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Stacey Smith needs our help

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* GoFundMe for a well-known and beloved campaign fundraiser and political consultant…

Stacey Smith is a kind, adventurous, fun-loving, passionate, hard-working young woman who so many of us love and adore with all our hearts.

She is a world traveler and a seeker. She is a fiercely loyal, dedicated, intelligent, vibrant human and is the kind of person that just makes you feel good to be around. She is a bright light––and right now, she needs our help.

In July 2019, while on one of her many adventures, Stacey had a water-skiing accident that led to a traumatic brain injury (TBI). This injury has wreaked havoc on everything in her life that she loves … she can’t work, drive, read, listen to music, cook, or travel. Basic daily tasks cause immense, debilitating pain and other symptoms that make life very difficult.

Stacey has been doing everything possible to recover and return to the things she loves, but has recently hit some serious road blocks. In February, she had to be hospitalized for several weeks to treat complications associated with her TBI. This has been a heartbreaking development, but it has brought Stacey’s family, friends, and colleagues together to do whatever it takes to get her back on her feet.

Stacey cannot work right now, and based on her recovery so far, she will likely not be able to work for the foreseeable future.

We are raising money to help cover medical bills from her most recent hospital stay and follow-up treatments. We are also raising funds to help cover the cost of exploring the newest innovative treatments for TBIs, which are not yet covered by insurance. We have learned so much about how difficult it is to treat TBIs, and we are exploring every option available so Stacey can finally have relief from the painful and debilitating effects of her injury. We need help paying for those experimental treatments.

If Stacey has touched your life the way she has touched ours, please consider a donation. Together, we can raise the resources we need to get Stacey back in the driver’s seat of her life and on to bigger and better things.

Thank you for your consideration.

Please, click Stacey’s pic to donate…

Thanks.

posted by Rich Miller
Wednesday, Mar 10, 21 @ 11:29 am

Comments

She sounds like a wonderful person, I hope she is able to get the care she needs to restore her ability to do many of the things she loves.

It’s just sad that we live in a society where people are forced to ask for money from friends and strangers to be able to receive the medical care they need.

Comment by Techie Wednesday, Mar 10, 21 @ 11:56 am
Thanks for sharing Rich. You have a big heart.

Comment by Boone's is Back Wednesday, Mar 10, 21 @ 12:01 pm
== It’s just sad that we live in a society where people are forced to ask for money from friends and strangers to be able to receive the medical care they need. ==

Yeah, that bugs me every time I see it. “There but for the grace of G-d,” and such.

Comment by thunderspirit Wednesday, Mar 10, 21 @ 12:03 pm
There are people who spend their lives working to accrue natural indebtedness from those around them, by their attitude, their service, or their benefit to others. In times of need and desperation, that debt is often repaid, not in the quantity in which it was accrued, but in the spirit of its meaningfulness at the moment.

I hope those whose lives Stnow. made better can think of the same for her right now.

Comment by Ok Wednesday, Mar 10, 21 @ 1:04 pm
Stacey

Comment by Ok Wednesday, Mar 10, 21 @ 1:04 pm
What an outpouring of support. Thanks for sharing this with your community Rich.

Comment by Shytown Wednesday, Mar 10, 21 @ 2:54 pm