Help the Armstrong Family with Medical Bills
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After 2 months of being in horrible pain and several primary care physician appointments, my beautiful Aunt Kelly was diagnosed with a rare auto immune disease in November 2020 called Dermatomyositis. No cause is known.
Imagine one day feeling like you have the flu. You get a covid test, neg., you see your doctor. You are told it could be some kind of virus or cold and it will go away. You don't get better, and now your joints are aching so bad you cannot get any sleep or find a comfortable position to relieve the pain. Your doctor prescribes steroid meds to resolve the symptoms. You continue working through it all to help support your family. Then one morning you feel horrible and have difficulty moving your arms and legs. You go to the hospital, not once but twice over the course of a week or so. A Rheumatologist orders special tests to rule out and confirm diagnoses.
You are in and out of the hospital receiving treatments, such as immunoglobulin shots and a blood transfusion. Then you are sent home from the hospital to continue with in home PT, OT and ST, but after a couple of weeks, have to return to the hospital. You have severe muscle weakness, especially in your upper body, unable to even brush your teeth. The disease is constricting your neck and throat muscles making even sipping water impossible. Returning to the hospital, possibly for a complication of dehydration and extreme weakness, you have a nasal feeding tube inserted for nutrition, hydration, and medications. One can only imagine how uncomfortable that can be.
This is my Aunt Kelly's story.
She is only 52 years old and is unable to take care of her family, husband Scott, and teenage children, Nathan and Hannah. My 90-year-old grandma was helping to lift her out of bed, and we are worried for everyone's safety if she does not have a home health aide when she returns home. We do not know how long this condition will last, but we have read it can take up to a year or more to return to any sense of "normalcy."
Additional medical bills not covered under insurance are accumulating and she is only receiving a portion of her paycheck on disability to help support the family expenses.
Financial donations would be appreciated to help cover these medical, food, housing, and home aide care costs and can be made on this GoFundMe page. A "tip" to GoFundMe is not required.
Any help with food would be appreciated and can be found on this meal train: https://mealtrain.com/62568z
Please help in any way you can. The entire family is worried and upset that we cannot visit her during the pandemic. Thank you so much for supporting this cause. We will share updates here when we get them.
To learn more about this rare disease: https://www.myositis.org/
Thank you from the entire family,
Jerry, Deborah, Gillian, Julia Velmer, Tim Hodges, Dave and Doreen Rolince, Natalee and Kevin Pender, Marc, Barb, Greg, and Ryan Velmer
December 30, 2020.
Imagine one day feeling like you have the flu. You get a covid test, neg., you see your doctor. You are told it could be some kind of virus or cold and it will go away. You don't get better, and now your joints are aching so bad you cannot get any sleep or find a comfortable position to relieve the pain. Your doctor prescribes steroid meds to resolve the symptoms. You continue working through it all to help support your family. Then one morning you feel horrible and have difficulty moving your arms and legs. You go to the hospital, not once but twice over the course of a week or so. A Rheumatologist orders special tests to rule out and confirm diagnoses.
You are in and out of the hospital receiving treatments, such as immunoglobulin shots and a blood transfusion. Then you are sent home from the hospital to continue with in home PT, OT and ST, but after a couple of weeks, have to return to the hospital. You have severe muscle weakness, especially in your upper body, unable to even brush your teeth. The disease is constricting your neck and throat muscles making even sipping water impossible. Returning to the hospital, possibly for a complication of dehydration and extreme weakness, you have a nasal feeding tube inserted for nutrition, hydration, and medications. One can only imagine how uncomfortable that can be.
This is my Aunt Kelly's story.
She is only 52 years old and is unable to take care of her family, husband Scott, and teenage children, Nathan and Hannah. My 90-year-old grandma was helping to lift her out of bed, and we are worried for everyone's safety if she does not have a home health aide when she returns home. We do not know how long this condition will last, but we have read it can take up to a year or more to return to any sense of "normalcy."
Additional medical bills not covered under insurance are accumulating and she is only receiving a portion of her paycheck on disability to help support the family expenses.
Financial donations would be appreciated to help cover these medical, food, housing, and home aide care costs and can be made on this GoFundMe page. A "tip" to GoFundMe is not required.
Any help with food would be appreciated and can be found on this meal train: https://mealtrain.com/62568z
Please help in any way you can. The entire family is worried and upset that we cannot visit her during the pandemic. Thank you so much for supporting this cause. We will share updates here when we get them.
To learn more about this rare disease: https://www.myositis.org/
Thank you from the entire family,
Jerry, Deborah, Gillian, Julia Velmer, Tim Hodges, Dave and Doreen Rolince, Natalee and Kevin Pender, Marc, Barb, Greg, and Ryan Velmer
December 30, 2020.
Mitorganisatoren (2)
Gillian Marissa
Organisator
South Park Township, PA
Scott Armstrong
Spendenbegünstigte
Doreen Velmer
Mitorganisator