Help Lennox & family overcome medical & bill challenges

Hi everyone!!

I am trying to find the words while writing this, without sounding cliche or looking for a handout we live in a day and age where asking for help is hard or embarrassing, or some people just frown upon it. But here I am. These things have not historically helped my family in the past, but we are in a situation that we don’t see any other option.

We are starting this fundraiser in effort to help my new little family. To give a little backstory on how we got here….. As I am sure you all know, Garrette and I have recently had a baby boy! (Lennox Cole Greene, born 6/11/2024) And when I tell you it’s been a long journey, that would be an understatement. My pregnancy was long and scary. I had Hyperemesis for 7 months and was not able to eat or drink much and barely gaining weight in fact I actually lost weight. I had nurses coming to my house every week to give IV treatments just to stay hydrated and to get the nutrients that baby and myself needed. I had quite a few ER visits and missed quite a bit of work. Approaching month 8 of pregnancy I started to swell and gain weight like crazy and some feelings of irregular and rapid heartbeat. It took many Dr visits and a hospital stay and lots of advocating from my family and myself just for my concerns to be heard and even then the doctors did not share those concerns or think they were “serious” enough in that moment. June 11th started with what should have been a high blood pressure check at the clinic, and ended up with me having an emergency C-section due to having preeclampsia with severe features (high blood pressure, severe edema, headache, trouble breathing, rapid weight gain, and enlarged heart.) Both baby and I had some medical issues that caused us to stay in the hospital for 5 days.

Upon release I got better for about a week, and then all of a sudden I started having trouble breathing again, all of the swelling and weight gain came back, and I ended up in the ER again. They did bloodwork and found that I was critically low in potassium and magnesium, and my electrolytes were depleted because of that. Had some fluid around my lungs to which they gave some water pills to help with. They checked my heart and said everything was okay there and then sent me home after having me in the ER for 22 hours. It wasn’t until my follow up with my OB two days after that I had noticed that they put in my MyChart that I had acute heart failure, and not one doctor spoke to me about this, like I said. They said I was fine and sent me home. My OB had confirmed the heart failure, and said that it was no doubt caused my the preeclampsia, and it was one of the worst preeclampsia cases she had seen a long time. And now I am waiting to see my primary to figure out how bad it is, and if it’s reversible. Lennox has for the most been the strongest baby ever! When he first came out he was not breathing on his own and needed help. Upon leaving the hospital we have discovered that he has reflux and it makes feeding him and sleeping difficult sometimes due to needing to be upright to breathe properly. Fast forward to today, our home has been hit with Covid. Both Garrette and myself have it, and even our 6 week old baby has Covid-19. We were exposed by someone who did not show any symptoms and once they did they notified us. By that point it was too late, Covid has hit us hard. There is nothing more frightening and feeling of failure than having to watch your baby go through something like this and be able to do nothing but try and help soothe the pain.

Due to everything going on, I have been out of work since May (when I was out on bedrest) and Garrette has had to miss a lot of work to help ensure that Lennox and myself are okay. And for the time he was/is sick with us. Our families have done so much for us in helping watch Lennox while i/we receive the care needed on this continued journey. But we have used up our savings and the money from my short term to cover the emergency expenses and to cover bills. We are now at a point where are behind and now asking for help. We understand it is a hard time for everyone, and we appreciate all the help we have had leading up to now. All my pride aside, my little family needs help, and we are only asking for what we need and nothing more.

this is to help cover our rent, all other combined bills for the household.

and of you rather share via Venmo, cash app, or Apple Pay just let myself or Garrette know! We have those all as well!

again anything and everything helps, even if it is just a share