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Hello Friends & Family,
We wanted to post an update to let you know how the final medical costs worked out: With additional blood & lab work needing to be done, a brain MRI (which thankfully only showed 1 benign cyst), the EMG to assess the nerves throughout my body, and the internal ultrasound, our final costs were $21,000 USD. This converts to about $27, 650 Canadian Dollars. As steep as those final medical costs are, seeing the progress I am already making after only 1 week at home makes it all so very worth both the time & money. Thankfully, my parents covered the cost of the flights, food & accommodations, which has been amazing. We are so deeply thankful to you all for your support thus far! As we now must find a way to pay the remaining $10,000 in medical costs left owing, if you feel moved to share this story, or are able to help with a donation, or pray for us, that would be absolutely wonderful and deeply appreciated. It would be such a blessing to not be burdened with the extra debt while we focus of getting Lacey healed up and better.
We also assure and pledge to everyone that once Lacey is healthy again we will be doing everything we can to pay all this love and support forward to others in need. Once again, please donate only if you can but SHARE as much as possible.
Original story starts here...
2016 my wife Lacey & I moved from Winnipeg to Flin Flon, Manitoba with our 2 young boys hoping for a slower-paced, small town life to raise our family. Our first few months were wonderful and in the fall of that year we found out we were expecting our 3rd baby. Unfortunately for my darling wife, things soon took a turn for the worse…
Right after Christmas Dinner, while 15 weeks pregnant, she found herself overwhelmed with a ton of unusual pain in her stomach. 2 days later, she had emergency surgery to remove her appendix. Things seemed to go well at first but one of her incisions became infected and she had to go back to the hospital daily for dressing changes and IV treatments for almost a month. We thought things were under control but she began to have a strange pain in her back. It grew to be so painful that she could barley get any sleep or perform everyday functions. After several more hospital visits, she had her 20 week ultrasound for the baby. Since she had such horrible pain they checked her organs and found she had a large abscess (infection) inside of her liver. Her and baby were both in danger. We were immediately flown to HSC in Winnipeg. Although they could not perform another surgery because of baby, they were able to partially drain the infection. They put in a central IV line and began daily 1 hour long antibiotic injections. After a week we were able to come home. It took another month of 1hr daily visits to the ER to get the IV treatments to kill the remaining infection in her body. They monitored her close but she still felt terrible. At week 31 of the pregnancy they had to do 2 transfusions to get her blood cell count back up. Both Lacey and baby made it through to full term and on June 13, 2017, our darling daughter Lydia was delivered via C-section.
In the midst of all of this we had noticed our middle child Evrett was falling behind developmentally. He had his own fair share of appts and tests. They found he has brain abnormalities that they are still trying to determine the cause of. He has been diagnosed as being on the Autism spectrum. But that’s a whole other story…
Over the course of the next year Lacey’s health issues ramped up and things continued to get worse. On top of the horrible back pain, she began feeling dizzy & nauseous daily, and had migraines more often than she could count. After repeated visits to the Doctor and emergency room, they could find nothing to explain her symptoms. She was prescribed all kinds of different drugs but they gave her little relief from her pain and most had horrible side effects. It seemed that we were never getting close to answers of any kind. We tried going to Winnipeg to see a number of alternative Doctors and treatment providers but none ended up giving her any answers or relief either.
From 2018 to 2019, Lacey tried everything from diet changes to homeopathic medicine to further visits to her Dr & Emergency Room here in Flin Flon. Although cutting certain foods from her diet seemed to help, she found no consistent relief and her overall condition continued to deteriorate. By August long weekend of this summer, Lacey was bed-bound most days. She was in too much back pain to move, her dizziness & nausea became overwhelming, her migraines became constant, and she began to have hot flashes, night sweats and lose her hair. Lace had no choice to but to give her job up and was stuck at home in bed most days.
By this time, our frustration with the medical system was reaching the breaking point. Frequent changes in family Dr’s looking after her case had led to a lack of consistency, resulting in referrals that had been dropped for months on end, and diagnostic procedures being performed on the wrong parts of her body. By the end of this summer more specialist referrals were made but they were only for pain management and consultations. We were looking at 6-9 month wait times no real hope of figuring out the root cause to all of this. It felt like a diagnosis was a lifetime away and that our beloved Canadian medical system was failing us…
At the beginning of October we reached out to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. We wanted to see how they might be able to help with Lacey’s condition. They got back to us quickly and let us know that if we could supply her medical records, their specialists would do a review and come up with a plan. On November 15th we got the word that they had accepted her case. Lacey has been admitted to their dept of Internal Medicine and will begin her stay there on Monday, November 25th. She will have to remain for 1-2 weeks time while they complete all specialist appointments and tests.
On top of all the physical pain, Lacey has also had to battle anxiety and depression. Before she got sick she had always been able to keep these in check with daily exercise. As you can imagine it is almost impossible for her to work out the majority of the time and this has put her in a very dark place emotionally. Some days she still amazes me and drags herself downstairs to at least get on the treadmill for a short while or do a bit of yoga. Her spirit has taken a beating but yet she still finds the will to fight.
For almost 3 years my wife has not been able to enjoy the simplest things in life. Our 2 ½ year old daughter Lydia has never known her mommy to be healthy. Our 4 year old Autistic Son Evrett is the sweetest little guy. Sadly we can’t give him nearly the help and attention he deserves to help with his development. Our 8 year old Cody tries his best to help out and be brave but it’s just not right he has to take care of his mom and miss out on so many other fun things he could be doing. Myself, I just hang in there… Get up everyday and do what I can. Try to be as strong as my amazing wife who somehow through all the pain still does her best to be a loving mom and spouse. We just want to start living again and being able to do normal family things…
Total Cost of fees and Accommodations will be over $20,000, not including travel expenses. This should cover all of the testing and specialist consultations and hopefully get us a diagnosis. Where we go with treatment after that is up in the air. We have already had to pay this up front and the majority is going on the credit card. We have the means to cover some of the costs, but are humbly asking for whatever assistance we can get. No amount is too small and we will be forever grateful for anything we receive. Please feel free to ask us any questions if you want any more details.
Weather or not you can donate,
PLEASE SHARE THIS WITH AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN.
Thank you all from the bottom of our hearts!
We wanted to post an update to let you know how the final medical costs worked out: With additional blood & lab work needing to be done, a brain MRI (which thankfully only showed 1 benign cyst), the EMG to assess the nerves throughout my body, and the internal ultrasound, our final costs were $21,000 USD. This converts to about $27, 650 Canadian Dollars. As steep as those final medical costs are, seeing the progress I am already making after only 1 week at home makes it all so very worth both the time & money. Thankfully, my parents covered the cost of the flights, food & accommodations, which has been amazing. We are so deeply thankful to you all for your support thus far! As we now must find a way to pay the remaining $10,000 in medical costs left owing, if you feel moved to share this story, or are able to help with a donation, or pray for us, that would be absolutely wonderful and deeply appreciated. It would be such a blessing to not be burdened with the extra debt while we focus of getting Lacey healed up and better.
We also assure and pledge to everyone that once Lacey is healthy again we will be doing everything we can to pay all this love and support forward to others in need. Once again, please donate only if you can but SHARE as much as possible.
Original story starts here...
2016 my wife Lacey & I moved from Winnipeg to Flin Flon, Manitoba with our 2 young boys hoping for a slower-paced, small town life to raise our family. Our first few months were wonderful and in the fall of that year we found out we were expecting our 3rd baby. Unfortunately for my darling wife, things soon took a turn for the worse…
Right after Christmas Dinner, while 15 weeks pregnant, she found herself overwhelmed with a ton of unusual pain in her stomach. 2 days later, she had emergency surgery to remove her appendix. Things seemed to go well at first but one of her incisions became infected and she had to go back to the hospital daily for dressing changes and IV treatments for almost a month. We thought things were under control but she began to have a strange pain in her back. It grew to be so painful that she could barley get any sleep or perform everyday functions. After several more hospital visits, she had her 20 week ultrasound for the baby. Since she had such horrible pain they checked her organs and found she had a large abscess (infection) inside of her liver. Her and baby were both in danger. We were immediately flown to HSC in Winnipeg. Although they could not perform another surgery because of baby, they were able to partially drain the infection. They put in a central IV line and began daily 1 hour long antibiotic injections. After a week we were able to come home. It took another month of 1hr daily visits to the ER to get the IV treatments to kill the remaining infection in her body. They monitored her close but she still felt terrible. At week 31 of the pregnancy they had to do 2 transfusions to get her blood cell count back up. Both Lacey and baby made it through to full term and on June 13, 2017, our darling daughter Lydia was delivered via C-section.
In the midst of all of this we had noticed our middle child Evrett was falling behind developmentally. He had his own fair share of appts and tests. They found he has brain abnormalities that they are still trying to determine the cause of. He has been diagnosed as being on the Autism spectrum. But that’s a whole other story…
Over the course of the next year Lacey’s health issues ramped up and things continued to get worse. On top of the horrible back pain, she began feeling dizzy & nauseous daily, and had migraines more often than she could count. After repeated visits to the Doctor and emergency room, they could find nothing to explain her symptoms. She was prescribed all kinds of different drugs but they gave her little relief from her pain and most had horrible side effects. It seemed that we were never getting close to answers of any kind. We tried going to Winnipeg to see a number of alternative Doctors and treatment providers but none ended up giving her any answers or relief either.
From 2018 to 2019, Lacey tried everything from diet changes to homeopathic medicine to further visits to her Dr & Emergency Room here in Flin Flon. Although cutting certain foods from her diet seemed to help, she found no consistent relief and her overall condition continued to deteriorate. By August long weekend of this summer, Lacey was bed-bound most days. She was in too much back pain to move, her dizziness & nausea became overwhelming, her migraines became constant, and she began to have hot flashes, night sweats and lose her hair. Lace had no choice to but to give her job up and was stuck at home in bed most days.
By this time, our frustration with the medical system was reaching the breaking point. Frequent changes in family Dr’s looking after her case had led to a lack of consistency, resulting in referrals that had been dropped for months on end, and diagnostic procedures being performed on the wrong parts of her body. By the end of this summer more specialist referrals were made but they were only for pain management and consultations. We were looking at 6-9 month wait times no real hope of figuring out the root cause to all of this. It felt like a diagnosis was a lifetime away and that our beloved Canadian medical system was failing us…
At the beginning of October we reached out to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. We wanted to see how they might be able to help with Lacey’s condition. They got back to us quickly and let us know that if we could supply her medical records, their specialists would do a review and come up with a plan. On November 15th we got the word that they had accepted her case. Lacey has been admitted to their dept of Internal Medicine and will begin her stay there on Monday, November 25th. She will have to remain for 1-2 weeks time while they complete all specialist appointments and tests.
On top of all the physical pain, Lacey has also had to battle anxiety and depression. Before she got sick she had always been able to keep these in check with daily exercise. As you can imagine it is almost impossible for her to work out the majority of the time and this has put her in a very dark place emotionally. Some days she still amazes me and drags herself downstairs to at least get on the treadmill for a short while or do a bit of yoga. Her spirit has taken a beating but yet she still finds the will to fight.
For almost 3 years my wife has not been able to enjoy the simplest things in life. Our 2 ½ year old daughter Lydia has never known her mommy to be healthy. Our 4 year old Autistic Son Evrett is the sweetest little guy. Sadly we can’t give him nearly the help and attention he deserves to help with his development. Our 8 year old Cody tries his best to help out and be brave but it’s just not right he has to take care of his mom and miss out on so many other fun things he could be doing. Myself, I just hang in there… Get up everyday and do what I can. Try to be as strong as my amazing wife who somehow through all the pain still does her best to be a loving mom and spouse. We just want to start living again and being able to do normal family things…
Total Cost of fees and Accommodations will be over $20,000, not including travel expenses. This should cover all of the testing and specialist consultations and hopefully get us a diagnosis. Where we go with treatment after that is up in the air. We have already had to pay this up front and the majority is going on the credit card. We have the means to cover some of the costs, but are humbly asking for whatever assistance we can get. No amount is too small and we will be forever grateful for anything we receive. Please feel free to ask us any questions if you want any more details.
Weather or not you can donate,
PLEASE SHARE THIS WITH AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN.
Thank you all from the bottom of our hearts!