Life & my brain have presented me with some challenges. Here is my GoFundMe:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-larissa-overcome-health-and-financial-struggles
and my blog: https://daomjourney.wordpress.com/

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Aug 2024 I was admitted to the hospital after a seizure. They found out I had a 2.12” tumor - benign! - performed a craniotomy, removed it successfully, and life is now just full on recovery.

Will try to get some updates to the words on my GoFundMe, because even though I'm getting better, any help at all is still appreciated and needed. Friends & family have been extremely kind and supportive, but EBT/Medi-Cal is are lifesaving resources for me.

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Most recent update: new seizure happened 17 Dec 2025. Recovering slowly from that. Cause presently unknown; medication and neuro-docs are both being utilized.

I appear to have a variant of aphasia (“anomic aphasia”), which, in short, sucks REAL bad. Resting is the best possible option for me at the moment - ironically the hardest thing for me to do. Though I do work on random projects or small misc. jobs based on my energy level, I'm in no way financially secure or independent. It is deeply exhausting, and yes, I do still have the almost-seizures. When those feelings start to happen, I have emergency instant-acting medication to take, but it’s still horrible and still knocks me down for about two days. For those of you who have Migraine Days, the warnings are similar… feel weird a few days in advance, then get worse symptoms the day of, then get a full minute to 90 seconds before Bad happens.

Most recent update: new almost-seizure happened 22 March 2026. Recovering slowly from that. Cause presently unknown; medication stabilized things, but I’m gonna blame the heat we’ve got out here….. IN MARCH. >:(

Anyway.
I hate it all and am continuing to suck it up and humbly ask for help. Not just financial help, but support for mental/emotional/physical health. It honestly gets to be too much, even with all the neuro & psych people I get the good luck to work with. Also, I miss my ex husband and our friendship, which… you wouldn’t think that has much to do with any of this, but the grief and ongoing pain from that really does make everything worse.
(I continue to hope for a healthy reconnection.🥺…and it would be EPIC if he played chess, but I don’t think he ever has let alone ever will. Still, I am allowed to hope.💔)

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With all that said, I'm still going to ask kindly of the Universe and all that is in it for help.
If you are so kind as to consider donating anything to help me (and yes, that includes my ability to buy cat litter & cat food) I do accept Venmo ( @Larissa92102 ), or PayPal ( LarissaDACM@gmail.com ). Sometimes people have asked for my address because they wanted to send a check, and I can provide that via DM if anyone else asks.

Many thanks to all of you. Here’s hoping. 🙏📿☯️🤞🧘✝️ 🖤♙♟️🤍

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