Help Whitney Fauntleroy Heal at Home
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Dear Friends, Loved Ones, and All Those Connected,
We have established this fundraising effort to support our dear friend, Whitney Fauntleroy.
A few months ago (Sept. 2020), Whitney (36) was experiencing severe back pain. Believing it to be a pinched nerve, Whitney went to her Doctor to explain what she was experiencing. After further examination and tests, the Doctors found the cause of her pain was actually a tumor pressing into her brain stem that was connected at her spinal cord.
Upon finding these results, Whitney's doctors explained that emergency surgery would be necessary. Unfortunately, due to the nature of the tumor's location at Whitney's brain stem and spine, the Doctors informed Whitney that the surgery would be a life or death procedure.
On October 2nd, 2020, Whitney successfully underwent emergency surgery to remove the 4-inch tumor. However, as a result of the invasive procedure, Whitney has now been diagnosed with what her doctors believe is likely a permanent paralysis.
Since the surgery and paralysis diagnosis, Whitney has literally been fighting for her life. She has been transferred to multiple nursing care facilities while in the process of undertaking intensive physical therapy. She is doing everything she can to find and regain the strength to once again live independently. Whitney is now working to get to a point where she can lift herself into her own wheelchair.
Being in a hospital and under assisted care for extended periods of time is never ideal. As you can imagine, it is an incredible struggle for one to undertake, especially in a COVID world where visitations are highly restrictive. Whitney has had to bear this burden for four months and counting.
As a youth minister, Whitney has dedicated herself to helping others. Her ties to Presbyterians around the world are wide and deep. She is, after all, a PCUSA pastor. But, her tribes are many, including grade school and college friends, pastor colleagues of other denominations, seminary pals, New Orleans AmericaCorps family, those she grew up with in Raleigh, neighbors and friends in NOLA, Wilmington, Chapel Hill and Durham, NC, and kinfolk and those who connected with her as she traveled, exercised, and demonstrated for justice for LGBTQ, BLM, and so many other causes.
We hope that all those people, as well as friends of her mother and brothers will support her in this, the biggest struggle of her life.
Whitney needs all of us, now more than ever. It is her hope and desire to continue her care and therapy at home until she can once again live independently. She needs our help in covering the costs of an accessible apartment and in-home care and physical therapists. Her current bills, medical care, and transportation are currently reaching $15,000/month.
Our goal is to raise funds to help offset Whitney's medical costs and get her home so she can heal and learn to become as independent as possible in a more comfortable environment where she can be surrounded by loved ones.
Please help to send Whitney home. Every donation, no matter what size, is one step closer making this happen! Can you please help? Will you please help?
We have established this fundraising effort to support our dear friend, Whitney Fauntleroy.
A few months ago (Sept. 2020), Whitney (36) was experiencing severe back pain. Believing it to be a pinched nerve, Whitney went to her Doctor to explain what she was experiencing. After further examination and tests, the Doctors found the cause of her pain was actually a tumor pressing into her brain stem that was connected at her spinal cord.
Upon finding these results, Whitney's doctors explained that emergency surgery would be necessary. Unfortunately, due to the nature of the tumor's location at Whitney's brain stem and spine, the Doctors informed Whitney that the surgery would be a life or death procedure.
On October 2nd, 2020, Whitney successfully underwent emergency surgery to remove the 4-inch tumor. However, as a result of the invasive procedure, Whitney has now been diagnosed with what her doctors believe is likely a permanent paralysis.
Since the surgery and paralysis diagnosis, Whitney has literally been fighting for her life. She has been transferred to multiple nursing care facilities while in the process of undertaking intensive physical therapy. She is doing everything she can to find and regain the strength to once again live independently. Whitney is now working to get to a point where she can lift herself into her own wheelchair.
Being in a hospital and under assisted care for extended periods of time is never ideal. As you can imagine, it is an incredible struggle for one to undertake, especially in a COVID world where visitations are highly restrictive. Whitney has had to bear this burden for four months and counting.
As a youth minister, Whitney has dedicated herself to helping others. Her ties to Presbyterians around the world are wide and deep. She is, after all, a PCUSA pastor. But, her tribes are many, including grade school and college friends, pastor colleagues of other denominations, seminary pals, New Orleans AmericaCorps family, those she grew up with in Raleigh, neighbors and friends in NOLA, Wilmington, Chapel Hill and Durham, NC, and kinfolk and those who connected with her as she traveled, exercised, and demonstrated for justice for LGBTQ, BLM, and so many other causes.
We hope that all those people, as well as friends of her mother and brothers will support her in this, the biggest struggle of her life.
Whitney needs all of us, now more than ever. It is her hope and desire to continue her care and therapy at home until she can once again live independently. She needs our help in covering the costs of an accessible apartment and in-home care and physical therapists. Her current bills, medical care, and transportation are currently reaching $15,000/month.
Our goal is to raise funds to help offset Whitney's medical costs and get her home so she can heal and learn to become as independent as possible in a more comfortable environment where she can be surrounded by loved ones.
Please help to send Whitney home. Every donation, no matter what size, is one step closer making this happen! Can you please help? Will you please help?
Co-organizers (4)
Lauren Fornabaio
Organizer
Lloyd, NY
Whitney Fauntleroy
Beneficiary
Kyle Davies
Co-organizer
Anna Minton
Co-organizer
Catherine Lenehan
Co-organizer