Support Natasha and her family through these tough times.

Hello Everyone! Grandfield and Cache community I am reaching out to assist this deserving family with any help we can offer as a whole! I am personally from Grandfield, born and raised. I know that we have what it takes to be there for our neighbors through the good and the bad. Cache community, this young lady’s sister is a bulldog softball player and is an outstanding pitcher on my 10u team. She has already touched many hearts and turned many heads at our games! She is an amazing little girl whose family is need of love and support from our community.

I am setting up a go fund me for Jacee and her family. Her beautiful sister has been recently diagnosed with beginning stages of kidney rejection. This is unimaginable and I myself have never had a child who was ill to the point of being hospitalized. I cannot imagine what Natasha’s parents and family are going through. Life is hard and times are even harder. To live in a small town 20-30 miles from the nearest grocery store, drs office, etc. is tasking. There are so many things that life throws at families and sometimes help isn’t asked for but we as a community should step up and see the need for our friends and neighbors. Hospital/Dr appointment trips, hospital stays, gas, meds, inability to work to take care of your child (who comes first always), and all while these costs build up the world continues to go on. If you have the means to donate to this family who will be facing a long road ahead of them please do so. And if unable to please say daily prayers for this incredibly strong kiddo who deserves a strong and healthy future!

A statement from her mother Kerri’s Facebook page:

December 13th 2007 i had beautiful preemie baby girls. We knew before they were born that both had health issues. Natasha had the kidney issues and Brookelynn Fuller had all the lung issues. Natasha spent most the first 10 years of her life and in and out of the hospital.

May of 2016 Natasha Fuller life changed forever! Her teacher Jodi gave her a new chance at life. She donated her kidney to Natasha. Natashas life since then has been amazing! Doing almost all activities that kids her age are doing, eating what she likes, able to swim in pools, ride rides, and just participate in life like she deserves.

Natasha has been diagnosed with:

*Chronic Kidney Disease

* Von Willebrand Disease

*Hypermobility Syndrome

* Menorrhagia

*Prune Belly syndrome

* and sadly the most recent " Transplant Rejection"

On May 10th, 2024 everything changed. We did labs on May 7th, 2024 and her creatine was high. Kenda Dean the amazing doctor that Natasha has and a great friend of mine gave Natasha Fluids to see if that would help with her creatine level ( thinking she is dehydrated ) The next day labs came back and her creatine actually went up more ( not good at all ) We headed straight to OU Childrens Hospital and got admitted in so they could run all the test on her.

Results came in that she was in " Kindey Rejection Stage " not the news our family was wanting to hear. Natasha is now on VERY strong steriods that will cause her to gain a lot of weight.

Natasha is also on very strong meds to help her kidney rejection. Some of these meds is almost like Chemo meds for cancer patients. They have to run through her picline for 12 hrs a day and make her sick and miserable.

-Antithymocyte Globulin ( to keep the body from rejecting the kidney )

-Rituximab ( to treat types of leukemia and lymphoma) but in Natasha case to help fight this kidney rejection

Good news is these meds are WORKING!!!!!! When we get released from the hospital our journey still goes on. We will have to make mulitiple trips back to OU hospital ( 2 hrs from our home ) a week to keep a close eye on her kidney, her meds, her health.

We went this kidney to last as long as possible. This just isnt a kidney this is a very specail kidney from a special person. We will do everything in our power to keep this kidney strong and going. No matter if that still continues for me to miss work with no pay, or more hospital stays, more medicine ect.. We will continue to fight this. More hospital stays will be in our future but we are okay with that. If that is what will get Natasha back to her "New" normal thats what we will do.

I want to thank everyone for all the well wishes, phone calls, text messages, facebook messages and most of all the prayers. Theyre working. Her journey here is not done. She has a story to tell..

Please continue to pray for Natasha during these next tough couple of months of intense meds that will make her gain weight, get very sick and very sleepy.