
Help Ayanna Wilson with after care!!!!
Hello my name is Brian Wyatt and I have had the blessing of raising my two cousins Ayanna and Vanessa and my little brother Joseph. I have been here with them ever since they were little kids so they are my kids with Ayanna being the oldest. She came into my life full time when she was seven years old. We quickly formed a unbreakable bond. Then in February 2007 Ayanna underwent brain surgery at only nine years old. At the time she had the biggest tumor in NC for her age it was 4”x6” behind her eye socket. She had to have her eye socket and part of her skull rebuilt. This was terrifying and traumatic for the entire family. But Ayanna being the fighter she is pulled though. Then in seventh grade she got sick again and was hospitalized and we found out she got CDiff and almost died. This is when we found out she had Crohn’s disease. Once again the fighter inside took over and she beat this and learned to live with Crohn’s. She has been battling injuries and diseases her entire young life. Then this past few months she got really sick again and had to go back to the hospital. Constantly in and out days and weeks at a time they finally did a CT scan on her stomach and found out that she was septic and we were told she had to have emergency surgery. I was just getting off work about to shower when she FaceTimed me and told me this. I was on my way to see her but didn’t have time to get there before she had to go under. All she could do was cry to me and tell me she loved me, she was so scared and so was I. I did what any loving parent would do tell her it would be ok and I would be there not to worry. They took her back and I cried for a while not knowing what was going to happen. After the surgery was done everything seemed like it was fine it was successful. They had cut her from her chest to the bottom of her belly button with over 20 staples to close up her wound. They gave her a ileostomy which was a hard pill for a 23 year old to swallow. Almost two week later they removed the staples and the scar looked good and we tried to tell her it looked good and she should be happy. At 2:00 that day she had a small hole open up where the incision was and by 12:00 that night her entire incision had opened completely up. Again she was devastated, crying uncontrollably all her nurse could do was tell her not to look down we all were not sure what to do just waiting desperately on the surgeon to call us. The next morning they gave her a wound vac because they were afraid they couldn’t stitch or staple her back up because of the prednisone was not allowing her to heal properly. The wound vac is a machine that is suppose to heal her wound but requires her to wear this machine 24/7 for several months until she is fully healed. So now I want you to think about this she is 23 years old just graduated college was moving out on her own and was blindsided with the second biggest surgery of her life. She almost died and now the poor thing has to have a ileostomy for 6-9 months and a wound vac for a couple months. They told us that her ileostomy supplies alone are going to be $250 a month not to mention her wound vac materials. She already has over $30,000 in medical bills and this was before the surgeries, she lost her job she lost her apartment and she needs help. She has fought hard and done her job, now I’m asking for anyone and everyone’s help to make sure she doesn’t have to keep fighting as hard as she has been, and that you all can help her continue to pull though this terrible past couple of months and make things a little easier. Anything will help as she doesn’t have any insurance so we are looking to help her anyway we can. Please if you care about Ayanna please help, if you care about her mom,sister, brother or myself please help us as it will help her. Please pass her story along to anyone who cares about you so they too can help this beautiful young strong strong woman become healthy and gain her confidence back no one deserves to have to fight this many battles, but no matter how many more she has to fight I promise one thing I’ll be there along by her side. Thank you to anyone who reads her story and to anyone thinking about helping out I greatly appreciate it and I will personally thank you myself. God Bless.