Donate to Amy's Urgent Medical Needs

The Williams family is a very private family who really never asks for help. But, our hands are tied so I am here to ask for help for our family.

Last week my mother in law Amy had a big back surgery. Everything went as expected and well on that end. She was discharged home earlier this week, but still in a lot of pain and in the healing process.

Friday morning we found her unable to speak and showing signs of a stroke. She was taken to a hospital where after a delayed response, they discovered she in fact did suffer a large stroke. They wanted to life flight her to a hospital that could perform a thrombectomy, to remove the clot, but the weather permitted her from being flown out so she was driven to a hospital where she had the procedure. Unfortunately, they were unable to remove 2 of the 3 clots in her brain. She then suffered from brain swelling and they had to preform a craniotomy yesterday to remove a large part of her skull to allow the brain to swell while avoiding further damage.

As of this point, she is intubated with a lot of things being monitored. There is no certainty of the defects that may affect her, let alone if she will survive this.

She needs all the prayers and if there is anyway you are in a position to donate to maintain her life outside of the hospital, as well as all the medical bills, our family would be eternally grateful.

As I said before, they are very private people so please let them have time to deal with the second by second process of this family tragedy.

*UPDATE*

Since the original post, Amy has since been extubated and transferred to a neuro step down floor. Her feeding tube has been removed and is starting to eat some real food again. It may seem small but this was a huge victory for her!

Unfortunately, whatever caused the clots in her brain, also showered clots throughout her body and has clots in both legs and feet. Surgery would be too high risk right now, so they decided it best to start a blood thinning IV drip to prevent any further damage. This prolonged her time in the hospital. They had to closely monitor her for any adverse effects such as bleeding in her brain.

As far as her hemicraniectomy, once the incision is fully healed, they will start discussing when it is best to replace the bone flap they removed.

She is still very tired, but is slowly waking up more each day and making small improvements! Please continue to pray for her during this long road to recovery she is now on.

Hopefully, she will be transferred to an intensive rehab facility sometime this week.