
Help Shawna with her rare diagnosis!
Hi, my name is Andrea and I’m trying to raise money to help my sister Shawna! She is 33 years old and She has been in the hospital for about 3 months now and they are trying to figure out what is going on with her. About 3 months ago she had a stroke and about a week later she had another stroke and this one left her paralyzed on the entire right side of her body and unable to talk to us. She can get small words out and sometimes a sentence but not much. She understands everything that’s going on but can’t communicate hardly. They started doing many tests to see what the cause of all this was and found out it’s a rare disease called MoyaMoya after more testing they found out on top of MoyaMoya she has a hole in her heart and they still don’t know what the underline cause of all her problems is. They just did a brain biopsy on her to see if that would tell them anything. We are waiting for those results. She’s currently in Vanderbilt hospital and they are doing everything they can to help her. My mom (Pam) is up there with Shawna 24/7 in the hospital room with her and the cost of being up there is getting harder and harder on our family. We are trying to cover gas, food, car payment, insurance etc. but we are struggling to keep up so I’m reaching out in hopes that we can raise money to help. Thank you in advance for any help you can give us and please pray for my sister and the entire family!