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Please Help Kevin and Carrie

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My name is Peggy Cox and I am raising money to help with finances for Kevin Cox and Carrie Ryan. My grandson, Kaleb, was born via c-section on Friday, February 27 at St John's Mercy Medical Center. Mother and baby were doing fine and went home on Monday, March 2nd. A few days later Carrie had to be taken back to the hospital due to severe pain. She had a protruding hernia from being sewn incorrectly after the c-section and they had to re-open the incision and it had to be left open due to the infection.  A nurse was supposed to come to the house three times a week to clean it and re-pack it.  Carrie had a tube going into the incision constantly pumping out infection. She had to carry around a little machine that was hooked to the tube. She also has MS, which is not helping the situation.

Within three or four days after coming home the second time Kevin got a call while at work, that he needed to come home and get the baby because she couldn't breathe and was being taken by ambulance to St. Anthony's Medical Center. Her infection had spread. After being admitted into intensive care they did surgery to put a tube into her lung and spleen to drain the infection out with a pump.  For the last four days they have been battling with the infection trying to get it under control.

Today they will find out if she will lose part of her lung and spleen, which is very likely.  If any more infection shows up, all they can do is pump  her full of more antibiotics and hope for the best.  

While fighting for her life, Carrie wants to see her newborn  baby, but, being in intensive care, she is not allowed to.

This is causing a lot of stress for both of them, as Kevin has worked two jobs for the last year to make ends meet and taking off a lot of work is causing  a financial strain and more stress, along with the stress of not knowing if she will make it and the possibility of having to raise their son by himself.  

Kevin has had to miss so much work and make so many trips to the hospital and take Kaleb to his other grandmother's house, that it is causing a financial hardship for him and Carrie.  His partial paycheck does not cover their bills, much less provide enough money for gas for the car.  We don't know when things are going to get back to normal again.  If Carrie has the surgeries, Kevin will be missing even more work in the next few days. 

Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated by all.

Organizer and beneficiary

Peggy Wommack Cox
Organizer
Fenton, MO
Kevin Cox
Beneficiary

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