Deanna and Son: Battling Health and Hardship

Hi, my name is Deanna Soto and this is my story.

Dear Family, Friends, Potential Donors, and hopeful future friends:

2024 has not been easy for me BUT especially for MY SON, my world.

I write this a with a heavy heart and ask for your help; to emphasize at the vey least. All prayers are welcomed as well and if you can find it in your heart to donate that would greatly be appreciated. Anything helps. FYI I’m starting from the end but, it will make sense.

• I just want to start off by saying Im a single mother to one amazing and happy boy who has seen all my traumas in the last two years and has gotten me through it with his love and his thriving against all odds. Im independent. I hate having to ask for help because I always do for others but won't get help when I need it. I would give the shirt off my back or my last dollar to someone who needs it. But I am optimistic that this story might give you a small view into this year and hows its almost broken me.

• I ALMOST LEFT MY SON MOTHERLESS as he saw all these doctors and blood. As said in the parts to come I mentioned having been diagnosed with Lupus and a Blood Disorder, where can bleed in or out, requiring me to be on blood thinners for life. June 2nd, 2024, I went to the ER, and I told them that I felt like something was ripping out of my stomach. They gave me pain meds, nausea meds and sent me home. The very next day on JUNE 3rd, I went to pick up my son from school, thank goodness I had someone with me because I got out the car and dropped straight to the ground, not once but twice. It took 7 people to help get me up because I was completely dead weight. I got home and my friend told me “hold on to the fence, don’t move.” While she got the stuff out the car I slid off the fence and ended up on the concrete as my neighbor was who was passing by, and she helped me up and into the house.

• I laid down and gave myself an hour, and I went to turn over and I felt like I was dying. Turns out I had a Rectus Sheath Hematoma burst into my abdomen. A rectus sheath hematoma is an accumulation of blood in the sheath of the rectus abdominis muscle. It causes abdominal pain with or without a mass. Nonetheless I was rushed to the ER and at once into the trauma bay. I was suffering and because my arms where purple (again explained down below) they had to DRILL AN IV INTO MY LEG that kind of pain I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. They called for a code Crimson which means massive blood loss. Im screaming and moving and that’s when the trauma doctor put me into a coma. Pic lines and Central lines in my neck, IV in my leg. It was so traumatic its given me PTSD. That’s when things got dangerous. They realized I was internally bleeding severely. I lost 2 and a half LITERS of blood; we only have 4 liters. I had to receive 15 bags of blood and it put a strain on my heart. I was put into a coma because they couldn’t operate at the time. That night they operated and left me open with packs trying to remove more blood because I just wouldn’t stop bleeding. So, the next day they finished the surgery. They opened my abdomen completely & 30 staples later I was going thru chronic hospital delirium. The pain was excruciating, and no one could fix it. Once I got over the first trauma and the delirium had passed, it was time to see my body. It took me 3 weeks to have the courage to look at my self. Needless to say, it wasnt pretty. I also caught Covid, Pneumonia, Wet Lungs, a Staph infection; along side necrotizing fasciitis which is a skin eating disease which they removed at bedside. The smell at the time was insurmountable. I was also operated again because of the infections. I have no belly button. I had to wear a Wound VAC machine for almost 3 months to close my wound. I had home nurses 3 times a week to change my dressing. IT WAS AWFUL. And NOW to make matters worse I have developed a new complication called Diastases Recti. Which means my abdominal muscles have completely separated allowing for my bowels and small intestine to come thru. However, they wont operate until it gets worse which makes no sense. I need a trauma surgeon and a plastic surgeon to reconstruct me and put everything back in the way it should be. They told me that something dangerous has to happen before I can get that operation done. But since it involves a Plastic surgeon its still considered elective even if my life is on the line which it is. That means I have to pay the plastics doctor before he or she is willing to operate on me.

• And to make things worse I need to MOVE ASAP. This house has become dangerous for me. I have a home attendant 7 days a week and I need more space and help to get around. I haven’t been able to work in almost 3 years and I have burned through my saving. I also need to get the cosmetic surgery to fix me and I need to get that done but I have to have the money up front. So, I’m begging anyone who has something to spare if you wouldn’t mind blessing me with it. Me and my son have outgrown this house and the space. Anything helps. I know the holidays have just passed and everyone is strapped but I just to have ask even though I don’t want to.

• Now please read til the end.

• On January 22nd, 2024, I got hit by a woman who left her kids alone at home, who was driving with a suspended license due to a DUI; driving a car where she wasn’t on the registration. She was also not on the insurance.

• * I had two hernias removed in January 22nd 2023 and after many complications they found out about the lupus and a blood clotting disorder* So i take a blood thinner everyday now for life.

• The fault went on her and I seriously injured. I flew directly into the windshield and was thrown back going 50 miles an hour. My ribs, my stomach, and my knees where injured.

• I sustained a severe Concussion, 2 bulged discs in my neck that were not there before and obviously sore as hell.

• Im currently trying to restart Cognitive OT and Neurological PT. Im currently trying to see if I can sue her. I am in bad shape. Things were going well until I was home one day in March *my floors are dangerously uneven* I took another trip, sustaining another Concussion all the while still healing from the original one. That made things SEVERELY bad* that has made a momentous change.

• My brain function has declined more, things like making like stringing sentences together, counting, and I have developed severe short term memory. With everything going on with above I havent been able to continue the therapies I need because things are just so hectic. Damages came out to be about $9000 on the car.

• And to make matter worse I ended the year with another car accident on December 9th which totaled my car completely; 30,000 in damages. So yes, I would say my year has been crazy.

• So here I am vulnerable but not losing faith and not giving up. Im going to be fighting for me and my son NO MATTER WHAT.

• And just to clarify I got me and mines. Gods got me. We need help so I can get back on my feet.

• With your help ill be able to make up for not being able to work for 2 years and give me back the confidence to start over.

I thank all of you in advance.

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