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Please help me save my wife... by Tygerwolfe

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Everyone...this is a really hard post to make. I think this emergency situation warents posting to Facebook and everywhere else. I apologize for spam.

Last night, my wife woke me up around 4am because she was suddenly hit with vertigo so bad that she couldn't stand up. This lead into both of our worst nightmares - another TIA.

I was with my wife for several hours as she had her 18th TIA in 3 years because she hadn't been taking her meds on time because she was afraid of running out.

I got her through it and it never became a full stroke, but now she's utterly exhausted. And God, am I scared... I got her to take one of my prescription strength naproxen sodium to take down the swelling in her brain once we realized what was going on and she admitted that she'd gone over a day without meds because she only had enough left for one day and I didn't have the money to get her more.

This is terrifying and reminds me just how fragile our situation is... Now her recovery clock is set back another six months while I wait to see if she'll remember the numbers five and six, and the letters P, U, V, and W, all of which she couldn't find during the event last night when we were doing the stroke check exercises, when she wakes up.

Everyone, I have nothing - no money to get her more medication, and she will be out of meds tomorrow. I'm monitoring her now to make sure she takes all doses on time. This happened after missing just one day of medication, and likely taking half doses a couple of days leading up to it.

Her medication is $100 a week. $14 a day, $98 a week + the fee for withdrawing cash from an ATM with my Paypal card.

To make matters worse, the payment for James is going to come out of my Paypal on the 14th. That's $63 that I don't have. Admittedly we won't be in danger of having him repossessed right away - I've managed to stay current on that payment since the last time we fell behind on it. But still, it's a route I don't want to go down again. The possibility of losing her cat is more stress on my wife - and stress is the primary cause of her strokes.

Please...please share this around. Please donate if you can. I don't feel entitled to people's help, I just...I have nowhere else to turn. No one is hiring me, and while I have some commissions, everything is currently paid up to date and the money is already gone for previous weeks of medication and frivolous things like food when we didn't have food stamps left.

I'm still open for commissions. I would love to have more Patrons on Patreon - that first of month influx of money is a help every month. For a link to donate via Paypal or to check out my Patreon, or even just my commission information, please click here: http://www.tygerwolfedesigns.com/commissions/

Paypal money will go straight to medication for my wife - as much as I can possibly get. GFM donations take three days to get into a bank account before I can use them, so Paypal is preferred for immediate help.

Please, everyone...I am terrified of losing my wife. Another actual stroke could kill her. And I honestly don't think I could live without her.

Thank you all for anything you can do.

Please help me save my wife...

Tygerwolfe

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    http://www.needymeds.org/PDF/Patient_Education_Booklet.pdf
    http://www.health.com/health/article/0,,20456466,00.html
    http://www.everydayhealth.com/columns/trevis-gleason-life-with-multiple-sclerosis/cant-afford-prescription-how-get-help/
    http://www.rxassist.org/

    Talk to the finance dept of your hospital, immediately contact your/her doctor, contact the DHS to see what can be done, ask the pharmacy if there's any options that can be explored, look into any local non-profits, see if any programs from a church or whatever group would be able to assist ASAP; contact the drug manufacturer for any assistance options.. These are all things I did when I had a similar issue and when I was also homeless for a month... I apologize that this is all that I can assist with.. I about unearthed my local area and whatnot when I had med issues.

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      Already done all of those - the issue is that the medication she's on can only be obtained one way - and it's the only med the doctors have found in four years that WORKS (she's been through a slew of experimental and non-experimental allopathic drugs in the process - all of which either made it worse or caused OTHER life-threatening problems, like sudden onset diabeties): medical cannabis. Which can only be obtained legally one way - via cash through licensed dispensaries.

      All the churches in our area are horribly antisemitic, and my wife is Jewish - we get turned away every time. Basically told "accept Jesus publically and we'll help you". We get food assistance through ONE local ministry, but that's it. The our only local Temple is in the toilet financially and can't help anyone, and we're already on Food Stamps - AND we're waiting for my wife's disability to be ruled on - at the moment it's up in the air and can take up to two years to go through.

      Thank you for the suggestions and interest, though. Sharing the GoFundMe is a free way you can help. Thank you again!

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        A dear friend of mine had severe epilepsy, and medical marijuana was the only thing that seemed to work out of the surgeries he had and the meds he took. The only other seizure med I have experience with is Lamictal, though I take it for a completely different reason. He actually told me that was what he had tried in the past, which is the only reason I knew what it's used for, outside of my issue.

        That's absolutely disgusting for those churches to have said that to you, and extremely against everything their religion teaches them. I'm so sorry you had to deal with such terrible people...

        I did make a journal talking about what's going on... I really hope that does something :( I apologize that I'm unable to assist any further..

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          I appreciate the signal boost. If you could share the GoFundMe to any social media (Facebook, twitter, etc) that you might have, that would be awesome, too. Thank you again!

          And yeah, medical cannabis is definitely a miracle plant in certain situations. Too bad the government (and abusers) are basically making it cost prohibitive for poor people to GET.