My brain tumor medical funds
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Hello everyone. I'm glad you took your time to stop and read this. I'd like to take the time to introduce myself a little.
My name is Noe, I live in Texas; I was a truck driver for about 5 years. I have a wonderful daughter. Originally moved out here from Colorado about 7 years ago now.
It has been quite the rough year for my family and myself. I started off this year on the right track. Working hard Every day, feeling like a million bucks. Unfortunately soon after tragedy struck.
On January 23rd sometime around 3 or 4 pm I was driving out of the city of San Antonio, TX on my way to make a delivery to Dallas, TX. As I'm making my way up the on ramp I start to feel this pressure in my head, just a little worst then any normal headache. Very shortly after that headache came about, I start to struggle to find my shifter, last thing I can recall from that ordeal was putting the shifter into the last gear. Next thing I recall was waking up in the back of the ambulance. The next couple of hours after that I was pretty much in and out of consciousness. I vaguely remember them asking me questions here and there, being put on different tables. Then I remember waking up the next day. The doctors came in and began to ask a bunch of questions. Did I know where I was? The usual do I know who I am? Do I know how I got there? I was pretty aware of who I was. Just not 100% sure at the moment how I got there. Once they started explaining everything to me, we got down to the nitty-gritty. They laid the heavy news on me.. I had a seizure while I was driving which caused me to pass out and wreck my semi. Now once we got back on track they told me what caused the seizure.
After they ran an MRI they found a tumor in my frontal left lobe. At this moment I was in complete shock. Not knowing which of all the bad news I had just received was the worst. Knowing I wrecked my livelihood or that I had a tumor in my head. So they begin to tell me all the options I had but as far as they went their hands were pretty much tied. Due to no insurance and not being a resident of San Antonio. Now with that being said, they were all amazing though not one complaint from me. Did everything they could to Care for me and made sure I was in stable condition before being discharged. My family came to pick me up at the hospital to bring me back home. It was a long ride and we had to stop every so often due to all the motion sickness I had going on. We went straight to check into a hospital back home to get this all delt with and maybe get some more answers.
A few months passed. I still had no answers but I seemed to be getting a bit better. Money was depleting fast and I wasn't able to receive any type of assistance due to the job I previously had. I wasn't discouraged nor was I trying to give up yet. Finding out that my truck was auctioned off really hit me hard. It wasn't the news I needed in that moment. It took a toll on me because I had every intention to get it out and rebuild it one day. Now it was gone, and I felt like a small piece of me was gone as well. I pushed through things. I could not allow myself to stop now. I began to do much better so I thought just maybe I was going to be alright. I started to do a few jobs here and there to help with my ever stacking Medical bills and the everyday bills. I had many friends and family come together for me as well and help out with what they could. Unfortunately in June I had my second seizure. When I went in they said it had swelled up and it caused me to have the second one. The cause was overworking myself. It left me weak again after the fact. I definitely had to take it easy from there on.
We are in August now. There is a treatment that they'd like to try before going in for surgery. Unfortunately Medicaid does not want to cover it or cover the surgery either.
So I come to you all in hopes that you may help with whatever it is that you can help with. I don't expect much. I just really would like to overcome all this so I can move on with my life and continue to provide for my daughter as she is in my care full time. I have been unemployed since the accident due to the fact that I am not medically stable. So apart from my medical bills I'm also having to deal with all my bills piling up. I know that God has my back. It's how I've been able to stay strong and survive this long. He put such wonderful people in my life and I feel completely confident that he will prevail!!
Thank you all that took the time to read this.
Have a blessed day!
My name is Noe, I live in Texas; I was a truck driver for about 5 years. I have a wonderful daughter. Originally moved out here from Colorado about 7 years ago now.
It has been quite the rough year for my family and myself. I started off this year on the right track. Working hard Every day, feeling like a million bucks. Unfortunately soon after tragedy struck.
On January 23rd sometime around 3 or 4 pm I was driving out of the city of San Antonio, TX on my way to make a delivery to Dallas, TX. As I'm making my way up the on ramp I start to feel this pressure in my head, just a little worst then any normal headache. Very shortly after that headache came about, I start to struggle to find my shifter, last thing I can recall from that ordeal was putting the shifter into the last gear. Next thing I recall was waking up in the back of the ambulance. The next couple of hours after that I was pretty much in and out of consciousness. I vaguely remember them asking me questions here and there, being put on different tables. Then I remember waking up the next day. The doctors came in and began to ask a bunch of questions. Did I know where I was? The usual do I know who I am? Do I know how I got there? I was pretty aware of who I was. Just not 100% sure at the moment how I got there. Once they started explaining everything to me, we got down to the nitty-gritty. They laid the heavy news on me.. I had a seizure while I was driving which caused me to pass out and wreck my semi. Now once we got back on track they told me what caused the seizure.
After they ran an MRI they found a tumor in my frontal left lobe. At this moment I was in complete shock. Not knowing which of all the bad news I had just received was the worst. Knowing I wrecked my livelihood or that I had a tumor in my head. So they begin to tell me all the options I had but as far as they went their hands were pretty much tied. Due to no insurance and not being a resident of San Antonio. Now with that being said, they were all amazing though not one complaint from me. Did everything they could to Care for me and made sure I was in stable condition before being discharged. My family came to pick me up at the hospital to bring me back home. It was a long ride and we had to stop every so often due to all the motion sickness I had going on. We went straight to check into a hospital back home to get this all delt with and maybe get some more answers.
A few months passed. I still had no answers but I seemed to be getting a bit better. Money was depleting fast and I wasn't able to receive any type of assistance due to the job I previously had. I wasn't discouraged nor was I trying to give up yet. Finding out that my truck was auctioned off really hit me hard. It wasn't the news I needed in that moment. It took a toll on me because I had every intention to get it out and rebuild it one day. Now it was gone, and I felt like a small piece of me was gone as well. I pushed through things. I could not allow myself to stop now. I began to do much better so I thought just maybe I was going to be alright. I started to do a few jobs here and there to help with my ever stacking Medical bills and the everyday bills. I had many friends and family come together for me as well and help out with what they could. Unfortunately in June I had my second seizure. When I went in they said it had swelled up and it caused me to have the second one. The cause was overworking myself. It left me weak again after the fact. I definitely had to take it easy from there on.
We are in August now. There is a treatment that they'd like to try before going in for surgery. Unfortunately Medicaid does not want to cover it or cover the surgery either.
So I come to you all in hopes that you may help with whatever it is that you can help with. I don't expect much. I just really would like to overcome all this so I can move on with my life and continue to provide for my daughter as she is in my care full time. I have been unemployed since the accident due to the fact that I am not medically stable. So apart from my medical bills I'm also having to deal with all my bills piling up. I know that God has my back. It's how I've been able to stay strong and survive this long. He put such wonderful people in my life and I feel completely confident that he will prevail!!
Thank you all that took the time to read this.
Have a blessed day!
Organizer
Noe Ponce
Organizer
Baytown, TX
