Help my daughter pay her medical treatments

UPDATE

Hello everyone,

First off I want to thank every single person who has donated from the bottom of my heart. Your generosity has helped to ensure that my daughter can continue her fight, but her fight is far from over.

Initially our goal of 10,000$ was to help cover the costs associated with her disease while she waited for her file to be approved by the Quebec government. However now, with her symptoms having progressed as rapidly as they have the last 6 months we have had to take desperate measures to ensure she is okay. This includes an intensive Hail Mary type of treatment that costs 293$/week for 6 months. That is 7032$. Plus her up coming consult with the specialized surgeon that is going to cost 850$, plus her gas and her hotel as her appointment is at 8am in Montreal. So over 1000$ for one day. This doctor has agreed to take Jessica on as a patient, as he specializes in the type of maxillo-facial issues she has from years of facial spasms. While this is incredible and means that she will finally be able to hopefully get some relief from these symptoms, it also means that she has to be readily available in Montreal to be treated.

That also excludes the costs of each chiropractic, massage and physiotherapy session that she desperately needs to ensure she does not lose the mobility that she has now, and hopefully can improve and regain some of the muscle mass she has lost. The costs of those sessions range from 55$-125$ per session and she is supposed to be doing them once per week however she cannot permit herself that presently.

And on top of all of those expenses, there is still gas to pay. And she has to live. She has been without a salary for almost a year, she has to be able to afford to eat.

So thank you again to each and every person who has so kindly donated, and I hope and pray that we can continue to help Jessica in her fight and continue to not only raise the funds she needs to survive but raise awareness for this disease.

some of you know my daughter Jessica Forgues was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive and progressive disease called stiff person syndrome. This disease is debilitating, and has left her completely disabled and unable to work. She was declared legally disabled almost a year ago, and is still waiting for the Quebec government to finalize the file. Even when it is finalized, the small amount given won’t be enough for her to survive. This disease causes extremely painful rigidity, and spasms with such force they can break bones.

Jessica requires several major surgeries, whose consultation fees run at 500$ each. Then will come the actual surgeries, which will require her to be in Montreal, live in hotels, be available for the specialists she needs and travel to them.

Jessica has always given all of herself to her community and volunteered her time. Her entire career was based on bettering and improving the region she loves so much. She was always the first to step up to donate her time, money, and energy to anyone who needed it.

Between the physio, chiropractic care, massages, aqua therapy, dental appointments (to fix the severe damage done to her face from facial spasms), she simply cannot handle the financial burden alone.

If you could find it in your heart to donate to help relieve some of the stress off of her (her disease is triggered by stress, so her symptoms have been significantly worse) I would be forever grateful.