Hi friends and family. If you look at Gabby’s life just 3 months ago, things were so different for her. She had hopes for the new year and she was healthy. In February, she’d gotten extremely sick. She was battling Covid for the second time, and had simultaneously developed an infection that went up into her kidney. She was hospitalized for a week, depending on oxygen, had a nephrostomy tube placed, and came home with a PICC line to administer IV antibiotics. Gabby was home for a few weeks after that, and just as she started to get better, the infection came back and she was hospitalized for another 4 days. Gabby has been struggling with her kidney for many years now. And lately things have continued to go south, with her infections becoming more and more frequent, and significantly worse each time. Gabby has one kidney, no bladder, and has a urostomy that isn’t draining properly. This is the cause of her frequent infections, stones, and kidney swelling. Every time she gets sick, it puts more strain on her solitary kidney and will eventually cause her renal function to completely deteriorate. Gabby has taken extreme measures to reach out to specialists for help, to which she gets turned away because her anatomy is so different. Her local urologist told her that if her health continues at this rate, she may only have 10 more years to live. Gabby deserves more time, and we don’t want to reduce her life to a timeline. Recently, she met with a team of reconstructive surgeons in Salt Lake City, Utah, who are eager to help Gabby. They knew right away they’d need to operate to fix her chronic kidney problems, and after her recent hospital admissions, they pushed to do the surgery within the next few weeks. Gabby’s reconstructive surgery will be on May 25th, and will be a 10 hour procedure. They will be operating on her kidney, ureter, and stomach wall. She’ll be in the hospital for a minimum of 2 weeks, and following discharge, she’ll need to stay in Utah near the hospital for a month or two in case of post-op infection. Gabby is on a fixed income right now, and while we’re so lucky insurance is covering the procedure itself, she cannot afford to stay in Utah for over a month based on her income alone. After pricing housing close enough to the hospital, we’re looking to spend beyond her earnings to accommodate her and the family, on top of additional medical expenses during her time away in Utah. The family will also be commuting from Idaho daily/weekly to be with her. Although hopeful, Gabby is extremely nervous and scared for surgery, and to be away from home for so long while she recovers. Worrying about how she’s going to afford to stay in Utah, and covering other medical costs for the time being, should be one less thing she worries about. Please help us get Gabby in a place where she can heal comfortably from a surgery that will change her life. We appreciate you all so much.