Help to get Jennifer her replacement eye.

Jennifer started having painful headaches and a strange pain in her left eye in December of 2016. She thought she needed glasses and went to get her eyes checked. Her eyes had always been 20/20, but she just turned 40, so she figured it was time.  She did not need glasses.

From that moment started a downward spiral of terrible pain and suffering. She was referred around to several different eye doctors and specialists before getting diagnosed with Scleritis in her left eye. The problem with Scleritis is that about half the time, the root cause is never diagnosed. She was tested for every single possible disease associated with Scleritis, and even traveled to the Mayo clinic in Minnesota in 2018 to try and find the cause. The cause was never found. 

Jennifer’s vision started failing in 2017 and by 2019 she was completely blind in her left eye. By this time, she had been through 3 surgeries – including a detached retina – and the pain was just getting worse. Jennifer finally told her doctors that she needed the eye removed. They agreed and said that the vision would not come back – an eye enucleation would be the best course of action. After 2 (!) delays due to Covid-19, Jennifer had surgery to have her left eye removed on December 29, 2020. 

Which brings us to now. The wonderful news is that Jennifer’s awful pain is gone, and she can fully function again. The bad news is that Jennifer was told through this whole process that insurance would pay for her new glass eye. She found out 2 weeks ago that insurance is not able to pay for her new eye. She has exhausted every resource and made a million calls, to no avail. There is no payment plan, there is no way around it, she needs to pay the money before they even start making the eye. Jennifer has been able to keep up with co-pays and deductibles this far, but she needs help for this! 

This brings us to why so many of Jennifer’s family and friends want to start a Go Fund Me toassist with cost of the eye, $3500, and a portion of her deductible to total the $4000 needed for her to have the surgery.