Corinne Adams - Medical Treatment

Corinne has battled an eating disorder and depression for 3 years. After many treatments, a suicide attempt and hundreds of acts of self-harm, she has finally been admitted to Avalon Hills in Logan, Utah, for residential treatment. Because Texas does not consider an eating disorder a serious illness, we have battled with the insurance company over and over and over. We have accrued medical bills over the last 2 years or so, with ER visits, 3 appointments a week (eating disorder treatment team), 2 stays in Shoal Creek hospital and 3 months of partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient treatment for the eating disorder. She began her Freshman year of high school, trying her hardest to fight through and just "be better" and within a month, the doctors told us she needed residential treatment to save her life and finally put her in a true state of recovery. Doctors are estimating that she needs to be there for 5-7 months, in order to be ready to transition back home. It is very humbling to have to ask for help but after only one month of residential treatment, we are already fighting insurance again. Their statement is that she is "not in danger" and this is just absolutely not true. You cannot imagine, until it is your own child and until you live with someone with this disease, how absolutely horrible and harmful it is. Eating disorders cause more deaths than any other psychiatric disease (including major depression) in girls ages 15-24. Many of those deaths are suicide - Corinne lives every day fighting the urge to end her life. Her battle began with anorexia, then bulimia and now a form of binge eating disorder. In addition, because of her extreme weight changes, she has experienced traumatic experiences with peers bullying her; she is learning to cope with this and heal in her treatment process. At this point, we are appealing the insurance decision for a 4th time, but it appears that they are going to pay for partial hospitalization treatment and then step her down to intensive outpatient treatment - all of this before she is ready. She has already had to drop out of school, and if she comes home prematurely, she is at a high risk of relapsing and spiraling downward. Also, medically, her lab work is still not normal - for example, her heart has been affected by the eating disorder. She needs to heal physically as well. If we choose to keep her there without full insurance coverage, this will cost us $300 - $1050 a day out of pocket. We are simply not able to afford this level of treatment. Anything we receive will go directly to Corinne's medical costs. (And it will bring thankful tears to my eyes!) If somehow we raise more than we need, there are other girls in the treatment center, who have even more heartbreaking stories than ours. I would love to help them as well. https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/get-facts-eating-disorders