Help for the Healing Heart of ER Nurse Jessica Lee
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“The world is full of healing, and people who care and who will help you find it.” — Sister Mary Cynthia
Anything from a cents, a dollar, to prayer itself could make the biggest difference in her journey! Don’t you think it’s time she makes it to the finish line?!
Jessica is a 27 year old registered nurse, emergency room is the department she loves and believes the ER is what she was meant for. Regardless of what may be occurring in her life whether her family, her health, her patients come first. As time continues to pass it seems her endurance, energy and positivity continues to slowly decline due to the multiple hold backs she’s experienced from 2015 to present day. Resulting in a enormous amount of medical bills with more to come due to a upcoming surgery in April which happens to be out of network with her insurance only causing a toll and stress on her family and herself in all aspects. The following is her story.
One of many ER visits
Despite hospitalizations, ER visits, MD appointments, she managed to hold it in and push through to continue life with family, friends and continue her career to the best of her ability.

In November of 2015 she was diagnosed with Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome and Supraventricular Tachycardia, also known as SVT, an irregular heart rhythm which her heart rate would rise above 250 with any type of exertion. Treated at Starr County Memorial Hospital and stabilized, she was then transferred to Mission Regional Medical Center via ambulance for a cardiac consult. After being admitted for a few days, she was then transferred from Mission Regional Medical Center to Doctor’s Hospital at Renaissance where she underwent a surgical procedure, a cardiac ablation, which lasted 6 hours long resulting in another night to spend in the hospital for observation but then diagnosed with Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia; meaning the heart rate she experiences still today usually is at a rate of 100 beats per minute or more. It is as if we were running while she is only walking! Several appointments, follow ups, and consults later she has been on medication to “control” the accelerated heart rate only to experience complications such as hypotension where her blood pressure drops lower than the normal blood pressure causing fatigue, dizziness, nausea, vomiting and even black outs. Echocardiograms, Holter monitors for 24 hours to 30 days, stress tests, EKG’s, Tilt table tests, followed by frequent lab draws, medication changes to several new diagnoses requiring additional medications for such as anxiety, insomnia, depression, with more to follow. Frequent ER visits were made 2016-2017 due to palpitations, elevated heart rate, episodes of syncope, only to be treated with medication in order to lower her heart rate and discharged home the same day due to every cardiologist stating there was nothing more to be done. October of 2018, different symptoms arose such as chest pressure as if someone had a grip around her lungs, a palpitation, dizziness, followed by nausea, vomiting, and headaches. All symptoms of a heart attack. Frustrated with all the hospitalizations, examinations, procedures, ER visits, and piling up of medical bills; She pushed through her symptoms from October 28th until October 30th she finally decided to confide in coworkers to be assessed due to the continued symptoms she had been experiencing. This ER visit resulted in an admission to McAllen Heart Hospital requiring another transfer via ambulance with a new diagnosis of pre-excitation syndrome with no answers or solution to the new condition and exacerbation of her preexisting conditions. Follow ups, consults, exams followed with frequent changes in medications with no answers but did affect her life. Someone you always see smiling, caring and loving others more than herself, at only 27 years old is only depleting physically. Once cardiologists referred her to a pulmonologist, it had been realized that no one knew how to treat the situation.
The good Lord continued to watch over her as she had been introduced to the name of a electrophysiologist in Austin, TX who may be the final solution to her problem. An issue that caused several issues to follow her for years, could have been resolved if the matter had been looked at from a different perspective. Now today, she is facing another Cardiac Ablation in Austin, TX on April 1st 2019. Later will follow post operative appointments, travel expenses and the addition of medical bills to add to the debt of medical bills that keep adding up.
A lot of people may think “she is lucky she is a nurse, she can afford it” and that is where most are wrong. She is still paying medical bills to this day and will be experiencing a higher cost due to the procedure being out of network with her insurance causing a toll and stress on her and family. For many of her friends who know Jessica, she is a beautiful person with a wonderful heart big enough to care and assist others along with their needs, even if it means putting someone else’s needs above her own. Jessica is the true definition of a nurse, not only placing someone else before herself along with her health, she experiences 12 hours shifts in an emergency room and whether it be placing a bandage over a scraped knee of a toddler to assisting in a delivery of a new born all the way to providing critical care to patients who are nearly at the point of death. All these different type of situations and she holds herself together for her patients, family, and friends; mentally strong as well as emotionally for patients families as well. If her condition continues untreated, unsolved and carried on, it seems that her endurance will continue to decline with more episodes to follow. If such a thing would happen, it may result in her ending her career as a registered nurse in the emergency department due to the fast pace in which she loves to experience in a shift. I have never met someone who enjoys their job more than being home because of the rewarding feeling she says she experiences when making a difference whether it be big or small. Jessica is dedicated to her job, enjoys her career in the emergency department, eager to always learn more in order to help others, with too large of heart that needs assistance from us now!
A nurse who dedicates herself to the community and gives her all, despite what may be trying to hold her back, deserves our help now. A great person who balances the happy and sad, good and bad, who is there to hold a hand, a tissue, a life, deserves to be able to function at her fullest capacity for many years to come! So she may continue to give that type of care we all wish to receive if ever in an emergency room. Whether a small donation or a prayer, whatever is possible to assist in the medical finances facing trouble as well as her health is greatly appreciated by her family, herself and her friends. Whether it be a dollar, whatever you can assist with, a prayer, a share, God bless everyone and anyone assisting in this good cause.

Anything from a cents, a dollar, to prayer itself could make the biggest difference in her journey! Don’t you think it’s time she makes it to the finish line?!
Jessica is a 27 year old registered nurse, emergency room is the department she loves and believes the ER is what she was meant for. Regardless of what may be occurring in her life whether her family, her health, her patients come first. As time continues to pass it seems her endurance, energy and positivity continues to slowly decline due to the multiple hold backs she’s experienced from 2015 to present day. Resulting in a enormous amount of medical bills with more to come due to a upcoming surgery in April which happens to be out of network with her insurance only causing a toll and stress on her family and herself in all aspects. The following is her story.
One of many ER visits
Despite hospitalizations, ER visits, MD appointments, she managed to hold it in and push through to continue life with family, friends and continue her career to the best of her ability.
In November of 2015 she was diagnosed with Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome and Supraventricular Tachycardia, also known as SVT, an irregular heart rhythm which her heart rate would rise above 250 with any type of exertion. Treated at Starr County Memorial Hospital and stabilized, she was then transferred to Mission Regional Medical Center via ambulance for a cardiac consult. After being admitted for a few days, she was then transferred from Mission Regional Medical Center to Doctor’s Hospital at Renaissance where she underwent a surgical procedure, a cardiac ablation, which lasted 6 hours long resulting in another night to spend in the hospital for observation but then diagnosed with Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia; meaning the heart rate she experiences still today usually is at a rate of 100 beats per minute or more. It is as if we were running while she is only walking! Several appointments, follow ups, and consults later she has been on medication to “control” the accelerated heart rate only to experience complications such as hypotension where her blood pressure drops lower than the normal blood pressure causing fatigue, dizziness, nausea, vomiting and even black outs. Echocardiograms, Holter monitors for 24 hours to 30 days, stress tests, EKG’s, Tilt table tests, followed by frequent lab draws, medication changes to several new diagnoses requiring additional medications for such as anxiety, insomnia, depression, with more to follow. Frequent ER visits were made 2016-2017 due to palpitations, elevated heart rate, episodes of syncope, only to be treated with medication in order to lower her heart rate and discharged home the same day due to every cardiologist stating there was nothing more to be done. October of 2018, different symptoms arose such as chest pressure as if someone had a grip around her lungs, a palpitation, dizziness, followed by nausea, vomiting, and headaches. All symptoms of a heart attack. Frustrated with all the hospitalizations, examinations, procedures, ER visits, and piling up of medical bills; She pushed through her symptoms from October 28th until October 30th she finally decided to confide in coworkers to be assessed due to the continued symptoms she had been experiencing. This ER visit resulted in an admission to McAllen Heart Hospital requiring another transfer via ambulance with a new diagnosis of pre-excitation syndrome with no answers or solution to the new condition and exacerbation of her preexisting conditions. Follow ups, consults, exams followed with frequent changes in medications with no answers but did affect her life. Someone you always see smiling, caring and loving others more than herself, at only 27 years old is only depleting physically. Once cardiologists referred her to a pulmonologist, it had been realized that no one knew how to treat the situation.
The good Lord continued to watch over her as she had been introduced to the name of a electrophysiologist in Austin, TX who may be the final solution to her problem. An issue that caused several issues to follow her for years, could have been resolved if the matter had been looked at from a different perspective. Now today, she is facing another Cardiac Ablation in Austin, TX on April 1st 2019. Later will follow post operative appointments, travel expenses and the addition of medical bills to add to the debt of medical bills that keep adding up.
A lot of people may think “she is lucky she is a nurse, she can afford it” and that is where most are wrong. She is still paying medical bills to this day and will be experiencing a higher cost due to the procedure being out of network with her insurance causing a toll and stress on her and family. For many of her friends who know Jessica, she is a beautiful person with a wonderful heart big enough to care and assist others along with their needs, even if it means putting someone else’s needs above her own. Jessica is the true definition of a nurse, not only placing someone else before herself along with her health, she experiences 12 hours shifts in an emergency room and whether it be placing a bandage over a scraped knee of a toddler to assisting in a delivery of a new born all the way to providing critical care to patients who are nearly at the point of death. All these different type of situations and she holds herself together for her patients, family, and friends; mentally strong as well as emotionally for patients families as well. If her condition continues untreated, unsolved and carried on, it seems that her endurance will continue to decline with more episodes to follow. If such a thing would happen, it may result in her ending her career as a registered nurse in the emergency department due to the fast pace in which she loves to experience in a shift. I have never met someone who enjoys their job more than being home because of the rewarding feeling she says she experiences when making a difference whether it be big or small. Jessica is dedicated to her job, enjoys her career in the emergency department, eager to always learn more in order to help others, with too large of heart that needs assistance from us now!
A nurse who dedicates herself to the community and gives her all, despite what may be trying to hold her back, deserves our help now. A great person who balances the happy and sad, good and bad, who is there to hold a hand, a tissue, a life, deserves to be able to function at her fullest capacity for many years to come! So she may continue to give that type of care we all wish to receive if ever in an emergency room. Whether a small donation or a prayer, whatever is possible to assist in the medical finances facing trouble as well as her health is greatly appreciated by her family, herself and her friends. Whether it be a dollar, whatever you can assist with, a prayer, a share, God bless everyone and anyone assisting in this good cause.
Organizer and beneficiary
Jewel Rivera
Organizer
Edinburg, TX
Jessica Garza
Beneficiary
