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Karter and Wesley battles

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UPDATE on Wesley he has stage 4 ocular melanoma that has spread to his T7,T9, 5 lesions on his liver. His first treatment has put him into heart failure so there has been talk about stopping treatments, considering this is the only thing that can kill his type of cancer we just really need prayers!
Hey my name is Makayla, Karter is my son he is now 4, but We found out when he was 9 months old that he was born with 3 aneurysms one that had hemorrhaged and caused a major stroke that killed his entire right side brain leaving him with left-sided body paralysis, and severe epilepsy. If you don’t know the right side brain controls the left side of the body and the left side brain controls the right side of the body. He was then transferred to Vanderbilt children’s hospital where he had a brain surgery to clip the remaining aneurysm and has fought so hard with his epilepsy but now the seizures have become so aggressive it’s starting to damage and kill his left side brain. We was told no medication is going to stop these seizures and eventually will cause him to be brain dead. He is a candidate for another brain surgery that disconnects the brain from each other in hopes this stops his seizures completely or slows the aggressiveness down to being controlled with medication again. We are currently admitted into the hospital here at Vanderbilt where This surgery is happening in roughly 10-14 days in Nashville.

Here’s Wesley’s story.
back in February of this year he scratched his eye one night when his contact fell out. A few days later it kept getting worse, He made a appointment to look further into it, Turned out he had ocular melanoma that completely destroyed his eye, the tumor was so big the doctors had no choice but to remove his entire eye. The melanoma was very aggressive which puts him in high risk of it returning so he has to get pet scans done every 4 months, the scans have showed a spot on his spine and femur. The one on his back has grew so now he has to get a biopsy Friday.

with that being said this has caused Wesley to have to take days off work, him being a sole provider for us and our 3 boys it’s left us with the decision to start a fund to help with gas back and forth from Nashville, Knoxville and Chattanooga, Hospital stays we have no idea how long Karter will be here before and after surgery. Hospital stays can get so expensive, and lastly medical bills Wesley pays as much as he can every month but at the end of the day they just pile up. If you can donate we appreciate it so much and if you can’t we completely understand please don’t feel obligated just share!

Our family has definitely been through so much and we are still fighting these battles the thing that keeps us going is our Faith with God. We would never have made it this far without the Lord. We appreciate everyone that has walked this road with us from the very start and all the people that has found out recently what we have been through and currently going through that has started walking it with us. Nothing goes unnoticed!
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  • Steven Scott
    • $20
    • 5 mos
  • Tyler Parvin
    • $100
    • 1 yr
  • Jessica Paul
    • $25
    • 1 yr
  • Patricia Davies
    • $100
    • 1 yr
  • holly helton
    • $100
    • 1 yr
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Makayla Douglas
Organizer
Bulls Gap, TN
Wesley Douglas
Beneficiary

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