Suzanne Finn – Uganda Medical Clinic Build

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    raised of $1,000.00 goal goal
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10/4/12 update:  Friends & Family - I am humbled by your generosity and spirit.  Thank you!

 

My Story:

I have been trying to fix the world for as long as I can remember. Since Hurricane Katrina, my volunteer efforts have been focused in New Orleans, working at a free medical clinic and fixing houses -- roofing, painting, cleaning, window installation ... Each adventure and project helped change peoples' lives and led to developing lifelong friends. So now I turn my focus to Africa, where I will be part of a 10-person volunteer team that will assist in the construction of a medical clinic that was started earlier this year by other volunteers.

Global Volunteer Network, in conjunction with The Real Uganda, is coordinating the building of medical clinic at the Hope for Africa Children's Village in Mukono Uganda. This medical clinic is badly needed in the village and will serve the students, teachers and community members. There is a desire to add a maternity room soon so the women of the village can be encouraged to deliver their babies at the clinic instead of at home. This will help decrease infant and maternal mortality.

Each volunteer working on this project is required to raise money for the build. I am asking my friends and family to help out this project and donate if you can. What I promise in return is an amazing experience and story and perhaps a picture or two of an elephant. Best of all, a small community in Mukono Uganda with be forever changed because of you!

Thank you.

Love & Peace

Suzy

 

 

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  • MD TANVIR HIDER
  • Posted On Oct 26, 2018
  • Hello everyone, Please, help for my campaign....... I needed your help. Humanity still alive. God bless us all.

  • Hope4meplease
  • Posted On Jul 26, 2015
  • My name is ..JANET ANDERSON, YOU HAVE GIVEN ME A WHOLE DIFFERENT WAY OF LOOKING AT FUNDRAISING...I AM SO INSPIRED BY YOUR SELFLESS ACTIONS...YOU HAVE NO IDEA,HOW LONG I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS TO ALOT OF QUESTION I HAD AND HAVE, I WOULD BE SO HONORED TO COMMUNICATE WITH YOU....THIS HAS BEEN A DREAM OF MINE ,AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER, TO LEARN THE ROPES, SO I CAN DO WHAT YOU DO...I HAVE NEVER GIVEN UP HOPE...I KNEW IF I KEPT SEARCCCCHING I WOULD EVENTUALLY7 COME UPON SOMEONE ,SUCH AS YOURSELF...I HAVE SO MUCH TO LEARN, I BELIEVE I CAN LEARN MUCH WISDOM,FROM YOU!!!!!! I HAVE GREAT RESPECT FOR YOUR HUMBLE WAYS...I COULDNOT EVEN BEGIN TO HOPE TO HAVE SUCH A HUMBLE LIFE AS YOU DO...I BELIEVE THAT GOD HAS INSTILLED THESE CAPIBILITIES IN ALL HUMAMS... SO, MANY JUST IGNORE IT.... I HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN ,THIS IS MY LIFE, HELPING OTHER PEOPLE, I HAVE BEEN HELPING PEOPLE ALL MY LIFE, BUT NEVER ACCOMPLISHED EVEN A FOURTH OF WHAT YOU HAVE!!!! I HAVE SO MUCH RESPECT FOR YOU, I BELIEVE I CAN LEARN ALOT FROM YOU, AND YOUR SELFLESS ACTIONS, I WANT THIS, I AM GOPING AFTER IT....THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE IN NEED, AND NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE LIKE YOU.....I WOULD BE HONORED IF YOU WOULD COMMUNICATE WITH ME, SO, THAT I MAY LEARN FROM YOU!!!! WILL, YOU THINK ABOUT IT, AND CONTACT ME???PLEASE!!!!! I HAVE BUT ONE THING HINDERING ME, FROM JUMPING FEET FIRST INTO THIS......I HAVE BEEN SICK FOR A VERY LONG TIME, I DONT LIKE USING THESE WORDS, BUT I AM INDEED HINDERED AT THIS TIME....I WAS STARTING TO HEAL, FROM MUCH OF MY ILLNESSES...AND OF COURSE ,THE STORY OF MY LIFE, GET ONE THING UNDER CONTROLL AND ALONG COMES SOMETHING ELSE, ALWAYS VERY TRAMATIC, ALWAYS A FIGHT TO OVERCOME....I HAVE CHEATED DEATH 3X...... BUT, I DONOT LIKE USING THOSE WORDS, I TRULY BELIEVE THAT EVERYTHING, STARTING WITH MY CHILDHOOD, HAVE BEEN LESSON, LESSON FROM GOD, TO PREPARE ME FOR THIS MOMENT, I GUESS YOU COULD SAY,THE SCHOOL OF GODS UNIVERSE....I HAD TO EXPERIENCE EVERYTHING THAT I HAVE IN MY LIFE, IN ORDER TO DO THE LIGHTWORK GOD HAS PREPARING ME FOR DOING GODS WORK!!! EVERTHING HAS BEEN PREPARING ME !!!! SO, I COULD RELATE TO PEOPLE IN NEED , IN ALL DIFFERENT SITUATIONS, SO, I COULD CNNECT WITH PEOPLE ,AND KNOW WHAT THOSE PEOPLE,WAITING FOR ME IN NEED.....AND LET ME TELL YOU I HAVE A FULLFILLED LIFE OF TRAGIDTY...YOU PROBLY WILL HAVE A HARD TIME BELIEVING ALL THE THINGS I HAVE BEEN THRU, AND I AM ONLY 52 YEARS OLD{YOUNG}...I SOMETIMES CANNOT BELIEVE WHAT I HAVE BEEN THRU,,,TRUST ME PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TELLING ME FOR YEARS I SHOULD WRITE A BOOK....THAT ISNOT MY INTEREST,MANY PEOPLE WHO ARE IN NEED OF HELP, JUST NEED THAT STEPPING STONE....MOST HAVE MUCH TO GIVE BACK TO THE WORLD, THEY JUST NEED THAT BREAK OF GETTING HELP,A SECOND CHANCE, OR AS I PREFERR TO SAY, GRADUATE, AND START DOING GODS WORK, I KNOW OF SOMEONE RIGHT NOW, A HUMBLE MAN....FULL OF INTEGRETY,A VRY SELFLESS MAN, A MAN WHO STRAVES ,SO THE CHILDREN IN THE VILLAGE MAY EAT,OR LET THEM HAVE THE CLEAN WATER, AND HE DOES WITHOUT....THIS IS A MAN OF GOD!!!!! NO, QUESTION IN MY MIND WHAT SO EVER, BUT IF HE DOESNOT GET HELP SOON, HE COULD EXPIRE,THEN WHO WOULD STEP UP, TO DO WHAT HEHAS BEEN DOING, I AM SO AFRAID FOR THE CHILDERN, AND THE PEOPLE IN THIS VILLAGE, WHAT IS TO COME OF THEM IF HE ISNOT THERE TRO TAKE CARE OF THEM??????? I AM AT A STANDSTILL, AT THIS POINT, I AM CAMPAIGNING, ON, GOGETFUNDING....I AM IN NEED OF ORAL SURGRY ASAP, I NEEDED THAT SURGRY MONTHS AGO, I WENT THRU EVERY AVENUE I COULD FIND,BEFORE I TURNED TO GOGETFUNDING FOR HELP.....I HAVE BEEN DISABLED SICE 2000, IS ACTUALLY WHEN I STARTED GETTING SO SICK, I HAD TO STOP WORKING AND FIGHT FOR MY LIFE, I HAVE BEEN THROUGH LIVER TREATMENT 3X, THE LAST TIME, WAS 2006, I WAS GOING THROUGH TREATMENT FOR MY LIVER, AND CROHNS DISEASE, THOSE WERE AT THE TIME MY MOST SERIOUS DIAGNOIS, I WAS ABOUT HALVE WAY THROUGH THE TREATMENT, I MENTIONED I HAD BEEN THROUGH THIS TREATMENT 2 OTHER VTIMES...ALMOST BACK TO BACK,I WANTED TO DIE THE TREATMENT , BACK THEN WAS VERY HARSH AND LIFE THREATENING, BUT WITHOUT IT I WOULD OF SURELY DIED, HALVE WAY THRU ,I STARTED GETTING THESE TERRIBLE MIGRANES, TO CUT TO THE CHASE, I WAS SO SICK THEY PLACED ME IN A NURSING HOME,BECAUSE I HAD NOONE TO HELP ME, I WAS GOING IT ALONE, AS I HAD THE FIRST TWO TIMES...THE MIGRANES, TURNED INTO, A HORRIFIC EXPERIENCE, I WAS ON THE THRONE AND PUKING INTO A BUCKET AT THE SAMETIME FOR MANY DAYS, IT GOT TO THE POINT ,THAT I KNEW THIS WASNOT LIKE THE TREATMENTS BEFORE,SOMETHING WAS TERRIBLY WRONG, I WAS REFUSING TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL, IN FEAR THAT THEY WOULD STOP THE TREATMENT, BUT IT BECAME UNBEARABLE, I COULDNOT MOVE MY HEAD NOT EVEN A FORTH OF A INCH....IT FELT LIKE SOMEONE WAS TAKING A SLEGDE HAMMER TO MY SKULL....I FINALLY AGREED TO GO TO THE HOSITAL,AND WHEN I GOT THERE THEY HAD NO IDEA WHAT WAS CAUSING THIS, MANY TEST WERE RAN, THEY CAME UP WITH NOTHING...THEY EVEN TOOK IN CONSIDER THAT IT WAS SPINAL MENOJAUNTICE,,,,THAT WAS NOT IT, AFTER THE TEST RESULTS CAME BACK,(THE TEST FOR SPINAL MENOJAUNTICE ISNOT PLEASANT, I WAS SO SICK, I WAS DYING...FINALLY THE BLOOD TEST CAME BACK, MY PLATELETS HAD DROPPED TO PRACTICLY NOTHING, I NEEDED A BLOOD TRANSFUSHION, BUT, AS IT ALWAYS HAPPENS,MORE DRAMA, I HAVE A RARE BLOOD TYPE, AND I WAS AT A VERY PROMINET HOSPITAL, A TEACHING HOSPITAL, ST,LOUIS, UNIVERSITY, SO THEY STARTED A SEARCH FOR MY BLOOD TYPE, THEY DIDNOT HAVE IT THERE, I LAYED IN AGONY FOR TWO DAYS, ALMOST DEAD,ALONE,NOONE THERE TO HELP COMFORT ME, NO MORAL SUPPORT ,EXCEPT FROM THE NURSES AND DOCTORS, I WAS NONE, HAD NONE I PRAYED THAT GOD HELP ME FORGIVE THE PEOPLE THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE,MY FAMILY,THEY WERE CALLED, BUT NOONE CAME, AFTER TWO DAYS, OF MUCH PRAYER AND WELCOMED COMFORTR FROM PEOPLE I DIDNOT KNOW, MY BLOOD TYPE WAS LOCATED IN EASTERN MO. THEY HELECOPTERED MY BLOOD IN, HOOKED ME UP, AND THATS THE LAST THING I REMEMBER....UNTIL ABOUT 3 DAYS HAD PASSED, I WOKE UP,ALONE IN THE ICU UNITE,ATTACHED TO A BIG BAG OF BLOOD, THE NURSE TOLD ME SOON THEY WOULD BE HANGING THE THIRD UNIT OF BLOOD, I FELT LIKE I WASNT REALLY THERE, I WASNOT OUT OF THE WOODS YET,IT TOOK FIVE UNITS OF BLOOD TO BRING ME BACK, I REMEMBER ASKING GOD TO BRING ME THROUGH THIS, AND I WOULD DO EVERYTHING, IN A DIFFERENT WAY, BEING ALL ALONE THROUGH THAT EXPERIENCE, CHANGED ME, IT CHANGED MY GOALS IN LIFE, I HAD ALWAYS WENT OUT OF MY WAY TO HELP PEOPLE BUT I KNEW IT HAD TO GO FATHER, I HAD TO DEDICATE MYSELF TO THIS, MANY STRANGE THINGS OCCURRED DURING THAT HOSPITAL STAY, MY LIFE CXHANGED, I JUST COULDNOT IMAGINE ANYONE GOING THRU SOMETHING LIKE THAT,ONLY TO FIND NONE, WHEN I FINNALLY CAME TO....THAT WAS ONE OF THE MOST HORRIBLE FEELINGS ,KNOWING I HAD NOONE WHO EVEN CARED ENOUGH TO COME TO EVEN VISIT ME,MUCH LESS, TRYING TO BLOCK OUT THAT MY FAMILY WAS CALLED AND NOONE CAME....INEVER WANTED ANYONE TO EXPERIENCE THAT, THE EMOTIONAL TRAUMA, THAT TO THIS DAY, I STILL SHED TREARS OVER....IT WAS THEN THAT I HAD MADE A DECISION, TO HELP PEOPLE, AND TO TRY TO HELP AS MANY PEOPLE LIKE ME,THAT I COULD,PEOPLE WITH NOONE.....AFTER I GOT OUT OF THE HOSPITAL, THEY SENT ME BACK TO THE NURSING HOME, I WAS IN MY 30’S...STILL VERY YOUNG, MY WHOLE LIFE AHEAD OF ME, I WAS WRONG, I WAS STILL SICK, WITH THIS 3STAGE LIVER DISEASE, THE TREATMENT HAD BROKEN DOWN MY BODY, I WAS TOLD I COULDNOT HAVE ANY MORE CHEMO....IT WOULD KILL ME....I WAS ALSO TOLD MANY DIAGNOIS’S ,THAT OCCURRED FROM DAMAGE DONE TO MY BODY FROM GOING THROUGH TREATMENT TO MANY TIMES....IT AFFECTED ALL ORGANS THAT FLUSH TOXINS OUT OF YOUR BODY,MY TONSILS WENT FIRST,THEN MY APPENDICTS,MY GALLBLADDER REMOVED THAT SAME YEAR, I WAS RUNNING OUT OF ORGANS TO FLUSH TOXINS OUT OF MY BODY, AND THAT MY LIVER WAS FAILING,THE ONE HOPE I HAD ,WAS THE LIVER IS THE ONLY ORGAN IN YOUR BODY THAT CAN REGENERATE, FIX ITSELF,GROW BACK HEALTHY,BUT I NEEDED A LIVER TRANSPLANT, I WAS VERY CLOSE TO THE TOP OF THE LIST, ONE DAY,I HAD A DOCTORS APP.LIKE ALWAYS, I THINK I SPENT MORE TIME AT AND IN THE HOSPITAL THAN OUT....THAT DAY, I WAS INFORMED THAT THEY TOOK ME OFF THE LIVER LIST, I WASNOT A ELIGABLE CANDID FOR A NEW LIVER, WHY??? I DEVELOPED EMPHYZEMA, THIS WAS NOW 2006, THEY TOLD ME SOMEONE ELSE COULD LIVE ANOTHER TEN YEARS THAT WAS IN BETTER HEALTH THAN ME,AND THEY HAD TO TAKE ME OFF THE LIVER LIST......BASICLY, WELL TO BACK UP A LITTLE, I HAD A VERY CARING, CASEWORKER. SHE WENT TO ALL MY APPOINTMENTS WITH ME, ALL THE TIME,TO TRY TO UNDERSTAND WHAT I WAS GOING THRU MEDICALLY, SHE SAID TO THE DOCTOR SO NOW WHATS NEXT, SHE KNEW ME WELL BY THIS TIME, AND KNEW I WOULDNOT GIVE UP,BY THAT TIME I HAD MOVED OUT OF THE NURSING HOMES,GETTING OUT OF THE SYSTEM ISNOT A EASY TASK, NO MATTER HOW YOUNG YOU ARE....I HAD BEEN LIVING ON MY OWN FOR ABOUT A YEAR, DOWN IN A NOT SO GOOD AREA, BUT I WAS ON MY OWN, HAPPY, AS I COULD BE, JUST TO HAVE MY FREEDOM....GETTING BACK TO THE BIG BLOW, THEY TOOK ME OFF THE TRANSPLANT LIST, MY CASE WORKER SAID ,ARE YOU TELLING HER IN THIS MANNER THAT SHE IS GOING TO DIE???THE DOCTOR SAID ,YES,SHE IS....WE WILL KEEP HER COMFORTABLE,AND THATS ALL WE CAN DO, THERE IS NOTHING WE CAN DO FUTHER FOR HER...MY CASEWORKER SAID, THATS A HELL OF AWAY TO TELL HER...THE DOCTOR SAID, IT IS WHAT IT IS......I WAS DEFASTATED,,,,I HAD FOUGHT THROUGH SO MUCH ,THE LAST SIX YEARS, AND NOW THEY ARE TELLING ME...ITS OVER, THERE IS NOTHING ANYONE CAN DO....I WAS IN SHOCK.....DAYS LATER I DECIDED I WASNOT GOING TO DIE...STILL, ALONE, I CALLED AND TOLD MY FAMILY, BUT ,NOONE CAME.....THERE IS A RESON WHY MY FAMILY TURNED THIER BACK ON ME, IT STARTED WHEN I WAS 15,WELL ACTUALLY, I WAS 14 GOING ON FIFTEEN....I WOULD RATHER NOT POST THIS ON THE INTERNATE....LETS JUST SAY, I CAME FROM A HARD CORE CATHOLIC FAMILY, AND THINGS WERE HAPPENING TO ME THAT WERE INAPPROPREATE, WHEN I BROUGHT IT TO MY MOTHERS ATTENTION, SHE DID NOTHI8NG....SO, I HAD NO ALTERNATIVE BUT TO LEAVE HOME AT 14, ALMOST 15,FOR MY OWN SAFETY......I WAS NEVER ACCEPTED BACK INTO THE FAMILY.....MY LIFE AT 14 GOING ON 15, JUST A CHILD, MY LIFE BEGAN AS A ADULT.....THE ONLY PERSON THAT TRIED TO HELP ME WAS MY OLDER SISTER, BUT WE HAD TO KEEP IT A SECRET....EVENTUALLY THROUGH THE YEARS, WELL LETS JUST SAY, I HAVENT SEEN MY BIOLOGICLY SISTER IN ABOUT ,OVER 17 YEARS....MAYBE LONGER.....TO CUT THINGS SHORT, I HAVE BEEN A HOMECARE PATIENT EVER SINCE THAT DAY IN 2006, MANY THINGS HAVE HAPPENED TO ME THROUGHOUT THE YEARS...BUT I STILL TRIED TO CONTINUE TO HELP PEOPLE, HOW CAN YOU HELP PEOPLE, WHEN I WAS IN THE CONDITION I WAS IN, SOMETIMES I LAY SICK IN BED FOR IT HAS BEEN MONTHS AT ATIME,I LOST HOPE, I HAD NOONE, NO FAMILY,NO FRIENDS, HOW COULD I MEET PEOPLE,IF I COULDNOT GO TO FAR AWAY FROM MY BATHROOM,THE CROHNS PROGRESSED INTO A OUT OF CONTROL STATE, THE HOMECARE DOCTORS THAT COME TO YOUR HOUSE HAVE BAD HABITS....THEY KEEP DIAGNOISISING, AND GIVING MORE AND MORE MEDICATIONS.....I HAD NO THOUGHTS, I HAD NO HOPE, I WAS BASICLY WAITING TO DIE, AND HAD MANY CLOSE CALLS,A FEW WHERE I WAS RESESATED IN AMBULANCE’S, AND THEN THE ER....LIFE WAS , JUST....IT JUST EXSISTED, DAY AFTER DAY, FINALLY ONE DAY I WOKE UYP, AND SAID THAT IS ENOUGH!!!!! THIS WAS AROUND 2010.....I STARTED RESEARCHING ALL THESE DISEASES, I HAD NOPW BEEN DIAGNOISED WITH ....ALOT OF THINGS JUST DIDNOT MATCH UP.....I SOON REALIZED, I MAYNOT HAVE THAT,I REALIZED IT WAS THE HOMECARE DOCTORS JOB, TO FILL YOU FULL OF MEDICINE, DIGNOIS’S AND JUST KEEP IT GOING, I GUESS UNTIL YOU DIE.....I REALLY DIDNOT WANT TO FIND OUT....I DECIDED I WAS SICK AND TIRED OF BEING SICK AND TIRED....I NEEDED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT MY SITUATION, OR I WAS GOING TO DIE.......THE FIRST THING I DID,WAS I RELOCATED OUT OF THIS DUMPY APARTMENT I LIVED IN ,SMACK DEAD IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HOOD,......I GOT A DIFFERENT DOCTOR, MOVED TO A LITTLE RIVER TOWN, SORTA IN THE COUNTRY, A QUIET PLACE, SMALL...I GOT A GREAT DEAL ON A HOUSE,TWO BEDROOM HOUSE,WITH A YARD AND ALOT OF TREES AND ROSE BUSHES,I WAS PULLING OUT OF THIS WORLD I HAD CREATED, FOR MY SELF......IT WAS THEN 2012....AND I WAS STILL ALIVE, I WANTED LIFE....... SO, MANY YEARS HAD BEEN WASTED, STILL SICK,BUT SKEPITAL ,ABOUT EXACTLY WHAT WAS REALLY WRONG WITH ME, WHAT HAD I BEEN MISDIGANOISED WITH???? AND WHAT HAD I NOT BEEN DIAGNOISED WITH?????HOW MUCH DAMAGE WAS DONE TO ME FROM TAKING MEDICINES I DIDNOT NEED??????WHERE DO I START???? AND ALL THRU THESE YEARS I TRIED TO HELP PEOPLE, BUT FAILED THEM....I DIDNOT HAVE THE TOOLS, THE KNOWLEGDE....WHAT WAS I TO DO????THE FIRST THING I DID WAS STYART CUTTING MEDICATION OUT,THAT I KNEW I DIDNOT NEED, I AM SUPPOSE TO BE TAKING 5000 THOUSAND DOLLARS A MONTH OF MEDICATIONS, I NEVER REALLY BELIEVED I NEEDED ALL THAT MEDICATION...SOME WERE MEDICINES TO STOP SIDE AFFECTS FROM MEDICINES...DOUBLES ON SOME OF THOSE, I RESEARCHED EVERY SINGLE MEDICATION I HAD....THE ONE MEDICINE I KNEW ABSOLUTELY THAT I NEEDED WAS MY OXYGEN.....AND,I HAVE EPILEPSY, THYROID DISEASE, AND MY CROHNS WHICH WAS STILL OUT OF CONTROLL....AND MUCH VERY STRONG PAIN MEDICATIONS......WHICH I DO HAVE SEVERE PAIN, BUT ,NO I AM OVER ALL THIS....I HAD TO GET CONTROLL OF MYSELF, BEFORE EVEN THINKING ABOUT HELPING OTHER PEOPLE..... IN 2013... I STARTED EATING ORGANIC FOOD, WHICH MADE SUCH A DIFFERENCE ONLY,CONCERNING MY CROHNES...IT WAS UNBELIEVEABLE,THE CHANGES THAT STARTED TAKING PLACE.....I HAVE ALWAYS HAD A STRONG CONNECTION WITH GOD.....JUST , NOT ORGANIZED RELIGION.....AFTER GOING THRU WHAT I WENT THRU AT AGE14, NOT EVEN TO MENTION I HAVE LEFT SO.MUCH OUT, OR YOU COULD WRITE A BOOK ABOUT ME.....LOL,LOL... GOT TO KEEP THE HUMOR MY FRIEND......I TURNED TO SPIRITUALITY , MANY YEARS AGO, I FIGURED, I WOULD GO STRAIGHT TO THE MAN HIMSELF.....IT FELT MORE COMFORTABLE TO ME, AFTER BEING LOCKED UP IN NURSING HOMES AND THEN EVEN THOU OUT ON MY OWN BY 2006, MY HOME BECAME MY SACRED PLACE...... MY PLACE TO TALK WITH GOD, TO ASK GOD TO LEAD ME TO WHERE I NEEDED TO BE.......ALWAYS WODERING HOW MANY PEOPLE ERE OUT THERE LIKE ME,ALONE, NO FAMILY,NOONE FRIENDS......IT BECAME APPARENT TO ME THAT I WAS GOING TO SCHOOL, GODS SCHOOL OF THIS UNIVERESE, AND THAT ALL THE EXPERIENCES I HAD GONE THROUGH WERE CLEARLY PREPARATION, FOR MY WORK FOR GOD, NOT LIMITED TO JUST A CLASS OF PEOPLE, BUT PREPERING ME FOR ,DEALING WITH PEOPLE I COULD CONNECT WITH, SO, THAT THERE WOULD BE A TRUST ESTABLISHED RIGHT AWAY, BECAUSE ,I HAD BEEN THROUGH IT, LIVED IT, UNDERSTOOD IT, AND WAS READY I THOUGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I THOUGHT WRONG, ANOTHER LESSON WAS BEGINNING, A VERY INPORTANT LESSON.....TO LEARN TO BE HUMBLE....AT THE END OF 2013,SOMETHING STARTED TO HAPPEN,I STARTED GETTING ALOT OF TOOTH ACHES, ABCESSES...SOON MY TEETH WERE JUST BREAKING OFF ,LIKE RIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE OF THE TOOTH, ABCESSES WERE FORMING AT THE GUM AND BOTTOM OF TEETH, SOON MY TEETH BECAME VERY SOFT, AND I COULDNT CHEW FOOD,OF COURSE I WENT TO THE HOSPITAL MANY TIMES, BECAUSE I KNEW THIS WASNOT A BAD CASE OF DECAYING, CAVITIES, IT WAS SOMETHING ELSE, IT KEPT GETTING WORSE, AND OF COURSE THE DOCTOR,REMEMBER I AM STILL A HOMECARE PATIENT,JUST KEPT GIVING ME ANTIBIOTICS....I KEPT ASKING FOR HELP FROM MY DOCTOR ,MORE BROKEN PROMISES, I STARTED TRYING TO FIND HELP MYSELF, NOONE TAKES MEDICARE, WE ARE NOW RUNNING OUT OF PLACES, I EVEN WROTE THE DOCTORS SHOW,MANY TIMES...NEVER GOT A ANSWER...I WAS HORRIFIED, NONE WOULD HELP ME,I DIDNOT KNOW WHAT TO DO, I HAVE MILTRAL VALVE PROLAPSE,IT IS A HEART CONDITION, I WAS BORN WITH IT,IT IS NOT A GOOD THING TO HAVE DENTAL PROBLEMS,WITH THIS CONDITION,YOU CAN EASILY STROKE OUT,IF IT GETS IN YOUR BLOOD.....I LOST HOPE AGAIN.....I FIGURED THIS IS IT,NONE WILL HELP ME BY THIS TIME IT WAS 2014MY CAPS CAME OFF FIRST, IT WAS DEVASTING, MORE ABCESSES....NOW ITS 2015...I HAD HEARD OF FUNDRAISING, BUT KNEW NORTHING ABOUT IT.....SO,I GOOGLED IT, AND RESEARCHED IT, I CONTACTED THEM, THEY WERE MORE THAN HAPPY TO HELP ME, BUT, THEN 2015 EE NTALKED ABOUT WHAT EVERTHING WAS ABOUT,I WAS GETTING READY TO START WORKING ON A CAMPAIGN, AND IT WAS JANURARY,I HAD NOT BEEN TO A DENTIST YET, BECAUSE I AM ON DISABILITY, AND MEDICARE DOESNT COVER DENTAL WORK........I STARTED BREAKING OUT ON MY STOMACHE, I THOUGHT IT WAS NERVES, I FINNALLY AM FEELING BETTER, TAKING HARDLY NO MEDICATIONS AT ALL, AND WHAT IS THE RASH?????SHINGLES!!!!!!!! I COULDNOT BELIEVE IT, IT WAS A VERY BAD CASE, AND I WAS MISERABLE,ON TOP OF SOME OF THE ILLNESSES I REALLY DID HAVE,IT WAS MAKING ME DEATHLY ILL...SO, I CALLED GOGETFUNDING......TOLD THEM WE HAD TO POST PONE STARTING THE CAMPAIGN TO RAISE THE MONEY FOR MY DENTAL WORK,THAT WAS NEEDED ASAP THEN....IT TOOK TO APRIL, 2015 BEFORE I WAS HEALED ENOUGH TO START CAMPAIGNING....I AM NOT COMPUTER SMART, THIS HAS CAUSED NUCH DELAYS,IT TOOK ABOUT 3 WEEKS JUST TO GET PICTURES UP ....OF ME, AND PICTURES OF MY MOUTH....IF IT WASNOT FOR THE TEAM ON GOGETFUNDING ...I WOULDNOT HAVE A CAMPAIGN....THEY SET UP EVERYTHING...THEY HELP ME CONSTANTLY...THER ARE SOME OF THE MOST AWESOME ,GENUINE PEOPLE I HAVE EVER MET IN MY LIFE!!!! I TRULY MEAN THAT!!!!!! SO, HERE WE ARE, I HAVE LEARNED TO BE HUMBLE,I HAVE LEARNED THAT THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE ,WHO ARE SO WRAPPED UP IN MATERIAL THINGS AND MONEY,I HAVE LEARNED THAT THE ONLY SURE THING IN MY LIFE,MY ENTIRE LIFE,PAST,PRESENT, AND FUTURE IS MY FAITH IN GOD......I AM GETTING BETTER BY THE DAY, WITH MY OTHER ILLNESSES,EVERYDAY, BUT, WHEN I FINNALLY WENT TO A DENTIST ON JUNE24,2015...I FOUND OUT THINGS WERE MUCH WORSE THAN I COULD OF IMAGINED,I HAVE A AGGRESSIVE DISEASE CALLED Periodontal disease........it is horrific....I took the pictures of whats left of my teeth on may3,2015......in just 2 months ,I am grtting ready to try and post some pictures, in just two months, I have 4 teeth on the bottom,which are in really bad shape ,very loose and decaying from the gumline,i have exposed nerves, where teeth are broken off into the gum, some the gum has grown over, abcesses under the gums, on the gums, even on the roof of my mouth.....they pop and the stuff that leaks out,makes more ,wherever it touches,more abcesses, none was donating to my campaign, I work hard on it, believe me, after everything I have been through, I refuse to die, because I don’t have funds for dental work, I fought for my life for all these years, and then I take charge, change my diet,stopped almost all medications,i m feeling better and now this...a disease I canot fight, unless I have this surgry, the oral surgen even donated....its like a 75 t0 50 thousand dollar procedure...she is doing it for 12 thousand dollars....I know I need a video, that’s like a lot of percentive of donations, since may, I have raised 8 thousand dollars......I am short 4 thousand, maybe five...because I need a bone graft now, the disease is like eating my mouth, now my cheekbones are hurting, and thru bloodwork, it is in my blood......my campaign has come to a standstill....no one is donating...so, I am going to try to put a event together, how I doinot know,everybody says, just let me know if you need help....when I asked, none calls back....alone again......but, the lesson from god was needed, this had to happen, to humble me....and to put the drive back into me, to be more determined than ever, to raise this last four thousand dollars.....so, lesson taught, lesson understood.....there is no humanity left in this world, and it needs to be restored, god wants me to help him do that, and along the way, help people, like me, and not like me....people who have lost hope!!!!! people who need to restore their faith in god....if you donot have faith, what do you have????nothing.......people need to start seeing other people with humanity, so, their humanity will be restored....I would give anything...after my surgry of course, to go to a country were all humanity is just not there anymore.....to teach people to be humble, live with integrity, be more than willing to help thy neighbor.....people are to the point of ,if they donot start living the way god intended,,,,,i donot even think of whats coming next.......I have no idea why I told you all of this...I feel like I was told to tell you,i donot know why, you are among very few people I have told this to!!!!!! I did not tell you to get sympathy, I told you , because I want you to know how serious I am ,about learning from you....I always say everything happens for a reason.....today, god connected us,for a reson,i believe ,because you are genuine, and you believe for the most part what I strongly believe in....and I believe god wants you to teach me....so, I know, I have faith I will get the rest of my funding soon,sooner than I think, I need to be ready ,to do gods lightwrk with him......and I want to be as genuine as you.....thank you for reading my story,even though I skipped a lot of parts....I hope that someday soon we can talk, and get to know eac other,like I said god puts people together for a reason......out of all these people on this site, you were the frstr one I came to,and couldbnot stop reading.....I am exhausted....my email is [email protected] ....I am looking forward to hearing from you.....blessings to you....with all my respect,....kind regards....XXXjanet Anderson Hope4mePlease/ ....listed in medical/healing...thank you and goodnight

  • Guest
  • Posted On Oct 31, 2012
  • All I can do is run 26.2 miles (to explain the reasoning behind my donation amount). You do way more every day, Suzanne. I am so in awe of you and so glad we met thanks to Hurricane Katrina. Next time I will join you for sure. Much love and have fun.

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  • MD TANVIR HIDER
  • Posted On Oct 26, 2018
  • Hello everyone, Please, help for my campaign....... I needed your help. Humanity still alive. God bless us all.

  • Hope4meplease
  • Posted On Jul 26, 2015
  • My name is ..JANET ANDERSON, YOU HAVE GIVEN ME A WHOLE DIFFERENT WAY OF LOOKING AT FUNDRAISING...I AM SO INSPIRED BY YOUR SELFLESS ACTIONS...YOU HAVE NO IDEA,HOW LONG I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS TO ALOT OF QUESTION I HAD AND HAVE, I WOULD BE SO HONORED TO COMMUNICATE WITH YOU....THIS HAS BEEN A DREAM OF MINE ,AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER, TO LEARN THE ROPES, SO I CAN DO WHAT YOU DO...I HAVE NEVER GIVEN UP HOPE...I KNEW IF I KEPT SEARCCCCHING I WOULD EVENTUALLY7 COME UPON SOMEONE ,SUCH AS YOURSELF...I HAVE SO MUCH TO LEARN, I BELIEVE I CAN LEARN MUCH WISDOM,FROM YOU!!!!!! I HAVE GREAT RESPECT FOR YOUR HUMBLE WAYS...I COULDNOT EVEN BEGIN TO HOPE TO HAVE SUCH A HUMBLE LIFE AS YOU DO...I BELIEVE THAT GOD HAS INSTILLED THESE CAPIBILITIES IN ALL HUMAMS... SO, MANY JUST IGNORE IT.... I HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN ,THIS IS MY LIFE, HELPING OTHER PEOPLE, I HAVE BEEN HELPING PEOPLE ALL MY LIFE, BUT NEVER ACCOMPLISHED EVEN A FOURTH OF WHAT YOU HAVE!!!! I HAVE SO MUCH RESPECT FOR YOU, I BELIEVE I CAN LEARN ALOT FROM YOU, AND YOUR SELFLESS ACTIONS, I WANT THIS, I AM GOPING AFTER IT....THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE IN NEED, AND NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE LIKE YOU.....I WOULD BE HONORED IF YOU WOULD COMMUNICATE WITH ME, SO, THAT I MAY LEARN FROM YOU!!!! WILL, YOU THINK ABOUT IT, AND CONTACT ME???PLEASE!!!!! I HAVE BUT ONE THING HINDERING ME, FROM JUMPING FEET FIRST INTO THIS......I HAVE BEEN SICK FOR A VERY LONG TIME, I DONT LIKE USING THESE WORDS, BUT I AM INDEED HINDERED AT THIS TIME....I WAS STARTING TO HEAL, FROM MUCH OF MY ILLNESSES...AND OF COURSE ,THE STORY OF MY LIFE, GET ONE THING UNDER CONTROLL AND ALONG COMES SOMETHING ELSE, ALWAYS VERY TRAMATIC, ALWAYS A FIGHT TO OVERCOME....I HAVE CHEATED DEATH 3X...... BUT, I DONOT LIKE USING THOSE WORDS, I TRULY BELIEVE THAT EVERYTHING, STARTING WITH MY CHILDHOOD, HAVE BEEN LESSON, LESSON FROM GOD, TO PREPARE ME FOR THIS MOMENT, I GUESS YOU COULD SAY,THE SCHOOL OF GODS UNIVERSE....I HAD TO EXPERIENCE EVERYTHING THAT I HAVE IN MY LIFE, IN ORDER TO DO THE LIGHTWORK GOD HAS PREPARING ME FOR DOING GODS WORK!!! EVERTHING HAS BEEN PREPARING ME !!!! SO, I COULD RELATE TO PEOPLE IN NEED , IN ALL DIFFERENT SITUATIONS, SO, I COULD CNNECT WITH PEOPLE ,AND KNOW WHAT THOSE PEOPLE,WAITING FOR ME IN NEED.....AND LET ME TELL YOU I HAVE A FULLFILLED LIFE OF TRAGIDTY...YOU PROBLY WILL HAVE A HARD TIME BELIEVING ALL THE THINGS I HAVE BEEN THRU, AND I AM ONLY 52 YEARS OLD{YOUNG}...I SOMETIMES CANNOT BELIEVE WHAT I HAVE BEEN THRU,,,TRUST ME PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TELLING ME FOR YEARS I SHOULD WRITE A BOOK....THAT ISNOT MY INTEREST,MANY PEOPLE WHO ARE IN NEED OF HELP, JUST NEED THAT STEPPING STONE....MOST HAVE MUCH TO GIVE BACK TO THE WORLD, THEY JUST NEED THAT BREAK OF GETTING HELP,A SECOND CHANCE, OR AS I PREFERR TO SAY, GRADUATE, AND START DOING GODS WORK, I KNOW OF SOMEONE RIGHT NOW, A HUMBLE MAN....FULL OF INTEGRETY,A VRY SELFLESS MAN, A MAN WHO STRAVES ,SO THE CHILDREN IN THE VILLAGE MAY EAT,OR LET THEM HAVE THE CLEAN WATER, AND HE DOES WITHOUT....THIS IS A MAN OF GOD!!!!! NO, QUESTION IN MY MIND WHAT SO EVER, BUT IF HE DOESNOT GET HELP SOON, HE COULD EXPIRE,THEN WHO WOULD STEP UP, TO DO WHAT HEHAS BEEN DOING, I AM SO AFRAID FOR THE CHILDERN, AND THE PEOPLE IN THIS VILLAGE, WHAT IS TO COME OF THEM IF HE ISNOT THERE TRO TAKE CARE OF THEM??????? I AM AT A STANDSTILL, AT THIS POINT, I AM CAMPAIGNING, ON, GOGETFUNDING....I AM IN NEED OF ORAL SURGRY ASAP, I NEEDED THAT SURGRY MONTHS AGO, I WENT THRU EVERY AVENUE I COULD FIND,BEFORE I TURNED TO GOGETFUNDING FOR HELP.....I HAVE BEEN DISABLED SICE 2000, IS ACTUALLY WHEN I STARTED GETTING SO SICK, I HAD TO STOP WORKING AND FIGHT FOR MY LIFE, I HAVE BEEN THROUGH LIVER TREATMENT 3X, THE LAST TIME, WAS 2006, I WAS GOING THROUGH TREATMENT FOR MY LIVER, AND CROHNS DISEASE, THOSE WERE AT THE TIME MY MOST SERIOUS DIAGNOIS, I WAS ABOUT HALVE WAY THROUGH THE TREATMENT, I MENTIONED I HAD BEEN THROUGH THIS TREATMENT 2 OTHER VTIMES...ALMOST BACK TO BACK,I WANTED TO DIE THE TREATMENT , BACK THEN WAS VERY HARSH AND LIFE THREATENING, BUT WITHOUT IT I WOULD OF SURELY DIED, HALVE WAY THRU ,I STARTED GETTING THESE TERRIBLE MIGRANES, TO CUT TO THE CHASE, I WAS SO SICK THEY PLACED ME IN A NURSING HOME,BECAUSE I HAD NOONE TO HELP ME, I WAS GOING IT ALONE, AS I HAD THE FIRST TWO TIMES...THE MIGRANES, TURNED INTO, A HORRIFIC EXPERIENCE, I WAS ON THE THRONE AND PUKING INTO A BUCKET AT THE SAMETIME FOR MANY DAYS, IT GOT TO THE POINT ,THAT I KNEW THIS WASNOT LIKE THE TREATMENTS BEFORE,SOMETHING WAS TERRIBLY WRONG, I WAS REFUSING TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL, IN FEAR THAT THEY WOULD STOP THE TREATMENT, BUT IT BECAME UNBEARABLE, I COULDNOT MOVE MY HEAD NOT EVEN A FORTH OF A INCH....IT FELT LIKE SOMEONE WAS TAKING A SLEGDE HAMMER TO MY SKULL....I FINALLY AGREED TO GO TO THE HOSITAL,AND WHEN I GOT THERE THEY HAD NO IDEA WHAT WAS CAUSING THIS, MANY TEST WERE RAN, THEY CAME UP WITH NOTHING...THEY EVEN TOOK IN CONSIDER THAT IT WAS SPINAL MENOJAUNTICE,,,,THAT WAS NOT IT, AFTER THE TEST RESULTS CAME BACK,(THE TEST FOR SPINAL MENOJAUNTICE ISNOT PLEASANT, I WAS SO SICK, I WAS DYING...FINALLY THE BLOOD TEST CAME BACK, MY PLATELETS HAD DROPPED TO PRACTICLY NOTHING, I NEEDED A BLOOD TRANSFUSHION, BUT, AS IT ALWAYS HAPPENS,MORE DRAMA, I HAVE A RARE BLOOD TYPE, AND I WAS AT A VERY PROMINET HOSPITAL, A TEACHING HOSPITAL, ST,LOUIS, UNIVERSITY, SO THEY STARTED A SEARCH FOR MY BLOOD TYPE, THEY DIDNOT HAVE IT THERE, I LAYED IN AGONY FOR TWO DAYS, ALMOST DEAD,ALONE,NOONE THERE TO HELP COMFORT ME, NO MORAL SUPPORT ,EXCEPT FROM THE NURSES AND DOCTORS, I WAS NONE, HAD NONE I PRAYED THAT GOD HELP ME FORGIVE THE PEOPLE THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE,MY FAMILY,THEY WERE CALLED, BUT NOONE CAME, AFTER TWO DAYS, OF MUCH PRAYER AND WELCOMED COMFORTR FROM PEOPLE I DIDNOT KNOW, MY BLOOD TYPE WAS LOCATED IN EASTERN MO. THEY HELECOPTERED MY BLOOD IN, HOOKED ME UP, AND THATS THE LAST THING I REMEMBER....UNTIL ABOUT 3 DAYS HAD PASSED, I WOKE UP,ALONE IN THE ICU UNITE,ATTACHED TO A BIG BAG OF BLOOD, THE NURSE TOLD ME SOON THEY WOULD BE HANGING THE THIRD UNIT OF BLOOD, I FELT LIKE I WASNT REALLY THERE, I WASNOT OUT OF THE WOODS YET,IT TOOK FIVE UNITS OF BLOOD TO BRING ME BACK, I REMEMBER ASKING GOD TO BRING ME THROUGH THIS, AND I WOULD DO EVERYTHING, IN A DIFFERENT WAY, BEING ALL ALONE THROUGH THAT EXPERIENCE, CHANGED ME, IT CHANGED MY GOALS IN LIFE, I HAD ALWAYS WENT OUT OF MY WAY TO HELP PEOPLE BUT I KNEW IT HAD TO GO FATHER, I HAD TO DEDICATE MYSELF TO THIS, MANY STRANGE THINGS OCCURRED DURING THAT HOSPITAL STAY, MY LIFE CXHANGED, I JUST COULDNOT IMAGINE ANYONE GOING THRU SOMETHING LIKE THAT,ONLY TO FIND NONE, WHEN I FINNALLY CAME TO....THAT WAS ONE OF THE MOST HORRIBLE FEELINGS ,KNOWING I HAD NOONE WHO EVEN CARED ENOUGH TO COME TO EVEN VISIT ME,MUCH LESS, TRYING TO BLOCK OUT THAT MY FAMILY WAS CALLED AND NOONE CAME....INEVER WANTED ANYONE TO EXPERIENCE THAT, THE EMOTIONAL TRAUMA, THAT TO THIS DAY, I STILL SHED TREARS OVER....IT WAS THEN THAT I HAD MADE A DECISION, TO HELP PEOPLE, AND TO TRY TO HELP AS MANY PEOPLE LIKE ME,THAT I COULD,PEOPLE WITH NOONE.....AFTER I GOT OUT OF THE HOSPITAL, THEY SENT ME BACK TO THE NURSING HOME, I WAS IN MY 30’S...STILL VERY YOUNG, MY WHOLE LIFE AHEAD OF ME, I WAS WRONG, I WAS STILL SICK, WITH THIS 3STAGE LIVER DISEASE, THE TREATMENT HAD BROKEN DOWN MY BODY, I WAS TOLD I COULDNOT HAVE ANY MORE CHEMO....IT WOULD KILL ME....I WAS ALSO TOLD MANY DIAGNOIS’S ,THAT OCCURRED FROM DAMAGE DONE TO MY BODY FROM GOING THROUGH TREATMENT TO MANY TIMES....IT AFFECTED ALL ORGANS THAT FLUSH TOXINS OUT OF YOUR BODY,MY TONSILS WENT FIRST,THEN MY APPENDICTS,MY GALLBLADDER REMOVED THAT SAME YEAR, I WAS RUNNING OUT OF ORGANS TO FLUSH TOXINS OUT OF MY BODY, AND THAT MY LIVER WAS FAILING,THE ONE HOPE I HAD ,WAS THE LIVER IS THE ONLY ORGAN IN YOUR BODY THAT CAN REGENERATE, FIX ITSELF,GROW BACK HEALTHY,BUT I NEEDED A LIVER TRANSPLANT, I WAS VERY CLOSE TO THE TOP OF THE LIST, ONE DAY,I HAD A DOCTORS APP.LIKE ALWAYS, I THINK I SPENT MORE TIME AT AND IN THE HOSPITAL THAN OUT....THAT DAY, I WAS INFORMED THAT THEY TOOK ME OFF THE LIVER LIST, I WASNOT A ELIGABLE CANDID FOR A NEW LIVER, WHY??? I DEVELOPED EMPHYZEMA, THIS WAS NOW 2006, THEY TOLD ME SOMEONE ELSE COULD LIVE ANOTHER TEN YEARS THAT WAS IN BETTER HEALTH THAN ME,AND THEY HAD TO TAKE ME OFF THE LIVER LIST......BASICLY, WELL TO BACK UP A LITTLE, I HAD A VERY CARING, CASEWORKER. SHE WENT TO ALL MY APPOINTMENTS WITH ME, ALL THE TIME,TO TRY TO UNDERSTAND WHAT I WAS GOING THRU MEDICALLY, SHE SAID TO THE DOCTOR SO NOW WHATS NEXT, SHE KNEW ME WELL BY THIS TIME, AND KNEW I WOULDNOT GIVE UP,BY THAT TIME I HAD MOVED OUT OF THE NURSING HOMES,GETTING OUT OF THE SYSTEM ISNOT A EASY TASK, NO MATTER HOW YOUNG YOU ARE....I HAD BEEN LIVING ON MY OWN FOR ABOUT A YEAR, DOWN IN A NOT SO GOOD AREA, BUT I WAS ON MY OWN, HAPPY, AS I COULD BE, JUST TO HAVE MY FREEDOM....GETTING BACK TO THE BIG BLOW, THEY TOOK ME OFF THE TRANSPLANT LIST, MY CASE WORKER SAID ,ARE YOU TELLING HER IN THIS MANNER THAT SHE IS GOING TO DIE???THE DOCTOR SAID ,YES,SHE IS....WE WILL KEEP HER COMFORTABLE,AND THATS ALL WE CAN DO, THERE IS NOTHING WE CAN DO FUTHER FOR HER...MY CASEWORKER SAID, THATS A HELL OF AWAY TO TELL HER...THE DOCTOR SAID, IT IS WHAT IT IS......I WAS DEFASTATED,,,,I HAD FOUGHT THROUGH SO MUCH ,THE LAST SIX YEARS, AND NOW THEY ARE TELLING ME...ITS OVER, THERE IS NOTHING ANYONE CAN DO....I WAS IN SHOCK.....DAYS LATER I DECIDED I WASNOT GOING TO DIE...STILL, ALONE, I CALLED AND TOLD MY FAMILY, BUT ,NOONE CAME.....THERE IS A RESON WHY MY FAMILY TURNED THIER BACK ON ME, IT STARTED WHEN I WAS 15,WELL ACTUALLY, I WAS 14 GOING ON FIFTEEN....I WOULD RATHER NOT POST THIS ON THE INTERNATE....LETS JUST SAY, I CAME FROM A HARD CORE CATHOLIC FAMILY, AND THINGS WERE HAPPENING TO ME THAT WERE INAPPROPREATE, WHEN I BROUGHT IT TO MY MOTHERS ATTENTION, SHE DID NOTHI8NG....SO, I HAD NO ALTERNATIVE BUT TO LEAVE HOME AT 14, ALMOST 15,FOR MY OWN SAFETY......I WAS NEVER ACCEPTED BACK INTO THE FAMILY.....MY LIFE AT 14 GOING ON 15, JUST A CHILD, MY LIFE BEGAN AS A ADULT.....THE ONLY PERSON THAT TRIED TO HELP ME WAS MY OLDER SISTER, BUT WE HAD TO KEEP IT A SECRET....EVENTUALLY THROUGH THE YEARS, WELL LETS JUST SAY, I HAVENT SEEN MY BIOLOGICLY SISTER IN ABOUT ,OVER 17 YEARS....MAYBE LONGER.....TO CUT THINGS SHORT, I HAVE BEEN A HOMECARE PATIENT EVER SINCE THAT DAY IN 2006, MANY THINGS HAVE HAPPENED TO ME THROUGHOUT THE YEARS...BUT I STILL TRIED TO CONTINUE TO HELP PEOPLE, HOW CAN YOU HELP PEOPLE, WHEN I WAS IN THE CONDITION I WAS IN, SOMETIMES I LAY SICK IN BED FOR IT HAS BEEN MONTHS AT ATIME,I LOST HOPE, I HAD NOONE, NO FAMILY,NO FRIENDS, HOW COULD I MEET PEOPLE,IF I COULDNOT GO TO FAR AWAY FROM MY BATHROOM,THE CROHNS PROGRESSED INTO A OUT OF CONTROL STATE, THE HOMECARE DOCTORS THAT COME TO YOUR HOUSE HAVE BAD HABITS....THEY KEEP DIAGNOISISING, AND GIVING MORE AND MORE MEDICATIONS.....I HAD NO THOUGHTS, I HAD NO HOPE, I WAS BASICLY WAITING TO DIE, AND HAD MANY CLOSE CALLS,A FEW WHERE I WAS RESESATED IN AMBULANCE’S, AND THEN THE ER....LIFE WAS , JUST....IT JUST EXSISTED, DAY AFTER DAY, FINALLY ONE DAY I WOKE UYP, AND SAID THAT IS ENOUGH!!!!! THIS WAS AROUND 2010.....I STARTED RESEARCHING ALL THESE DISEASES, I HAD NOPW BEEN DIAGNOISED WITH ....ALOT OF THINGS JUST DIDNOT MATCH UP.....I SOON REALIZED, I MAYNOT HAVE THAT,I REALIZED IT WAS THE HOMECARE DOCTORS JOB, TO FILL YOU FULL OF MEDICINE, DIGNOIS’S AND JUST KEEP IT GOING, I GUESS UNTIL YOU DIE.....I REALLY DIDNOT WANT TO FIND OUT....I DECIDED I WAS SICK AND TIRED OF BEING SICK AND TIRED....I NEEDED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT MY SITUATION, OR I WAS GOING TO DIE.......THE FIRST THING I DID,WAS I RELOCATED OUT OF THIS DUMPY APARTMENT I LIVED IN ,SMACK DEAD IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HOOD,......I GOT A DIFFERENT DOCTOR, MOVED TO A LITTLE RIVER TOWN, SORTA IN THE COUNTRY, A QUIET PLACE, SMALL...I GOT A GREAT DEAL ON A HOUSE,TWO BEDROOM HOUSE,WITH A YARD AND ALOT OF TREES AND ROSE BUSHES,I WAS PULLING OUT OF THIS WORLD I HAD CREATED, FOR MY SELF......IT WAS THEN 2012....AND I WAS STILL ALIVE, I WANTED LIFE....... SO, MANY YEARS HAD BEEN WASTED, STILL SICK,BUT SKEPITAL ,ABOUT EXACTLY WHAT WAS REALLY WRONG WITH ME, WHAT HAD I BEEN MISDIGANOISED WITH???? AND WHAT HAD I NOT BEEN DIAGNOISED WITH?????HOW MUCH DAMAGE WAS DONE TO ME FROM TAKING MEDICINES I DIDNOT NEED??????WHERE DO I START???? AND ALL THRU THESE YEARS I TRIED TO HELP PEOPLE, BUT FAILED THEM....I DIDNOT HAVE THE TOOLS, THE KNOWLEGDE....WHAT WAS I TO DO????THE FIRST THING I DID WAS STYART CUTTING MEDICATION OUT,THAT I KNEW I DIDNOT NEED, I AM SUPPOSE TO BE TAKING 5000 THOUSAND DOLLARS A MONTH OF MEDICATIONS, I NEVER REALLY BELIEVED I NEEDED ALL THAT MEDICATION...SOME WERE MEDICINES TO STOP SIDE AFFECTS FROM MEDICINES...DOUBLES ON SOME OF THOSE, I RESEARCHED EVERY SINGLE MEDICATION I HAD....THE ONE MEDICINE I KNEW ABSOLUTELY THAT I NEEDED WAS MY OXYGEN.....AND,I HAVE EPILEPSY, THYROID DISEASE, AND MY CROHNS WHICH WAS STILL OUT OF CONTROLL....AND MUCH VERY STRONG PAIN MEDICATIONS......WHICH I DO HAVE SEVERE PAIN, BUT ,NO I AM OVER ALL THIS....I HAD TO GET CONTROLL OF MYSELF, BEFORE EVEN THINKING ABOUT HELPING OTHER PEOPLE..... IN 2013... I STARTED EATING ORGANIC FOOD, WHICH MADE SUCH A DIFFERENCE ONLY,CONCERNING MY CROHNES...IT WAS UNBELIEVEABLE,THE CHANGES THAT STARTED TAKING PLACE.....I HAVE ALWAYS HAD A STRONG CONNECTION WITH GOD.....JUST , NOT ORGANIZED RELIGION.....AFTER GOING THRU WHAT I WENT THRU AT AGE14, NOT EVEN TO MENTION I HAVE LEFT SO.MUCH OUT, OR YOU COULD WRITE A BOOK ABOUT ME.....LOL,LOL... GOT TO KEEP THE HUMOR MY FRIEND......I TURNED TO SPIRITUALITY , MANY YEARS AGO, I FIGURED, I WOULD GO STRAIGHT TO THE MAN HIMSELF.....IT FELT MORE COMFORTABLE TO ME, AFTER BEING LOCKED UP IN NURSING HOMES AND THEN EVEN THOU OUT ON MY OWN BY 2006, MY HOME BECAME MY SACRED PLACE...... MY PLACE TO TALK WITH GOD, TO ASK GOD TO LEAD ME TO WHERE I NEEDED TO BE.......ALWAYS WODERING HOW MANY PEOPLE ERE OUT THERE LIKE ME,ALONE, NO FAMILY,NOONE FRIENDS......IT BECAME APPARENT TO ME THAT I WAS GOING TO SCHOOL, GODS SCHOOL OF THIS UNIVERESE, AND THAT ALL THE EXPERIENCES I HAD GONE THROUGH WERE CLEARLY PREPARATION, FOR MY WORK FOR GOD, NOT LIMITED TO JUST A CLASS OF PEOPLE, BUT PREPERING ME FOR ,DEALING WITH PEOPLE I COULD CONNECT WITH, SO, THAT THERE WOULD BE A TRUST ESTABLISHED RIGHT AWAY, BECAUSE ,I HAD BEEN THROUGH IT, LIVED IT, UNDERSTOOD IT, AND WAS READY I THOUGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I THOUGHT WRONG, ANOTHER LESSON WAS BEGINNING, A VERY INPORTANT LESSON.....TO LEARN TO BE HUMBLE....AT THE END OF 2013,SOMETHING STARTED TO HAPPEN,I STARTED GETTING ALOT OF TOOTH ACHES, ABCESSES...SOON MY TEETH WERE JUST BREAKING OFF ,LIKE RIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE OF THE TOOTH, ABCESSES WERE FORMING AT THE GUM AND BOTTOM OF TEETH, SOON MY TEETH BECAME VERY SOFT, AND I COULDNT CHEW FOOD,OF COURSE I WENT TO THE HOSPITAL MANY TIMES, BECAUSE I KNEW THIS WASNOT A BAD CASE OF DECAYING, CAVITIES, IT WAS SOMETHING ELSE, IT KEPT GETTING WORSE, AND OF COURSE THE DOCTOR,REMEMBER I AM STILL A HOMECARE PATIENT,JUST KEPT GIVING ME ANTIBIOTICS....I KEPT ASKING FOR HELP FROM MY DOCTOR ,MORE BROKEN PROMISES, I STARTED TRYING TO FIND HELP MYSELF, NOONE TAKES MEDICARE, WE ARE NOW RUNNING OUT OF PLACES, I EVEN WROTE THE DOCTORS SHOW,MANY TIMES...NEVER GOT A ANSWER...I WAS HORRIFIED, NONE WOULD HELP ME,I DIDNOT KNOW WHAT TO DO, I HAVE MILTRAL VALVE PROLAPSE,IT IS A HEART CONDITION, I WAS BORN WITH IT,IT IS NOT A GOOD THING TO HAVE DENTAL PROBLEMS,WITH THIS CONDITION,YOU CAN EASILY STROKE OUT,IF IT GETS IN YOUR BLOOD.....I LOST HOPE AGAIN.....I FIGURED THIS IS IT,NONE WILL HELP ME BY THIS TIME IT WAS 2014MY CAPS CAME OFF FIRST, IT WAS DEVASTING, MORE ABCESSES....NOW ITS 2015...I HAD HEARD OF FUNDRAISING, BUT KNEW NORTHING ABOUT IT.....SO,I GOOGLED IT, AND RESEARCHED IT, I CONTACTED THEM, THEY WERE MORE THAN HAPPY TO HELP ME, BUT, THEN 2015 EE NTALKED ABOUT WHAT EVERTHING WAS ABOUT,I WAS GETTING READY TO START WORKING ON A CAMPAIGN, AND IT WAS JANURARY,I HAD NOT BEEN TO A DENTIST YET, BECAUSE I AM ON DISABILITY, AND MEDICARE DOESNT COVER DENTAL WORK........I STARTED BREAKING OUT ON MY STOMACHE, I THOUGHT IT WAS NERVES, I FINNALLY AM FEELING BETTER, TAKING HARDLY NO MEDICATIONS AT ALL, AND WHAT IS THE RASH?????SHINGLES!!!!!!!! I COULDNOT BELIEVE IT, IT WAS A VERY BAD CASE, AND I WAS MISERABLE,ON TOP OF SOME OF THE ILLNESSES I REALLY DID HAVE,IT WAS MAKING ME DEATHLY ILL...SO, I CALLED GOGETFUNDING......TOLD THEM WE HAD TO POST PONE STARTING THE CAMPAIGN TO RAISE THE MONEY FOR MY DENTAL WORK,THAT WAS NEEDED ASAP THEN....IT TOOK TO APRIL, 2015 BEFORE I WAS HEALED ENOUGH TO START CAMPAIGNING....I AM NOT COMPUTER SMART, THIS HAS CAUSED NUCH DELAYS,IT TOOK ABOUT 3 WEEKS JUST TO GET PICTURES UP ....OF ME, AND PICTURES OF MY MOUTH....IF IT WASNOT FOR THE TEAM ON GOGETFUNDING ...I WOULDNOT HAVE A CAMPAIGN....THEY SET UP EVERYTHING...THEY HELP ME CONSTANTLY...THER ARE SOME OF THE MOST AWESOME ,GENUINE PEOPLE I HAVE EVER MET IN MY LIFE!!!! I TRULY MEAN THAT!!!!!! SO, HERE WE ARE, I HAVE LEARNED TO BE HUMBLE,I HAVE LEARNED THAT THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE ,WHO ARE SO WRAPPED UP IN MATERIAL THINGS AND MONEY,I HAVE LEARNED THAT THE ONLY SURE THING IN MY LIFE,MY ENTIRE LIFE,PAST,PRESENT, AND FUTURE IS MY FAITH IN GOD......I AM GETTING BETTER BY THE DAY, WITH MY OTHER ILLNESSES,EVERYDAY, BUT, WHEN I FINNALLY WENT TO A DENTIST ON JUNE24,2015...I FOUND OUT THINGS WERE MUCH WORSE THAN I COULD OF IMAGINED,I HAVE A AGGRESSIVE DISEASE CALLED Periodontal disease........it is horrific....I took the pictures of whats left of my teeth on may3,2015......in just 2 months ,I am grtting ready to try and post some pictures, in just two months, I have 4 teeth on the bottom,which are in really bad shape ,very loose and decaying from the gumline,i have exposed nerves, where teeth are broken off into the gum, some the gum has grown over, abcesses under the gums, on the gums, even on the roof of my mouth.....they pop and the stuff that leaks out,makes more ,wherever it touches,more abcesses, none was donating to my campaign, I work hard on it, believe me, after everything I have been through, I refuse to die, because I don’t have funds for dental work, I fought for my life for all these years, and then I take charge, change my diet,stopped almost all medications,i m feeling better and now this...a disease I canot fight, unless I have this surgry, the oral surgen even donated....its like a 75 t0 50 thousand dollar procedure...she is doing it for 12 thousand dollars....I know I need a video, that’s like a lot of percentive of donations, since may, I have raised 8 thousand dollars......I am short 4 thousand, maybe five...because I need a bone graft now, the disease is like eating my mouth, now my cheekbones are hurting, and thru bloodwork, it is in my blood......my campaign has come to a standstill....no one is donating...so, I am going to try to put a event together, how I doinot know,everybody says, just let me know if you need help....when I asked, none calls back....alone again......but, the lesson from god was needed, this had to happen, to humble me....and to put the drive back into me, to be more determined than ever, to raise this last four thousand dollars.....so, lesson taught, lesson understood.....there is no humanity left in this world, and it needs to be restored, god wants me to help him do that, and along the way, help people, like me, and not like me....people who have lost hope!!!!! people who need to restore their faith in god....if you donot have faith, what do you have????nothing.......people need to start seeing other people with humanity, so, their humanity will be restored....I would give anything...after my surgry of course, to go to a country were all humanity is just not there anymore.....to teach people to be humble, live with integrity, be more than willing to help thy neighbor.....people are to the point of ,if they donot start living the way god intended,,,,,i donot even think of whats coming next.......I have no idea why I told you all of this...I feel like I was told to tell you,i donot know why, you are among very few people I have told this to!!!!!! I did not tell you to get sympathy, I told you , because I want you to know how serious I am ,about learning from you....I always say everything happens for a reason.....today, god connected us,for a reson,i believe ,because you are genuine, and you believe for the most part what I strongly believe in....and I believe god wants you to teach me....so, I know, I have faith I will get the rest of my funding soon,sooner than I think, I need to be ready ,to do gods lightwrk with him......and I want to be as genuine as you.....thank you for reading my story,even though I skipped a lot of parts....I hope that someday soon we can talk, and get to know eac other,like I said god puts people together for a reason......out of all these people on this site, you were the frstr one I came to,and couldbnot stop reading.....I am exhausted....my email is [email protected] ....I am looking forward to hearing from you.....blessings to you....with all my respect,....kind regards....XXXjanet Anderson Hope4mePlease/ ....listed in medical/healing...thank you and goodnight

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  • Posted On Oct 31, 2012
  • All I can do is run 26.2 miles (to explain the reasoning behind my donation amount). You do way more every day, Suzanne. I am so in awe of you and so glad we met thanks to Hurricane Katrina. Next time I will join you for sure. Much love and have fun.

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  • Posted On Oct 15, 2012
  • Hope you come back....

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  • Posted On Oct 08, 2012
  • We're all so proud of you here in CT. Thank you for making a difference.

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  • Posted On Oct 05, 2012
  • I'm so impressed with the good work you do Suzanne. Someday I'd like to join you on one of your missions.

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  • Posted On Oct 04, 2012
  • What a great undertaking!

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  • Posted On Oct 03, 2012
  • You are beyond inspiring :)

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  • Posted On Oct 03, 2012
  • Thanks for caring so much about people

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  • Posted On Oct 02, 2012
  • you rock, Suzanne!

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