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WhiteTara

(31,193 posts)
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 10:05 AM Monday

I admit it. I need help. UPDATE

Last edited Mon Jan 5, 2026, 01:00 PM - Edit history (1)

I really don't know how to do this. I'm always ready to help others, but it's so hard to admit that I need help.

Five years ago, my beloved Mr. WT became deathly ill and because we have such an illustrious medical system, he coded and spent five years fighting against one system failure after another. During this time, I spent every minute of every day with him in the hospital and rehab to save his life. I'm so grateful to say that he is soooo much better. It has been one full year without ambulances, ER visits, hospital stays or rehab. All his doctors (9 of them) are amazed that he is both alive and beginning to thrive. But to get here, it has taken almost everything; savings, credit cards and now debt. As someone famous said, "I've spent the last pi aster I can borrow."

We have a chance to re-right our lives, but being what seems to be our lives of being terminally broke, we are just steps away from being able to get there. Once there was a time when there was money in our lives and Mr. WT bought art, specifically Asian Buddhist art, statues of stone, porcelain and wood; paintings made of gold foil of Buddhas, Guan Yins and angels. His dream was to open a meditation center and have the art support the endeavor. However, life intervened and that didn't ever materialize; and today, we have a basement full.

There is an art auction in St. Louis next month, and if we could get the art there, we could sell it for whatever the market will bear. We have to get it to the auctioneers very soon so they have time to photograph and catalog the pieces. The problem is getting it there. To clean, load and transport it is about $2000. The people who will load into the truck will do it on an invoice, so there is $1200 of it taken care of for the moment. We have $300 to pay for the truck, but the truck, with gas, costs $750 - $800. We would drive the rental truck with a car trailer so we can drop the truck and drive home. I'm short (about 6" tall) and that's where we need help. We need $450 more to be able to do this.

I know our community is a very generous one, and I'm hoping you all will find our situation worthy and help us. Will you please help me?
Humbly, White Tara.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-sheri-transport-art-to-auction-to-save-our-house

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I admit it. I need help. UPDATE (Original Post) WhiteTara Monday OP
How far do you get through the process... LuckyCharms Monday #1
I can't find how to set up, it just says sign in WhiteTara Monday #2
I messaged you. n/t LuckyCharms Monday #3
Please update when the GoFundMe is set up EverHopeful Monday #4
Thank you. Lucky Charms made it happen for me WhiteTara Monday #7
White Tara, please see if this link works for you LuckyCharms Monday #5
Thanks to Lucky Charms, I have a go fund me WhiteTara Monday #6
Best wishes and good luck, White Tara. LuckyCharms Monday #8
... WhiteTara Monday #9
Shouldn't it include the amount needed and a progress? At least, I have seen it with others.. question everything Monday #10
It was set up for $450. I think it needs a first donation... LuckyCharms Monday #11
Goal is now visible on Go Fund Me link. LuckyCharms Monday #14
Thanks. I will donate. question everything Monday #23
Thank you for your donation and for... LuckyCharms Monday #24
You are incredible. WhiteTara Monday #50
My pleasure, WhiteTara. LuckyCharms Monday #52
I don't know how to set up a Go Fund Me account, but I wanted to wish you well. debm55 Monday #12
Thank you deb! WhiteTara Monday #49
THE GOAL IS NOW SHOWN ON GO FUND ME. LuckyCharms Monday #13
K&R dickthegrouch Monday #15
Thanks for your help! What makes me WhiteTara Monday #18
And Buddhism doesn't ask for adherents to give up another religion. Buddhists recognize Christ as a Bodhisattva. marble falls Monday #35
Exactly. WhiteTara Monday #38
I don't have much but it's on its way, sorry to hear of your burden. Everyone in ths country (except the wealthy) ... marble falls Monday #16
I'm convinced that this particular hospital group WhiteTara Monday #17
No doubt in my mind "managed" healthcare is much more about managing profits than healthcare. marble falls Monday #31
Thank you for your help. WhiteTara Monday #21
You've given me too many good postings to let this opportunity to show my appreciation to pass. marble falls Monday #32
Thank you. WhiteTara Monday #36
I'm literally crying at the love and support WhiteTara Monday #19
Done Deep State Witch Monday #20
Thank you sweet Witch! WhiteTara Monday #22
K'n'R! justaprogressive Monday #25
I'm sorry I didn't see this sooner, I gave a little. Best of Luck WhiteTara JMCKUSICK Monday #26
Thank you so much! WhiteTara Monday #33
Good work! You know yourself, seeds of kindness grow! marble falls Monday #34
You are really kind WhiteTara Monday #37
Done. Wish you and Mr. WhiteTara well. debm55 Monday #27
Thank you. I know this is a stretch for everyong WhiteTara Monday #28
Sorry to hear that WT jfz9580m Monday #29
Thank you WhiteTara Monday #48
We are all in this together WhiteTara jfz9580m Monday #56
Tiny amount donated, but huge good luck wishes. quaint Monday #30
All the best to you and your husband. Fla Dem Monday #39
I hope it will be helpful WhiteTara Monday #40
Kick JMCKUSICK Monday #41
Bump, bumped, bumping! questionseverything Monday #42
thank you! WhiteTara Monday #43
Best of luck White Tara - TBF Monday #44
thank you! WhiteTara Monday #47
I just gave, White Tara! some_of_us_are_sane Monday #45
Thank you for our kindness WhiteTara Monday #46
Just made my contribution.....and so happy to do it. a kennedy Monday #51
Thank you so much WhiteTara Monday #54
Sent a bit... Alephy Monday #53
Thank you!! WhiteTara Monday #55
Donated and wishing you both all the best! Rhiannon12866 Tuesday #57
I sent a few bucks. CrispyQ Tuesday #58
If you were in NW Arkansas WhiteTara Tuesday #59

EverHopeful

(645 posts)
4. Please update when the GoFundMe is set up
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 11:15 AM
Monday

Can't spare a large amount but this month's bills are covered so can chip in a bit.

Not tech savvy enough to help set it up, sorry.

LuckyCharms

(21,785 posts)
11. It was set up for $450. I think it needs a first donation...
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 11:40 AM
Monday

I'm going to kick a few bucks in to see if that initializes the $450 goal request.

LuckyCharms

(21,785 posts)
24. Thank you for your donation and for...
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 12:27 PM
Monday

pointing out the missing goal.

This was the first time I've ever tried to help someone with setting up a GoFundMe, and it looks like it needed to receive the first donation to initiate the viewing of the goal.

dickthegrouch

(4,297 posts)
15. K&R
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 12:02 PM
Monday

Best wishes and good karma for you and your husband, WT.
Buddhism is the only religion I respect.
Donated.

WhiteTara

(31,193 posts)
18. Thanks for your help! What makes me
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 12:10 PM
Monday

Continue to be a student is that Buddhists don't believe in a god and Buddha only showed people what he did and said try it for yourself.

marble falls

(71,068 posts)
35. And Buddhism doesn't ask for adherents to give up another religion. Buddhists recognize Christ as a Bodhisattva.
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 01:05 PM
Monday

marble falls

(71,068 posts)
16. I don't have much but it's on its way, sorry to hear of your burden. Everyone in ths country (except the wealthy) ...
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 12:07 PM
Monday

... deserves the level of care I get from VA.

WhiteTara

(31,193 posts)
17. I'm convinced that this particular hospital group
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 12:09 PM
Monday

has an unwritten mandate to kill old people. It sure seemed like it. It wasn't until I transferred him to another hospital that he began to get the care he needed to live.

marble falls

(71,068 posts)
31. No doubt in my mind "managed" healthcare is much more about managing profits than healthcare.
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 12:54 PM
Monday

marble falls

(71,068 posts)
32. You've given me too many good postings to let this opportunity to show my appreciation to pass.
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 12:56 PM
Monday

WhiteTara

(31,193 posts)
28. Thank you. I know this is a stretch for everyong
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 12:48 PM
Monday

and I can't tell you how much it means to me.

jfz9580m

(16,573 posts)
29. Sorry to hear that WT
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 12:52 PM
Monday

I kicked in 5 bucks..It is only symbolic, but hope others can help out more substantially.

jfz9580m

(16,573 posts)
56. We are all in this together WhiteTara
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 10:55 PM
Monday

I would much rather willingly pitch in for someone I want to help than have robber barrons in tech redistribute my resources as they see fit to say buy Sundar Pichai, Alexandr Wang or their spouses new golden undies to delicately pass gas into.

I never see it as anything but giving back to the community of (non oligarch) humans here or anywhere. We are all struggling because of those hoarders.

What i am trying to say is that no one should ever feel bad about asking for help. I see myself as someone who needs to give back rather than ask for help because I was taken out of commission in the prime of my life by the “I deserve golden underwear I can toot into because I work at Google/Facebook!” type and now I am getting back to work. But it angers me to see so many people struggling because of a small set of creepy sleazebags allied with Trump, but less obviously.

Hang in there WhiteTara..hopefully it gets better for everyone (except of course Sundar Pichai and Alexandr Wang…they can toot into regular cotton undies like stalwart defenders of the people like Slavoj Zizek/Mitesh Bohra/Jonathan Haidt/Derek Thompson/Jay Kaspian Kang/Jasmine Tayag/Ezra Klein etc.).

-jfz9580m
(I vaguely remember having seen a porcelain Buddha like the one in your icon..but I can’t remember where).

Fla Dem

(27,422 posts)
39. All the best to you and your husband.
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 01:16 PM
Monday

You have certainly shown courage and determination over the past 5 years. Good luck with the art auction, Hopefully it will be a sell out for you.

Take care.....never give up.

some_of_us_are_sane

(2,768 posts)
45. I just gave, White Tara!
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 07:04 PM
Monday

Good luck with your trip AND your sales! My best to you and your husband....two appreciators of GREAT beauty. Have wonderful and fruitful auction!

a kennedy

(35,297 posts)
51. Just made my contribution.....and so happy to do it.
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 08:30 PM
Monday

Happy I could. Good luck with all you need to get done to begin your “normal” life.

CrispyQ

(40,670 posts)
58. I sent a few bucks.
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 12:33 PM
Tuesday

Sorry the meditation center never happened. Good luck at the sale. Man, would my husband love to look through your collection!

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