joke. I am being 100% Serious, please be respectful!
aussiexs needs your help! I'll do my best to explain what's happened below.
https://www.gofundme.com/zbyrbrp8
TL;DR: Aussie needs surgery, and insurance just told her she needs to front the 24k bill by April 20th before she can be reimbursed. If you would like to help, please consider donating to the gofundme above regardless of how little. Literally every little bit helps. 
aussiexsA verbatim quote from the gofundme page:
THIS IS URGENT! Our deadline is April 20th!
A short while ago Julia found out that she requires surgery. She's 20, works a full time job, and has run around as much as humanly possible to sort out how we can pay for the upcoming medical expense. We had 3 months to attempt coordinating insurance with the surgeon, and less than two weeks to the deadline we have been with certainty that although this surgeon deals with Julia's insurance company frequently, that they have never paid for a surgery done by this surgeon outright, and that we are expected to pay and be reimbursed.
Our hope is to raise funds for Julia's surgery so that we don't have to wait another half year or more to correct an issue that causes her pain and extreme complications every day.
Rest assured that we have attempted to gather as much as we can towards her medical costs as we can personally. Between what we both make, the bills we both need to pay that aren't related to the surgery, her travel and stay after surgery and the medical cost we have pooled together $10,000 out of the necessary $24,000. Julia has already exhausted her capacity to get a loan for the remainder, and I (her Fiancee Ryan) live outside of the USA and have also exhausted my capacity to get a loan for so much in USD.
It is not in either of our natures to ask for help with money. We both take pride in planning things in advance, in knowing our situation and the circumstances, but this process has exhausted our capacity to be prepared and left us with a very stressful ultimatum.
Any donation, however small, is extremely appreciated. Additional information:It's hard to ask for help, especially here, but with a deadline and both of our resources maxed out we've decided to at least TRY this.
The reality of this situation is that we tried SO HARD, did everything we could to our knowledge not having either dealt with insurance or a health risk so serious before, and we are still scrambling. I have been working double my usual load of work for months trying to deal with this, or a portion of it, and I still haven't been able to raise more than what we have in conjunction to our other expenses. I work HARD. And I'll work HARDER to try and make this possible.
Nobody deserves to be in pain. Nobody deserves to be told that their health can wait. And certainly with the amount I emphasize responsibility and forethought when I do talk here, I would hope some of you can empathize with how broadsided we are by the reality of having to raise 24k by April 20th (13 days away!) or... Aussie gets rescheduled, we undergo the same process with insurance and it literally changes nothing in terms of having to raise $24,000 to pay for this surgery. The only part it changes is that Aussie has to endure pain for longer.
We are reaching out to not only you guys, but our friends and family as well. Due to the extremely personal nature of the surgery we have chosen not to divulge the specific name of it. I understand COMPLETELY that not giving you guys a specific definition of what's wrong creates a cloud of doubt about the seriousness of what's going on, but as Aussie's partner I've respected her very important request in not doing so. As this is her struggle, her pain, her fear and ultimately her experience, I believe it's important to respect her amidst asking the public for help. An offer you can't refuse
I am literally willing to slave myself out to try and get this goal reached.I've just taken commissions, and my workload is busy for the next two weeks. i might open for commissions early for the two week block after that to try and help further (though that reaches a nearly unreasonably amount of waiting time in my opinion).
For those of you that DO decide to donate, I am willing to give you guys high resolution files of some of my works over the last year.
OR
For those of you that donate over 20$, I will give you a sketch. NOT a colored or shaded sketch, but a sketch.
If you're all about that incentive, you've got to be able to verify your donation. I don't have control over the gofundme account, so I'm not 100% certain if we can verify who does what, but I think you can input your name as the donator and that might be a clue.
-I expect that if you want your incentive that you contact me here, via twitter (at vallhound) or via email (vallhound@hotmail.com) PLEASE DON'T SPAM THE GOFUNDME WITH THAT.
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http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/7496218/
Boosted for ya. Alas, thats all i can do for now, i wish i could do more :C
Boosted for ya. Alas, thats all i can do for now, i wish i could do more :C
A friend of mine just passed away, and another friend set up a T-Shirt drive at www.booster.com. I'm sure you could make a custom shirt to sell as part of the fund raiser.
The U.S. actually spends more tax money on healthcare than many countries with universal healthcare, including Canada and the UK and others. People in many nations with universal healthcare are spending less in tax money on healthcare - BEFORE having to pay for their healthcare premiums, due to the amount of price gouging and inefficiencies in the US healthcare system. So you are actually paying a higher tax bill for healthcare in the US, and then on top of that, the additional bills to the private insurers. John Green has an interesting video exploring some reasons why this is here.
I'll donate $25. Is it alright if I let ya know of my name via note? (edit: or maybe I can put my username on the donation? I'll let you know if that doesn't work)
As for a sketch, just write my username down somewhere. I'll message you again when you're not busy when this clears up. I'm waiting on a new character to be drawn by someone else anyways so I'm in no rush.
As for a sketch, just write my username down somewhere. I'll message you again when you're not busy when this clears up. I'm waiting on a new character to be drawn by someone else anyways so I'm in no rush.
I'm not sure what options it gives you to pay from on Gofundme, I'm not sure if Paypal is one of them, but if you'd like to donate and paypal is easier my paypal is the same as my email, vallhound[at]hotmail.com .
FALendAHand is a good group for broadcasting that you need help, I don't have much spare money myself but I will spread the word about this. 
I do! I work with payments via paypal, so if you'd like you can donate to vallhound[at]hotmail.com =3 Thank you for asking!
Some places will actually do medical bills that you can pay over time as well dear. It is always an option. If it is life threatening this might be the best way to go. Gives you time to work and get enough money every month for these bills. The hospital legally cannot say no to a person if they are in need for help.
Holy shite you're raising quickly :D yaaay :D though the hard part is that latter half of the deal, glad you're halfway there :D but in just 4 hours you got half way :D smile and try to stay calm... we got your back :D this is a really good environment, so you've come to the right people :J hope she can have a nice recovery, and send her my best!
I can make a chill playlist if you guys would like for you guys, free of charge -3- . I mean, if you like music and stuff, I can get something together, just send me a couple of artists and stuff and I can take it from there... I'm sorta an audiophile, so I know a ton of stuff... yea :D
I can make a chill playlist if you guys would like for you guys, free of charge -3- . I mean, if you like music and stuff, I can get something together, just send me a couple of artists and stuff and I can take it from there... I'm sorta an audiophile, so I know a ton of stuff... yea :D
Because it's not an immediate emergency (she won't die if she waits a while longer, it will just continue to be varying degrees of painful) the surgery is scheduled rather than fit into the next availability, and we were given 3 months to coordinate with insurance. Insurance got back to us to this proximity and we're left with the ultimatum. So yes, crazy! We honestly thought we had it figured out and that Insurance would be so kind as to front the bill, but not so until we pay first.
Capitalism at its finest. Yeah though im not waiting on surgery or anything My doc wanted me on a stronger medicine for my chrons and insurence didnt want to do it. so they put me on a cheaper drug (which is currently not working) and we even had to fight to keep that... yeah insurance either thinks they are doctors or they are damned blood sucking greedy mosquitos.
I donated!!!
i always do my best to try to help, i only donated 20$ because i have to pay for my own medical expenses, i can go a month without my pills to help save someones life <3
https://gyazo.com/7074d428c9ec053cd4bd8d38f974abe7 (i hope thats enought proof)
i always do my best to try to help, i only donated 20$ because i have to pay for my own medical expenses, i can go a month without my pills to help save someones life <3
https://gyazo.com/7074d428c9ec053cd4bd8d38f974abe7 (i hope thats enought proof)
Hope that prayers and well wishes sent help too. Lordie welcome to pay and pray medical system where you too can spin the wheel of misery and see how much you have to shell out ;/. Bleh I can only hope you and aussie get the funds needed to get this done thanks to all the kind folks spreading the word, and I shall spread the word too being another of those poor furs *HUGS sent*.
Gaia bless and many well wishes
Pakesh_De
Snoofy old polarburr
Gaia bless and many well wishes
Pakesh_De
Snoofy old polarburr
Thank you so much for taking our cause as worthy of your investment. Your generosity helps us a ton. We'll both be giving updates when we can until the deadline, we're honestly so grateful for everyone's donation, we also want everyone to be alright financially and not over-extend to help us out. Even just a signal boost helps and we appreciate it.
I have a paypal yes, you're welcome to send a donation to vallhound[at]hotmail.com . We both appreciate that very much!
It probably won't help much, I also made a journal to spread the word... I would have done it yesterday but I was in a hurry for work. http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/7505107/
1/3'd of the way there!! I'll keep telling people about it, you guys can make it!
By the way, anyone who donates ANY amount at all get's a free horrible (but comedic) NSFW stick figure drawing of their character done same-day by me! (It's a shit gift but it's all I can give) examples VERY NSFW: http://imgur.com/a/DwnuL
By the way, anyone who donates ANY amount at all get's a free horrible (but comedic) NSFW stick figure drawing of their character done same-day by me! (It's a shit gift but it's all I can give) examples VERY NSFW: http://imgur.com/a/DwnuL
Surgery, or spending time in the hospital in general stinks! Sending my thoughts and prayers to the both of you guys hoping that your financial goals are reached, ant that the surgery happens! I will try my best to help out this weekend. But even if I can't, you guys have my best wishes!
I noticed you said it would be reimbursed later? So you have to pay it up front and then the insurance will pay it to you back? I assume that's why we're getting commissions in return.
How much would a nice color bust be? I'd happily contribute to get something like that. :)
How much would a nice color bust be? I'd happily contribute to get something like that. :)
I have an update up here: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/7505683/
But unfortunately I'm not giving away any type of artwork. Sorry!
But unfortunately I'm not giving away any type of artwork. Sorry!
I worded that improperly. Yes you can get a sketch from me if you donate over 20$, but no its not any kind of artwork to a value of your donation. That would basically be me taking commissions and as much as I'd love to be able to work twice as hard as I already do I am not mentally/physically capable of that.
There is an example of the kind of sketches I did for other contributors in my gallery.
There is an example of the kind of sketches I did for other contributors in my gallery.
I'll post something more comprehensive with our plans on what to do with the funds raised on GoFundMe, but the simplest answer is: live. She's out of work for 2 months and from May 18th to mid June I am as well, which means we both need to pay bills and rent and to cover additional things like travel and expenses while she is in another state for 10 days for her surgery.
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