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Angels needed for Jackie!

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Hi....My name is Celene and I'm calling all Angels for my beautiful, kind, generous, compassionate, caring, friend and my Angel Karyn. She is at a place in her life where no one should ever be. She is a single mother, owns a business, works a second job, cares for everyone she knows and is now facing mountains of endless medical bills, major medication costs and additional living expenses that have taken over her life and she is literally buried. Anyone who has ever met this amazing woman knows I speak from my heart. This is a very humbling experience for her, however, she is allowing me to do this because it is so necessary and needed.

Jackie, Karyn's 18 year daughter, has been fighting  Stage 2 Chronic kidney disease with only 1 functioning kidney . The other Kidney has no function at all. She has had 18 surgeries this past year and a half and will be facing another reconstruction surgery in January.  If the upcoming surgery is not successful, the only other option will be going on dialysis and then put on a list for a donor Kidney. She has been in and out of the hospital on a regular basis and due to the first reconstruction surgery in August, she had no choice but to "for go" her first semester of college with great disappointment.  She is one of the loveliest young women, I have ever known and is still smiling bright in spite of the misery, pain and many disappointments that have hindered her abilities, due to this horrible life long disease! The medical bills are just extraordinary and she will be taking Thiola ( her daily medication) for the rest of her life. She takes it 4 times per day, to manage her disease and several other medications that  manage her pain and discomfort. 
This ongoing battle has financially destroyed Karyn. The
love for her children,  has always come first and between the doctor bills, hospital bills, insurance bills and all the additional expenses, she has more than doubled her monthly expenses, over this past year.

Karyn has now hit the end of being able to keep up and I want to help save her. I beg anyone who is able to make a donation.  This is not frivolous and I know the amount I'm trying to raise is enormous, however, so are all of these monthly medical expenses that she has and will continue to get.  I thank you from the bottom of my heart in advance for any and all, no matter how large or small of a donation you can spare.

Celene

Organizer and beneficiary

Celene Drachler Bakrins
Organizer
Wheeling, IL
Karyn Musick
Beneficiary

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