https://www.gofundme.com/please-help-kylee-pay-her-medical-bills
We all know and love Miss Kylee @breakburnandendz (tumblr’s funniest blogger and Taylor’s original favourite human) and right now she needs our help. In September, Kylee travelled to St Louis with Anthony to see miss Taylor on the Reputation World Tour when one of her internal organs (her appendix) started rotting inside of her body. Sounds pretty hardcore but in fact this meant that she had to go to the emergency room the night before the show and ended up not being able to see Taylor. You all know how much Kylee loves Taylor and how devastating that would have been (and she was obviously absolutely shattered), but she put on her brave face, told us all that she was grateful for the experiences with Taylor that she’s had, and literally gave her ticket away instead of selling it so another fan could experience the joy.
But anyway. You know how normally when you have an issue with your appendix the surgeon just cuts it out and you eat ice cream for a few days and then you’re sweet for the rest of your life? Yeah well Kylee is superior to others in most ways so it makes sense that her appendix would not be outdone by other people’s regular ass appendixes. Her appendix issue was the worst that her surgeon had ever seen, causing the infection to leak into other parts of her body and making Kylee borderline septic which nearly landed her in the ICU. So after the operation, Kylee took a long time to heal, her antibiotics weren’t working, and they had to put a tube in her stomach and a PICC line in her arm which lasted for weeks and put her pretty much out of commission for way longer than most people would have been. This was obviously a painful and depressing and all around terrible experience which nobody deserves, but especially not Kylee.
At the time she had health insurance through her work, but she no longer works at that particular job so she now has had to depend on government funded insurance, which we all know is terrible to the point of bordering on useless because healthcare in the United States is a terrifying dystopian nightmare. Her bills total over $7000. She can’t afford it. She was worrying to me about what she’s going to do and I suggested making a gofundme, but she said she could never ask people for money. Well, I’m asking for her. Kylee is not and has never been wealthy but since I’ve known her she’s been generous to a fault, always sharing what little she has with others. Only just recently a mutual friend had a loved one pass away very unexpectedly and, despite having all this  debt, Kylee organised for us all to send this person flowers so they knew we were thinking of them. She’s always thinking of others and what she can do to make people’s lives better and I think it’s about time for us others to do the same for her.
Don’t worry if you can’t donate much (or at all), just know that every little bit helps. If even a quarter of Kylee’s tumblr followers donated just $1 she would be able to pay off these bills. I’ve linked a gofundme above, as well as her venmo. Please donate if you’re able to, and if you can’t, please reblog this to spread the word. If you have any questions please message me or Kylee, here or on twitter (@whoskylee, @jesshakeitoff). Kylee almost didn’t even let me make this because she felt so guilty about asking people for money but that’s exactly why she deserves it.
Firstly, thank you so so so so soooo much to everyone who has already donated to Kylee or tried to bring attention to this post. The original post was actually deleted, I’m assuming because tumblr somehow mistook it for p**n, because they got a 7 year old to write their coding, but anyway. Kylee has a new bill due next week and the total is even more than what she had originally estimated when I first made this gofundme page. The amount of money we’ve raised so far is less than the amount that she will owe in just 3 days. It would mean so much if people could continue spreading awareness or donating if you’re able to (although it’s obviously totally 100% fine if you aren’t able to). Thank you guys 💖
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