Help an indie developer literally stay alive

Can someone explain to me why someone needs to raise money to get shrapnel out of their body? I mean isn't there some safety net at all?<p>I'm seriously confused here. I'm Canadian and this seems so bizarre to me.

Notice that, more than a debate about why we should donate to save her or not, I think what's interesting here is that a Kickstarter-like website is used for totally personnal and life-threating purpose for the first time.<p>Or at least successfully used like this for the first time, I can't recall any other example.

In a world of sensationalist headlines, I'm glad that I ended up clicking this. To be honest, I truly thought that this was going to be about getting funding so that a developer could pay rent and eat while they make the next big thing. The world "literally" has been so overused that, to me, it has lost its meaning. Glad I took the time and I really hope she reaches her goal as it would be a shame to have more than enough for the surgery but not enough to meet the goal and then not get funded.

Page has gone or been removed. Here is google's cache:<p><a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4oX9yz4CC5AJ:www.indiegogo.com/projects/i-am-going-to-survive+&#38;cd=3&#38;hl=en&#38;ct=clnk" rel="nofollow">http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4oX9yz4...</a>

Does anybody know what happened with this? I donated to the campaign and just received an email saying that I've been refunded my donation and the page is gone.