Help Khloe FIGHT her new battle, please donate!

#fightforkhloe

Hi, I’m Michelle and the mother of Khloe. A few people close to our family have suggested we start a GoFundMe due to our recent medical crisis with our daughter. On 9/20/23, our lives took a shift and our full direction was on our daughter Khloe. I am compelled to share this new journey that has impacted us in hopes to help and encourage some one else that could be faced with the type of news and diagnosis we received. If anyone has it on their heart to donate and assist us on this new journey, please donate.

The past few weeks have been quite rough to say the least, but we are adjusting, we are learning through this as always to pray hard without ceasing, and to adapt and overcome.

Timing sometimes can never be on anyone’s side, especially while we were going through a transition phase already as a family.

We are raising these funds for the constant doctor appointments, hospital and doctor bills, ongoing monthly medication, and monthly supplies that Khloe will need for the rest of her life to live. Donations will also assist with equipment, and anything else needed to battle and manage this new condition to help Khloe with happiness and transition through this adjustment. Any donation will be greatly appreciated.

Khloe started to develop a few symptoms we had noticed, wanting more to drink and having to use the bathroom frequently. Those symptoms went on for a few weeks. She then had a few accidents at night, mind you Khloe is 10, so not in her nature any longer to have accidents. She started complaining that her legs were hurting, so I thought ok, maybe just growing pains, that was for 2 days. We started to notice she was losing weight and appeared thinner. On the second day of her leg pain she started saying it was hurting her to squat when we were out in public to use the restroom, so I called the doctor to make an appointment to check her out just to make sure nothing was going on.

They made an appointment for the next afternoon. The day of her appointment, that morning she did not want to get out of bed, complete her school work, eat, or get dressed. Her symptoms really escalated drastically within a couple days. We were so thankful we had a doctors appointment schedule because now at this point we were very concerned. When we arrived to the doctor they ran a few blood tests and a urine test and informed us of the news of their findings. They told us they believed Khloe has Type 1 Diabetes and needs to immediately go to the ER based off of her numbers. They explained to us the autoimmune disease and how it affects her body and that we would learn so much more once at the hospital.

We obviously were devastated and extremely emotional, trying to hold back and stay strong for Khloe. Dad, and I knew that this was something she would now have for the rest of her life. We also did not have anyone in our immediate family with this condition so we were not extremely familiar with it. It’s through extended family genetics on both our fathers side.

We tried not to panic but that was difficult as well, we are in another state at the time of all of this and have no family here for support. Anyone that knows us well knows we move as a unit, we are such a close knit family, we do everything together. When we actually explained to Kobe (Khloe’s brother) what was going on he broke down with emotion and told his sister he wish it was him who had Type 1 diabetes and not her. To hear your 13 year old son tell his sister that really hits home. Khloe hugged her brother and started crying.

We arrived to the ER Khloe’s dad had to carry her in as she was semi conscious and very weak. The ER brought her back quickly, checked her vitals, and placed her into a room to start running tests. They decided quickly to admit her to the Pediatric ICU so they could stabilize her blood sugar as she was now in (DKA) Diabetic Ketoacidosis. They had to prick her finger every hour and check her sugar level, check her eyes, & ask her questions every hour to make sure she didn’t slip into a coma. Every few hours, they checked her blood gas level for acid. Khloe didn’t eat for a few days and slept through mostly everything. She was so lethargic through the beginning it was terrifying. Terrifying to watch our baby hooked up to cords, IV’s, and close to unresponsive in such a quick amount of time. We felt helpless, shocked at the initial diagnosis that this will now be our new normal for the rest of her life.

We were so blessed we caught the signs, that we took her to the doctor, if we would have waited one more day she may have not been here today. Life is truly a blessing and God is good.

At the hospital they educated us further on Type 1 Diabetes and explained to us how her pancreas stopped producing insulin so now we have to give her insulin for rest of her life daily. It will not be controlled by diet. Once Khloe started receiving insulin and they started regulating her sugar level, she started to wake up and she was able to start eating. When we left the hospital we immediately had an appointment with the pediatric endocrinologist and nutritionist for 3 hours to go over diet, equipment, finger sticks, and injections. We have had to prick Khloe’s finger 5-7 times a day with her meals and depending on her sugar levels, to include one at 2am. We have to give her 5 injections a day before meals and bed time, to include 2 different types of insulin. She has had several doctor appointments each week after leaving the hospital right now to manage her levels. She was so unregulated she has had a really tough time and been really sick on and off.

To say this is hard is an understatement but we are managing. This is about Khloe, we will push through and be strong for our daughter. Her life depends on us and we must stay strong. Perseverance and determination are the first words that come to mind.

We have been on an emotional roller coaster since 9/20/23. Khloe has had ups and downs and emotional breakdowns, which rattle us to our core. This is the hardest fight of our lives right now as we adjust, but we will get through this! We will persevere!

I share this in hopes of one person being able to catch the signs and symptoms before it’s too late. I hope to create the awareness to understand Type 1 Diabetes, as it mostly affects children. We were informed a lot of children at this state don’t make it out of the hospital. If you would like to donate to help Khloe as she is going through this transition it would be helpful to her and our family at this time. This is a huge life change for us all and Khloe is trying hard to adjust. There is luckily a lot of amazing technology that will assist with her insulin and monitoring her sugar levels, which we are working on for her but it is costly and she now needs this to live.

Please pray for Khloe and our family, and share to help spread word of the symptoms of Type 1 Diabetes. Khloe is a strong girl, and she will keep fighting. I will continue to keep you posted on our journey. We will fight this!!!! #fightforkhloe