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Hey guys, I just wanted to remind all of you that the 24-Hour Campaign for Save Kelsey’s Heart is going to be on Monday, January 23, starting at 8 AM CST. The campaign will run until the following morning, Tuesday, January 24, at 8 AM CST. (Also, please note that I’m super lazy and may not wake up at 8 AM, but I will certainly let you guys know if the goal has been reached as soon as I wake up!) 

The goal is to raise $4,000+ in 24 hours, to hopefully get the total to around $15,000 (30% of the total goal of $50,000), so we’ll need everyone’s help! Email your friends, post the link to the fundraiser on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr (and any other social network you may be a part of). Also, actual word of mouth helps, too. I’m going to put the link on some sticky notes and leave them around town. *Please do not write directly on someone else’s property. This is not me supporting vandalism!*

Now, for updates. I know that some of you don’t follow my personal blog, which you’re more than welcome to do, by the way, so I’ll get you guys caught up on here. I finally have enough money in donations to be able to make an initial appointment with a cardiologist and have several tests done, if needed. I decided that I would go to my best friend’s cardiologist, because I had met him before, and Jarrod seemed to think that he would be able to help me. I tried to make an appointment a few days ago, and the receptionist called me back and said that he wouldn’t be able to see me because he doesn’t know anything about Tetralogy of Fallot. This angered me a little bit, because he’s a cardiologist at Baylor in Dallas, and he doesn’t know about one of the most common congenital heart defects in the world? Anyway, she said that she’d talked to the other cardiologists in the office, and they wouldn’t take me simply because I don’t have insurance, which angered me even more than Dr. Parmar’s reason for not seeing me. The receptionist gave me the name of another cardiologist at Parkland who might take me, so my next step is to try to call her office and make an appointment there.

I have another appointment on Monday (the same day as the campaign) with a new general physician to see about getting on anti-depressants or whatever she sees fit. I’ve had problems my whole life, but fittingly, I think, when you have heart problems, it sometimes makes depression even worse, which is what’s happening with me now. I imagine the added stress of being scared of all of this is probably not helping, either. So I’m going to try to get that taken care of and hopefully I’ll be in a better place in my life soon. 

So that’s where I am right now.