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Help for Dawn"s funeral expenses

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About a year ago Dawn dropped a cig and it hit her foot.  She doesn't have feeling in her feet because of her neuropathy caused by diabetes.  The burn blistered as big as a pencil erasier.  Then she dropped cheese from her hot pocket and that made a bigger burn on her leg.   I took her to the foot dr he told her to go to a specialist.  Her primary doctor treated it and it still wasn't healing soI took her to the ER they refered her to Tampa Burn Center I took her there they just treated her the same as her primary so the primary care doctor got her in home wound care the nurse that came twice a week got both wounds healed so we thought then the burn from the cig burn broke opened again on the top of her foot. She was treated with oral antibiotics then  a culture was taken and sent to the lab it came back that there was not an infection.  Took her back to the ER they admitted her gave her intravenous antibiotics sent her home.  That was at the end of April then i had my arotic heart valve replaced on May 12 she was fine when I went into the operating room when I came out she kept falling asleep and only woke up to pee and would not eat we came home the 13th. I rested because of my surgery then Sunday i went to see her to find out why she wouldn't eat.  Her sock had socked up a bunch of pus and blood i cleaned and changed the bandage.    By Tues when the nurse came it needed changed again and Sherri her nurse said she needed to go to the hospital and get more iv antibiotics so she called 911 and they took her to the ER  They admitted her again well all she did was sleep and not eat much then another foot dr saw her foot and wanted to operate that same night at 10:30 pm so she gave him her consent and he operated and put on the wound vac on that pulls out the infection well I think she got Pneumonia she was not out of the bed ever since she was admitted.  The infection went through her whole body..It attached itself to her mital valve pieces broke off and traveled to her brain causing 3 mini strokes, her kidneys started shutting down then her lungs and heart got water on them causing her to breath really hard so they put her on a cpap then she still had problems breathing so put her on life support> She has been moved to a long care center in Tampa  Kindred hospital with a trachea and on life support, they give her kidney dialysis, lots of antibiotics but could not get rid of the infection they called the first infection sepsis and then she got a yeast infection and that they never got that healed.  Dawn passed away this morning at 1:15 am. The reason I put this on is for donations to help with her funeral and headstone.  Thanks in advance.

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Diane Kersey
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New Port Richey, FL

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