While she was sleeping, I borrowed my partner's phone and set this up for her. She is going through such a hard time with life and illness, and has been for so long, but she is too self-reliant to ask for more help when she needs to, and I cannot help solve her troubles alone; so I thought that reaching out to the community for assistance would be the best thing that I can do for her at this time.

Let me first share a bit about her.

Courtney Wilson is an avid dancer, model, artist, and aspiring musician and actor. She is also a loving, dedicated partner, an animal enthusiast, a hiker, an adventurer, a philosopher, a friend.

There are many things that make up Courtney: Intelligence, humor, beauty and strength in mind, body and character. She is charming, hard-working, kind, quiet, passionate, generous, committed, carefree when lost in the moment, and stands up for others more often than herself (and she's no pushover). Overall, a charming being whom I adore and want all the best for.

Unfortunately, she is also very sick.

A little backstory on the illness:

During her last relationship, unhealthy, violent actions on her partner's behalf left her with a Traumatic Brain Injury that has only progressed steadily towards worsening symptoms over the last 3 years. What were simple headaches have turned into splitting migranes. Sudden tiredness has become prolonged, severe fatigue, and a consistent, random need to sleep bordering on narcoleptic. Dizzy spells have become frequent, balance-destabilizing vertigo. Eye fuzziness has turned into a constant stabbing pressure, and a swollen state almost twice its normal size. Severe sensitivity to light is now such a common issue that she is limited on screentime and house lighting, and even then multiple light filters and adjustable lights/sunglasses are used to ensure her safety and comfort. Worst of all, seizures have been occuring more frequently as well. Doing anything for any extended period of time becomes exhausting and destabilizing, and threatens to cause further injury.

It's a lot, and attempts to get answers and establish a proper healing regimen feel rebuffed at every turn, due to its inability to be properly diagnosed and difficulty being proven as a proper TBI by her doctors.

In the last year alone she has seen 2 different eye specialists, had an mri, a ct scan, blood-work done by the bucket, had 3 different er visits, and been consistently seen by 2 other general care providors.

All have been done at/thru the same local hospital here where we live, but since they cannot seem to give us any proper information on what is going on and since the only referrals they can give us for a neurologist have been on a year-long waitlist (only 3 more months!), we are getting second opinions and starting the process all over again at a different hospital.

In the meantime, since her symptoms have gotten so bad, and at the referral of the new er and doctor she just visited; Courtney will no longer be able to work and will doing complete bed rest from now on for at least 3 months. That means no cooking for herself, no modeling, no dancing, no auditions, no hiking, no extended play sessions with her cats, no standing showers or unsupervised bathing, no gaming or screen-time, no driving, and no stress. Rest above all, and self care are paramount at this time.

The second problem is where she lives. It is a noisy, rude, and dirty trailer park. One that she had not planned on living in long, and only moved into due to being unable to afford more space and higher deposits/longer wait times while she is taking care of her disabled mother.

Now that things are improving for her mom and her having a private caseworker and care, Courtney can finally focus more on herself. Although, and most annoyingly, things are once again difficult with that, because she lives in an old, stuffy, broken trailer with mold damage and degenerating walls/windows due to the slumlord's preference for hiring outside, unlicensed laborers and making them rush through every job leaving everything poorly half-done, if Courtney's lucky.

Worse yet, the slumlord refuses to take accountability or do anything, welcoming and rebuffing threats to sue, increasing the rent and adding on extra fees for services she used to include in the rent, and has let swarms of rats from old, hastily and improperly demolished units invade everyone's homes and yards. Courtney is on her third car now, and I pray it will not get chewed up and destroyed like the others.

Needless to say, her savings is gone and working towards getting more started so she can move out, let alone having enough funds for rent and sustainability, is not a viable option for her at this time.

Humbly and earnestly, I would like to ask for the help of our online community in supporting this strong and ailing woman in achieving a greater opportunity for her health and independance from these imposing, dreadful circumstances. No matter what, I know that she will never cease in forging ahead, and every little bit of assistance goes a long way in helping her fight towards achieving her goals.

To all that aspire to help, my heartfelt appreciation goes out to you, as well as a wish that when you need help in life that you will find it in the ways that you need most. Thank you. Bless you. ❤️