Crocodilly (Bryan) Johnson

Dear Friends, As many of you are aware, I just lost my little brother to ALS, the most horrific of a disease imaginable. This beast slowly steals everything away from you. Your strength, mobility, voice, socialization, independence, dignity, mental health, inner peace, career, financial stability, and eventually your breath, your life, and your future. It slowly tortures you until you are left completely paralyzed and locked like a prisoner inside your own body until you slowly suffocate and die, all the while mentally and emotionally tormenting and traumatizing you and everyone who loves you with your impending horrific death. On top of all of this, the costs associated with maintaining any meaningful quality of life throughout this nightmare are astronomical and unattainable for far too many of its victims. From hoists/lifts, power wheelchairs, shower chairs, and endless home modifications like ramps and hospital beds to vehicle modifications and specialized transportation vans, it costs upwards of $100,000 just to continue to exist for the short time you are slowly dying. For these reasons, I am working with our recently opened ALS specialty center here in NE Pennsylvania to start an “equipment closet” which patients can access these desperately needed devices at no cost for the duration of their, unfortunately, temporary need for them. By creating a “loan” program, the cost of investing into these incredibly expensive but absolutely vital medical and mobility devices can benefit multiple patients already suffering the most unimaginable fate. The ALC center had already begun the process of establishing this as an official charitable organization and will ultimately take on the responsibility of operating it. However, a handful of us working together with getting everything established will be involved in overseeing the proper use of all funds. There will not be a single salary drawn from any contributions. All operations will be run by two designated employees of the center and a handful of volunteers. I am dropping off the first of hopefully many donations of my brother’s power mobility scooter, power wheelchair, wheelchair ramp, vehicle modification kit, walker, dynovox eye gaze communication device, and a cash donation from his estate next Friday. They will kick off the operation and loaned out to other ALS patients in need immediately. If any if you would like to and are comfortably able to make a contribution of any size to help get this desperately needed charitable operation up and running so we can provide such vital and urgently needed assistance as soon as reasonably possible, I’d be so profoundly grateful. The “equipment closet” is going to named in my brother’s honor. For now, I am only able to collect any monetary contributions via X Money, which can be sent via the link in my X bio or CashApp using my cashtag $Loriepa. I will be gratefully accepting any contributions, even if its only a dollar or two, between now and Friday morning so I can make the contribution combined with the contribution from the estate in one lump sum in his memory. If you don’t trust my intentions to make a contribution to me directly, that is reasonable and perfectly okay. We hope to start running some crowdfunding campaigns directly to the charity organization once it is officially recognized and established. However, there is a very time sensitive and urgent need right now and this is the best way to help meet those needs sooner rather than too late. I only have my word, but I do promise every penny contributed will go exactly where I have stated it will go. I will request a receipt for the monetary donation I make on Friday and post it here openly to verify this if any of you do so generously contribute. Thank you so much for reading and your consideration. Lets call this the FUCK ALS fund!!! PLEASE REPOST FOR REACH!