Hello, my name is Jessie Wizniak and I am organizing a GoFundme page for Chantel Rehaluk and her family. I have known the Rehaluk's nearly my entire life and I know that the family is a pillar in our community. They are very well known and incredibly welcoming. On June 19th Chantel fell extremely ill and has now been moved to a Regina Hospital.

I have started this page as I have been keeping up with Chantel's updates and I want her to know she is not alone and can always have family by her side during these scary and uncertain times.

The cost of fuel, food, time away from work and accommodations are adding up . The intent of this Go Fund me is to alleviate those costs so her family can be with her through it all.

Chantel is a vibrant, young and smiley individual! Her laugh is contagious and she is always up for an adventure. She adores her animals more than anything and pours this passion into her work as a proud team member at the Animal Health Centre of Melville. Chantel has sent a summary of her journey so far and it is listed below.

The latest update as of September 8th is a prediction from doctors that she has another 1-2 months in hospital if all goes well.

In her Facebook updates she graciously thanks all of the staff at the Yorkton hospital along with her family and friends simply for thinking of her.

Please help me show support for Chantel and her family by showing them that there is a very large community behind them. Any amount helps!

Here is Chantel's story:

"On June 19th I was admitted into Yorkton Hospital for gallstones, shortly after they realized I had a gallstone stuck in the duct to my pancreas, causing necrotizing pancreatitis. My white bloodcell count was nothing the doctors have ever seen before, at 460 (Normal being between 0 - 10) I was nearly septic. I was placed in ICU for 3 days, then moved to the general ward for monitoring.

I spent 5 weeks in hospital trying to heal from this, going to Regina 6 times for 6 scopes to remove the dead part of my pancreas. On August 1st I went for my 6th and last scope. They were able to remove all of the dead part of my pancreas, but my stomach had too much trauma from all the scopes that a small hole was formed.

The contents of my stomach poured out into my abdomen, and gas came into my stomach. They didn't catch this until I was back in yorkton, and went for an emergency CT the next morning. Immediately was rushed to ICU again where I spent a week. I was then placed in the surgery ward in Yorkton for 4 weeks to heal. But, rather than healing, my body formed 3 abscesses in my abdomen that got bigger with time. For 4 weeks I didn't eat, nausea and vomiting daily. During this time, so many failed IV's, failed central line, attempted a feeding tube which i did not tolerate and puked up less than 48 hours later. So they started me on TPN which is giving me the calories I need to survive, but not thrive as I'm still not eating. Bites if anything at all.

On August 27th, I woke up with a fever, not feeling well all day, I was relaxing with my dad when suddenly I was thrown into the worst back spasm of my life. 10/10 excruciating pain. The nurses pushed morphine to calm me down. Thats when the shaking started. I felt like I was freezing to death, teeth chattering, but I was getting hotter by the minute. 3 nurses and my mom were cooling me down and used a suppository to stop my shaking. My IV lines failed, my veins went flat and they called ICU to get a IV put in me. They got 2 IV in me when my heart started racing. My heart rate went up to 245. They brought in a crash cart, removed my parents, cut off my clothes and pushed a drug that restarted my heart. I was rushed to Regina General Hospital that night, where I am now and will stay for the time being.

At Regina, they found I had pneumonia in my right lung, which they placed a drain in to drain the fluid for 3 days. That caused me the worst pain. It is removed now and my lungs are doing well. I had 1 large abcess and 2 smaller ones, the large one I currently have a drain in. It continues to get clogged so they have to go back in a flush it for the 2nd time on Tuesday. For 3 days straight I continued to have excruciating back spams, thinking it was the drain in my lung, until a specialist came in and felt my back and it turns out it is my lower back. They think one of the abscesses is pressing against a nerve near my spine. So I'm on scheduled Tylenol and morphine.

On Sept 4th, while just relaxing watching a movie waiting for my mom to get back from shopping, my heart suddenly started beating fast again. I called the nurse and they immediately brought in a crash cart. 5 other nurses came in and they did things to try reset my heart rhythm while we waited on the doctor. It was about 10 minutes and I was watching the heart monitor screen when all of a sudden my heart rate went from 200 down to 65. Then to 80, 90, back up to normal around 100. The nurses were shocked and said "she flipped herself". Everyone was so excited. They left me on the monitor, and about 5 or 10 minutes later, I felt it again. I called the nurse and sure enough I was in SVT again. My heart rate spiked to 215 this time. The doctor and cardiologist came in, and suddenly there was 6 nurses and 2 doctors in the room, opening my gown, pushing the same drug in me that restarts my heart. That night they sent me to the cardiovascular ward for monitoring, where I am currently. After 48 hours I was taken off the heart monitor which is good news. I was put on higher anxiety meds, and new medication to hopefully prevent my heart from doing that again.

That brings us to today (Sept 7th) the plan here now is to let the infection continue to drain and go down with antibiotics and antifungal. I am also pushing for them to remove my gallbladder while I am here, which still has gallstones in it and was the cause for all of this. I should find out in the next few days. But the doctor has explained this process will take weeks, so we are prepared to be in Regina General for at least a month.

(Sept 8th) The doctor came and talked to me this morning and said I'll be in Regina hospital for at least a month, possibly 2 months. He said he's not letting me leave without getting my gallbladder removed which is good. But I have a lot of issues that need to heal up before I even get considered for surgery."

Please consider donating to Chantel and her family so they can be with her every step of the way.