#wheelsformackenzie

[rinellawashere]

Is there anything I can do, donate to a fundraiser or something, to help you in the meantime before you get your chair back? This entire thing is ridiculous and wrong and shouldn't be happening at all, and I want to help you as much as I can without being in Portland (as I'm from New Jersey).

Well, I’ve got a fundraiser, which I’ve got a link to up there in my description, but it massively cleared the goal. Instead, I’m currently trying to help raise funds here for a girl up in Washington who needs a new chair!

If you wanted to donate to me, please donate to her instead- I threw in a few hours ago, but every cent helps!

https://www.gofundme.com/kf5yydrw

[rinellawashere]

An Update and a Request

Hey there! It’s been one week, almost to the hour, since I found out my chair was stolen. In that time, the Internet has been pouring support on me. The YouCaring fundraiser has hit $4,087 dollars, over a thousand dollars past the original goal. I’ve got over three hundred messages of support sitting in my inbox from all over the world.

And on Friday, I was measured for a new chair.

This has all been amazing, and I’m incredibly grateful for the kind of charity and love I’ve experienced. I am incredibly fortunate to have received it.

Let’s see if we can make it happen again.

Mackenzie McCullough is a teenager from Washington, and she’s got a huge list of diagnoses, the only one of which I can even spell is Ehler-Danlos Syndrome. The current chair she has is an absolute clunker, and she can’t make it move at all, rendering her immobile. She needs a new one, badly, but insurance can’t help.

Maybe we can. A family friend of hers reached out to me with the link to her GoFundMe, asking if I could help. I figure that this is maybe what part of this blog can become- a place to help direct all the goodwill I’ve received towards other people who need it.

Please, if you can help, do so, and if not, signal boost. Let’s give a kid back her life. #wheelsformackenzie

https://www.gofundme.com/kf5yydrw