Fabiola's Wheelchair Accessible Van

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The Miranda family would like to thank you for being here. As many of you have heard, back in February Fabiola Gil De Rubio's health quickly began to deteriorate with no real answers of why. She became a quadriplegic and was unable to eat or breathe on her own. All we had left were hopes and prayers that a doctor could find out what was happening to her and that God would give Fabiola the strength to keep fighting. By the grace of God, and many amazing doctors, they believe that a virus attacked her brain.

After 7 months in the hospital and rehab, she is now able to breath and eat on her own and has partial use of her arms and hands. Sadly, she is paralyzed from the chest down. She continues with physical, speech and occupational therapies. She is in urgent need of a wheelchair accessible van.

This GoFundMe will be used for her van and any additional funds raised will go directly to Fabiola’s medical expenses. For any further information or questions feel free to contact our family directly or through this GoFundMe account. Again, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts! Please share this post with all your friends and family and if you could, ask them to share as well. Dios los bendiga! The Miranda Family.

Fabiola did reach out in her own words on Facebook. Here is her first and only update:

So this is my first attempt to explain what’s happening with me. For all the people who have been asking and wondering for an update. Back in February, I would say maybe the 10th or 15th, I started feeling what I thought was an MS flareup. My legs were weak, most of my body was going numb, and my vision was impaired. I still went to work as always and I had my usual treatment which entailed 3 to 4 steroids Infusions. When nothing helped my doctor's office suggested that I should go to the hospital. In the hospital they treated me for an MS flareup with more steroids and even five days of plasma exchange. After I continued to get worse, my doctor suggested for me to go to a different hospital. By this time, I had a feeding tube down my throat and a tracheotomy. I was a quadriplegic and could not or breathe on my own.

In essence I didn’t have much to live, more time that is. I want to take this moment to thank all of you who in any way supported me. My family is just amazing. My daughter Miranda, my husband Marcos Gil de Rubio, my sisters, my mom, my mother-in-law and grandmother in law. I also want to thank some of my friends that stayed with me in the hospital so my family could take a break.

In the new hospital, they finally decided that I did not have an MS flareup. Instead, due to my MS medications, my system could not fight a viral infection that got into my spinal cord. They treated me with antiviral medication and with some antibiotics. I immediately started to move my hands and feel my face . I was hungry and wanted water. They took the feeding tube out and I started having three square meals a day. So, for those of you wondering, I did not lose much weight. I have been to three hospitals since then and I am at a rehab facility now.

I am grateful to everybody that took care of me, including the doctors, the nurses and all the aids. Words cannot express the way I feel right now. I am starting from scratch, I have to learn how to write and eat on my own, in other words, I am back to square one. But I am alive and I’m grateful for all the little things in life.

I am in a wheelchair for now, as my legs have not woken up -but I’m hopeful.

I now know that this was probably the best time for this to happen as most of you have nothing to do. So I’m not missing much. I dictated all of this on my phone so please forgive any misspellings. I love you all.