RECoyote Mindes/Richard Orth Needs Help

 

One of the longtime residents of Second Life's Sunweaver community, RECoyote Mindes, known as Richard Orth in real-life, is in need of some help. He explained his situation in a GoFundMe.

 

... I used to make a good living as a truck driver, but one frozen winter's night I fell off my truck and totally destroyed my back, requiring spinal implants which then got infected and resulted in even further damage.

Today I can just barely walk, and an in constant pain of about 30 on a scale of 1 to 10, but I live with it because others depend on me, especially all my friends on Second Life and other internet communities.

On top of all that, I have diabetes and bad neuropathy. Oh, and the kidney and lung cancer isn't helping anything either. I have to see some 16 specialists, each of whom want a $35 co-pay. I own the local hospital over $1,300,000 that I will never be able to pay. And every day my situation starts to look more and more unsustainable.

I have applied for every bit of assistance I can get to keep things going, but I already have everything I'm eligible for, and it's not enough. Every month I have overdrafts and things just keep getting farther and farther behind. If this keeps up I risk losing my house, as well as my life on the internet. And, even being in as much pain as I am, I'm not ready to disappear from the world yet. So if anyone out there would like to help I'd be much appreciative.

When he was doing better financially, RECoyote has helped others, such as paying the fee to reduce the sim tiers for the Sunweaver community. 

 

For those wishing to donate, Click Here to get to the GoFundMe, "I need extra $1,000 a month to survive. Anything you can contribute would surely help"