Pay It Forward Post: Our friend @sflaherty here could use some hel...

I've done a few posts like this to help people on Steemit, that is part of the beauty of this platform... helping those in need as Crypto gives us the tools to do this.

TLDR - The Quick Backstory:

I've gotten to know Steve the last few months with a lot of direct messages on some things.

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I have honestly found this guy to be VERY sincere and fulsome in his messages, replies, no matter what we are discussing. That is the short version of me saying the guy is honest and truly is someone who can use this help.

His brutal honesty on some stuff and his detailed messages have proven to me this guy is the real deal. I have helped him sort of get started on here and he is blogging away and doing great things.

This is someone I have gotten to know over the months, not someone I just met last week and am not sure of. He is a guy with substance and a big heart.

I have his permission to use and share all this information you see today in this post. I value and respect privacy.

Further - he started Steemit Blogging Central to help the platform.

Hive account@steemitbc -- Here on Steemit

https://www.facebook.com/steemitbc/

https://twitter.com/steemitbc

Steve's personal pages:

Hive account@sflaherty here on Steemit

https://www.facebook.com/steven.flaherty1

Here is his original post but if you want the really short TLDR version, I have pasted the key things you need to know right below here:

https://steemit.com/life/@sflaherty/a-post-i-tried-to-put-off-but-our-family-needs-serious-help-for-my-father-and-his-health

That's his dad on the right - and on the left is Steve's uncle Mickey.

I am copying and pasting directly from Steve's post above, the key issues today to save time in the blog, since a lot of people are busy and can only scan content, and we all know this. Please definitely read the full post above if you want even more info about the family, some of their life history, etc.

1/2: Today's most current update right from Steve via DM:

...... we are in limbo with dad, he has a checkup to find out when they want to do surgery coming up in a couple weeks, so as of right now its a big wait and see on that situation and money is getting tight so unsure how they will manage the doctor bills

2/2 - TLDR snipped quotes from Steve's post:

The present issue going on:

To speed you up without a long day to day story about 70 years of my fathers life, we had a horrible bit of info come back from my fathers doctor at the local Veteran's hospital 2 years ago that my father carries with him 2 aortic aneurysms located near his stomach. The chances of the slightest jerk or movement could rupture this so he has been under the care of doctors at the local VA but still to this day the important surgery keeps being put off.

We have theories on this in my family, my dad is the silent type so he seriously does not feed us all the info out of pride but we suspect the reason in the last 2 years he has not been into surgery could be due to insurance and lack there of for men in the VA system so they keep putting him off. While this is going on my dad had to take a forced retirement so to make matters worse he is now stuck providing income via Social Security checks which is sinking them even more in debt than ever before....good old America looking out for the guys they put in harms way as usual.

Today I got a jist of the situation in passing that my father is risking his life due to finances. He is too proud to fully say it but today their fridge just went on the fritz and through stressful worries I found out how seriously in debt they are and this is creating a perfect storm of him putting his health issues off. I am personally as well in a rebuild issue in life and my sister just got through a serious divorce so we are all stressing out in the family trying to figure out what to do so my dad can unburden himself of this needless putting off of such an important surgery to save his life.

Doctors have told my mom that he is a literal walking time bomb, and this was over a year ago so how he is still moving around in the pain I catch him in is beyond me. Definitely a humble tough guy never wanting anyone to put themselves out for you him but I think its time I try to take a little charge in the family on this and seek help.

I am going to try to put aside funds I earn from this here to help them, kind of surprise them with a sum as fast as I can to hopefully get him to afford the simplistic and most important thing a human deserves and that is a healthy life after so many years of service to his family and to his country. But I am not with a lot, this is part of the reason those with my Steemit Blogger Central project see me so determined to work 16 hour days, just so I can get ahead to help others and also to help my family out.

I hate to beg or ask for help but if you could maybe pass this around so we can use this post to at the very minimum raise enough to help my parents get a fridge would be sweet, can't expect the community to pay for everything but a boost towards them to not stress as we sort this issues with his needed surgery could go a long way. Stress is bad for aneurysms and right now that is worrying me and my mom here.

Thoughs that know me know this post was not easy for me to write up but I am feeling very up against the wall on this one, this man has put up with a lot of my shit as a wild kid, has always been there for me through anything I done in life and I really want to give him some quality to his life as swiftly as I can. The man is my hero, always has been even if he doesn't see that daily out of me, the suffering right now I see him deal with is just not fair.

This just further divides me from this US Government, you would think they would better take care of those under their Veteran's funded budgets but they don't. I been to that hospital with him numerous times and its a madhouse of inanities how many people sit there all day like they don't matter. I truly hope in crypto we form something better even in health care because the way its being done, its not right!

If you can please upvote, I am going to take what comes at this to put on a card for my parents to catch up their bills so he can focus on his health and stop being stubborn about it. I thank all of you that take the time to read this and those that help, at the very least send a few prayers to our family, its been an ongoing rough time and we could use the break.

-- Hive account@sflaherty

You can as always, donate directly to him as well, but upvotes are free and given to us here to use on Steemit, and that is one of the beautiful things about our community here I have always found.

I know they have managed to replace the fridge, but all the other issues/bills are still on the table as you can see by the #1 TLDR update from today above, right from Steve to myself.

I will be donating at least half the liquid rewards from this post right to Steve's personal Steemit page account. The rewards pool has been sort of drained so I have been waiting to do this post and I know we all have bills to pay, believe me. I am having my own challenges as well as some people are aware of.

Thanks -- Barry