If you have money to donate, Phil, I can give you a list of websites.
I'm appalled by it. I just... this is not a surgery she needs. If she wants it that badly, she can save for it like everyone else. The thing that pisses me off is that she obviously feels she's entitled to it.
I have people on my flist who can't work for medical grounds, and have virtually no support in their own country - they can't afford their medication and they're selling their possessions, having services cut off because they can't pay the bills - and they would never dream of asking for people to bail them out. I have one friend who had to be ordered to set up a paypal donate account because people wanted to help, and never because she asked.
This isn't about her needing cataract surgery to save her from losing her sight altogether, it's cosmetic surgery, because she can't be bothered to faff with contacts.
That is just not appropriate, as far as I'm concerned.
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on 2008-05-11 06:25 pm (UTC)I'm appalled by it. I just... this is not a surgery she needs. If she wants it that badly, she can save for it like everyone else. The thing that pisses me off is that she obviously feels she's entitled to it.
I have people on my flist who can't work for medical grounds, and have virtually no support in their own country - they can't afford their medication and they're selling their possessions, having services cut off because they can't pay the bills - and they would never dream of asking for people to bail them out. I have one friend who had to be ordered to set up a paypal donate account because people wanted to help, and never because she asked.
This isn't about her needing cataract surgery to save her from losing her sight altogether, it's cosmetic surgery, because she can't be bothered to faff with contacts.
That is just not appropriate, as far as I'm concerned.