Help Shannon Jarvis Make Her Home Accessible

After over 800 days in the hospital Shannon is home. She walked into the hospital in February 2022, unfortunately she was discharged 805 days later by ambulance. Through the battles she faced in the hospital she was left without the ability to walk. She could not access her own home without the assistance of paramedics and a stretcher. She is currently bedridden but with intense physiotherapy she hopes to regain partial mobility. Currently her home is not wheelchair accessible, she can not enter her own bathroom. With your help we hope to raise funds for the most basic renovations needed for her to live with more independence.

After an incident in the hospital sent her into anaphylactic shock, she endured multiple illnesses, infections, mixups, and setbacks, none of which were her fault. She caught Covid twice, survived 22 fractured ribs, and now has to live with 13 broken vertebrae, at the age of 34, with more expected to break every year.

Shannon is a kinesiology grad who grew up enjoying sports, volunteering as a coach, and umpiring & refereeing on weekends. Despite being sick from a very young age, and in and out of hospitals, she was able to live a relatively normal life until the last 10 years.

Every penny raised will go to bathroom accessibility renovations, (at the moment a wheelchair/walker will not fit through the doorways in her house), medical equipment (transport chair, ramps), medication, PSW/nursing care, and rehabilitation/physiotherapy services, all of which are not covered by OHIP. Shannon has no insurance, and no income/job for the years she has been in the hospital, every dollar will make a huge impact on her life.

Shannon never complains about her new reality, and she has continued to work hard to improve her circumstances despite her prognosis. Shannon is an amazing daughter, sister, cousin, friend, and proud Aunt, any donation will also give her the accessibility she needs to interact with the world again, and the ability to watch and experience firsthand her nieces growing up. She will never recover from her condition, her spine will continue to slowly crumble, and she will require more intensive care, but for right now we can help make her house a home again.