
Please help my good friend misti
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I have started this gofoundme to raise money to get my good friends family home more accessible for her. So that she may go home, get treatment from where she is more comfortable, and get private physio care to try to get her walking in general but comfortably again. Those are the goals.
7 and half months is too long in a hospital. When things are getting worse not better. She been through covid, the flu a few times, nonstop bladder infections while she hasa catheter in it. That caused her to have blue sediment and chunks of blood come out of her. It was so severe she would convulse and this was her body trying to push urine and the catheter out. During covid she was sick for 6 weeks.it was brutal she couldn't sit up at all was so dizzy everytime she tried to sit up she'd nearly pass out. She'd have to lay back down the second she felt that.
All of this while battling to recover from heart damage, brain damage, and total nerve damage to her left leg ALL caused by sepsis. Luckily her heart has healed and she no longer has congestive heart failure. But the bottom back wall of her heart is permanently scarred. Meaning that she will have heart issues in the future, and she will need it monitored for the rest of her life.
Aswell the brain damage will need to be monitored as its the start of something but they're not sure what yet. They said her white matter is greater then others her age, she have lesions, clusters, chronic migraines. Memory loss, brain fog, spots in my vision, and sometimes everything looks like its smoky when its not. Apparently there's no neurologists up here so she has to wait to find out what's going on but was told it could be the start of MS, or she's having mini strokes and not realizing it. We are all terrified.
Her leg however... well the sepsis caused her to swell so much (we're shocked the skin didn't split open.) She would gain literally 100pounds in swelling overnight. And her doctor would tell her
" That can't happen, it's what you're putting in your face! You're just fat, and need to get over it. All you need is sunshine. "
Yes that's what he said to a "T" to her while she was swollen and septic .... not one, not two, but four times in the year 2022. They could've fixed this and didn't they just kept sending her home. Well the fourth time she was so swollen that the swelling actually crushed ALL of the nerves in her leg. The pain from it is horrendous. It literally makes her sick, she loses sleep, and can't eat most days. She wants it to be cut off just for some form of release from this agony. But she know deep down that won't fix anything sadly.
You know what physio likes to tell her when she's crying and the pain is so bad she want to go back to being dead... they say and she quotes
" Uh, ya, uh, you're gonna feel a little pain but just keep going. "
A little pain she would gladly keep going but when she's crying so hard she can't see thats not right!!!!!! Her foot goes purple and black and swells the size of a Macey day balloon so she showed him and he laughs tells her:
" ha ha uh, well, you could still do the stepper?!"
She refuse to do anything with that leg until she see results from my blood work, ultrasound, mri, xray, and CT scan!!! And this all could've been preventable if they would've just put a brace/splint on her leg like Kelowna asked from the start and mom and her repeatedly asked from the start. Her leg wouldn't be swelling and recrushing all those new nerves if they just LISTENED!.
Since her death on November 12th, the day she woke up 16 days later the 28th. She promised herself no matter what she wouldn't give up!!! And she would make it..but sadly she hasen't yet. And she's getting close to the point where she just wants to roll over and give up. Her foots is going black and purple and not all the purple goes away anymore.
She could start going necrotic if something is not caught right away or seen by a specialist as well. Luckily the doctor this week is wonderful and has been on top of things. She really just need a voice here, some support. We desperately need to help to get her home. She just feels like no one's listening and that's how we ended up in this whole mess..
She just want to go home...
In order to do that there's so much to do to the house first.. she'll need a lift to get in and out of the house, a lift to get to the basement. Her room she'll need a bed that most likely moves, a way to get in the bed and out. A Bathroom,a walk in bath, with a shower chair, toilet with bars. Etc...Like the list goes on and on and on.... and also if she getting sent outta town to a specialist. Her Mom will need to take time off work to be with her. its just a never ending expenses with no help
So please If you could donate or share it would mean the world to her whole family.
Organizer
Cassandra Dumont
Organizer
Dawson Creek, BC