09/06/2020
To all your haters
3 years ago my wife got a call in the middle of the night. It was from her estranged sister, that she hadnt spoken to in nearly 2 years because of substance abuse. Her sister was having marital problems and there was a possibility her nieces would be put into the system. From that very moment, all else stopped and she began to go into action. She proceeded to spent hours upon hours, days upon days and weeks upon weeks helping her sister. At times our family at home was put on the back burner. Her main focus was making sure her sister got the help she needed for her addiction and making sure the kids didn’t get lost in the system. She would spent sleepless nights doing research and collecting the funds needed to get and find a lawyer for her sister.
In time, she found a place for her sister to go to begin recovery and get away from years of an abusive relationship. She helped her sister rebuild a relationship with her children.
One would think that after putting 6 months of effort into her sister, that her sister would be grateful or at least be willing to return the favor when Libby asked for a very simple and easy task to help with Libby’s IC advocates page. Her sister refused to help and told Libby to f**k off and pretended as if Libby had no part in helping her on her path to recovery. As quickly as her sister came into back into her life, she was gone again.
Next comes 2 years of dedicated help to the chronic pain community.
Libby had a woman fall on her head, as I’d imagine a lot of you are aware of. This set off a never ending cycle of medical misdiagnosis by doctors and years of pain and suffering. I watched as my wife changed. She went on a roller coaster journey of physical, spiritual and mental anguish.
During this roller coaster, she realized that there was a positive side to all this. She had learned so much on her path of misdiagnosis. She could share to the world what she had learned about herself, about the medical community, dealing with the insurance companies. She learned that she had a special ability. That ability was to help guide people to there own recovery and get answers.
I would come home from work and she would be ecstatic and want to tell me a story about someone that she had helped today. Someone that through a little guidance and pushing had learned what they would do for themselves. They had figured out what to ask their own doctors and find a little hope on years of suffering.
My wife is not perfect in any way. None of us are. What my wife is: caring, empathetic, dedicated, smart, willing to give up her own cares for others, unapologetic to truths, loving, real and so many other things.
At times our family has been asked to step up in other aspects of ours lives because she needed to spend a few more minutes on the phone with someone on the other side of the world. The countless hours she takes each week to help complete strangers was baffling to me. I didn’t understand.
In the middle of a pandemic I would be asked to leave the house, go get food and ship it, which cost more than the food, across the country to someone who wasn’t allowed to leave there home to get food for themselves. I had no job and very little money coming in. Helping others was more important then her own wellbeing.
Just like she studied medical journals and trials, she began to study the deep dark secrets of Covid. Like so many actual medical professionals she was silenced, shadow banned and made to go away. As she watched the country slowing falling apart around us all, she realized that someone needed to speak out for all those people unwilling to speak for themselves. Essentially doing exactly what she has been doing for the chronic pain community for 2 years.
Low and be hold people started to unfollow Libby. People that she had stopped life for. People she had spent countless hours dedicating her life to.
These same people decided because of politics and difference in opinion, that Libby’s thoughts, help and years of giving her own life to others were to much for them to handle.
This is what I have to say to you all takers. Non takers need not read this last paragraph.
Eat a bag of dicks. Go f**k off to f**k off island. If you only new how many hours of time I have lost with my wife because of you ungrateful sh*ts you would be astonished. My wife has given her self to you. Because of some difference in political views you can walk away and delete her from your life??? You aren’t and weren’t worth the time. I personally wish your life would go back to the way it was before you meant, talked and took from her. You are the ones who will be losing out. We are better off without you. Thank you for revealing yourselves sooner rather than later. Now we don’t have to worry about your conniving ways anymore.
Take care
Thanks,
Ray Fortman, luckiest husband in the world.
