Support Merritt's Medical Recovery Journey

Our dear friend is needing our support right now! This is her story written by her daughter Kinsley. Anything will help!

As a lot of you know my mom, Merritt, has gone through a lot of medical problems the past month. It started off when my little brother, Audie called me and said mom was feeling really bad and she has been feeling this way since the previous day and it had only gotten worse. I didn’t have anyone to take me so I called my grandma and grandpa and they came to get me to take her to the emergency room. Me, Audie, Gma Laura, and Gpa Kim where there for hours and they finally got a the result back that told us that only of your common bial ducts where clogged from gallstones and that she had acute cholecystitis which means that she had to get her gallbladder out and they had to remove the gallstones which they weren’t able to do at the Newton Medical Center so she had to be transferred to St. Francis Via Christi. They took out her gallbladder first and then the next day went in for a second surgery to remove the rest of the gallstones that were blocking her ducts and in her lower stomach. Once that got all taken care of we thought everything was okay. She still seemed bad but a gallbladder surgery is a very routine procedure and isn’t the hardest surgery to preform from what i’ve been told. A couple days later she got discharged. A couple hours after we had got home she was having chest pain and it seems to me like it was heart attack symptoms. Me and my brother Kailen then took her to the emergency room again where they did all these test and it took a couple hours for the CT scan to come back which they said she had a lot of fluid in her lower stomach, which was a giant hematoma, and said that she was bleeding internally. She then again had to be transferred to St. Francis Via Christi for what we thought was emergency surgery. Me, Gma Laura, and my Gpa Kim all stayed there until about midnight. The GI surgeon did a CT and said that he does not think that she is actively bleeding, which I don’t know how true that is, and that while in the 2nd surgery he thinks he nicked her liver while trying to get the gallstones out and did not notice. She got surgery the next morning but they said that they had to keep her incubated and sedated because they had to keep her opened up all night to make sure the bleeding had stopped. Once she got out of that surgery it was the most heartbreaking thing ever. She looked at me and said she was dead and that she knows it. I was just trying to reassure her that this is real life and that she had made it through. Long story short she went through a long couple days recovery in the hospital and was discharged and seemed like she was a lot better. When she was in the hospital she also had a pre-anomia which was causing her to wheeze and have shortness of breathe. A week and probably some days after she got released she had another pain but this time where her lung is. They determined that she had some blood up there and we still don’t really know why it was there. They watched her overnight and it didn’t get any worse so she was sent back home. She has been doing better.