Beverly's Medical and Home Bills

Hello, I'm not sure who all will read this but hopefully a lot of people will. My name is Crystal and my mothers name is Beverly. My mother was a single mom of four that's been unable to work for a long time because of her multiple back problems, depression and anxiety. She's filed multiple times for disability but its been to no avail. Towards the end of the year in 2017 she was diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer. At the time she still had some insurance through the state but was about to lose it as she was in the process of appealing to keep it. She went to many radiation and chemo appointments and managed to shrink it enough for surgery by February 2018. She lost her insurance shortly after. She's still been filing and fighting her disability case. By about September 2018 they found another small spot under her right kidney. Her doctors weren't worried and scheduled her for three strong radiation sessions in hopes that it would get rid of it, she was to have a follow up appointment a few months later to see whether or not it shrank, was gone, or had grown. Her appointment would have fallen about this time. About a month previous to April 26, 2019 Mama started having headaches and was getting dizzy. Now, she's always had some really bad sinus problems so we thought that had to be it. Well, she started to get sick to her stomach and throw up every once and a while too. Mama wasn't acting worried and had been known to get a pretty upset stomach sometimes too so she didn't go to the doctor. Also, mind you, at this point she doesn't have insurance anymore either. I'm the only one in the house that's working and my older sister survives on disability herself. Medical bills are hard, always are. On the morning of Friday April 26th I got up to go to work and found mama standing in the hallway with her arms out to the walls. She said she was dizzy before she even opened her eyes and started throwing up over the side of the bed. So we went to the hospital. Now I'm not sure how far this will go but if anyone in my hometown reads this they'll know, NorthCrest Hospital doesn't normally get in a hurry. Yet within a few hours they had done an EKG, X-Ray, MRI, and CT scan. At this point mamas head wasn't even hurting anymore. They told her that she'd have to go to Skyline Medical Hospital. We figured they meant a follow up appointment, but no. At that point they had mama sign a waiver and took us by ambulance. Keep in mind they also hadn't told us much at this point either other than that they seen something on her CT and MRI. When we got to Skyline they scheduled her for more of the same tests and kept her over night. I called out of work that Friday and then that Saturday. Saturday morning they wouldn't let her eat and moved her to the ICU. At this point we were both terrified. They finally showed us the results of the MRI and went over it with us. They had found four spots in her brain. Two spots being very, very small, he said possibly even smaller than a BB, but the other two spots being bigger. One spot not necessarily large, but it was blocking spinal fluid from flowing in and out of her brain. So she had fluid remaining on her brain from it blocking it from flowing back down. The largest being the size of a golf ball on the back right side. The neurologist was surprised she was even conscious let alone up and about. The two largest spots being the cause for concern were what was also causing her to be dizzy, nauseous, and have splitting headaches. They ended up putting off her surgery until that following Thursday after treating her with steroids for the swelling in her brain. So the Tuesday before her surgery I, myself, had a tonsillectomy. Now, if you really do wonder if it's harder on adults than it is children then you have your answer when I say YES. I was supposed to be the one to stay with mama the night of her surgery and actually ended up going home because of how bad I was feeling. Mama came out of the surgery very incoherent and out of it, she spent a good majority of time asleep. She actually stayed this way for almost a week. They had discussed with us about putting in a shunt to drain the fluid out of her brain but had decided not to do it last minute to see if it would drain on its own. Well, it didn't. The Sunday after her surgery I hemorrhaged at home and had to call an ambulance for myself. Then Wednesday they went back in and put in the shunt. She was automatically more like herself after the second surgery. What we originally thought would be a two week stay at the longest became more. The next Monday after that I hemorrhaged again. They were trying to keep the pressure and swelling down in her brain while I was trying to keep bills together at home but was failing to take care of myself at the same time, ending up with me taking more time off work than I intended. It is now May 25th and she is still currently in the hospital.  They are talking about releasing her next week. I had to take another day off work to be at the hospital when they discuss the care that she'll need when she comes home. I also haven't heard anything from her case worker about her disability case. Medical bills and home bills are pilling up and even my checks from work are short trying to keep up with everything. If you know me personally then you know how hard it is for me to ask someone for help but at this point I honestly can't think of anything else to do. I don't want her worrying about bills when she comes home. I didn't make this any sooner cause I wasn't prepared to answer everyones questions, and honestly I'm still not sure I am but I have to do something. Even if you can't contribute to this, just by sharing and keeping her in your thoughts would be much appreciated. This has been the hardest month of our lives and were trying our best to just take it day by day. Any contribution is beyond greatly appreciated. Thank you all so much.