Please Help Mom of 4 from Paralysis SevereStenosis

Hello, My name is Katie and I'm a mom of 4 boys: 

Twins who are 18, Zachary & Zane, a 12-year-old boy, Jackson and another 12yr boy, Dominik… he’s not my biological child but has my heart and lives with me. I love them all very much. 

 I am asking for any help I can get. I have Severe health issues that require Surgeries and doctors appointments and blood work etc. all just to prevent me from becoming paralyzed…

Of course that’s the Major part of what I’m hoping to be fixed.

I want to tell my story and I appreciate anyone who listens. Please bear with me… I'm not good at, nor do I like, sharing personal things about me.

With the medication I'm on, I've lost all my teeth. All within approximately 5 years... (It’s honestly the only thing that makes sense) 

What I have left has broken off and needs to be extracted.  I can't afford any of that as I get SSI Disability only and I'm unable to work at all. I’m barely scraping by if you can even call it that. 

So I went to the hospital  a little while ago with an ongoing Charlie horse, new symptom, in my entire right leg (absolutely horrific pain). They put me on very strong medication and did a CT scan, I shook so bad it was hard to read but they tried and my back is worse than it's ever been.

I decided to leave, against doctors orderejù advice. (I don't recommend that, but that was my choice.) I wanted to see if there was anything else that might be less life threatening options that I hadn’t already tried.

I will eventually become paralyzed without the surgery. I live in severe pain every day. I have absolutely no friends, technically no contact with the outside world in general except my doctor’s. 

I don't go anywhere but the doctor's office. My last appointment with my doctor I mentioned my legs being extremely weak, hardly able to move them, and they feel like they’re on fire or as if I’ve run a marathon. (I wish I could) I didn’t even realize all The things I took for granted…

As of now, all I know is surgery is the answer to, hopefully, improve/stabilize my condition… 

This could give me at least some of my life back. That would be the Greatest Gift I could ever ask for…

To be able to play with my kids, and to be able to be the Mom I used to be and the Mom they deserve, and to be able to walk again…

My discs are desiccating. The longer I wait, the harder it is on my body/back. My Doctor thinks the nerve roots could be compressed instead of just being pushed on my S-1 nerve roots by herniated discs.

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I'm honestly scared. From My last MRI, I was diagnosed with Severe Lumbar Spinal Stenosis, and other things as well. I will copy and paste my full ‘MRI FINDINGS BELOW’ because I’ve not figured out how to work this app very well.

I never have “good” days anymore. 

I haven't been able to feel the right half of my right leg for longer than I'd care to admit. I can only feel 2 toes on my right foot. I know I'm going to end up where it's... take the chance at losing my life and have the surgery, or, well I really don't know what the other option is other than waiting on paralysis.

I'm hinss72222222scared... I don't want to die or to lose the little bit of function I do still have to be gone... 

 Sleep is extremely difficult to say the least so I don't get much sleep.

Now I do understand this is no one's responsibility... But I don't know where or whom to turn to… I’m hoping God led me down this Path and if it’s his will then He will make things work out. I’ve put my Faith in Him. 

If you can find it in your heart to donate to help me get my house more disability-friendly, get tests done that I need, see doctors I need to see, Surgery on my lower back, and possibly get my teeth fixed would be really amazing. I know it’s a lot to ask…

I'd be forever grateful. I know times are tough for a lot of people, but honestly, any little bit helps. I have no resources to do any of this for myself.

April 7th, I turned 42, yet my body is aging so much faster, arthritis and all, but I'm praying God sent me here to hopefully get the help I so desperately need.

I want to thank anyone who read this, and of course, if anyone is able to send a prayer or help out, or even just share, I would be forever grateful. 

I'm sorry this was so long, but it’s my life story. Thank you to anyone who listened, and May God bless you. With Love, Katie Wilkerson Schrock

MRI:

IMPRESSION: 1. Minor retrolisthesis L5 on S1. 2. Disc dessication at L4-5 and L5-S1. 3. Anterior osteophytic spurring with type 1 endplate Modic changes at L5-S1. 4. Disc bulge with annular fissure and facet hypertrophic changes at L4-5. 5. Moderate to severe central canal stenosis with a broad-based disc protrusion with inferior migration of disc material, facet hypertrophic changes and mild bilateral neural foramen narrowing at L.5-S1.