Help for Alison

Help for Alison.

Its been a long hard difficult path for the last few years.

As many are aware, kids all around the country are dealing with so much more stressful and uncontrollable issues then we as adults had to face growing up.

This has been the case for our young child.

After an issue involving an online predator at the age of 7, and as a result it set off a series of events that caused severe depression, anxiety disorder, PTSD, and so much more than any child should ever have to go through, and suffer with.

Therapy and hospital stays started immediately with Primary Children's Hospital and different Out-patient programs.

Over the last year we have seen Alison need intensive medical help for suicidal tendency and attempts.

She was hospitalized in Utah November 2021 for attempted suicide and we had to drive back and forth weekly and daily to support her while she underwent 3 months of intensive therapy. She was sent home late January. We continued weekly therapy and the last month, Alison went to school and told the counselor their that she wanted to take her life again and had a plan to do so. She was taken by ambulance to the nearest hospital and then transported again back to Utah.

She was in the inpatient program there for another 10 days and is now in the outpatient program getting help daily.

She is doing better and we are hopeful that She and all of us can get through this.

As you can imagine this has been extremely difficult not just for her, but for our family as a whole. I have had to miss many days of work, travel expenses to and from Utah, a 600 mile round trip.

Due to all this we have lost our home and are currently living with relatives in Utah to be closer to the hospitals, as well as options for facilities and centers that are capable of providing Alison with the appropriate therapy and other forms of interventions that are not just needed, but necessary for her mental health. Unfortunately these types of things are not available in Wyoming when it comes to children and adolescents.

Medical bills are completely out of control and are coming in daily.

We are looking into additional programs around Utah that help kids like her. Unfortunately they cost around 30k and our insurance does not cover such programs.

We have sold many of the items we have that have value and we are doing our best to keep up however any thing would help.

We were hessetent to even bring this out in the open. Many family members will be surprised to hear this as we have been descreat in sharing any information based on the sensitivity of it.

So many children are taking their lives and are leaving this world and the people that love them way to soon.

Thanks for listening to our story and any little bit would help.