***UPDATE***
I was a poster here years ago and they deactivated my account due to inactivity, so I had to use my facebook account to login. The site I set up is at GoFundMe, it's like the Kickstarter of family donation crowdsource funding. We have already raised $1,085 for his families expenses as of this post. We are package drivers in Hermiston Oregon (Local 670). He called our boss last Thursday Jan 30th complaining of a pain in his leg that moved from his hip to his thigh. They sent a backup driver out to relieve him and he went to our local hospital concerned it may be a blood clot. They checked him out and told him it wasn't a clot, and sent him home saying it was probably the flu (going around here). His wife took him to Kadlec Medical center in Richland WA on Sat Feb 1st because the pain was extreme and he was loopy. They determined it was a flesh eating drug resistant bacterial infection and life flighted him to Harborview in Seattle. He has had 4 surgeries already to save his leg already and it's day by day at the moment. His wife and baby boy need him to be home but it may be a long time before he can even come home, let alone deliver again. Meanwhile, she and his mother are trying to stay with him in Seattle and the cost is high.
I've got a couple of issues to address here.
You are responsible for protecting your own privacy and respecting the privacy of others. This means no posting of your own or any other person's full name, email addresses, work or home locations, job titles, phone numbers, addresses, Social Security numbers, or any other personally identifiable or private information. This also means your full name cannot be used as your username or posted anywhere on our site.
For that reason I'm going to edit out the name of your post and ask that you please go to your account settings and change your username.
I was a poster here years ago and they deactivated my account due to inactivity, so I had to use my facebook account to login.
I'd also like you to please let me know why you say you had an account here that was deactivated due to inactivity. I'm the only one that could have done that, and I don't do that... If you could message me the username or if you don't remember that then any emails you may have used to register the account I'd like to look up your previous account.
Our rules specifically prohibit donation requests but I'd be willing to make an exception if you can prove to me that this situation is real and that the donations are going straight to the family. Please don't take this personally. Crowdfunding sites don't screen their users. They encourage everyone to create a page asking for donations because they keep 5%. They don't care, make up any story you want. Happens all the time.
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