Blueberry Creek Recovery Fund
My name is Nikki, my husband is Rory. Our necessity outweighs our embarrassment, and we're asking for help. I've been unable to work for the past three years due to chronic illness.
First it was a pinched sciatic nerve, which was due to a bulging disc.
Then the disc ruptured after a year of conservative treatment and I had to have a spinal fusion.
It has taken me a year and lots of physical therapy to be able to move like normal, but I've now been diagnosed with fibromyalgia and am in constant all over pain.
I started seeing a neurologist the begimning of August because I have chronic debilitating migraines now as well.
I'm waiting for a determination from social security on whether or not they deem me disabled.
We find ourselves short of air, and funds, and will be very grateful for any help you can provide.
Hey guys! Everywhere I look it seems like people are having a hard time and it makes asking for help even harder. I don't know how we're going to make it to all my appointments if I don't, though. If you have $5 to spare, please help. I want to get better, and getting to these appointments is the only way I know how at this point. I eat well and in moderation. I exercise every day. I take all the medicines my doctors tell me to and I still cannot live a normal life.
But, I digress. The appointments!
Sleep study consult this week.
Echocardiogram this week.
Botox with the neurologist next week.
Six of my care providers are 2 hours away. I only have two that are local. Thankfully, the car we borrow to get to my appointments gets pretty decent gas mileage so it costs ~$20 in gas there and back.
I got a sleep study referral from my primary doctor to try to figure out this chronic fatigue thing. It, of course, requires a consult first. The consult is Wednesday. Then later in the month, yet to be determined, the study itself. For that, we'll either need to look at a hotel for Rory overnight, or another 4 hour round trip to pick me up at some ungodly hour in the morning. I imagine the appointment to have the doctor tell me the results of the study is going to be next month.
The echo / ultrasound for this heart of mine, to hopefully make sure there's nothing physically wrong with it, is Friday. My heart has been fluttering and skipping beats for years. Never thought much of it. Until recently, I couldn't tell you one time to the next when it skipped beats. Now, it happens almost every day, and often takes my breath away.
I also have a 30 day heart monitor that I get to wear, until the 7th of next month, when I send it back to Houston.
At some point after sending the heart monitor back, I'll have an appointment with the cardiologist to go over the results. But the way it's set up, if there's anything that the monitor catches and flags, it goes to my Dr's office in real time, so it's not like he'll have to take days to go over all the data. If he sees something before my 30 days are up, he can schedule an appointment sooner. It's pretty neat.
My first botox appointment with my neurologist is next week. It will hopefully help reduce my daily migraines. My body has built a tolerance to the three migraine medications I've been on for almost a year now and no longer do much but take the edge off. I wake up with a migraine, I go to sleep with a migraine. It's really kind of a nightmare. They don't make sunglasses dark enough to suit me when I have to go into a store or public building.
If you're still with me, thank you for taking the time to read through to this point! It feels like the struggles and doctors appointments never end. I still have three or four to call and make appointments with for next month, to discuss results of tests and xrays, etc.. But those aren't the ones I'm concerned with right this moment.
The ones I'm concerned with are the ones that are set up, or are imminent, while I have no money to get to them, no car to be able to get a job to make money, and have yet to receive any notification about the possibility of a light at the end of the tunnel with social security approving me for disability. All I know is that, at some point, hopefully this year, I'll have a hearing in front of a tv screen to talk to a judge about my case.
I'm going to end this here. Thank you, again, for reading. Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart to everyone who has helped us these past 16, 18 months that I've had this set up. You have been life savers more than you'll ever know.
If all of you reading this can donate even $5, it would greatly help me continue on my path to getting better.
But, I digress. The appointments!
Sleep study consult this week.
Echocardiogram this week.
Botox with the neurologist next week.
Six of my care providers are 2 hours away. I only have two that are local. Thankfully, the car we borrow to get to my appointments gets pretty decent gas mileage so it costs ~$20 in gas there and back.
I got a sleep study referral from my primary doctor to try to figure out this chronic fatigue thing. It, of course, requires a consult first. The consult is Wednesday. Then later in the month, yet to be determined, the study itself. For that, we'll either need to look at a hotel for Rory overnight, or another 4 hour round trip to pick me up at some ungodly hour in the morning. I imagine the appointment to have the doctor tell me the results of the study is going to be next month.
The echo / ultrasound for this heart of mine, to hopefully make sure there's nothing physically wrong with it, is Friday. My heart has been fluttering and skipping beats for years. Never thought much of it. Until recently, I couldn't tell you one time to the next when it skipped beats. Now, it happens almost every day, and often takes my breath away.
I also have a 30 day heart monitor that I get to wear, until the 7th of next month, when I send it back to Houston.
At some point after sending the heart monitor back, I'll have an appointment with the cardiologist to go over the results. But the way it's set up, if there's anything that the monitor catches and flags, it goes to my Dr's office in real time, so it's not like he'll have to take days to go over all the data. If he sees something before my 30 days are up, he can schedule an appointment sooner. It's pretty neat.
My first botox appointment with my neurologist is next week. It will hopefully help reduce my daily migraines. My body has built a tolerance to the three migraine medications I've been on for almost a year now and no longer do much but take the edge off. I wake up with a migraine, I go to sleep with a migraine. It's really kind of a nightmare. They don't make sunglasses dark enough to suit me when I have to go into a store or public building.
If you're still with me, thank you for taking the time to read through to this point! It feels like the struggles and doctors appointments never end. I still have three or four to call and make appointments with for next month, to discuss results of tests and xrays, etc.. But those aren't the ones I'm concerned with right this moment.
The ones I'm concerned with are the ones that are set up, or are imminent, while I have no money to get to them, no car to be able to get a job to make money, and have yet to receive any notification about the possibility of a light at the end of the tunnel with social security approving me for disability. All I know is that, at some point, hopefully this year, I'll have a hearing in front of a tv screen to talk to a judge about my case.
I'm going to end this here. Thank you, again, for reading. Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart to everyone who has helped us these past 16, 18 months that I've had this set up. You have been life savers more than you'll ever know.
If all of you reading this can donate even $5, it would greatly help me continue on my path to getting better.
Thank you to EVERYONE who has helped! We're getting there! Hugs and beardy kisses!
I know how you feel...I've been in the same spot...I can not offer any funds at this time, all i can offer is prayers for you two and some advice. If you own your home the one that needs major repairs if you apply for Weatherization through CADC or USDA they weatherize your home by replacing windows floors depending on the contractor they use they even do electrical and roof repair/replacement. It's no charge to you as well. My husband used to work for a contractor that did the CADC repairs. I hope this helps.