A central air conditioning unit

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This is a gofundme for a centeralized AC unit for our house. The current heat has made it extra hard on my recovery and healing and I still have another surgery in 3 weeks from now when it may be even hotter. That combined with a 3 month old and two helpful parents in the house the heat has made everything even more straining on an already stressful situation. So many people have reached out asking how they can help? They offer to bring meals and watch the baby or dog, send flowers or gifts. While we greatly appriciate all of those offers, we realized that this would really be the greatest blessing of all. Our hope is that if friends and family can just contribute a little each, like what they would have spent on gas, time, or food on a meal, gift or flowers. Instead, just throw $5 on the AC fund and that will add up to a much more practical and relieving gift. Thank you all so much for your love and support! Even if you can't financially help, we will greatly appriciate your prayers and good thoughts.

Update:

Hey Guys! Thank you all so much for the support so far! You may have noticed the goal has changed a little. Today we had Samuel Murzea from MP Heating and Air Conditioning LLC stop by to check out our situation. Unfortunately, the way our house is set up requires some serious retro fitting to our furnace to get everything up and running. Meaning the cost would be about $8,000 including the extra electrical work that would need to be done. However, Sam agreed that if we were able to raise the $4,000, he would match that and make sure we get all set up! We feel so blessed to have such amazing people in our lives! Thank you all so much!

My Story:

For those of you who don't know, long story short....well not long story short, is that I went into the hospital January 17th at exactly 27 weeks pregnant after having funny symptoms that I was brushing off. I started having tingling right above my right knee almost daily at work and brushed it off not thinking anything of it. Well the wknd of January 17th, that friday, Saturday and Sunday, each day I had an episode of weird symptoms that scared me, but again I brushed off. I had weakness and numbness in my right leg, weakness and tingling in my right arm (hand to shoulder), and even had a weird tingle numbness feel in my face (right sided). I would feel dizzy and like my head was in a vortex, and felt like I couldn't spew out the words I wanted to as quickly as I wanted (even though micah said I sounded normal, I thought I was speaking slow out of fright and scariness from the other symptoms and not knowing what was going on). Needless to say, whike talking to Mom on the phone Sunday night after my 3rd episode in a row, she demanded I go to the hospital to get checked out. I was quickly told it wasn't pregnancy symptoms but that I was having mini strokes (TIA). They urgently did blood work, x-rays, CT scan, EEG, etc. and saw that I had deadened spots in my brain (strokes). They thought I had bleeding on the brain, but did not....I was actually then diagnosed with Moyamoya disease and because I was still having tingling and numbness symptoms they took me down to NCCU (nuero critical care unit) and wouldn't allow me to sit up or get up. I was in the hospital over 2 weeks between the NCCU and then eventually Labor and Delivery unit, put on plavix, lovinox shots and asprin, then sent home after about 16 days. From there I was in and out of the hospital multiple times because OB and Nuero had no idea how to deal with the others job (meaning nuero was clueless avout how to deal with me being pregnant, and OB had no idea how to deal with my neurologically) and because of high blood pressure and the occasional dips in baby heart monitoring. My stays ranging from 3 nights -1 1/2 weeks up until 36 1/2 weeks pregnant. We went in at a scheduled appointment at 35 1/2 weeks to do a watched/admitted medication versal to prep for delivery since being on blood thinners woukd just complicate delivery. They didn't know when I would deliver, but it took 1 week to get my meds out of my system. OB was going to send me home and let my body take its course on deciding when I went into labor, but my Nuero surgeon didn't want me off my meds that long since I had been having symptoms off and on since 27 weeks pregnant. So while in the hospital doing my med reversal Neuro decided I would deliver after the 1 week. We induced and were forced to have baby at 36 1/2 weeks, which thank God she is doing great! Healthy and happy and has quite the pipes on her when crying. Lol I then had an angiogram done about 2 weeks ago confirming that I indeed have moyamoya disease and found out that I am not a candidate for a balloon stint and will have to have bypass surgeries on both sides of my brain where they will put in artificial arteries. I just had my 1st surgery June 20th and trying to recover and this heat isn't helping me. Although it's hot and miserable at the same time so glad to be getting this taken care of so that I can then focus on my baby girl. They plan to do the 2nd surgery about 3-4 weeks after. If I don't do the surgeries and stay on the meds, I prolong the risk of strokes and bleeding on the brain. Certain types of moyamoya can be hereditary, but I have the most severe stage of it and mine is not hereditary. It is predominantly found in Asian culture, which I am not. I was told that apparently I have had this for years and probably would have had a major stroke or bleeding in the brain in the future had we not found out now..I believe I was having the symptoms now due to the extra blood flow with pregnancy. So my little one initially saved my life. It is normally diagnosed when your a child and have strokes or when you are 50 or older and is found because of bleeding on the brain. I'm 29....so pretty crazy that I wasn't diagnosed as a kid or had any noticeable strokes as far as I know.

It's hot outside and with no Centralized Air Conditioning, only a window until that fits in our kitchen window makes for days like these miserable for healing. Nothing like having sweat drip down and in between the staples on your head, talk about pain and burning and more pain. The swelling seems to be its own game...this heat plumps my neck, both sides of my face and most definitely has the incision sight swollen