
Help me help my mom
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Okay guys, if there is ever going to be a time where I ask for anything, this is it. For a while now things have been really bad for my mom, but on Christmas day is where things took a turn for the worst. I woke up around 2:30AM that morning to her in excruciating pain. It started out as a headache but quickly spread to her neck and back, and eventually her chest. Earlier in the year she had been in a car accident that had caused neck and back issues, but nothing this severe. With difficulty breathing she told me someone had to take her away and do something for the pain, So by 3:00 we were both in the ambulance on our way to Roanoke Memorial Hospital. When we got there they did all kinds of tests and still couldn't figure out what was wrong. Given her age of 34 and healthy condition, they didnt think to check for heart palpitations. So after hours of trial and error meds and tests they sent us home aound 7AM with a diagnosis of acid reflux disease and beginning symptoms of the flu. My mom threw up three times due to the pressure in her head and hoped that, if she threw up, it would go away. So the doctors kept giving her nausea medications, but really she was never nauseated. The vomiting was spontaneous and without warning. They sent her home with acid reflux and nausea meds, but nothing for pain. So the rest of Christmas day and the day after, she remained in bed, in the same amount of pain she started out in. My grandmother, living four hours away, came up the evening of the 26th to help my mother. The 27th rolled around and my mom had to be at work at 5:30 in the morning. With no one to cover her shift, she worked from 5:30AM to 4:00PM still experiencing pain in her neck, chest, and back. When she got home that evening, my grandmother demanded she go back to the ER for help. Upon arriving, she had a massive heart attack. She immediately had a stent put in and was admitted into the hospital. She was scheduled to come home the 29th, but that morning her heart functions were only at 30% and she had a high heart rate with low blood pressure. They decided to keep her a little longer. Doctors said the reason for such a weak heart was because from the time she came into the ER on Christmas, to the massive heart attack on the 27th, she had experienced multiple heart attacks and had started having symptoms of Myocardinal Infarctions up to a week before Christmas. After finally being released from the hospital, she and my grandmother went to get her new perscriptions filled and get heart healthy food. She was sent home with a defibrillator vest in case of sudden cardiac arrest and to monitor her heart funtion that is still currently at 30%. She has to wear it for the next 90 days. When my mom swiped her card to pay for the medicine, her card had been declined and she had JUST got paid on the 26th. Someone had completely garnished her wages. Granted our family history is full of heart attacks up and down the line, I believe the heart attacks were stress induced. About 90% of her stress stems from financial instability that was jumpstarted a few years ago when she lost her job as a district manager. We had just moved to Roanoke when this happened about five years ago. As a single parent and diabetic with no job, she immediately fell into dept. Since then she has worked day in and day out, sometimes with multiple jobs at a time, trying to make up the money. Along with being behind in bills, her car is extremely unreliable and any spare money has gone to repairs that usually don't even fix the job. Anyone knowing my mom knows she is extremely independent and has always beat the bad guy, but this time she didn't. They said had she been at work another hour, she would not have made it. My mom went into the hospital in a terrible situation, and since she got out, it's still here. She still has a broken car and all the dept she was in before. Only now she doesn't have a paycheck to pay the most recent bills that rolled in during her hospitalization, but aslo doesn't have any money for the tremendous medical bills that she will be getting soon. If there is anything my mom needs from anyone, it is the help of family and friends to get her out of this hole thats been dug over the years. So if there is anything anyone can give, it will all be greatly appreciated more than any of you will ever know. My mom has done everything for me and anyone who has crossed her path, it's time something good was done for her.