Virginia & Tunde Lea's Medical Fund
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Virginia & Babatunde Lea's Medical Fund
<Who you're raising money for:
Tanya Lazar Lea
<How the money will be used:
We are attempting to raise money for a medical fund for our daughter, Tanya Lazar Lea. We asked Tanya to tell you why she needs the financial help. This is her story:
I hope to use the money for the therapies and treatments below and unpaid or uninsured medical bills. I am also still experiencing the consequences of past medical maltreatments, including an infected pain pump that was supposed to alieviate the pain I have felt since I was 19 years old. Parts of the pump may still in my back. They have already taken out a piece of infected catheter.
The treatments I am pursuing include chiropractic appointments, massage, doctor consultations/re-evaluations, lab testing, a new tens unit and supplies, medications and/or natural supplements, uninsured bills, denied medicare, and ambulance bills.
<How soon you need the funds:
I need the treatments as soon as possible.
<Who are you:
Many of you know me...I am your family member, your friend, your classmate or your new acquaintance. You know me as Kai's (AKai) mama and there is nothing more important to me than that. I am the daughter of Virginia Lea and Babatunde Lea, and the sister of Lichelli Lazar-Lea and Mayana Lea Geathers. I am the niece of Charmian and Tom Humphries and Johnny and Caroline Payne. I am a member of a family that stretches from the shores of California, to Minnesota, to Brooklyn, New York, to Trinidad, and across the Atlantic to the United Kingdom.
However, many of you don't know my life story, my loves, my struggles, and especially my medical upheaval which has nearly cost me my health and disabled me from work and fulfilling at a lot of dreams as an adult. I have turned to writing and poetry for inspiration, hope and stress relief and I am working on publishing a poetry book and an autobiographical novel. Children's books and books of fiction I'm pretty sure I want to follow.
More than 20 years ago, pain and health problems following back surgery stripped me from pursuing an Olympic career in Track and Field and in the Hepthatlon (7 events: 100 meters hurdles, high jump, long jump, 200 meters, shot put, javelin and 800 meters). I hope getting the necessary therapies and treatments will allow me to become as an active mother as I want to be to my beloved son, Kai and be able to contribute much to society.
To be more explicit, when I was a 13 years old, I was British National Champion in Gymnastics and I was the first young girl in the world to do "the Delchev" - formally a men's release and catch on the parallel bars; and I invented "the Lazar"--scissored flairs that were a mount on the balance beam. As one of only two black/mixed girls in the sport of gymnastics, riddled with racism and unfair competition scoring, I believe it was remarkable to have accomplished what I did in the face of obvious, "in your face" bigotry and racism. I am proud to have paved the way for other black/mixed gymnasts and people of color to succeed in the the sport, particularly in England.
My medical struggles began when I was 9 years old. I fell from the uneven bars in national competition, and was ruthlesssly kicked in my back by my coach, who was also unapologetically racist and masochistic and the British National coach at the time. The kick caused a fracture to my lower back. He would go on to break my clavicle, and tear and imping my hip before I defied him and became champion. I continued to perform in track and field with these underlying disabilities and won the British junior pentathlon championship at the age of 14. After emigrating to the U.S with my mother at the age of 15, I continued my journey in track and field, and won a full track and field scholarship to the University of Nevada Reno. Then, at the age of 19 years, while training for the Olympics on a full track scholarship, I fell on the track and my lower back broke. I have spent the last 23 years trying to recover from this injury and the others, and have endured 24 operations and more than 100 other procedures: 13 back surgeries, 4 abdominal surgeries, 4 cervical radiofrequentcy ablations, 2 shoulder surgeries and a hip surgery. It has left me with severe levels of pain & phantom pains, and as an gymnast/athlete this is not easy to admit as we are trained to live and train with pain. The conseqences have also been a perforated bowel and the loss of most of my large colon, and Hashimoto's Thyroiditis Autoimmune disease for which I have to take a daily thyroid synthetic hormone replacement.
<Why this means so much to you:
I must speak out now, and quickly, asking for your support and financial help for it may be the difference now--Stress and silence is a killer. I have already had two near death medical experiences, including the bowel surgery in 2014, and two life threatening infections including bacteria meningitis and septicemia
(blood poisoning).
<How thankful you will be:
I am thankful to be alive and know that it is less due to the medial system than to the fact that I have unfinished business in this life-time and I still am a champion at heart. The surgeon who operated on my bowel was ready to call my death on the operating table but her boss told me he made her resuscitate me to give me a chance to fulfill my commitment to my son. According to witnesses, I called out before the emergency surgery, "I have a son! Please help me! Please help me! It hurts! Please help me!"
I am asking you now if you could see your way to helping me. The last time I was near death and in the light, I was in a coma for 3 days and the doctors told my parents they did not know if I would make it or not. Of course, I did, and I would go through a thousand near death experiences if it meant coming back to Kai and I want to be around for many years to come. Whatever you can afford is much appreciated and thank you so much in advance from me and Kai.
<Who you're raising money for:
Tanya Lazar Lea
<How the money will be used:
We are attempting to raise money for a medical fund for our daughter, Tanya Lazar Lea. We asked Tanya to tell you why she needs the financial help. This is her story:
I hope to use the money for the therapies and treatments below and unpaid or uninsured medical bills. I am also still experiencing the consequences of past medical maltreatments, including an infected pain pump that was supposed to alieviate the pain I have felt since I was 19 years old. Parts of the pump may still in my back. They have already taken out a piece of infected catheter.
The treatments I am pursuing include chiropractic appointments, massage, doctor consultations/re-evaluations, lab testing, a new tens unit and supplies, medications and/or natural supplements, uninsured bills, denied medicare, and ambulance bills.
<How soon you need the funds:
I need the treatments as soon as possible.
<Who are you:
Many of you know me...I am your family member, your friend, your classmate or your new acquaintance. You know me as Kai's (AKai) mama and there is nothing more important to me than that. I am the daughter of Virginia Lea and Babatunde Lea, and the sister of Lichelli Lazar-Lea and Mayana Lea Geathers. I am the niece of Charmian and Tom Humphries and Johnny and Caroline Payne. I am a member of a family that stretches from the shores of California, to Minnesota, to Brooklyn, New York, to Trinidad, and across the Atlantic to the United Kingdom.
However, many of you don't know my life story, my loves, my struggles, and especially my medical upheaval which has nearly cost me my health and disabled me from work and fulfilling at a lot of dreams as an adult. I have turned to writing and poetry for inspiration, hope and stress relief and I am working on publishing a poetry book and an autobiographical novel. Children's books and books of fiction I'm pretty sure I want to follow.
More than 20 years ago, pain and health problems following back surgery stripped me from pursuing an Olympic career in Track and Field and in the Hepthatlon (7 events: 100 meters hurdles, high jump, long jump, 200 meters, shot put, javelin and 800 meters). I hope getting the necessary therapies and treatments will allow me to become as an active mother as I want to be to my beloved son, Kai and be able to contribute much to society.
To be more explicit, when I was a 13 years old, I was British National Champion in Gymnastics and I was the first young girl in the world to do "the Delchev" - formally a men's release and catch on the parallel bars; and I invented "the Lazar"--scissored flairs that were a mount on the balance beam. As one of only two black/mixed girls in the sport of gymnastics, riddled with racism and unfair competition scoring, I believe it was remarkable to have accomplished what I did in the face of obvious, "in your face" bigotry and racism. I am proud to have paved the way for other black/mixed gymnasts and people of color to succeed in the the sport, particularly in England.
My medical struggles began when I was 9 years old. I fell from the uneven bars in national competition, and was ruthlesssly kicked in my back by my coach, who was also unapologetically racist and masochistic and the British National coach at the time. The kick caused a fracture to my lower back. He would go on to break my clavicle, and tear and imping my hip before I defied him and became champion. I continued to perform in track and field with these underlying disabilities and won the British junior pentathlon championship at the age of 14. After emigrating to the U.S with my mother at the age of 15, I continued my journey in track and field, and won a full track and field scholarship to the University of Nevada Reno. Then, at the age of 19 years, while training for the Olympics on a full track scholarship, I fell on the track and my lower back broke. I have spent the last 23 years trying to recover from this injury and the others, and have endured 24 operations and more than 100 other procedures: 13 back surgeries, 4 abdominal surgeries, 4 cervical radiofrequentcy ablations, 2 shoulder surgeries and a hip surgery. It has left me with severe levels of pain & phantom pains, and as an gymnast/athlete this is not easy to admit as we are trained to live and train with pain. The conseqences have also been a perforated bowel and the loss of most of my large colon, and Hashimoto's Thyroiditis Autoimmune disease for which I have to take a daily thyroid synthetic hormone replacement.
<Why this means so much to you:
I must speak out now, and quickly, asking for your support and financial help for it may be the difference now--Stress and silence is a killer. I have already had two near death medical experiences, including the bowel surgery in 2014, and two life threatening infections including bacteria meningitis and septicemia
(blood poisoning).
<How thankful you will be:
I am thankful to be alive and know that it is less due to the medial system than to the fact that I have unfinished business in this life-time and I still am a champion at heart. The surgeon who operated on my bowel was ready to call my death on the operating table but her boss told me he made her resuscitate me to give me a chance to fulfill my commitment to my son. According to witnesses, I called out before the emergency surgery, "I have a son! Please help me! Please help me! It hurts! Please help me!"
I am asking you now if you could see your way to helping me. The last time I was near death and in the light, I was in a coma for 3 days and the doctors told my parents they did not know if I would make it or not. Of course, I did, and I would go through a thousand near death experiences if it meant coming back to Kai and I want to be around for many years to come. Whatever you can afford is much appreciated and thank you so much in advance from me and Kai.
Organisator und Spendenbegünstigter
Tanya Lazar Lea
Organisator
St. Paul, MN
Virginia Lea
Spendenbegünstigte