Support Monica Newton's Fight for Recovery

This is my sister in law, Monica Newton. In June 2021, Monica woke up with sudden personality changes that were unexplainable and concerning to her family. Personality changes that leaned toward schizophrenic traits. Everyone in our family tried to make sense of her behavior for weeks after. Contemplating the possibility of a brain tumor, wondering if we had missed signs of schizophrenia, and even cancer. Her husband Lonney begged her to go to the hospital with him to be checked out, but she was paranoid and anxious leading to her constant refusal. Lonney then tried to go through the local attorney’s office. No one seemed to believe that there was more going on with her health. Her odd behaviors eventually lead to her being court ordered from her home.

Monica spent the next several months at her immediate families home lying in a dark room, refusing to come out or eat. Her father didn’t know what else to do, so he came to Lonney and asked him to come to his home and try to get Monica to eat. Monica had gone from a healthy and happy wife and mother to being malnourished and severely underweight. It was clear that her health and her life was on the line. Lonney again reached out to the state and the county for help for his wife. Again, no help was given.

On March 2, 2024, Monica disappeared. Our sister woke up and discovered that her car was missing and no one could find Monica. She had gotten behind the wheel of our sisters vehicle in the night and no one knew until that morning. The police were called and the officer had informed our sister and Lonney that he had found Monica. The car had been wrecked into a tree less than a mile from her home and she had been taken to Williamstown Hospital in Grant County KY. Lonney immediately went to the hospital where he was informed that they could not disclose any information to him but that she was no longer there. He spent the night two days driving frantically searching for his wife. Believing that she had been released and was wandering the streets alone.

After two days, he called the officer back and the officer called the hospital and told them that they had to release her whereabouts to her husband because a missing person report was being filed for her. It was then that Lonney was told that she had been transported to UC in Cincinnati.

Monica had been diagnosed with a brain aneurysm. It is unknown if the crash caused the aneurysm or if she already had it. But an aneurysm would explain the almost three years of personality changes that resembled symptoms of schizophrenia. Monica underwent two brain surgeries to clamp off the aneurysm and reduce swelling on her brain.

Since March 2, Monica has suffered with breathing through a tube in her neck, two strokes, multiple hospitalizations, being transported in and out of nursing homes and rehabilitation facilities and back into the hospital for fatal health complications, bed sores, and pneumonia.

Lonney has been going to and from Cincinnati trying to be with his wife while being a daddy to five children at home. He is driving a vehicle with no heater and financially unable to repair it due to the circumstances. Bills are stacking up and he is still getting up every day trying to be the best dad he can be, while fighting along side his wife for her life.

Before all of this took place, Monica was a loving, silly, kindhearted woman with so much life and light inside her. We miss our sweet silly girl.

Donations will go toward bills, safe transportation for Lonney and his children to be able to visit their Momma, and a search for a one story home so that Monica has a chance of coming home when she is in better health and is safely able to. As of now, Lonney is in an upstairs apartment and would be unable to bring her home until he can find a ground level apartment or house.

Anything helps, but more than anything please pray for them as this has been the hardest thing they have ever had to go through.