Tincup
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QUOTE- “She was such a hero to so many people,” Bellocq said.
Now, she’s in Washington D.C. fighting for her own life. Branick has suffered enormous medical complications from previously undiagnosed Lyme disease, unrelated to the fire.
At the one-year mark, she has had her gallbladder, appendix and three-quarters of her colon removed. Insurance tangles are threatening to bankrupt her.
Yet she pushed through bouts of paralyzing anxiety and seizures from that very condition to continually assist others on a day when she singed half the hair on her head."
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Wow - I'd read the initial story of the horses but not what happened afterwards, including re the brave Lymed woman. Looks like a lot of people contributed to her fundraiser. What an amazing person!
Lots of people here who've lost everything. Two celebrity chefs recently cooked TG dinners for 15,000 folks in the Chico area. That's the kind of activity that goes on here, just trying to return a little bit of these folks' lives back to them.
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