Help Eris Overcome Anorexia's Grip

Hello, I am reaching out in hope that y'all will help me help my daughter, Eris.

Eris just turned 20 years old last month and she is fighting anorexia. This is not a new battle for her. She's been struggling with it since she was 15 years old. Last year, she finally realized she needed help. Unfortunately, we chose to trust the wrong facility to care for her.

Eris is almost 5'10" and had dropped down to 106 lbs. The facility, one of the very few eating disorder centers in Reno, accepted her into their intensive outpatient program. We know now that the only thing they cared about was getting money from the insurance. She received substandard care and incomplete treatment to the point that she lost even more weight.

After starting in their treatment program, Eris's weight dropped down to just over 100 lbs. She was nothing but a walking skeleton. She started having heart palpitations and couldn't get her body temperature up. I was waking up three and four times a night to check on her to make sure she was still breathing. More than once, I had to put her into my bed, on a heating pad, under four blankets with the heat in my room set at over 90 degrees, and hold her until she warmed up enough to stop shaking. Even then, we were told by the facility and their medical team that she would be fine, and there was never any mention of hospitalization or her needing to be placed in residential care.

Once they realized the insurance wasn't going to keep paying them due to lack of progress, they told my daughter she had gained enough weight to "graduate." The only reason she had regained any weight was due to the massive amounts of marijuana she was smoking in an attempt to stimulate her appetite. That is no longer working. She had managed to reach a healthy weight of 134 lbs, but in the last three months, she has lost 27 lbs and is back down to 107 lbs.

We have found an amazing facility in California, and Eris is in the process of getting medical clearance so that she can start their residential program. And here comes the ask - insurance will pay all of her stay except for the max out-of-pocket expense of $7,000. We have received some funding from Northern NV Hopes in the amount of $1,300, which leaves the $5,700 that we need to raise to pay for her treatment. I already work full-time and am looking for a part-time job as well, and Eris obviously is not able to currently work due to her condition.

Eris has been through so much already in her short life, far more than any parent wants to see their child go through. Eris is transgender - she was bullied relentlessly in middle school and high school, she has been raped, and she has dealt with an absentee father who re-established contact with her more than once just to turn his back on her time and again.

Despite all of this, Eris is a loving, kind, generous spirit with a smile that lights up the room, and all I want is for her to have a chance to get into recovery and have the tools necessary to STAY in recovery. She deserves to be healthy and deserves the chance to truly begin living her life.

Please consider helping - no amount is too small.

Thank you and God Bless.