Help keep them together in their happy home. (Charlie and Abby, top to bottom)
Please help our sister Kossack, snoopydawg, and her two beloved dogs, Abby and Charlie, stay in their home.
She needs to make a mortgage payment of $780 this coming Friday 3/20 to avoid triggering foreclosure.
We need your Recs, your Tips, your Republishings to special DKos groups, your Comments in Community and Open Thread diaries, your Shares, and your Donations to make this possible for her. Snoopydawg has just put up a GoFundMe page, which you can see HERE. Donations are welcome there—but she gets to keep a little more of the money you send her if you donate via PayPal.
IMPORTANT: For you FBers, we need help circulating the GoFundMe page too! If you can Share this link -- http://www.gofundme.com/... -- we would be especially grateful.
Here is snoopydawg's PayPal information: snoopydawg@earthlink.net
In two previous diaries, FloridaSNMOM (here) and I (here) reviewed snoopydawg’s predicament. Bottom line: she is permanently disabled from a workplace injury; she is awaiting an SSI determination that should go her way; she’s exhausted her savings trying to keep herself and her darling dogs safe and healthy for the past four years of unemployment. Juggling bills with no income for the past few months has meant she put food and her dogs’ medicine before her mortgage. I think many of us can understand how awful that choice is.
[Some clarification about the GoFundMe page for snoopydawg: If you do visit it, you'll see that she is asking for significantly more money there. Two reasons: first, it's a longer-term effort over there, easier to continue to push than a diary here; second, it's a much larger potential audience, with the corresponding possibility of bringing in that larger sum over time. For us here today at DKos, what's at stake is the house payment of $780, due by 3/20 to prevent foreclosure.]
snoopydawg has had a tough row to hoe for a decade now. In her words:
I bought my house in 2004. I kept working for 8 months after my injury [in 2005] until I could hardly walk and that's when my doctor took me off work since it was making me worse. Then they kept denying sending me to a surgeon for over 2 years who said that I needed surgery. Then it was back and forth to their doctors who said nothing was wrong. Then my doctor would send me to the doctor she chose who said that I needed surgery. It took over 5 years after I was injured until I had surgery. By then the damage was permanent. I was on work comp for 6 years. After I exhausted work comp and my savings, and IRA, I got a job but was let go after 6 months because I missed too many days because of my pain.
Like all of us who have to cope with disability and job loss, snoopydawg would rather be healthy and working:
I was an ophthalmic photographer and loved my job. I took photos of the veins in the back of the eye and I self taught myself to learn about ophthalmology. And I miss it.
This is what snoopydawg used to photograph when she was working. No, it's not the moon; it's the inside of a human eye.
A universe within
Speaking of photos and eyes, let's have some more eye candy so you can get a better view of those who are important to snoopydawg.
First, there's Abby, her lab, who clearly loves the water:
In her favorite element!
And then there is Charlie, her sweet beagle, who feels rather differently about water:
Why won't Abby get out of there? she wonders.
snoopydawg's wonderful Aunt Kay with a couple of pups
Besides her dogs, snoopydawg has few people to count on in her life. The one reliable relative she has is her aunt Kay, who does what she can to help out her niece.
I sincerely hope we can help snoopydawg out with this short-term pressing goal. She is close to stabilizing her situation, but she is not there quite yet. If we can get her some breathing room right now, then she can work on meeting the fundraising goal she set at the GoFundMe page. But that’s a campaign for another day—unless we have some very generous donors!
We thank you all very, very much for whatever you can do to help. If you can't donate yourself, you can still help spread the word! (For that matter, if you CAN donate, then sharing that information is even more powerful. ;) Every rec, tip, tweet, share, and donation makes a difference.
Here is snoopydawg's PayPal information: snoopydawg@earthlink.net
Here is the link to snoopydawg's GoFundMe page -- http://www.gofundme.com/... -- for which every FB share will be a huge help too.
Please Kosmail me for snoopydawg's name and snailmail address if you prefer to send her a check or money order.
Kossacks are the best! Please help snoopydawg stay in her house with her beloved dogs, Abby and Charlie.
UPDATE 4:12 PM EDT: THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HELPED TODAY!! Snoopydawg just told me that the goal HAS BEEN MET. YOU are the BEST!! ::Mwah:: to you all!