
Medical help for Cortney
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Hi, my name is Cortney. I have a rare genetic form of candidiasis. It's an autoimmune disease where my body overproduces yeast and it turns into an invasive fungus that attacks my entire body. You may have heard of candidiasis before, it is a common affliction. However, the form of candidiasis that I have is incredibly rare and causes great pain and discomfort and cannot be treated with a simple round of antifungals. It could potentially even go into my blood system. I've had this since childhood and with age it has become more and more difficult to treat.
My symptoms include constant infections throughout my body such as chronic fungal sinus infections (which sometimes causes temporary blindness), staph infections of my skin, bacterial vaginosis, constant UTIs. It's affecting my skin severely right now, which is causing multiple boils on my face which are becoming so infected that I have to get them operated on. It is one of, if not the, most painful experiences of my entire life. There is danger of these infections spreading into my eyes and/or brain because of the location of the boils on my face.
It has attacked my muscles, joints, and bones - primarily my neck, back and spine. This has caused me tremendous pain over the last year and has basically left me immobile, however I have been in physical therapy, been seeing a chiropractor, a therapy masseuse, and have been getting shots into my muscles for the past six months which has returned some amount of mobility. I still have a long way to go. It also causes chronic fatigue syndrome, abdominal pain, digestive pain, nausea, memory loss. I am finally able to move around but I have no range of motion in my neck. I can only turn it to the right. It also flipped my spine in the wrong direction, which is going to take time to heal. I am still in daily pain. It has also entered my membrane which causes confusion and memory loss.
I lost my job because my doctors could not clear me for work, and I wouldn't be physically capable anyway. Basically my goal is to get better, hopefully soon. I need to be able to pay my rent and bills. There is an experimental treatment that has yielded great results in people who have the disease as badly as I do. It's basically an antifungal cocktail via IV, and I would need at least six treatments. OHP does not cover this treatment. OHP also only covers a certain amount of physical therapy visits. I have only one visit left on my health plan and am still far from healing. It would be beneficial if I could attend physical therapy at least once a week for the next three months.
I am really hoping to get some help to get these treatments and stay in physical therapy so that I can hopefully have some quality of life again without pain and infection every day, and get my butt back to work.
My symptoms include constant infections throughout my body such as chronic fungal sinus infections (which sometimes causes temporary blindness), staph infections of my skin, bacterial vaginosis, constant UTIs. It's affecting my skin severely right now, which is causing multiple boils on my face which are becoming so infected that I have to get them operated on. It is one of, if not the, most painful experiences of my entire life. There is danger of these infections spreading into my eyes and/or brain because of the location of the boils on my face.
It has attacked my muscles, joints, and bones - primarily my neck, back and spine. This has caused me tremendous pain over the last year and has basically left me immobile, however I have been in physical therapy, been seeing a chiropractor, a therapy masseuse, and have been getting shots into my muscles for the past six months which has returned some amount of mobility. I still have a long way to go. It also causes chronic fatigue syndrome, abdominal pain, digestive pain, nausea, memory loss. I am finally able to move around but I have no range of motion in my neck. I can only turn it to the right. It also flipped my spine in the wrong direction, which is going to take time to heal. I am still in daily pain. It has also entered my membrane which causes confusion and memory loss.
I lost my job because my doctors could not clear me for work, and I wouldn't be physically capable anyway. Basically my goal is to get better, hopefully soon. I need to be able to pay my rent and bills. There is an experimental treatment that has yielded great results in people who have the disease as badly as I do. It's basically an antifungal cocktail via IV, and I would need at least six treatments. OHP does not cover this treatment. OHP also only covers a certain amount of physical therapy visits. I have only one visit left on my health plan and am still far from healing. It would be beneficial if I could attend physical therapy at least once a week for the next three months.
I am really hoping to get some help to get these treatments and stay in physical therapy so that I can hopefully have some quality of life again without pain and infection every day, and get my butt back to work.

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Cortney Dees
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Portland, OR