As many of you know this past year has been a very hard year for Michelle and our family. Two years ago we found out that Michelle had liver failure that required a full transplant. She worked really hard to get herself healthy enough to get on the list. August of this year she got put on the transplant list and two days later she got a liver match. As she went to the hospital to make sure it was a complete match she got the news that night that it was and the following morning had surgery. Her first week she was having a quick recovery. After 5 days in the hospital she was able to continue her recovery at home with her family. Within a week of being home she was sent back to the hospital with the questions that her health had seemed to be declining. A week later they allowed her to go back home and just three days later she was brought back to the hospital due to having swelling and mobility issues which turned out to be kidney failure. She spent the last two months in the hospital trying to get stable enough to get on the transplant list for a kidney. Unfortunately she was just developing more and more complications including multiple infections and mental confusion. After our family had an emergency meeting with the doctors we had to make an extremely difficult decision that these treatments and interventions were only causing her pain and suffering both physically and mentally to worsen. Ultimately it was not fair to her to continue with interventions and treatments that were not giving her a quality of life, which is what she had hoped for in the first place with transplant. Once the decision was made they had said that she had a few days to a week left to live and by the next morning she had passed away.

This fundraiser is to help ease some of the unexpected expenses for her funeral and burial. Any donation, no matter the amount, will make a difference. If you’re not able to give, sharing a story about Michelle would mean just as much to us. Thank you so much!