It really does exist.
Skip to the last two paragraphs if you don’t want the whole story. 😀
A lady known as SunnyBee or Holly comments at According To Hoyt and the Mad Genius Club; her son was in the hospital, so one of the groups decided to try to organize a meal train, but online. While she’s the person who keeps track of who has something stressful going on, checks up on if someone’s taking their medication, does respectful motherly nagging to eat, sleep, maybe see some sunlight every week or two, commiserates with everyone because she’s got a nice big group of kids as well… she’s out of range for swinging by to bring a baked dish.
When it was shared to one of the private forums where Sunny and I both read, her response was to carefully ask if folks would be offended if they used it towards their insurance deductible, instead of take-out food, and we found out they have a combined max-out-of-pocket and deductible, $12,000. I think that’s basically catastrophic, but I don’t have to tell folks here how quickly a hospital stay will chew through that.
So, the meal train was quickly updated to reflect that they were going to use it to pay the medical bills.
Besides a bunch of “I want to help, here’s a twenty” type donations, two different anonymous people have given a thousand dollars. One from before it was put on Sarah’s blog, which greatly limits the range of who could’ve seen it and donated.
Figured people could stand to hear something heart warming– even online, people are going to people, and that can be awesome as well as something said with a deep sigh.
Thanks for sharing Foxfier- prayers for that lady and her son. I agree with you- online communities are full of decent people who want to help.
There is a lot of toxic interactions between people that float around the World Wide Web because it’s easy to be dismissive of the fact that you are talking to a living, breathing human being with feelings on the other end when you interact online. But, if the online community exists for good intention (eg. TAC ☝🏼) then the people who frequent it, comment on it and belong to it will also be full of good intention. I am grateful for this community and the privilege to share my views and I find all of the regulars (even if we have had a disagreement or argy bargy) thoroughly decent and good intentioned. And in my prayers.
❤️ prayers for speedy recovery.
Insurance is not what you think it is – anymore.
12k out of pocket sounds right, esp for the working class poor.
A lot of good people out there.
Excellent post. Thank you.
I am still in tears… I can’t imagine a thousand dollars in one place.
And TWO folks blessed my friend!
This– Oh thank God!