My Wife's Medical Fund

I don't know if this violates any rules of our forum or not. If so, I apologize and by all means, let me know and remove it.

As you know, I have been unemployed sense Jan 12th. A long time, and my wife is the sick one. We have been struggling ever sense my insurance has gone away to get medication and cant get any medical help for checkups and such. We barely have the money to buy food when we need to and have had to ask friends and family for help as we do not qualify for any government (city or otherwise) assistance programs, for one reason or another. So, out of desperation, I created this website to help out, which so for, it hasn't. So, we are trying other avenues to get it out there. She started a Twitter page , even tried to get an sponsored link on Google, which also didnt work. I've run out of ideas so I'm posting it here. Help if you can, or at least, pass it on to others. Thank you for your kindness in advance.

http://home.comcast.net/~shauseur/index.html

Been there before, and know what it is like to have unemployment not even cover the COBRA payments, much less even a fraction of the common and simple expenses on top of it... so much for "Insurance".

I wish I could help, but the financial fecal material of the past 18 months has me in only a little better shape, and only because I had a nice inheritance to get me through. But that is exhausted, the problems continue, and there were no raises for anyone at CMU this year, and so I am not out of the woods in any way (too many of us in this boat, which is in danger of capsizing). I will, however, say a prayer for ya.

Makes me very sad to hear of your plight
and it makes me glad to live in Canada were at least our doctors visit if not the medications would be covered by the gov't.
not sure if I can help but I'll post the link were I can.

i am so sorry. i know how frustrating it is to deal with docs and not get anything to help you by when you dearly need it. please hang in there. we will help if we can. right now we are in the same boat. It was Seths first bday and we couldnt get him anything but a cake. he is little and doesnt need anything but still its hard not to have anything and worse still to see dear friends struggling and not have anything either. ill pray for you two and i posted the link where i could. hang in there. *hugs*

Flak Monkey wrote:

I don't know if this violates any rules of our forum or not. If so, I apologize and by all means, let me know and remove it.

For something like this, we approve.

> She started a Twitter page

Good call. I'd also have her set up a free wordpress account and blog about her experiences with this and healthcare in general. With the current health care debate, it's likely to draw a lot of eyes, and I'd blog knowing that information. Every time she does a blog post, she should tweet it out. She should also have donation links on the wordpress blog and you or her should get google analytics going and pay a lot of attention to what people are visiting the blog and why.

For SEO purposes, make sure and name the blog something that people would probably search for.. something like healthcareforme. I'd probably shy away from her name for the blog name.

Once her blog gets going, She should go to similar blogs, and post comments with links back to her blog articles. Other bloggers will do the same with comments on her blog. It helps build reputation and also improves your search rankings.

Anyway, I hope these quick tips help,

Dru

Thank you, everyone. And thanks Dru for the info. I will let my wife know.