TLDR: I don’t have any other social media besides this place and I need help paying for my cat’s cancer and I guess all American healthcare is a popularity contest, not just human healthcare. Please click the link to my GoFundMe and help me pay for my cat’s cancer treatment. Thank you and I’m sorry. https://gofund.me/12ffb65b5

I know that it is gauche but seeing as this is literally the only social media that I have (outside of watching YouTube on occasion which I don’t think counts) I am kind of in a bind and I hope you will all forgive me.

Many of you have probably seen the few posts I made about a month ago about my cat Zee who has cancer. He’s doing really really well, surprisingly so according to my vets, with radiation and chemo. He’s regained all the weight he lost since December and he’s enjoying he warm weather with me in the garden. The only downside to him doing very well is that his treatment is very very expensive. I haven’t had the guts to really sit down and crunch the numbers on what it’s cost me thus far but we are in the $19,000 range and we have three more months of chemo to go. The rough total when all is said and done is going to be about $23,000.

I asked on here over a month ago if anybody knew where to ask for help and I got some places to look. The unfortunate thing is that, I guess because of the rise of social media, most of the places that used to help lower income people with high vet bills have moved to a ‘we will help you share an ad campaign’ model. The internet has made all American health care a popularity contest, not just human health care. The problem with those places is they expect you to use their ad campaign and to do most of the work sharing your ad on your social medias which is, as you could see, a problem because I don’t have any. I used to spend way too much time and energy online and it just made me feel empty and soulless. so I left and when I did I deleted everything. If I were to go create new social media accounts it wouldn’t look like someone rejoining the internet to ask for help, it would look like a scammer with a brand new account trying to trick people into giving them sympathy money. 🤦‍♀️

Anywho I’ve gone on long enough. Basically I need help. I’ve asked all of my friends and family and different local groups I’m a part of if they could help or share the campaign. So far, after a solid 3 weeks of asking people in my life for help, the GoFundMe has $70. It’s not nothing but in the grand scheme of how much I need… it kind of feels like nothing. So I’m asking my Internet people, in the only community I’ve really posted anything to in the last 3 years, please help.

Thank you for taking the time to read if you got all the way to the end. Again, I am sorry for the handout request. I know it’s gross and uncomfortable and no one likes them and it’s gross and uncomfortable and I don’t like it… but I am kind of out of options.

https://gofund.me/12ffb65b5