
Support Ceara and her daughter in their time of need
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My name is Ceara. I am a single mother to a beautiful, caring, smart 8-year-old girl. I am a current nursing student at YSU, and I am also a Type 1 Diabetic. I have just been released from a lengthy hospital stay where I was admitted for severe malnourishment due to complications from a surgery I endured 2 years ago. I begged doctors for help for the past two years to no avail as my loved ones sat back and watched me deteriorate, pound by pound. I became so emaciated and malnourished that the performing surgeon finally decided to see me personally and had me admitted immediately. I was on the brink of death when admitted. This surgeon decided to do a G tube placement on my 2nd day in the hospital and then disappeared on vacation. Immediately following the first surgery, my labs plummeted, and I fought to hang on to life as they continued to overload my weakened, malnourished body. My family almost lost me, but I fought to stay with them and was placed on TPN. I started to regain myself with the TPN. A week later, I underwent a 2nd surgery, where my original surgeon wanted my fill-in to perform a surgery that would have ended my life that day. Luckily, this new surgeon refused to do what was asked by the original surgeon because he knew I wouldn’t survive. He was able to place a stent and a new JG tube for feedings. Over the course of the next few days, I dipped below and fought to get back up. After days on the TPN and JG tube together, I got a little stronger. I was then able to be released into the care of a home health nurse. The morning after I was released, my daughter and I were displaced from the home we were in as the situation was not ideal for me to keep getting healthier, and we are currently considered homeless. I am asking for any type of donation or words of prayer to help us in our time of need. I want to continue to be able to provide for my daughter and find a stable home for the two of us as I endure the ventures of this long journey to recovery. We appreciate any help that is given to us, and when I am healthy and strong again, we will do the same for another in need. My family and I are grateful for donations or prayers for my recovery.
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Ceara Brown
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East Palestine, OH