Char “Mrs. Harbst” Needs Our Help
Donation protected
They say it takes a villiage....This face has been greeting, teaching, encouraging, and advocating for our youngest “villiagers” at Apalachin Elemetary School for nearly 30 years. If you don’t recognize the name or face....ask your kids-I bet they will have at least a story or two about her!
And to fill every minute of her life outside of “her kids”....she is a beloved wife, mother, Nana, sister, daughter, aunt, coworker, and FRIEND. All of whom would be hard pressed to write their own stories without including Char.
Tuesday night she started feeling a little dizzy, which she assumed was a bout with Vertigo which she has battled for several years. Later when she was talking her speech was slurred which prompted her husband Dave to call an ambulance. They were taken to Lourdes hospital where they were told it wasn’t veritgo but a much more dire diagnosis of a Curebral Hemmorrrhage Stroke. She was transported by ambulance again from Lourdes to Wilson Hospital where she is currently in ICU.
She hasn’t been alert or awake much of her time since Tuesday, hasn’t been able to see or speak clearly and her entire left side is currently numb. The bleed in her brain has clotted on it’s own at this point, but her prognosis is uncertain and fragile. The only thing we know for sure is that she needs time.
Sadly of course the more time she spends at the hospital, the more time she misses spending time with her family, the kids, and subsequently getting paid.
Dave has also been at her side every moment he’s allowed to and missing work as well. The realities of household expenses and bills dont go away and between the medical bills and ambulance rides, the costs can be extreme.
I believe a single dollar donation from each family with a child who has a sparkling memory of encouragement, laughs, or love from Mrs. Harbst will easily get us well past our goal.
Please consider donating to help ease the stress and strain that is most certainly an added weight and burden on the family.
Thank you all for the love you have already
shown to Char. That’s what keeps her going every day even without an unexpected tragedy. Your well wishes, offers of help, hope, and prayers are being shared and felt by us all.
And to fill every minute of her life outside of “her kids”....she is a beloved wife, mother, Nana, sister, daughter, aunt, coworker, and FRIEND. All of whom would be hard pressed to write their own stories without including Char.
Tuesday night she started feeling a little dizzy, which she assumed was a bout with Vertigo which she has battled for several years. Later when she was talking her speech was slurred which prompted her husband Dave to call an ambulance. They were taken to Lourdes hospital where they were told it wasn’t veritgo but a much more dire diagnosis of a Curebral Hemmorrrhage Stroke. She was transported by ambulance again from Lourdes to Wilson Hospital where she is currently in ICU.
She hasn’t been alert or awake much of her time since Tuesday, hasn’t been able to see or speak clearly and her entire left side is currently numb. The bleed in her brain has clotted on it’s own at this point, but her prognosis is uncertain and fragile. The only thing we know for sure is that she needs time.
Sadly of course the more time she spends at the hospital, the more time she misses spending time with her family, the kids, and subsequently getting paid.
Dave has also been at her side every moment he’s allowed to and missing work as well. The realities of household expenses and bills dont go away and between the medical bills and ambulance rides, the costs can be extreme.
I believe a single dollar donation from each family with a child who has a sparkling memory of encouragement, laughs, or love from Mrs. Harbst will easily get us well past our goal.
Please consider donating to help ease the stress and strain that is most certainly an added weight and burden on the family.
Thank you all for the love you have already
shown to Char. That’s what keeps her going every day even without an unexpected tragedy. Your well wishes, offers of help, hope, and prayers are being shared and felt by us all.
Organizer
Angela Prosinski
Organizer
Apalachin, NY