KristenKicksMS

Hi, my name is Kristen Day.
i was diagnosed with Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis or PPMS on May 9, 2018.
Please forgive me, but this is very hard for me to write for so many reasons.
Plus, I’d written my story in notes on my iPad and somehow managed to delete the whole thing!!
Anyways, my MS is the most aggressive kind. I’ve had symptoms for a few years, before finally being diagnosed last year.
I’ve had the Ocrevus infusions, but my mobility is still declining very rapidly.
Using a rollator walker, I still can barely make it from one room to another in my house,
I have extreme fatigue, weakness, and dizziness, just to name a few of the worst symptoms.
After missing my daughter’s Nursing school graduation which completely  broke my heart. I knew I needed to try even harder to find answers for kicking this horrible disease!
After lots of investigating and reading. I’ve found a place in Puebla, Mexico who’ll accept patients with PPMS.
The statistics are 80% to getting 90% better. I’ve read testimony after testimony from people with my same diagnosis, having amazing results and getting their life back again!!
A lot of people have asked me when I was getting a Gofundme account.
I never ever thought I’d have my own Gofundme or be going to Mexico for medical treatment, but here I am...
it involves stem cell transplant and several high doses of chemotherapy.
I’d be there for 28 days to go through this process.
Right now I have an appointment in March.
My husband has been doing everything around the house including taking care of me. And he has his own health problems from a messed up back surgery resulting in spinal migraines. And a heart condition called P.O.T.S,
Where when he goes from a sitting or laying down position his heart rate can go quickly to 160 and sometimes higher.
It’s been as high as 240, but luckily he was at the hospital that time. He has medicine to try to keep it under control. It just doesn’t work all the time.
So, we’re both on Social Security disability, our medical expenses have been astronomical.
This is literally my last ditch effort. (There’s literally nothing else that the medical world has to offer with PPMS.)
It’s me not giving up to this monster called MS. As I told my daughter, I won’t go down without a fight!
No matter what you decide to do, could you please share this on your Facebook wall and say a prayer for my situation!?
The bulk of money raised will be for the  HSCT in Mexico, plus round trip tickets.
The rest is to pay other medical expenses and necessities to do with my MS..it’s very expensive to be sick in the U.S!!
Also, I shared a video on my Facebook wall that sort of outlines what HSCT at Clinica Ruiz in Puebla, Mexico involves.
i didn’t know how to attach it to this Gofundme thing, lol

My current email address is::
[email redacted]

~Sincerely,  Kristen Day~

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