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Let me start by saying this is by far the most humiliating and humbling thing I HAVE EVER DONE. I am sitting here, pouring my heart out to a fundraising campaign in hopes that I can raise the money I so desperately need to regain my health and sanity.
My name is Julie, I am a 31 year professional Makeup Artist from Orange County, CA. I am a wife, mother to two beautiful girls, and 2 furbabies who need me to be the glue to this family. For the past 3 years, my health has been declining. In 2012, when my family moved to New York for my husbands job, I was diagnosed with Lyme Disease. I had no recollection of ever being bitten by a tick, yet the symptoms hit me one day out of the blue, and never went away. I was treated for 30 days with antibiotics, retested, and my test came back negative. I thought that things would be uphill from there but they have only gotten worse.
Three years and over $80,000 in unpaid medical bills sitting on my nightstand, I still have yet to find the problem or a diagnosis. I have seen neurologists, 3 neurosurgeons, cardiologists, pulmonoligists, lyme literate doctors, allergists, rhumatologists and several internal medicine specialists to name a few. Every single one of these doctors tell me that according to my blood tests, CT scans, MRI's and Xrays, that I am in perfect health. You see, from the outside it may seem that way, but no one sees the numbness and tingling in my arms and legs that I deal with every day. You can't see the brain fog, loss of memory, slurred speach, blurred vision, night sweats, hallucinations, anxiety, metallic taste in my mouth, ringing in my ears, joint pain, back pain, loss of balance, cognitive dysfuntion, insomnia, and heat and noise intolerance. I scratch my arms and legs until they bleed yet the allergist and dermatoligst say I am allergic to absolutely nothing except dust. I have panic attacks in absolutely normal situations. My hands and feet are freezing cold when its hot outside. I have severe chest pain and find it hard to breathe when I lay down at night. They found a lung nodule 2 years ago, and last week I was told there is another one. I need to fix this problem.
Through all of this medical testing and the last three years of hell, the only part of my body that has been overlooked is my breast implants. They are 13 years old and although I knew that I needed to replace them at the 10 year mark, I made a decision to breast feed my first born daughter for 20 months. After I finished breastfeeding I was pregnant right away and breastfed again another 15 months. During this time of raising babies it never occurred to me that maybe my implants could be the root of the problem. When I finished nursing, a story I read on facebook slapped me right in the face. Turns out there are thousands of women crying out for help and awareness, and explanting every day. The western medical community is completely divided on this subject. I have found some dr's who believe it could happen and others that laugh in my face. Plastic surgeons would never admit what can happen or they would be commiting career suicide. The FDA only has done studies on the effects implants have on the body up to 5 years, which leaves you to wonder where they got the "10 year" recplacement plan. Insurance companies do not cover removal because it was initially a cosmetic procedure.
As of now I am scheduled for my surgery on June 1 2016. That is 3 weeks from this wednesday. As my luck would have it, the funds I had aligned fell through when my tax return was eaten by the government. The money I thought I would have to pay for this surgery is now gone. I've tried carecredit and other financing options, but given my medical debt history, no one is willing to work with me.
I am humbly begging from the bottom of my huge heart for your help. Please help me get these toxic bags out of my decaying body. I am fit and healthy from the outside, I try my absolute hardest and work my ass off to be a good wife and mother but when I'm feeling horrible it makes it very hard to carry on with every day life. There have been times I've thought to myself that maybe it would be easier if I just drove myself off of the freeway, as many other women in postion have, but I know that that is not the answer. My little girls and my family NEED ME. Please help me raise these funds to get this surgery I so desperately need. I will be so grateful if you can find it in your heart to donate and help me.
Through this experience I have met many women who are in a great deal of pain and I will not stop raising awareness for this. If I am able to raise any amount over the cost of my surgery, I will personally write a check with the remaining amount of money to another woman in my position and pay it forward. I can't believe I am actually doing this but I am down to the wire and it's worth a shot. If you are not able to help I completely understand and would appreciate you sharing my story anyways. It may save someone elses life. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
My name is Julie, I am a 31 year professional Makeup Artist from Orange County, CA. I am a wife, mother to two beautiful girls, and 2 furbabies who need me to be the glue to this family. For the past 3 years, my health has been declining. In 2012, when my family moved to New York for my husbands job, I was diagnosed with Lyme Disease. I had no recollection of ever being bitten by a tick, yet the symptoms hit me one day out of the blue, and never went away. I was treated for 30 days with antibiotics, retested, and my test came back negative. I thought that things would be uphill from there but they have only gotten worse.
Three years and over $80,000 in unpaid medical bills sitting on my nightstand, I still have yet to find the problem or a diagnosis. I have seen neurologists, 3 neurosurgeons, cardiologists, pulmonoligists, lyme literate doctors, allergists, rhumatologists and several internal medicine specialists to name a few. Every single one of these doctors tell me that according to my blood tests, CT scans, MRI's and Xrays, that I am in perfect health. You see, from the outside it may seem that way, but no one sees the numbness and tingling in my arms and legs that I deal with every day. You can't see the brain fog, loss of memory, slurred speach, blurred vision, night sweats, hallucinations, anxiety, metallic taste in my mouth, ringing in my ears, joint pain, back pain, loss of balance, cognitive dysfuntion, insomnia, and heat and noise intolerance. I scratch my arms and legs until they bleed yet the allergist and dermatoligst say I am allergic to absolutely nothing except dust. I have panic attacks in absolutely normal situations. My hands and feet are freezing cold when its hot outside. I have severe chest pain and find it hard to breathe when I lay down at night. They found a lung nodule 2 years ago, and last week I was told there is another one. I need to fix this problem.
Through all of this medical testing and the last three years of hell, the only part of my body that has been overlooked is my breast implants. They are 13 years old and although I knew that I needed to replace them at the 10 year mark, I made a decision to breast feed my first born daughter for 20 months. After I finished breastfeeding I was pregnant right away and breastfed again another 15 months. During this time of raising babies it never occurred to me that maybe my implants could be the root of the problem. When I finished nursing, a story I read on facebook slapped me right in the face. Turns out there are thousands of women crying out for help and awareness, and explanting every day. The western medical community is completely divided on this subject. I have found some dr's who believe it could happen and others that laugh in my face. Plastic surgeons would never admit what can happen or they would be commiting career suicide. The FDA only has done studies on the effects implants have on the body up to 5 years, which leaves you to wonder where they got the "10 year" recplacement plan. Insurance companies do not cover removal because it was initially a cosmetic procedure.
As of now I am scheduled for my surgery on June 1 2016. That is 3 weeks from this wednesday. As my luck would have it, the funds I had aligned fell through when my tax return was eaten by the government. The money I thought I would have to pay for this surgery is now gone. I've tried carecredit and other financing options, but given my medical debt history, no one is willing to work with me.
I am humbly begging from the bottom of my huge heart for your help. Please help me get these toxic bags out of my decaying body. I am fit and healthy from the outside, I try my absolute hardest and work my ass off to be a good wife and mother but when I'm feeling horrible it makes it very hard to carry on with every day life. There have been times I've thought to myself that maybe it would be easier if I just drove myself off of the freeway, as many other women in postion have, but I know that that is not the answer. My little girls and my family NEED ME. Please help me raise these funds to get this surgery I so desperately need. I will be so grateful if you can find it in your heart to donate and help me.
Through this experience I have met many women who are in a great deal of pain and I will not stop raising awareness for this. If I am able to raise any amount over the cost of my surgery, I will personally write a check with the remaining amount of money to another woman in my position and pay it forward. I can't believe I am actually doing this but I am down to the wire and it's worth a shot. If you are not able to help I completely understand and would appreciate you sharing my story anyways. It may save someone elses life. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.