The D'Arcy Family Fundraiser
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We all know how much time, energy, love and support John and Kim D’Arcy have given to so many people in need over the years. Kim has literally run thousands of miles to raise funds and bring awareness to worthy causes -whether it was fundraising for The Rob Peraza Memorial Scholarship, the FDNY Burn Center, or those suffering from cancer, a disease that took both her parents.
The D’Arcy’s friends and families who have had to face some difficult times know that John and Kim have always been there for them. They are the kindest-hearted and most generous people in the world, and now it is our chance to help them as they have helped so many others. They have been traveling a very tough road for a while now, and unfortunately more difficult times lay ahead. Kim’s 100-mile charitable races have been replaced with a struggle to complete the simplest of daily tasks.
After a very long period of uncertainty, misdiagnoses and straight-up dismissal of obvious symptoms, Kim D’Arcy was finally diagnosed with Severe Chronic Neurological Lyme Disease (CNL) and several other co-infections know as babesia and bartonella. Kim is now living with a host of multi-systemic neurological and physical ailments including debilitating fatigue, profound memory loss, extreme migraine-like symptoms, severe pain and swelling in her joints, night sweats, body spasms, and breathing issues. She is undergoing very intense treatments on a daily basis in hopes of killing off the spirochetes that make up Lyme disease and co-infections. She had a PICC line implanted in Oct 2017 and is being treated with intravenous IVs five days a week, as well tons of AM and PM oral antibiotics.
While there are many parts of this chapter in their lives that straight up suck, one of the most difficult is how hard it has hit them financially. Outrageously, Chronic Neurological Lyme is not recognized by the CDC in the US and therefore treatment is not covered by insurance companies. So ALL of the expenses in testing, diagnosing and treating Kim’s very legitimate illness have been paid OUT OF POCKET by the family. This, as you can imagine, is an expense that is beyond the scope of imagination for any of us and is ruinously unsustainable. Kim is going to be faced with approximately 2 more years of treatments, possibly more. Additionally, Kim and John’s two beautiful children, Lilly and Jack, will have to undergo their own rounds of intense testing as Kim’s strain of Lyme could have been transferred to them in-utero. These kids are ROCKSTARS and have been through more than their fair share of hardships for such little loves.
The goal is to raise $60,000.00 to help with the family’s medical expenses now and for the next couple of years. After comprehensive research and consultation with doctors and specialists, due to the severity of her condition, Kim has been advised to enter an intensive treatment center in Germany where she has been offered a spot at the St. George Klinik. Germany recognizes Chronic Neurological Lyme disease as a major health issue and the clinic there offers a state-of-the-art Hyperthermia Treatment program that has been very successful in treating others with this debilitating disease. Kim and John have been in direct contact with some of these patients and their results have been amazingly positive. Because of her advanced stage of this disease, Kim must take action NOW. Her spot at St. George is guaranteed for June 25th! The treatment is done over a three week period, it is very expensive and it is not covered by insurance. They need our support to get Kim well and give them all a last chance to return to a normal life. Will you please join me in helping out the D’Arcy family, who have always been there for others? They would never ask for themselves, so I am asking for them – let’s be there for them… no family could be more deserving.
For more info on this treatment and testimonials of those who have successfully been though the process please click here: www.St-george-hospital.com
The D’Arcy’s friends and families who have had to face some difficult times know that John and Kim have always been there for them. They are the kindest-hearted and most generous people in the world, and now it is our chance to help them as they have helped so many others. They have been traveling a very tough road for a while now, and unfortunately more difficult times lay ahead. Kim’s 100-mile charitable races have been replaced with a struggle to complete the simplest of daily tasks.
After a very long period of uncertainty, misdiagnoses and straight-up dismissal of obvious symptoms, Kim D’Arcy was finally diagnosed with Severe Chronic Neurological Lyme Disease (CNL) and several other co-infections know as babesia and bartonella. Kim is now living with a host of multi-systemic neurological and physical ailments including debilitating fatigue, profound memory loss, extreme migraine-like symptoms, severe pain and swelling in her joints, night sweats, body spasms, and breathing issues. She is undergoing very intense treatments on a daily basis in hopes of killing off the spirochetes that make up Lyme disease and co-infections. She had a PICC line implanted in Oct 2017 and is being treated with intravenous IVs five days a week, as well tons of AM and PM oral antibiotics.
While there are many parts of this chapter in their lives that straight up suck, one of the most difficult is how hard it has hit them financially. Outrageously, Chronic Neurological Lyme is not recognized by the CDC in the US and therefore treatment is not covered by insurance companies. So ALL of the expenses in testing, diagnosing and treating Kim’s very legitimate illness have been paid OUT OF POCKET by the family. This, as you can imagine, is an expense that is beyond the scope of imagination for any of us and is ruinously unsustainable. Kim is going to be faced with approximately 2 more years of treatments, possibly more. Additionally, Kim and John’s two beautiful children, Lilly and Jack, will have to undergo their own rounds of intense testing as Kim’s strain of Lyme could have been transferred to them in-utero. These kids are ROCKSTARS and have been through more than their fair share of hardships for such little loves.
The goal is to raise $60,000.00 to help with the family’s medical expenses now and for the next couple of years. After comprehensive research and consultation with doctors and specialists, due to the severity of her condition, Kim has been advised to enter an intensive treatment center in Germany where she has been offered a spot at the St. George Klinik. Germany recognizes Chronic Neurological Lyme disease as a major health issue and the clinic there offers a state-of-the-art Hyperthermia Treatment program that has been very successful in treating others with this debilitating disease. Kim and John have been in direct contact with some of these patients and their results have been amazingly positive. Because of her advanced stage of this disease, Kim must take action NOW. Her spot at St. George is guaranteed for June 25th! The treatment is done over a three week period, it is very expensive and it is not covered by insurance. They need our support to get Kim well and give them all a last chance to return to a normal life. Will you please join me in helping out the D’Arcy family, who have always been there for others? They would never ask for themselves, so I am asking for them – let’s be there for them… no family could be more deserving.
For more info on this treatment and testimonials of those who have successfully been though the process please click here: www.St-george-hospital.com
Organizer and beneficiary
Alice Devine Thompson
Organizer
Yonkers, NY
John D'Arcy
Beneficiary