My name is Nadia, and for the past four years, my life has been shaped by a battle I never saw coming. Shortly after giving birth to my first son, I began having seizures — not occasional episodes, but 6–8 seizures a day. I spent weeks at a time in the hospital, in and out of emergency rooms, being told over and over that doctors “couldn’t figure it out.” My husband has found me in the shower passed out due to my seizures, times I have been found in grocery store aisle having seizures, and I have had seizures in my sleep that have resulted in me not breathing. Unfortunately, I even gave birth to my second son out of a seizure.

During this time, everything I had built began to fall apart. I couldn’t keep a job because of the constant seizures. My family lost our stability, our income, and the life we had worked so hard for. Between trying to provide for the family and trying to take care of his wife and kids, my husband suffered with me in this. I tried to keep going over and over, especially as a mother of two and a wife, every day felt like survival mode. During this season, I couldn’t work, I couldn’t drive, and I couldn’t be the mother or wife I wanted to be. We were trying to survive one day at a time, leaning on faith when nothing made sense.

But even in the darkest moments, God never left me. He kept putting breath in my lungs, strength in my spirit, and purpose in my pain. And now, after four long years, He has led me to a team at USF Health who finally discovered the exact place in my brain where my seizures begin and I have finally been diagnosed with a type of epilepsy that is in my left temporal lobe. For the first time, I have real answers — and a real chance at healing.

Over the next few months, I will be undergoing three separate brain surgeries. These surgeries are my best chance at becoming seizure‑free and reclaiming my life. They also come with risks, long recovery periods, and the reality that I won’t be able to work or care for my family the way I normally do. These surgeries are my best hope at becoming seizure‑free and reclaiming the life that was taken from me. I’m trusting God with every step, but the truth is: this journey is hard. It’s scary. And my family needs help to get through it.

I’m fighting for my future, but more importantly, I’m fighting for my boys. I want them to grow up knowing that their mom did everything she could to be here for them, to be healthy, and to live a full life. And if anything were to happen, I want them to know I fought with everything I had and did everything I could.

I’m creating this GoFundMe because the financial burden of this season is more than we can carry alone. Your support will help with bills, childcare, transportation, and the basic stability my family needs while I undergo surgery and recovery. This is very hard for me to share with the ones I love and those who care for me, but I believe it is important to help those understand the suffering and season myself and my family have been in the past 4 years.

If you feel led to give, share, or pray for us, please know it means more than words can express. Every act of kindness is a reminder that God places the right people in our lives at the right time.

Thank you for standing with me, for believing in my healing, and for helping my family hold onto hope during the hardest chapter of our lives.

With love and faith,

Nadia

Thank you for helping me hold onto hope, for believing in my story, and for standing with my family during the hardest season of our lives.