Neil Gaiman

theprecariouspenis:

Click here to donate money to my partner’s gofundme so she can get her teeth fixed! Everything helps!

This summer, my partner Elin and I are moving away to college. This is an exciting time for both of us, and a financially draining one. But right now Elin is facing an extra unforeseen cost. 

About a year ago, me and the lovely elliehoneyy​ started dating. But between our 2nd and 3rd dates, and before our first kiss, her teeth began to give her a lot of trouble. Her face swelled a lot, her gums started to disintegrate, and her teeth began to hurt and shift. She was in and out of the hospital for more than a week. The swelling went down, but her teeth continue to give her trouble. Sometimes her face still swells, and her teeth still shift. Almost every day, she is in so much pain that she can barely think, yet she still pushes herself to go to work and to school. 

As she describes in her own post telling her story, all of this trouble with her teeth happened because of a severely abusive relationship she was in from age 14 to 16. He broke her nose, and that caused irreparable damage to her teeth. I urge you to click this link and read her own words on what happened to her and how it continues to affect her. Two of her teeth got infected after routine dental work last year, and while waiting for a consultation covered by Medi-Cal, the infection has spread to four more teeth and her jaw. 

She has decided that instead of waiting to get a root canal in each individual tooth and giving the infection even more time to spread, she is going to get the infected teeth pulled and get partial dentures. Medi-Cal will not cover this decision, but waiting is putting her at more risk, to lose more teeth and to fall behind in school, so she needs some help. 

Please donate, and if you can’t donate, please reblog! Every little bit helps!  

(via everythingwasgay)