
Help with Jalaysia’s Medical Expenses
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Hello everyone,
If you weren’t aware I am currently recovering from a traumatic life threatening experience that almost killed me recently. In early March, I caught Covid 19. I was extremely sick and couldn’t figure out why I was so sick. I couldn’t keep anything down. I tried water, Pedialyte, etc. I went over the course of not eating a thing for about 4 days because everything was making me sick. I thought I was pregnant. I ended up over those four days getting an infection. I thought this infection was a boil. In reality it was a flesh eating bacteria and E. coli. On about the 4th day of me being sick I was rushed to a hospital. Everything from this point on is very fuzzy for me because I was in and out of consciousness. I told my mom and cousin I needed to go to the emergency room. Being someone who has a history with being hospitalized I almost always try to avoid going to the hospital. When I arrived at the hospital, I was a code blue and in septic shock. I was having organ failure and the doctors told me if I had waited any longer to admit myself to the ER and get help or been any older than what I was I would’ve died. I am only 26 yrs old. They had to reach out to my emergency contacts. My sister later told me that I was immediately rushed to an emergency surgery and they got a call informing them they needed to arrive at the hospital ASAP because I probably wasn’t going to make it after my surgery. During my first surgery to treat the infection I had that I thought was a boil I coded and had to be revived. I am not supposed to be alive right now. I flatlined and some how I still bounced back. I did not give up. After my surgery, I was in the ICU and in coma for several days. Eventually I woke up from my coma but my memory was shot, to this day I still am having trouble with my memory. I had tubes down my throat, I had a huge open wound from surgery, I had a catheter, and I was told I was type 1 diabetic and that’s why majority of these things happened to me. When you are diabetic you are more prone to getting infections and wounds. These wounds and infections also take longer to heal than someone who isn’t diabetic. They told me my recovery would take about 6 months, I had an open wound from my bottom all the way to my labia. It was amazing to even see me walking considering how deep and wide my wound was. A person who doesn’t have diabetes blood sugar should be between 70-90. For someone with diabetes it should stay within 100-140. My blood sugar was in the 700s when I arrived at the ER. I had 8 surgeries while being in the ICU for two weeks. I have never in my life been this sick and I should’ve listened to my body. Type 1 diabetes has to do with my genetics and there’s nothing I could’ve done to prevent this from happening to me. Type 2 diabetes has to do with how you take care of yourself what you eat and how much you exercise. I spent about 2 months in a hospital bed. I have a really hard time remembering things now and have bad memory loss which sucks fr. I am not able to work due to me still recovering I have an open wound still that I am being seen weekly for to ensure it is healing correctly and I am still building my strength back up to do my day to day activities that are necessary. Imagine not being able to wipe your own butt, walk, need an oxygen tank to walk 1 foot. This truly tried to break me, I am so tired of this recovery process and I am asking for help to pay my bills and medical expenses. I hope you guys can understand my story. A lot happened and I am just so thankful for the support I had along my journey to getting better because that’s really what kept me going. I am not supposed to be here right now but I’m doing my best with my 2nd chance at life
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Jalaysia Vasser
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Seattle, WA