Let’s Save Angela…. Together!

WHO IS ANGELA?

Angela Post is a vibrant, fun, creative, successful marketing strategist who lives in POLAND and was recently diagnosed with an AVM brain malformation (November 2024).

GOFUNDME is not supported in Poland so her International Friend Community members of “TEAM ANGELA” are rallying to get her the funds she needs for brain surgery which is slated for later this summer 2025.

THE DIAGNOSIS

AVM stands for Arteriovenous Malformation which can be described as a group of tangled blood vessels that create irregular connections between arteries and veins.

These tangles disrupt blood flow and prevent tissues from receiving oxygen. Because, veins are depleted in oxygen and aretries are rich in oxygen …. these complicated highways in the body CANNOT ever mix, mingle, tangle or merge together.

Angela, after tests and trial embolizations, has learned that she is living with a “ticking bomb” where she can have a brain bleed at any moment.

Angela, who is only 45, may have had this in her brain for a few years already without knowing it.

Most AVMS go undetected until there is a brain bleed… and it is too late.

Luckily, Angela had severe headaches and other symptoms like dizziness and blurred vision that lead to the battery of tests and the exploratory surgeries to put scopes in her brain.

FRIENDS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD HAVE COME TO HELP

Her friend Christina who lives in ITALY was there to support Angela and her husband Simon in December and March during the brain scope embolization attempts.

In March, the doctors had to stop the procedure as they realized that the tangles were deeper into the cranium than they had predicted and his team and equipment were not prepared for the gravity of her case despite the preliminary tests last fall. Christina was there with Angela’s husband (and her good friend) Simon when the Doctor said Angela was inoperable.

SHE IS INOPERABLE? WHAT?!?!

After meeting with her team of neurosurgeons she has learned that there are ONLY TWO CLINICS in the world who are experts in successfully operating AVMs.

The clinics are in the United States ….

Angela, Simon and her Friends in France, Italy, the UK and the US immediately rallied together get all the paperwork ready, including the imaging discs, the timeline of the visits and interventions and paid the expensive consulting fees to send everything and make appointments with the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona and directly with Dr. Aaron Cohen-Gadol of the Neurosurgical Atlas in Los Angeles, California.

OPERATING ON AN AVM

The estimated cost of the AVM operation is $448k.

*This does not include the post-opt and the fact that she may need to live near the Institute for up to six months after the intervention.

THIS IS REALLY HER ONLY HOPE.

Her International Friend Community, her family in Poland and her dedicated husband Simon WANT MORE TIME with Angela …

Angela loves to travel, to cook with her friends, to practice photography … and of course, bubbly jacuzzis and celebrating LIFE.

Let’s HELP SAVE ANGELA together!

If anyone can provide any medical advice or assistance - Here is the DIAGNOSIS TIMELINE

Angela’s Diagnosis Timeline

1. Diagnosis - arteriovenous malformation of the right side of the brain - Dr. Tomasz Netczuk, MD - August 2024;

2. Referral for immediate surgery Dr. Tomasz Netczuk - August 2024;

3. Consultation at WIM, referral for brain DSA procedure with Surgeon Dr. Emir Sajjad -

September 2024; *WIM WIM - Wojskowy Instytut Medyczny - the Military Medical Institute in Warsaw

4. 1% risk of death at any time. Surgical risk: 15%/20% of stroke complications, Life span of maximum 10 years;

5. DSA procedure at WIM by Dr. Krzysztof Brzozowski - November 2024; *Digital Subtraction Angiography.

6. Referral for embolization surgery of 4 arteriovenous shunt hemangiomas - December 2024;

7. WIM embolization surgery by Dr. Krzysztof Brzozowski - unsuccessful due to high risk of death/ location of AVM - March 2025;

8. Neurosurgeon Team Refusal Further surgery (inoperable ) Brain Surgery Team WIM Drs. Krzysztof Brzozowski, Slawomir Skrzynski - March 2025 (attempt at embolization of a vascular malformation with fistula).

GOFUNDME $UPPORT

GOFUNDME is ONLY supported in 20 countries.

POLAND IS NOT ONE OF THESE COUNTRIES making it necessary for her friends to set up International Accounts to collect the USD and to pay the hospital fees in the U.S.

The funds donated on this platform are going to a DEDICATED account with Bank of America for ANGELA and will be used directly to PAY FOR THE HOSPITAL AND THE SURGERY in the US.

More about Angela … BEFORE the AVM DIAGNOSIS

Angela is a successful Marketing Strategist and had recently been picked up by an important European Multi-National corporation.

In fact, she started with her new position in early 2024 where she was quickly doing very well working with many important labels.

Sadly, when she received the AVM diagnosis and needed time off from work. This ultimately led to that first year contact not being renewed. She got sick. The company let her go.

Since the termination, she has turned to her passion of photography into a means of supplying some sort of income. In fact, anyone can visit the www.helpsaveangela.com website to enjoy her work and even buy her prints.

She is passionate about nature studies and especially fond of images of horses. Her hobby of horseback riding turned into owning a horse of her own. Today, due to the diagnosis, she has had to stop riding and also took the difficult decision to sell her horse. Luckily, the new owner is nearby and so she can visit “AWE” when she needs to stroke, touch and hug her horse.

She spends time with her husband Simon who is an International Business Analyst. Simon has a flexible work life but has also taken off considerable time from the future projects to help with Angela and researching all the medical options.

They both have many friends world wide who are a part of “Team Angela”… friends are coming together to help from France, the UK, Italy, Germany and in the U.S.-

Angela has always been a special support to her sister who has a special needs son and on a weekly basis tutors her nephew. In fact, she is that sort of person who has tons of energy for others and this illness has really limited her energy and that is the hardest part for Angela who simply wants to be there for her family.

Angela has really found out who her true friends are during this time. She says how lucky she is that many call to offer support, many care about her progress and all want to help. She says that she wakes up to messages, calls and emails DAILY from her “Team Angela” and she says she is blessed.