Hello. I'd like to introduce myself as an aspiring singer and a professional fire dancer.

Recently, a friend of mine and I were out enjoying the hot springs for the day. After getting out, cooling off for about 20 minutes, and then sitting by a fire for another 20 minutes, it came time to pack up and leave. I decided to take the first load to the vehicle while she gathered up more stuff. When I got to the van, I put all of the stuff in the back and was walking around to the driver's door to start and warm it up because of how cold it was outside, but I didn't make it.

All I remember was feeling myself fading and thinking, "I'm in danger." I don't know how much time passed before I woke up, but I was face down on the side of the highway, in a small pool of blood with a busted chin and a bunch of broken teeth.

My friend drove us straight to the hospital where they ran every test under the sun, (so I thought) picked as many pieces of broken tooth as they could from my lower lip, and told me that this was an "isolated incident" where my body didn't adapt to the temperature change, my blood pressure plummeted, and it was lights out.

After getting what I thought was a clean bill of health from the hospital, I went to three different consultations with various dentists to find out what the extent of the damage was on my teeth. Although my insurance covered everything at the hospital, it's refusing to cover the very extensive dental work.

I'm left in pain, needing extractions, implants, crowns, and root canals. I can't bite fully down without sending excruciating pain, which means I can't eat anything that requires chewing. Talking sends shockwaves of pain into my jaw if I attempt more than a sentence or two, and singing, which is one of the things I love the most on this planet, is absolutely impossible. This is unfortunately the urgent part, but it's not the scariest part.

Since posting this initially, I had another episode and almost lost consciousness in my car behind the wheel while driving down the highway. I was admitted into the hospital for 5 days where they DID run tests on everything, but kept an eye on my heart in particular noting my very low blood pressure and heart rate. So far they found that my heart rate has had issues even getting to 60 BPM, and has been hovering around 48-52 BMP even while standing. My blood pressure keeps going back and forth between the low side of "normal" to the high side of "low", they have found narrowing in one of the veins in my neck next to the carotid artery on the right side, and what I never thought was a concern when my left arm would go numb randomly has turned out to be a very big deal.

So far they have put an implant in my chest to monitor my heart, and we have yet to discuss the situation with my veins, but everything has suggested that it's all primarily my heart and circulatory system I'm experiencing issues with. I was released as an outpatient with a cardiologist, neurologist, endocrinologist, pain management specialist, and a primary care doctor all to follow up with. I'm on the proper medications, but am still left with a mouth full of broken teeth.

My insurance has so far covered all of the medical expenses, but absolutely none of the dental, and it's imperative to get my teeth fixed because I was told that the antibiotics I'm on can throw off the accuracy of the tests from the endocrinologist, and if I'm NOT on them, an infection will throw it off more, not to mention that I can't eat solid foods at the moment.

The funds I'm trying to raise all go to the oral surgery, extractions, implants and crowns I'm requiring, but at this point I'm also not sure when I will be able to get back to work for more than a couple of hours a day seeing as I drive for Uber and I'm terrified of passing out behind the wheel since I almost have already. If you CAN donate, please do, and if you CAN'T, just please pass this along and share.