Jess with costs associated with medical related expenses

Jess Derksen is a single mom to a 16 year old son. Through the past several years, many conflicting symptoms finally came to a head, resulting in brain imagery, where an exceptionally large turmour was found.

Jess went for surgery to remove the surgery Dec 11 at VGH, diagnoses was a grade 2 atypical (neither benign or malignant but could act or turn malignant) meningioma with rhabdoid and pailliary features. This means it will grow back, and likely aggressively, but possibly not. A few weeks later, she was sent to PG for rehabilitation as she was struggling with no feeling and minimal mobility with her lower right leg and foot. She worked hard to recover some use and was close to being discharged, but then after some very serious head pain, Jess awoke to paralysis on her right hand side from head to toe. She was medivac'd to VGH again and had to undergo emergency surgery to clean out the crevice and remove the abscess. A week later, Jess was sent back to PG. She had developed clots in her veins resulting in Deep Vein Thrombosis. She now is on anti seizure medication. And twice a day antibiotics via IV/PICC (this until March 18).

As Jess had been unable to drive, Kohl and friends have been her only source of transportation, as the taxi vouchers that were promised to her were no longer available.

As luck would have it, Kohl had an accident yesterday in the family's vehicle. Kohl withstood some minor whiplash, a possibly separated shoulder, bruised ribs and bruised hip bone, likely the majority of it from airbag deployment. The vehicle will be a write of, and as Jess is barely mobile, the bus is not an option, Handy Dart has some challenges, and so taxi/uride are their only travel options, for twice a day minimum into town for IV therapy and probably another when physio starts.

Northern Health, and Disability have been unable to help with these challenges except in offering taxi vouchers that they then refused to give after she was abruptly and with no notice, discharged a month earlier than planned, even though she had IV treatment twice a day (their mandate is to not discharge until it is managed with one iv therapy once a day that can be easily managed, but they needed a bed so badly they didn't care about making sure she actually had the services set up they had promised or the prescriptions ready and filled.

This has been a scary situation so far with Jess and Kohl basically struggling to survive, with Jess obviously released far too early.