Needing ideas and understanding

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I feel a bit overwhelmed at the moment. I recently spent two weeks in hospital and am now home. As many of you who know me here probably remember, I am not only Aspie/Autistic but also Deafblind and a mum of three. I cope fantastically with my disabilities when I have the right support, equipment and technology but now I have a new disability to add to the mix. I need a wheelchair and am unfortunately having to fundraise to get it. Among the suggestions given to help with the fundraiser are to use my 'social network' which is a bit of a heartbreaker for someone like me to read. I don't have many friends and my closest friends don't have any money to spare. Only one member of my own family has donated anything so far and it's not much but is what she could afford. People say to tell my 'church or other religious group' - Um, nope, don't have one of those. How about your workmates then, people suggest. I spend all day either with my kids or writing from home. I'm running out of ideas for how to spread the word. Can anyone here think of ways to help? It's hard to use social fundraising methods when you're not a social person! ARGH!

My campaign is here: wheelchair fundraiser for me

I need $NZ 6,000 and am so far up to $549.16

I have set up a blog for the fundraiser and will make video updates in NZSL as well as the English updates written but it's more a matter of getting new people to see it who might care. Most of the people I interact with online are also disabled so also very short on money. The fundraiser website is called 'give a little' because the idea is that a lot of little donations add up to enough. How can I increase the number of people who see it and give? I've already asked people to share it on facebook but so far only a handful have. I guess I have to persist and keep talking about it, but it's so hard to do! I feel really awkward about it. I just need some support and understanding and, um, donations or ideas of you have any.

Admin/moderators please delete this thread due to lack of replies making me feel even worse.

One idea I had was to approach it in a more businesslike manner. Try to take the personnal feelings out of the situation. Prehaps pretend you are doing this fund raiser for a friend and disconnect yourself from day to day results. The environment is always crowded as far as charitable fund raising goes and one muct be very patient. If an idea doesn't yield results don't think 'no one cares', etc. Just think up something else to try. If you can adopt a more dispassionate approach, you hopefully won't have bad reactions on a day to day basis.

Just getting out the facts plainly will be more then enough to justify the legitimate need. I think such a need in time will be filled. Try to be patient and keep your spirits up and focus your mind on new ideas for getting thw word out. What about a story in a local newspaper or even TV station?