I’m Finally Able To Get Life-changing Help, And I Can’t Afford It. Please Help Spread This. Please

I’m finally able to get life-changing help, and I can’t afford it. Please help spread this. Please help me work towards recovery instead of getting irreparably worse.

Hi, my name is Casper! Here’s some pictures of me to prove I am a real person. TL;DR I am really sick, here’s my donation fund

photo of a pale nonbinary trans person with messy dark hair, standing in a field, smiling for the camera.

photo of a pale nonbinary trans person in a mirror with a neutral expression, w/ black hair poking out a yellow beanie, and a yellow shirt.

I just got laid off due to covid 19- I was working full time even though my job was bad for my condition. I’m a chronically ill, disabled, and mentally ill trans and nonbinary person (ehlers danlos syndrome, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, narcolepsy, hypermobility, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic pain syndrome, chronic costochondritis, gastroparesis, endometriosis, PTSD, major depression, anxiety, and much more). I finally moved out of my small town, which only supplied healthcare via deeply transphobic and religious sources.

Since doing so I have finally had access to care. I started therapy and got my chronic illnesses accurately diagnosed. I have had these illnesses mostly since birth, but they became unmanageable 6 years ago and I have been suffering with no known cure or diagnosis since. These illnesses almost made me drop out of school and have already impacted my career.

Now I finally have treatment open to me, and it could change my life. Please help me. My illnesses are actively getting worse and threatening to prevent me from doing the only things I care about. I have not been bedridden like this since before I figured out how to manage my symptoms, and I have never been in this much constant pain.

My shitty insurance will not cover anything until I pay $1000 for my deductible per treatment type. I need 3 types (listed below). After I do that, they’ll cover 80% of the expenses and I can hopefully handle it then. Unemployment will be enough to cover my rent and food, luckily, but not much else. State healthcare would not help me more than my current healthcare. I am applying for disability now that I have a diagnosis but it is a lengthy process.

1. My insurance WAS covering therapy but surprise! They changed their minds, didn’t tell me until this week, and now I’m $850 in debt to my therapist and I’ll have to stop therapy cold turkey right when I need it most. Once I pay back the $850 debt + $150 to hit the deductible, I can continue therapy. That’s hoping I don’t accrue a ton of interest before that happens and become hopelessly in debt.

2. My physical therapy to help me stop dislocating my joints constantly and being in so much pain I can’t sleep, walk, or draw was slated to start April 15th (today) and continue weekly for 7 weeks. If I can pay $1000 of visits, I hopefully can manage to pay the co-pay after insurance kicks in.

3. And finally, I desperately need a psychiatrist. Psychiatrists are the only kind of doctor that can give me the kind of medication that will help the majority of my physical illnesses - not just my mental illnesses. My nerves bombard my brain with pain signals and the only way to begin to help me is to quiet those signals. Again, I’ll need to pay $1000 to that doctor as well before my benefits kick in.

This isn’t even counting what I’ll be needing to pay for my medications and mobility aids (I need splints to stop my joints from dislocating, but they are not cheap). I am going to have to put those things on hold, along with a terrible tooth infection that I have been trying to save up to fix for 3 years now.

GoFundMe’s 3% fee tacks on about $90 assuming I somehow manage to raise this money

.https://www.gofundme.com/f/ehlers-danlos-syndrome-treatment-for-casper

That brings me to a minimum of $3,090 to get into the doctor’s office.

Please help spread this. I know everyone is in a tough spot right now, and I deeply appreciate it. My life was just about to finally get better when this came crashing down on me.

Here’s some of my art. Its the only thing I have to offer the world most days. I want to continue living and making my work. Please help.

portrait of the great psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, rendered in blue and yellow colored pencil

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