Latest update as of Dec 17, 2025

  • The story thus far

    So some of you know that this year has been a bit of a ride for my family. James my boyfriend of 10 years has had some serious almost deadly health issues this year. Not the least of which was an amputation of his right big toe, due some genetic circulation issues. It's been hard and because of some friends/family and my work as a illustrator we've been managing to squeak by for the most part. He has a doctors appointment tomorrow where we're pretty sure they'll tell him he has to have more time to heal so he will be off work longer. Because the amputation isn't healing correctly, he has a scan coming up in a couple weeks to figure out where the current circulation issue is. But long story short it's a long ride and my income isn't going to be enough in the end. I hate asking for hand outs and honestly I probably wont reach enough people

    The story thus far

About this fundraiser

Hello! I hate doing things like this but honestly I'm kinda at my wits end. This year has been a roller coaster ride of crap. 

Mother's day of this year my boyfriend of 10 years woke up unable to see from one of his eyes. The vision came mostly back, however they didn't/don't know what caused it. 

So fast forward to August he's had a blind spot and headache for 3 months. Then his toe nail gets infected, we took him to the er where they removed the toe nail. By the end of October we decided it wasn't getting any better and went back to the doctors. 

The doctors then determined that the toe had become gangrenes and had to be removed. After lots of tests and stress and worry they found that my partner had almost no blood flow to his legs. So after three surgeries and a week in the hospital he's minus a toe but alive. (Doctors said he would have died of we waited longer) 

What this means for us however besides tons of stress is this. 

My boyfriend makes the consistent money in our house hold (works as a handyman). I work as a freelance illustrator and while I make decent money its not consistent.  We're currently scrambling to find ways to pay our bills but we don't haven any family that we can ask for help. 

So I guess we will see how this does. 

 

If we reach our goal we will use the funds to pay our bills for the next month or so while we wait for him to be cleared for work again.

Organized by

Victoria Dryden

Vallejo, CA, USA

Organizer