Aid the Hannah Family through medical hardships

Hi, I am Melody, and I am attempting to try and help our son, Zeb, and his family through these tough financial times. His wife, Marilee, has needed multiple surgeries on her knees since Nov 30, 2022, through Oct 29, 2024.

This journey that began on Nov 30, 2022, was supposed to be to realign her right knee, and she would be able to go back to work in approximately 6 weeks. Well, the knee kept swelling, and the doctors kept saying everything looked fine, and a few times drained some fluid off of it. Then she returned to work somewhere at the end of January or the beginning of Feb. 2023. The right knee continued to progressively show more signs that something was not right, and it got harder to work. She went to see a different doctor, and he told her the surgery had to be redone. He told her that her knees were both out of alignment, and eventually, he would have to do the left leg also. She worked until July when she had the second surgery on the right knee, which now has become a more extensive surgery. This surgery took place on July 20, 2023. This surgery put her off work longer due to the extensiveness of the surgery. This surgery involved bones being cut and hardware put in her bones. Healing took a little longer. She was able to return to work in December 2023 after some complications in the healing process.

The knees continued to bother her. Then it was time to do the left knee, and surgery was set once again for March 21, 2024. This surgery also involved internal hardware and was an extensive surgery. She was placed in a brace for a while. It seemed like forever. She was once again off work for a duration of time. Healing was going better this time, and she made it to physical therapy, where she broke her kneecap, so there was yet another setback. Back in the brace, the time frame for going back to work changed. Finally, in August of 2024, she was able to return to work. This is not the end yet; the knees were still having problems, so the doctor decided to do another surgery on both legs, take out the hardware, and flush out broken cartilage. When the doctor went into the left knee, he saw that the graft was not holding up the way he wanted, so he had to rebuild tissue, which is going to make the recovery time longer than the 6 weeks. She was hoping to go back before the end of the year.

Here we are 2 years later, and because she was not able to work for extended periods of time, this has unfortunately impacted their finances tremendously.

They have been unable to qualify for financial aid.

Please share .