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Please Help Stacey Get Well

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Stacey Smith is a kind, adventurous, fun-loving, passionate, hard-working young woman who so many of us love and adore with all our hearts. 

She is a world traveler and a seeker. She is a fiercely loyal, dedicated, intelligent, vibrant human and is the kind of person that just makes you feel good to be around. She is a bright light––and right now, she needs our help. 

In July 2019, while on one of her many adventures, Stacey had a water-skiing accident that led to a traumatic brain injury (TBI). This injury has wreaked havoc on everything in her life that she loves … she can’t work, drive, read, listen to music, cook, or travel. Basic daily tasks cause immense, debilitating pain and other symptoms that make life very difficult.

Stacey has been doing everything possible to recover and return to the things she loves, but has recently hit some serious road blocks. In February, she had to be hospitalized for several weeks to treat complications associated with her TBI. This has been a heartbreaking development, but it has brought Stacey’s family, friends, and colleagues together to do whatever it takes to get her back on her feet.

Stacey cannot work right now, and based on her recovery so far, she will likely not be able to work for the foreseeable future.

We are raising money to help cover medical bills from her most recent hospital stay and follow-up treatments. We are also raising funds to help cover the cost of exploring the newest innovative treatments for TBIs, which are not yet covered by insurance. We have learned so much about how difficult it is to treat TBIs, and we are exploring every option available so Stacey can finally have relief from the painful and debilitating effects of her injury. We need help paying for those experimental treatments.

If Stacey has touched your life the way she has touched ours, please consider a donation. Together, we can raise the resources we need to get Stacey back in the driver’s seat of her life and on to bigger and better things.

Thank you for your consideration.

Donations 

  • Michael Gillespie
    • $50 
    • 2 yrs
  • joe goeke
    • $25 
    • 3 yrs
  • Liz Eichler
    • $50 
    • 3 yrs
  • Bill McGuire
    • $50 
    • 3 yrs
  • Karen Bailey
    • $25 
    • 3 yrs

Fundraising team: Stacey's Friends and Family (3)

Allison Osborne
Organizer
Raised $2,500 from 17 donations
Chicago, IL
Stacey Smith
Beneficiary
Katelynd Duncan
Team member
Raised $16,453 from 87 donations
Stephanie Mathews
Team member
Raised $3,300 from 6 donations
This team raised $70,747 from 451 other donations.

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