Give Back to Tammy

Hi guys! I’m Hannah and I work at Magnolia Social Cafe. Not only is Ms. Tammy my boss, she is a very good friend. She gives so much to our community and now is our time to give back to her. Any amount helps and will be given directly to her to help with medical costs and/or continuing her dreams with Girls With Dough. ❤️

Posted by Ms. Tammy on Facebook- 
POSSIBLY LONG POST.... I haven’t spoke much about what I have been truly enduring lately because I didn’t have answers to possibly a thousand questions that people may have so until I know what exactly what I was dealing with.. I just didn’t want to talk about it much. Started last year .. this past few months for me have been one hell of a ride. I honestly have been having complications that I have continually put off due to my current brain condition Chiari Malformation. Well a few months ago , ironically my back started hurting wayyyyyyy more than my normal hurt that lead me to a chiropractor. He did ex rays and told me that I needed a MRI because I needed surgery on that area and he could not help me. I hadn’t seen my regular intern doctor within the year because of COVID so I decided I would go. When I went he immediately wanted to do blood work because he hadn’t seen me in so long. Fast forward .. he got the results and my parathyroid tumor marker came back extremely high. That then lead back to the Cleveland Clinic to meet with the endocrinologist she then checked/felt my neck and head and asked me when was the last time I saw my neurosurgeon. I replied it has been a few years, she insisted that I see him right away because things didn’t feel normal in my neck and head area and because it had been way past my follow up with him. I make the appointment .. the appointment got post pone SEVERAL times.. some my fault some because they had emergency surgeries that needed that time frame and day the appointment was schedule for. During all that time my neurosurgeon requested I receive an updated MRI of the brain and spine/neck area. So on Saturday January 30,2021 I went for a normal brain MRI. On that Monday February 1,2021 I received a call that made my world freeze. I was told that I had a brain tumor. I can’t tell you the thoughts that ran through my head. The fear, the unknown, the what if’s , the WHYSSSSSSS !!!!!!!!!!???????? Why do I must keep enduring??? Why do must keep must proving my faith, my strength, my love for God?!?!? My love for life?!?! So... I said to myself ( almost two weeks of feeling sorry for myself) ok get over let’s see what Dr Adada has to say. I had my appointment already scheduled for February 11 with him so I went last Thursday. I had a small glimmer of hope when he looked at it and said I am just not 100% convinced this is a tumor due to the quality of the MRI !!! So my heart smiled and I was sooooooo hopeful again!!! He set me up with A LOT of MRIs to be done at the Cleveland Clinic. I had almost 3 hour of testing... then I received the final confirmation call. That it was indeed a tumor as well as lots of other things going on. He said my surgery is going to take around 12 hours . I can not explain to anyone what I am feeling right now. I have been even more devastated due to the fact that surgery is set up for when Girls With Dough is slated to open. And I am even more devastated that the possibility of me having to walk away from it all because he told me to be prepared for a 3 week stay, very well even longer, I am worried I will not be able to afford finically to be out of work and pay the amount of hospital bills I am about to have once again and continue to pay for the final construction phase of Girls With Dough. I AM COMPLETELY OVER WHELMED that everything I have ever dreamed of worked for and everything else is literally all at my finger tips of all going away. Talking about having to be more humbled than what you THOUGHT you already had been brought to with everything else you already went through. Honestly I have no words, I have just been praying VERY HARD and honestly trying my hardest to trust the process buttttt DAMN IT IS HARD!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am SCARED TO DEATH to go through all this again, because this time I am not naive to what I am facing nor naive what I am about to go through.....