Sara R is a DKos angel. She's the creator, cheerleader, heart and soul of the Community Quilt project: with our support she and her sister have sewn the loving and encouraging words of this community into 48 quilts - with more currently in the works.
She's also unemployed, uninsured, ill and in need of surgery. It's time for this community to give back to Sara R. More below the fold.
Link to Sara R's Paypal account.
Quilt inspector Betty checks out the Community Quilt for Mango
Donation challenge (updated)
trs and I will donate 50 cents for each diary Rec and $1 for each unique donor in the next 24 hours. More user donation challenges below!
Donation challenge updates: Betty Pinson, Oke and tnichlsn will also donate $1 for each donor.
I've spoken to Sara R several times through this process, as she has knocked on every possible door looking for help. Yesterday Sara received the final word: because she owns a home with her sister, her assets are too high to qualify for medical assistance despite her unemployment and low income.
Community Quilts for Granny Doc (left) and Zentrainer (right)
Link to Sara R's Paypal account.
This situation makes me angry, too angry for coherent words. Before I go off into a rant about the state of health care in our nation, where someone like Sara R is left curled up in pain and unable to get the most basic medical care, let me turn the floor over to Nurse Kelley:
Dear iriti,
Sara R has been ill for more than a year.
She has no health insurance.
She receives no state aid.
She is unemployed and unemployable because of her health, yet she doesn’t qualify for disability because her disability will likely disappear after she has surgery ... which she can’t get, because she has no health insurance.
Pause while Nurse Kelley bangs her head against the wall
Sara and I are "real life" friends. We talk on the phone almost daily. In the last several weeks I’ve seen her health get worse and worse, leaving her curled on her bed in pain for days at a time.
What is this terrible illness? It’s not so terrible, not if you can get it taken care of. Our Sara has gallbladder disease. She needs surgery, an operation called a cholecystectomy, and I mean for her to have it. I got Sara to look at her problem as two individual problems – health and money – and I persuaded her to attack the health problem first, because an inflamed gallbladder is an emergency.
Sara’s charges for the tests the surgeon wanted – an ultrasound of her gallbladder and a colonoscopy – may be covered by a local angel. She is scheduled to have surgery on February 18 and is expected to prepay both the surgeon and hospital at least 50% of the cost.
So, iriti, Sara did as I asked and is ready to have her surgery and resume her active, loving, giving life. Let’s see what we can do about the money problem, shall we?
Love,
Kelley
Community Quilts for Dr. William Harrison (left) and exmearden (right)
Please help. Sara R has provided comfort to so many ailing Kossacks - she doesn't deserve to suffer because our health care system is broken. No donation is too small, and of course no donation is too large.
Link to Sara R's Paypal account.
Community Quilts for rserven (left) and Riverlover (right)