Support Sheila's Fight for Recovery

As friends of Sheila and her husband Ty, we hope you get to know Sheila through our words and pictures. She is an incredible human, and we all feel very lucky to know and love her.

At this time we are also very sad and concerned about Sheila's prolonged and ongoing medical issues, complications and setbacks. She is now in her third week of her second hospitalization after a lung transplant.

Sheila is an amazing 57-year-old woman who is a wife, sister, friend, and cat mom who also happens to have Cystic Fibrosis. She is smart,

funny, creative, an amazing crafter, gamer, and lover of squirrels and holidays, especially Halloween. Sheila has worked hard for most of her life managing her disease while trying to live her best life. This life got even better once she met and married Ty who has been by her side

every step of the way. With grace, strength, and a good dose of feistiness, Sheila has educated herself on her disease, effectively advocated for herself, and worked exceptionally hard including continuing to exercise consistently on many days when it was the last thing her mind or body wanted to do. She has insisted on having an open, honest dialog with her caregivers, being a part of the treatment team and their decision making. Along the way she has agreed to many treatments that have kept her hospitalized longer, in more pain, and having to face signs of her worsening disease. All of this was done to optimize her quality and length of life. In that pursuit, Sheila also committed to the process of getting accepted for a lung transplant. Early on she was not accepted for transplant but she did not give up, took a breather from the process and tried again. This past September she was accepted and listed for lung transplant. It was exciting, unreal, and scary!

On October 23,2024 Sheila got the news that she would be getting her double lung transplant that day. Surgery was successful and Sheila had

her new lungs, but there were a number of complications during and after surgery with still more that have cropped up along the way. One major complication was kidney damage necessitating dialysis and may result in the need for a kidney transplant. Sheila was discharged after one month in hospital to acute inpatient rehab. She worked hard with therapy and was steadily improving and then got Covid. She worked through this as well, made good progress and was looking forward to going home soon when more complications arose. She had a hospital appointment on Jan 27, 2025 and was admitted to the hospital again, this time with pneumonia, and fluid outside her lungs necessitating chest tube placement. There was

difficulty removing enough fluid during dialysis due to low blood pressure. She became critically ill again and is now back on a ventilator, unable to eat or mobilize out of bed. She is facing a return to rehab AGAIN after she is stabilized again, and ready for discharge from the hospital. Sheila was last home in Sept. 2024 and is facing

several more months of inpatient care. Her goal remains to work hard and get home to her husband and cats. Her husband Ty has been working at his job full time throughout this time, then driving about 1 hour to be with his wife, rarely missing a day. All of this is taking its toll on the family.

We ask for your well wishes and prayers for Sheila's recovery and would greatly appreciate any donations and/or spreading the word on our

fundraiser. We are hoping to help at least ease some of the cost of this prolonged care. Thank you all in advance from the bottom of our

hearts ♥️ and lungs!!

Sincere and grateful thanks,

Sheila's friends.