One of our own is very ill and needs our help. I've known Angie for 20 years and she has been a part of my fanfiction life for this entire time. 

We love you, Angie! The GoFundMe Link: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-angie-dawn-through-a-medical-crisis-5f448

From the GoFundMe Page:

"My name is Jessi, and Angie has been one of my closest friends for more than twenty years. With the support of our friend Mimi, I’m organizing this fundraiser at the request of Angie’s partner of more than a decade, Dawn.
If you already know Angie, you probably don’t need me to explain why we’re doing this.

If you don’t, let me introduce you to our Angeface.

Angie is possibly the most stereotypically Canadian person I have ever met. She loves The Tragically Hip. She says “sorry” exactly the way you’re imagining. She is deeply introverted until someone she loves needs her, and then somehow she becomes the person who shows up, takes care of everyone, feeds everybody, and makes sure they’re okay.

She writes. She crochets and cross-stitches. She cans things and bakes things and makes things for people she loves. She loves books, mysteries, Stephen King, board games, pets, cooking enormous holiday meals, and gathering her people around a table to eat and laugh.

She is also extremely selective about the people and things she gives her energy to.

But when Angie loves you, she loves you fiercely.

And for more than a decade, Angie and Dawn have built a life around exactly that kind of love.

For the past several years, Angie has been dealing with increasingly serious health problems. Her lymphedema began approximately two years ago and has progressively worsened, with much more serious complications developing this year. She has been unable to work because of her illness, and over the last several months, her health has deteriorated significantly.

For more than six weeks, Angie has been in and out of the hospital and ICU.
Several weeks ago, she developed a severe infection and became septic. Doctors spent weeks treating the infection and then trying to stabilize dangerously low blood pressure. She was eventually able to return home, but only briefly.

Last week, Angie returned to the hospital after developing severe pain and swelling in her right leg. Within days, her condition changed dramatically.
On Friday, doctors told Dawn that Angie was critically ill and required emergency surgery. Before they intubated her, I was lucky enough to speak to her.

She was terrified.

And because this is Angie, and because this is us, we still managed to make each other laugh.

That evening, surgeons performed an emergency above-the-knee amputation of Angie’s right leg.

Because of the significant swelling and fluid in her tissues, surgeons were unable to close the amputation site. They were finally able to close the wound on Sept 5th, but Angie remains intubated and in a medically induced coma in critical but currently stable condition.

The current plan is for Angie to return to surgery Tuesday. Doctors will determine whether they are planning to amputate her left leg because it has begun showing the same frightening signs that appeared on the right.

Her medical team is monitoring her extremely closely.
There is no clear prognosis right now.

What Dawn and the people who love Angie have been told is simply this:
Prepare yourselves. This is really very bad.

There is concern that Angie may not survive to Tuesday’s surgery, through the surgery itself, or the recovery afterward.

But Angie is here.

And right now, we are staying right here with her.

While all of this has been happening, Dawn has been carrying another impossible weight.

Angie has been unable to work for the past couple of years because of her illness. Dawn lost her job several months ago, and as Angie’s health deteriorated, finding new employment became increasingly difficult because Angie needed more and more care.

Dawn became her caregiver.

They have been surviving on extremely limited government assistance and barely scraping by for much of this year.

Now they are approximately two months behind on rent, utilities, and internet.

When Dawn asked Mimi and me to help create this fundraiser, she told us something that I think matters:

She didn’t want to ask.

She doesn’t like asking for help.

But she is two months behind, the financial stress is overwhelming, and right now she simply cannot focus on anything except Angie.

So we are asking for her.

Our immediate goal is to cover their existing household arrears and approximately two additional months of basic living expenses, including rent, utilities, internet, and groceries.

That means giving Dawn something incredibly simple and incredibly important:

Room.

Room to sit beside Angie without calculating rent in the back of her mind.

Room to listen when the doctors speak.

Room to make decisions.

Room to grieve and hope and be terrified and exhausted.

Room to simply be Angie’s partner instead of simultaneously trying to be her caregiver, hospital advocate, financial crisis manager, and everything else this nightmare is demanding of her.

Our initial need is approximately $6,500 USD ($8,800 CAD), covering:

• two months of past-due rent, utilities, and internet
• two additional months of rent, utilities, and internet
• approximately two months of groceries

Funds raised through this GoFundMe will go directly to Dawn to help keep their household stable while Angie remains critically ill.

If Angie’s condition or their needs change, we will update this fundraiser transparently so everyone who helps them knows where things stand.
If you are able to donate, thank you.

If you aren’t able to donate but know Angie, Dawn, or someone whose life has been touched by them, please share this fundraiser.

Angie has spent decades building family everywhere she goes. Biological family. Chosen family. Friends across Canada, the United States, and far beyond.

She is deeply, fiercely loved.

And right now, when there is very little any of us can do to change what is happening inside that ICU, this is something we can do.

We can take one impossible thing off Dawn’s shoulders.

We can give her room to stay beside Angie.

And we can surround them with the same kind of fierce love Angie has spent her life giving to everyone lucky enough to belong to her.

For Angeface. For Dawn. One impossible thing made a little lighter."

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-angie-dawn-through-a-medical-crisis-5f448

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