So what about that breast implant fundraiser thing?

Alas, none of it is good news.

The fundraiser itself raised $3525 of my $6500 goal.  That $6500 goal was based on what my potential surgeon had listed would be the price on the website.

Which left me about slightly $3000 short.  I did get some private donations that brought in like another $1000, but still it left me $2000 short, at a time when my website isn’t doing well and winter has hit very hard.  But having to come up with $2000 on my own isn’t that impossible.

But it turns out there’s the reality of the fundraiser itself.  The fundraier website itself took about $400 out of it in fees, and then there’s some of the overhead.  For some reason about half of my contributions came from far, far away lands.  There were a bunch of $25 donations from Europe that will need to have prints mailed to them, the shipping costs being about $12 each.  So that’s a chunk of those donations pretty much eaten up by postage.  Had I known that was gong to happen, I would’ve insisted on a bit extra for the international orders to cover postage, but I didn’t really expect that to happen.

By the time all is said and done,  the reality is that even with the extra $1000 in private donations, I only ended up with about $3,000 total.

And then I got the _real_ estimate from my first choice of plastic surgeon.  Getting larger breasts somehow counts as a “revision”, and  nope, it’s not 6 or 7 grand.  It’s more like $10k…

So yeah.  Not going to happen with that guy, I don’t think.  I’ll see if there’s anyone else who will do it in the price range I expected, but I really wanted one of the better surgeons.  I just don’t understand why it’s different from what it said on their website.  And yes I agree, it sucks, because I don’t have anything (savings/assets) even approaching the difference I need to make up.

So I’m not sure what I’m going to do now.  At the moment, nothing.  The money I raised (minus overhead) is sitting in the bank now.   But I simply cannot make up that huge of a difference.   Scraping up $3,000 was already too big of stretch, $7,000 will be nigh-impossible.

So I wish I had better news about this.  I’m pretty disillusioned with it all, to be honest.  I suppose I could fund another fundraiser, but I’m honestly don’t have the enthusiasm to end up just humiliating myself again.

-Tara