Help Nicki cover the cost of Brain Surgery

Update: Insurance approved our emergency appeal and surgery is scheduled for Dec 20th! Thank you to each person who has reached out, kept us in your thoughts and prayers! The money that was raised will be going towards the $10,000 down payment. Nicki, Ed and our family are all beyond grateful. 

Update: Unfortunately due to insurance denying Nickis out of state, out of network procedure her surgery will not be performed on Nov 13. We are unsure of when it will be rescheduled but are working closely with MUSC doctors and her insurance provider to figure out a plan.

Update: Nicki met with doctors yesterday, October 6th & made the decision to scheduled her operation for Nov 13th!! 

My name is KateLynn, daughter of Nicki Pollay Darling.

To some of you, the news of my mother undergoing brain surgery may come as a surprise. To most of you, it will not.

I’m creating this GoFundMe in hopes to provide Nicki and her husband some financial relief during this extremely stressful chapter of their lives. Diagnosed in 2020 with a Pineal region tumor (located in the very middle of her brain) Nicki has since lost her complete ability to live a normal life. She’s faced with the inability to walk or care for herself and cognitive impairment. This type of tumor is rare and accounts for only 1% of brain tumors. Only a handful of surgeons in the entire world even perform this surgery and she’s been blessed with the opportunity to be a contestant at the MUSC hospital in South Carolina where she visits again on October 6th for a surgery date. Recovery time for her Craniotomy can be upwards of two entire years. Medicare has agreed to cover 80% of the $200,000 this surgery will cost. That leaves $40,000, lodging, transportation & etc. unaccounted for, that this GoFundMe will go towards. Any help would tremendously alleviate the situation. It’s not every day that you can have a part in saving someone life, I thank you in advance for being so generous. I ask that you keep Nicki, her husband Ed and our family in your prayers. God bless.