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Relief for Steph and family

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I have known Steph and her family for 25 or more years. They are very kind, sweet people. They work hard and don’t like to ask for help unless they have no other choice. They live paycheck to paycheck like most of us do. They didn’t expect Steph to go to the hospital and almost die. She has a long recovery ahead of her. She worked and contributed to household bills. Now she can’t work but she still has bills, Medical supplies for her wound, food to buy and medical bills soon to be coming in. She doesn’t have health insurance now.  She doesn’t need the financial stress on top of her while she is healing.  

From her mother: 

My name is Joyce and this is my daughter Stephanie. I'm going to tell you a little about what she and her family and friends went through the last 12 days. After having terrible pain for 2 weeks she was taken to the hospital by ambulance because she was having trouble breathing. She was admitted because of an abscess on her spine that was determined to be sepsis and was immediately put in an induced coma and had a respirator put in her lungs to breathe for her. She was transported to Spartanburg Medical Center and remained in critical condition for 8 days. She didn't know I or her spouse was there but prayers were going up for her everywhere. Gradually she was taken off the respirator and slowly over the next 5 days she was taken off everything else. She will be a long time healing as far as her wound is concerned and needs lots of materials to treat her wound. Any help would be appreciated and used for this purpose.

Organizer and beneficiary

Michele Rathbone
Organizer
Asheville, NC
Joyce Garcia
Beneficiary

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