Helping with Stacey's recovery journey

 

We the friends and family of Stacey Corcoran who are reaching out to the community to help support Stacey and her family through her recovery after suffering a stroke and the loss of motor skills to her right-hand side due to a dissection in her neck on the 11th of July.

 

Stacey is a single Mother of two beautiful children, Ava who is 7 and Kayden who is 5. She was just about to start back at work now that both children are in school fulltime when the complications with her health occurred and is now relying on her incredible mother Jean and the incredible staff members of the ESD (early support discharge programme) while she awaits being admitted to the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dun Laoighre for more intense physio and occupational therapy.

 

In 2018 after contracting cancer in her Thyroid, Stacey underwent a Thyroidectomy and Radioactive Iodine treatment in St Luke’s Rathgar. She was halfway through her remission from this when the stroke occurred. She initially admitted to St Anne’s stroke unit in UCHG, and then moved Merlin Park for a further 4 weeks of rehabilitation to work on her motor function to her right-hand side of her body.

 

Since being discharged home to continue her physio and occupational therapy, while waiting for a space in Dun Laoighre, Stacey has been working daily with the incredible help of those around her to maintain the strength and function gradually returning to her through her repetitive physiotherapy sessions and exercises.

 

This is an ongoing journey for Stacey and her family, with every day bringing on a new challenge, according to her physiotherapist there are two machines that could be instrumental to her journey to a full recovery. But these medical expenses are too much for a single mother of two busy children in full education.

That’s why we are hoping to reach out to the communities both around Galway and hopefully Ireland for any assistance that can be given to help support Stacey and her family.

 

Plans for the use of funding’s are:

 

- Machines instrumental to Stacey’s recovery.

- Medical extras such as leg braces, boots, gloves, and other miscellaneous medical sundries needed for Stacey’s day to day recovery.

- Necessary adaptions predicted by her Occupational therapist to be needed for day to day living for both her house and car.

- To help with inevitable expenses for when she is admitted to the NRH in Dun Laoigre and the family costs incurred with her children needing to remain in Galway for school.

 

This has been an incredibly difficult time for Stacey and her family. And through it, Stacey remains the bright and positive, hard-working woman that all who know her can attest to. She is so thankful to all the members of staff in GUH Stroke unit, Merlin Park and her various Physio and Occupational therapist team members. Stacey fully intends for donations to be made to GUH stroke unit, Merlin Park’s recovery unit and the NRH. She will also be donating any equipment purchased following her recovery, for another family to gain the support when in need.

 

As Irish people we tend to be too proud to ask for help when our backs are up against the wall sometimes. But our strength has always been in our families, our friends, and our communities. That is why I wanted to set up this GoFundMe page to help an incredible woman and Mother to get back to the life she has created for her and her children.

 

Many thanks in Advance,

 

Leanne