Help Julie With Medical Expenses
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Julie & Jim could really use some help!
Back in March Julie tested positive for Covid and that following week her symptoms got significantly worse. Jim had to call an ambulance and she was rushed to the hospital where she tested positive for covid pneumonia.
Due to the condition she was in doctors quickly placed her into a medically induced coma and parallyzed her.
While at Cheshire Medical her health continued to decline until she was transferred to Dartmouth where she was put on dialysis and had to deal with several more rounds of pneumonia, other lung infections, hypoxia, cardiac arrest, severe pansinusitis, acidosis, ARDS, AFIB, respiratory + kidney failure, pressure wounds, pulmonary embolism + edema, cerebral edema, pulmonary hypertension, multiple blood transfusions, septic shock, as well as a rapid benzo withdrawal that caused a seizure and her heart to stop twice.
Doctors said she would need a tracheostomy but after every attempt to wake her and wean her off the vent her vitals would drop dangerously low. She was no longer breathing on her own and was too unstable to have the surgery she needed.
On 4/20 we had a family meeting where doctors told us they've done everything they could. They said she wasnt going to get better, that she had extensive, irreversible lung damage and she was dying. We were asked to consider ending treatment and focus on her comfort as she passed instead, and that in the unlikely event of her recovering she would never be the same person she was before.
We disagreed with doctors and fought to continue her treatment.
On 5/2 she was finally stable enough to have the tracheostomy, a bronchoscopy, and a PEG placed.
On 5/11 after 52 days paralyzed and in a coma she woke up but was severely deconditioned. Unable to talk,move,focus, or do anything for herself she had to learn how to do everything all over again.
Julie is currently in rehab working on gaining her strength back before she can return home.
It will be awhile before she can return to work again leaving them with only one income.
The hospital bill is now at $1.3 million. While insurance is covering some of this Julie & Jim could still use all the help they can get covering the rest. If you are not able to donate please consider sharing her gofundme. Anything would be very much appreciated!
Organizer and beneficiary
Taylor Gagne
Organizer
Keene, NH
Julie Seavey
Beneficiary