Few people get through life without having trouble or pain and sorrow, but some people seem to get more than their share of hard times.
Long-time Kossack weezilgirl has had an interesting life, as the Official photographer of the Navajo Nation Rodeo Cowboy's Association and also working for Willie Nelson. But since last fall, Life has been lobbing lemons at her like an out-of-control pitching machine.
First, her computer died. She’s on a very tight fixed income, and there wasn’t any way for her to buy a replacement, not even a second-hand machine.
weezie lives in a very isolated area where the cost-of-living is much lower, but without her connection to the Internet, she wasn’t able to log onto Daily Kos and talk to her pals at places like Morning Open Thread, which is where I first met her. All of us at MOT were missing her sometimes funny but always pithy comments, so I sent her a Kos Mail, hoping she’d somehow get it,
I asked if she’d like me to launch a fundraiser to help her replace her computer. She eventually responded from a public library computer in the nearest town, a 40 mile trip: “Let me think on the computer. I feel a little conflicted because I know there are members here who need help with getting by.”
The long frustrating gaps in our communication haven’t been easy for her: “I do really get depressed because I can't come to DK daily. As you know, I'm in a nasty nest of Republicans...”
Just how nasty she was about to find out.
weezilgirl shares what she has with a collection of lost or abandoned dogs and cats that have turned up on her doorstep. They’ve repaid her many times over with devoted companionship, but it leaves even less for anything but the absolute essentials.
Dinah was her snake-hunting dog. “This year she found 3 water moccasins in our yard. She was my only dog that could smell a snake and locate it. She was devoted to her job and saved us from being bitten several times.”
You may have seen her heart-breaking diary last November “Dinah Got Her Wings Last Week” www.dailykos.com/...
“My dear Dinah was shot and killed last week.
We were in the pasture and I heard a car pass but didn’t look at it. I heard a pop and Dinah fell instantly. I ran and threw myself over her for protection but when I saw her face, I knew she was dead. Why? Why? Why?”
What kind of miserable low-life shoots somebody’s dog? This understandably plunged weezie into a deep depression.
Then in March, she was badly burned an accident, which I heard about from her niece: “...second degrees on her left foot and leg. The ER doctor said her recovery will be around 3 weeks. She won't be out of the house as she has to keep her leg elevated for two weeks. [She] was boiling water for pasta and her dog surprised her and when she turned, she knocked the pot off the stove.”
In her latest KOS mail, weezilgirl told me: “My scars are healing up nicely on my foot and ankle.“
She did finally decide that a fundraiser for a computer was a good idea, and modestly estimated that $400 would be enough.
But we’re setting the goal at $500 to be sure she can get an online connection set up too.
We know that our Daily Kos community is caring and resourceful, and that Kossacks will respond as they can to this request: whether it's with reccs, tips, shares, or tweets; whether it's with donations; whether it's with an offer of a used but still reliable laptop. Any and all possibilities are truly welcome and appreciated.
Thank you all so much for your support!
Your rec, tip, tweet, and share would help! And so would a donation. If you can, please send funds in any amount to this PayPal account:
HERE’S HOW YOU CAN HELP WEEZILGIRL: Go to PayPal and click the “Friends or Family” button, left side below (your PayPal screen may look slightly different, but look for “Friends or Family”). This way weezilgirl receives 100% of the money. If you click “For Goods or Services,” PayPal charges a 3% fee. Weezilgirl’s email address for PayPal payments is weezilgirlchurch (at) sbcglobal (dot) net. Please let us know if you have a functional computer that you do not need any more, or send your suggestions. Thank you all for your help!! Please be sure to Rec and Tip too!
If you don’t use Pay Pal, but want to make a donation, please send a kosmail to JoanMar for the correct snail-mail address.
We are here to help in a crisis.
This is a joint project of Community Fundraisers and People United for Pet Support (P.U.P.S.)
Thanks to all who stop by and help out with a rec, tip, tweet, share or donation!
We really appreciate your support.
P.S. I know weezilgirl would love to be with us, and respond to your comments, but since that’s not possible, we will carry on anyway, so that with YOUR help, we CAN get her back among us!
If you have pootie and woozle pictures to share, please include them with your comments! Every comment helps!
This is my Border Collie, Affy, who says: “No dog would ever shoot a Republican. Just one of the many reasons why dogs are better than Republicans!”