Fix Flora’s Spine & Brain

Hey friends, it's me again. Things have been pretty hard since my last update. I have been steadily regressing in really strange ways even though we were able to get my tumor removed at M. D. Anderson. I have been having memory issues, aphasia, violent muscle contractions, tremor, weakness, and many more issues. All of these are in addition to degrading, daily back pain. I have been pushing through these things because I needed to support myself, but over the last few months, my health got so bad that I couldn't get out of bed for two weeks. I'm seeing doctors, but they've ruled almost everything out except something causing Intracranial pressure.

My mom came up and helped me get back on my feet, but I can barely do anything more than shower each day. My local friends are helping take care of me, but in addition to this /just/ being expensive, my insurance is trying to deny coverage for procedures checking on and treating a pre-malignant (as of 1 year ago when it was discovered) esophagus tumor, hiatal hernia, large unidentified abdominal mass (along with scar overgrowth that is catching on my ribs), and extreme daily pain doing anything.

My car has finally broken down after 8 years of extensive use, and I'm having to rely on friends to get to doctor's appointments. We're trying to figure out how get me set up for disability, but everything is so, so complicated and hard for me to understand right now... I am so scared that I'm not going to be able to advocate for myself at all, very soon, so this cognitive stuff is debilitating. I've lost my ability to program, and that's the scariest thing to me. We just need to get some of these tumors out and problems solved, really soon.

Much love,

Flora