Any ideas that would be helpful would be appreciated.
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Hello everyone! If this is the wrong group to post this question, I apologize. I am not very involved in the Reddit world except for reading comments to questions here and there usually from my Google searches. I don't want to use my regular account at the moment because I find this situation very embarrassing.
Short overview for now but can expand if anyone has questions.
I had a serious medical incident a few years back, has taken me a long time to recover and I'm still not there but I have now came to a roadblock and I am out of ideas. Because of this issue I am now on disability, I do work here & there when I can but medical issues but that short. There are 2 big surgeries that I need to get but my insurance will not cover them. I've tried every angle but one is considered elective and the other they will partially cover one type of operation, its been attempted 3 times only to leave me in worse condition.
The only thing I can think now is I have no choice but to start a fundraiser on Gofundme or another alike and ask for help. I have never looked down on someone who needed help but I find it embarrassing that I am asking for it now. I wouldn't say its my pride or anything, I just feel like starting a fundraiser for myself is admitting that I have basically become useless. Maybe that is pride, I don't know. But anyways, to the point.
What I'm asking is for advice on how to go about it and ideas for the type of fundraiser. Some give out merch when you donate, or people become "sponsors" to have a company name to be part of it. I guess a way to catch people's attention to either donate or at least grab enough of their attention to repost or share. I don't have a big social media following, like none, just never been my thing. I have almost no family, my family has always been extremely destructive so I walked away years ago with one of my siblings. Ive tried for care credit, bank loan but my score is like a low 600 because I am still rebuilding after my medical incident. I spent months in the hospital, months afterwards I was lucky to be able to walk around the house for a few minutes each day, my bills went unpaid for a good amount of time which destroyed my credit. I've racked my brain for awhile now and the best idea I have came up with is a tattoo sponsorship.
My idea was offering certain sizes on certain areas of me that a person, a company, whoever could sponsor an area and basically decide what I should get tattooed in that area. Obviously within reason, lol, if I ever do get better I would like to get back into the business world and can't have crazy stuff all over my body. I would reach out to some local shops and try to find an artist that might give me a little discount if I agree to have them do all the work, I would record them getting done and post on the fundraiser page with the tattoo artist info in the videos to hopefully have some content to get some traction. Im sure big companies aren't going to purchase a spot because they don't want their logo on some random but fingers crossed there would be enough people out there willing to help. This might be a terrible idea or a good idea that I'm looking at the wrong way, one of the reasons I am seeking everyone's opinion.
Or if you have a different idea, I am all ears. I really do appreciate if you read all of this, sorry for taking up your time. I do have some business projects ive been working on like a few apps that if I could get at least one up and running I would be willing to sell off some equity in it. I thought that would be another possibility but im sure I am reaching on that one. But anyways, thank you everyone for info you have that woukd help.
P.S.- We desperately need a complete overhaul of our medical industry in America.