Medical bills for TBI, Epilepsy, Heart Condition

Hello,

I'm Gloria.

To my friends I'm usually the most resilient in the bunch.

That's usually still true. But the medical emergencies and health decline is outstanding ever since I've taken some huge hits to the head.

The head injuries started as familial abuse and continued with a barbell to the head at Academy of Lions where a barbell came back at me with velocity when a faulty rack didn't catch it and 45llbs at speed clipped my forehead. I was currently a U of T student thriving at had to take several months off due to debilitating dizzying spells. Worst of all was the fact that I couldn't READ or exercise.

Later on I continued back with school and suddenly dizzy spells. I was heart broken. I was in a competitive paramedic and life science degree program. I was the literal happiest I've ever been. I was extremely good at the practical classes. The dizziness came without warning and suddenly I remember a day where I barely walked home and considered my safety on the sidewalk. I had to stop school. I was the most heart broken I had ever been. I was shattered. Instead of succumbing to it and back to ptsd where I've been before I went on a climbing trip. For 3 months I discovered traveled from Mexico to Chattanooga to France. I utterly lived. I loved it. I tutored abroad and made money. Unfortunately I had some freak falls on climbs and one skiing. Unsure as to which they were avoidable or not. I fell inverted twice climbing and hit my head into the wall. The first wasn't bad, I had a helmet. The second was, likely because the helmet was probably useless from the first hit.

By the time I hit my head skiing I at that point was getting extremely nauseous.

I returned home and immediately arrived with sickening nausea. I called 911 immediately and started getting every day dizziness. I didn't understand if the prior dizzy spells from vestibular neuritis were back or if this was something new. I was newly diagnosed as concussed but nothing was resolving.

I tried school again and also worked at the same time and started collapsing during both. I was ill. Suddenly I was getting seizures. Chest pain. Asthma attacks. Suddenly I'd go tachycardic just sitting there. Suddenly I was told I had a heart condition and I was a risk of potential immediate death and I might need surgery.

The doctors weren't helping there were tests but lack of solutions.

I had one amazing neurologist after a bunch of useless ones and doctors who talked a lot for a lot of no answers. I was getting vestibular migraines and had post concussion disorder.

I decided to leave again. Back to Mexico. It always helped. I went alone. It helped again for a time. It wasn't easy.

And then. Someone dropped me. I took a BIG fall. I broke my sacrum. I didn't really tell anyone. I was in a lot of pain. I started getting seizures, with a vengeance.

I tried to continue climbing. That helped actually and then I attracted the wrong kind of attention: abuse.

I've had a huge decline of health since.

I'm in hospitals almost every day since.

I've lost my entire savings of $50,000 in order to save my own life consulting doctors in literal different countries in order to expedite faster healthcare, buying supplements, emergency taxis to better hospitals, leaving abusive situations, presto cards, paying for meds out of pocket, the list is endless.

I've been assaulted many times by people while unconscious or gaslit and told I'm able to walk while I'm having a partial seizure or hemiplegic migraine, told to speak up while I'm having trouble getting air to the base of my lungs, told I don't know what pain is even though CRPS is one of the most painful diseases to exist.

I think out of everything what's difficult is the lack of support and isolation and humanity.

Part of me has been scared of posting a go fund me like its only going to collect $1.

Normally I'd work for my own money.

But I'll post this for now.

Pay what you can. I could use anything. Including a loonie.

After all my cats name is Loona. She's good luck