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It's a horrible thing to watch your child suffer and not be able to do anything about it, even when your child is a grown adult with a husband and 5 year old daughter of her own. My daughter Erin is that child.
About a year ago, Erin was diagnosed with MS (multiple sclerosis) after years of symptoms went misdiagnosed. Although this disease isn't a stranger to our family (her brother also was diagnosed many years ago), Erin has a very progressive form of the disease . Her first 12 brain lesions were found in 2014 while pregnant with her daughter, but also having a brain and spinal malformation they were overlooked as being because of that. Over the next few years she started getting worse. At the beginning of spring last year she had a transient ischemic attack (or mini stroke) and lost the feeling in one side of her body. She regained it, but was weaker. She lost feeling in half of her body for 2 weeks at a time on 4 separate occasions until she was hospitalized for a week in August for losing her sight, already having been diagnosed with MS. While she was being treated for that she lost the feeling in her legs again. She was sent home a week later in a wheelchair with the hope she would eventuality regain it. She did get feeling back in her left side, much weaker than before. However, her right side never came back. She has been in a wheelchair ever since. She is on the strongest medications possible yet the disease is still she progressing quickly and is now in her brain, her c-spine, and t-spine.
That is where this go fund me comes in.
Erin needs a special electric wheelchair. Without it she is housebound. She cannot push herself in the manual one she has and therefore both she and Quinny are stuck inside their home unless her husband is home to help and he has been working extra hours just to keep this family afloat. Her insurance approved the $20,000+ wheelchair but her copay is approximately $7000. The insurance approval also expires in July which makes it even more dire. Unfortunately, all funds have been exhausted on her other medications and on medications needed for her daughter Quinny to treat her disability.
I have never, EVER, created a go fund me but this is for my daughter and I would do anything to help her. I am not able to help her myself . If you are able to or have any other suggestions, we are all ears.
Thank you for listening!
About a year ago, Erin was diagnosed with MS (multiple sclerosis) after years of symptoms went misdiagnosed. Although this disease isn't a stranger to our family (her brother also was diagnosed many years ago), Erin has a very progressive form of the disease . Her first 12 brain lesions were found in 2014 while pregnant with her daughter, but also having a brain and spinal malformation they were overlooked as being because of that. Over the next few years she started getting worse. At the beginning of spring last year she had a transient ischemic attack (or mini stroke) and lost the feeling in one side of her body. She regained it, but was weaker. She lost feeling in half of her body for 2 weeks at a time on 4 separate occasions until she was hospitalized for a week in August for losing her sight, already having been diagnosed with MS. While she was being treated for that she lost the feeling in her legs again. She was sent home a week later in a wheelchair with the hope she would eventuality regain it. She did get feeling back in her left side, much weaker than before. However, her right side never came back. She has been in a wheelchair ever since. She is on the strongest medications possible yet the disease is still she progressing quickly and is now in her brain, her c-spine, and t-spine.
That is where this go fund me comes in.
Erin needs a special electric wheelchair. Without it she is housebound. She cannot push herself in the manual one she has and therefore both she and Quinny are stuck inside their home unless her husband is home to help and he has been working extra hours just to keep this family afloat. Her insurance approved the $20,000+ wheelchair but her copay is approximately $7000. The insurance approval also expires in July which makes it even more dire. Unfortunately, all funds have been exhausted on her other medications and on medications needed for her daughter Quinny to treat her disability.
I have never, EVER, created a go fund me but this is for my daughter and I would do anything to help her. I am not able to help her myself . If you are able to or have any other suggestions, we are all ears.
Thank you for listening!
Organizer and beneficiary
Joan Palmer
Organizer
Sound Beach, NY
Erin Donovan
Beneficiary