Help Relocate and Care for a Devoted Mother

update 1/8/25: Mom was transferred to Saint Luke’s in Kansas City last night. She’s not doing well. She mostly likely needs to have another surgery imminently, her kidney function is deteriorating and her white blood cell count is high. I’m grateful she’s at a larger hospital now, but I will need to fly back out sooner than later, and my son Jak’s 11th birthday is this Sunday, so my heart is very heavy having to weigh options. If you can spare a small donation and share with there, I would be so immensely grateful, as would my Mama. Please keep praying that we get through this so I can relocate her to Ithaca to live with me when we get to the other side of this nightmare. Thank you so much.

Update 1/2/25: Mom woke up yesterday around 11am and has been alert ever since! She is still extremely sick. She likely will be in the ICU for another 1-2 weeks. The neurologist this morning thinks she may have had a minor stroke so she will have an MRI today. She’s on a good rotation of IV pain meds, so she is doing better pain wise. She won’t be able to eat or drink anything for several more days so they started her on IV nutrition yesterday. Thank you to all who donated so far. It means the world to us!! Please keep praying.

Update 1/1/25: My mother’s neuro status deteriorated overnight. I am by her side, but she is not able to wake up right now. I’m waiting for the doctors to come evaluate her and discuss next steps. Please keep praying.

Roseanna

Hello all, My dear mother just had emergency surgery today after having severe pain and eventually signs of sepsis over the course of several weeks. She is currently in critical condition in the ICU. Surgery was needed to repair a perforation (hole) in her stomach, which caused severe infection in her body. As a result, she is going to be intubated and under medical sedation for at least 1-2 days (best case), and will not be able to have any food (not even a feeding tube!) for at least 5 days, while the doctors wait to assess if the repair to close the hole in her stomach was successful.

I am creating this page to raise money to help give my mother a better quality of life in her final years. She raised me, as a single mom in poverty, and loved me unconditionally under very difficult circumstances. She's the reason I am who I am today, and I want to raise money to relocate her from her current home in Missouri to my home, with her two grandchildren (14 and 11 years old) in upstate New York. This will allow me to take better care of her and ensure I can be her health advocate moving forward and also help relieve her of the many bills she has just to live a very impoverished lifestyle, as she is existing off of limited social security.

My mother deserves the best for her final years and I am determined to make sure she gets that and more. Any amount will help tremendously.

Thank you so much! Much love and Happy New Year to all. xoxoxo