Motivation

The Facebook Friend: An Impossible Choice No one should have to choose between trying to save their life and the livelihood of the survivors. What I Watched I was Facebook friends with a woman who had cancer, and would post about it every week in vain attempt to stave off the long-term effects she knew it was going to have on her family. She wrote about how she felt about her children under ten and her husband, and the decisions they had to make about whether to try to save her by taking on lifelong debt that would outlast her by 50 years if it didn’t work. ...

The Pet Store Consideration The moment that made LifeLine Medications inevitable. The Story There was a time — I won’t say when, because it doesn’t matter when — when my child was sick. Not dying-sick. Not emergency-room-sick. Just sick enough to need a doctor. Sick enough that a responsible parent takes them in, gets antibiotics or whatever’s needed, and goes home relieved. Except I couldn’t afford the doctor. I sat in my car in a parking lot, doing math. The visit. The prescription. The follow-up if it got worse. I didn’t have it. I didn’t have any of it. ...

Why Do The Swoop Exists The stories behind Initiative #17 — documented for posterity. The Facebook Friend I was Facebook friends with a woman who had cancer, and would post about it every week in vain attempt to stave off the long-term effects she knew it was going to have on her family. She wrote about how she felt about her children under ten and her husband, and the decisions they had to make about whether to try to save her by taking on lifelong debt that would outlast her by 50 years if it didn’t work. ...