Support Taisha's Fight with POTS, Eviction prevention& Bills

Hi my name is Taisha and I’m reaching out in a moment vulnerability and humility by swallowing my pride to seek financial assistance to stay afloat to prevent an eviction from my residence of 5 years and pay my bills as I no longer receive long term disability. I did apply for SSDI, but still waiting for approval.

As many of you may know the few years I have encountered many challenges, one being that I was diagnosed with POTS, dysautonomia, along with a couple of other autoimmune disorders about a 1 1/2 years ago causing me to be out of work for 2 years. I would say I had the perfect trifecta as in the year 2020 I had a very traumatic car accident that that caused PTSD and major trauma, then in 2022 I had Covid and Mononucleosis at the same time which most likely triggered POTS. POTS is Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome which is an autonomic nervous system disorder that controls all of your automatic bodily functions such as heart, blood pressure, respirations, digestive system and more! Basically my body doesn’t like to supply my brain with the proper blood flow when I change postural positions like from laying down to sitting or sitting to standing, it causes my heart rate to go sky high, my blood pressure to drop really low, dizziness, vertigo, lightheartedness which then makes my body pass out to then wake up on the floor and when I come to I have tremors. This has put me in the hospital last year for 12 days and many other ER visits since. POTS falls under the umbrella of dysautonomia which doesn’t currently have a cure. The doctors wanted me to go to John Hopkins, Mayo Clinic or Dysautonomia clinic that specializes in POTS, Neurology, and hematology, but I can’t afford it since it’s so expensive and I rely on state insurance that won’t pay for it.

Since last year POTS has had a major affect on my body and has been very debilitating leaving me to depend on a wheelchair to get around which helps keep me safe. I rely on the wheelchair mainly because when I stand and walk a few steps my body decides to hit the floor after everything goes black or I just can’t respond right away as I hear the muffled noises around me and sometimes I get really bad tremors. Most days are debilitating to where I don’t even want to get myself together because I either have chronic fatigue, suffer from really bad migraines which I receive about 40 shots every 10 weeks and more.

I strive to be strong and push myself everyday, sometimes too much, but my body ends up out of commission for the next couple of days. I’m definitely not where I want to be, but once my body is able to sustain a good length of time to be on my feet where my days are not as unpredictable, I would love to start working full time again and grow my tiny online business. Work is what I loved to do and have been very successful at most of them. I love to stay busy and now that I’m not, it’s been quite challenging. So in the meantime like I mentioned earlier, I’ve started a tiny online business WAVESX2 which spreads awareness for POTS and one day when it takes off, I would love to start a foundation for POTSIES to help them with their financial needs so they can find some relief since I know exactly how it feels to struggle. So I’ve been creating designs that could be added to many products with some sales, but not enough to sustain my financial needs for an entire month. WAVESX2 is Makin’ Wavesx2 in your heart and on the beasch living the salty life.

I know God always provides blessings everyday big and small and sometimes it is as simple as waking up and getting out of bed which is huge for me. I love how on my bad days, God creates beautiful stories all around us and it’s up to us to see his blessings. He shares his love language of clouds by sending me an angel cloud and sometimes near by a heart cloud. To some this may be something small, but to me I find to be a big deal because he is telling me that I’m not alone and he loves me.

I have been seeing many specialist throughout the past couple of years to help with my disorders and now I’m scheduled to see a new Cardiologist come January that specializes in POTS which took 9 months to get into. I’m extremely optimistic about about this appointment as I’m praying they educate me even more about my disorder, get me on the right medications, maybe even find a way I can get into one of the clinic at very lost so that I can get my body fully functioning again.

So please, I kindly request your consideration to help support my efforts to regain stability.

Please find it in your sweet heart to donate just $1 to show your support for my salty heart of POTS so I know I’m not in this fight alone, then maybe my salty heart of POTS would hopefully get a little sweeter like applesauce Mott’s, lol. OK you just got a taste of my corny side

So please, no amount is too small! Your thoughts, prayers, purchase from my tiny business, donations of any kind or even if you want to donate your time for just good company is greatly appreciated by a salty blessed heart❤️