Help Jessie recover from a brain aneurysm

Hi, my name is Clarissa and I'm fundraising for my friend Jessie. We have been friends for 29 years. The week before Christmas Jessie called her brother in a panic asking him to take her to the Emergency Room. There they did a CT scan and identified an acom aneurysm on her anterior communicating artery- an aneurysm, deep in the middle of her brain. The ER set her up with appointments with a neurologist and a neurosurgeon, on December 27th, and discharged her home. She was with her family on Christmas Day when the aneurysm burst and she was rushed to emergency surgery at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.

There is so much to be said here, about how we are all one medical emergency away from losing our stability. How, as a medical massage therapist, Jessie's profession was one of the hardest hit during the COVID pandemic, and she was just building back her client base. That her profession, and her passions, are things that require incredible strength, endurance, physicality, and finesse.

Right now, Jessie's ability to maintain a roof over her own head, and move through the world in the ways she finds joyful, is gone. She is in an incredible amount of pain, she cannot sit up without nausea, and her vision has been significantly impacted, these are the immediate and obvious things we know. We don't yet know what more subtle impacts there may be. We don't know if these consequences are for a month or if this aneurysm will require her to find a completely new path through the world.

My goal is to maintain Jessie's life as she has it built- pay her bills, maintain her professional certifications, and make sure that when she is ready, she has a place to land. No one knows what her road to recovery looks like; how much rehabilitation she will need, what body and brain systems have been impacted, or for how long. But I do know that safety and security are key parts of any recovery.

Please, help me keep a roof over my friend's head, and give her space to find her way with the least trauma possible. She will be 46 this month.