Help Kate recover from Medical Bills

Hello everyone, as most of you might know by now, one of my best friends, Kate Marshall, got bitten by a deadly rattlesnake while hiking alone in the trails in Los Cabos, Mexico.

Some background on the story if you haven't caught updates via social media or personally from her:

-She was hiking on Thursday October 3rd in a known trail in San Jose

-She took a step within 12 inches of an extremely large rattlesnake sunning itself, also camouflaged into the baja rocks and dirt

-With only a 1 second rattle to warn her, the snake lunged out of it's coil and bit her in the side of the left leg, about 6 inches above her ankle injecting her with deadly venom

-She ran as fast as she could for 20 steps before making the first call to her husband trying to explain what happened and that she needed immediate help

-Within minutes the snake venom has travelled through her whole body causing her hands, fingers, neck, face and mouth to immediately go numb, the leg in excruciating pain, the body in mini convulsions, barely able to breathe (feelings of a never ending panic attack) as she continued to navigate herself out of the trails to help.

Upon arrival at the closest hospital, she was immediately hooked up to the antivenom. She needed 7 rounds of antivenom over the course of 30 hours to clean the blood of the venom. She has received over 35 needles ranging from tetanus, antibiotics, painkillers, blood tests since that date. Plus multiple antibiotics and post hospital follow ups.

The snake fangs also unfortunately got through her muscles, tendons and nerves. To this date, she has still been unable to walk. Some of you may know, she is contracted to teach yoga and personal training full time at ACRE resort which she is unable to return to until further notice. She will have more hospital visits, tests and of course a rehabilitation protocol of sorts in the coming weeks.

Unfortunately, Kate does not have medical insurance in Mexico and this traumatic situation has become a heavy financial burden to bear.

To date, her hospital and medical bills have been just over $10,000. Speaking to Kate, she anticipates another handful of big expenses over the next few days, and then the costs of whatever rehabilitation to come, physio and not to mention the loss of income over an unknown amount of time.

Recently Kate shared with me that she also had an unknown housing expense in the amount of $11,488 that she paid 3 days before the bite, and this is also all after only 18 months ago relocating her life to Mexico and trying to financially rebuild after a significant financial loss in early 2022. So this snake bite has been another devastating hit for her financially.

One of these events is hard to get through, but all of them together and now with her mobility being taken away, it has come to a pretty devastating point. Any denomination that you are able to donate will help Kate to be able fully focus on healing and getting back to "normal" life and work as soon as possible.

Thank you so much for your support