Support Tammy-Lyn's Fight to Walk
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And for, Tammy-Lyn (Costantino) Perry 2020 proved to be an exceptionally tough year right from the beginning of February. In early February Tammy-Lyn had lower back surgery on her lumbar to correct a nerve sensation that had been going on in her legs and feet. The surgery was successful in eliminating the pain. She would be out of work as a public school pre-k teacher till May. Over the summer she continued physical therapy to strengthen the back and core muscles. On a happy note she bought a cute small house at which she lives alone with her dog and cat.
On November 7th her world as she had known was flipped upside down. She went to bed with what she thought were cold tingling feet, put some socks on and fell asleep. She was awoken at 3 a.m. with that tingling sensation up to her knees. She felt that this was odd and made the decision to make her way downstairs to the living room for the rest of the night. She spent the rest of the night sleeping in a chair. When she awoke in the morning she no longer could feel from her waist down to her toes. She had to cruise the furniture clenching on so she wouldn’t fall while trying to locate her phone to call for help.
Help arrived and she was drive to Central Maine Medical Center emergency room where
Tammy-Lyn was admitted and examined immediately. After physically being lifted onto the medical bed by the doctor and her son many tests were ordered and carried out to conclude what was happening to my body. An MRI scanned concluding that she had suffered an abscess on her spine leaving her possibly paralyzed or could have resulted in death. She had emergency surgery to drain and remove the abscess. When she awoke she realized that she had no feeling from her waist down.
Tammy-Lyn had spent the last 8 weeks in the hospital receiving antibiotics 3 times a day through an arm pic line. Through extensive twice a day physical therapy and the aide of a walker she is able to somewhat get around independently. She continues to have numbness, water retention and tingling sensations from her waist to toes 24/7. She was released from the hospital a few days before Christmas in the care of her daughter. She must continue to have antibiotics for an additional 14 weeks while under the care of the infectious disease and neurologist doctors.
What is her prognosis the doctors say: Rebuilding the muscles and nerves is a very slow process in the body only repairing at a rate of the thickness of a coin a day. She was told to expect a full year of rehabilitation and the possibility of oral antibiotics for a life time. Hope for herself is that she will once again walk independently, drive a car, return to the classroom full of preschoolers and play freely with her grandson.
It humbles her as a self sufficient supporting women to need help. Between the earlier back surgery and the spine abscess she has exhausted her employment earned sick/vacation time and short term disability under health insurance wasn’t offered so therefore was never an option to sign up for. Tammy-Lyn is in need of help with medical expenses, loss of income, rehabilitation costs, and the need to adjust her home. Average yearly costs for a first year spinal cord injury is $347,484. Any monies accumulated through this event will be used to offset the expenses from her injury.
On November 7th her world as she had known was flipped upside down. She went to bed with what she thought were cold tingling feet, put some socks on and fell asleep. She was awoken at 3 a.m. with that tingling sensation up to her knees. She felt that this was odd and made the decision to make her way downstairs to the living room for the rest of the night. She spent the rest of the night sleeping in a chair. When she awoke in the morning she no longer could feel from her waist down to her toes. She had to cruise the furniture clenching on so she wouldn’t fall while trying to locate her phone to call for help.
Help arrived and she was drive to Central Maine Medical Center emergency room where
Tammy-Lyn was admitted and examined immediately. After physically being lifted onto the medical bed by the doctor and her son many tests were ordered and carried out to conclude what was happening to my body. An MRI scanned concluding that she had suffered an abscess on her spine leaving her possibly paralyzed or could have resulted in death. She had emergency surgery to drain and remove the abscess. When she awoke she realized that she had no feeling from her waist down.
Tammy-Lyn had spent the last 8 weeks in the hospital receiving antibiotics 3 times a day through an arm pic line. Through extensive twice a day physical therapy and the aide of a walker she is able to somewhat get around independently. She continues to have numbness, water retention and tingling sensations from her waist to toes 24/7. She was released from the hospital a few days before Christmas in the care of her daughter. She must continue to have antibiotics for an additional 14 weeks while under the care of the infectious disease and neurologist doctors.
What is her prognosis the doctors say: Rebuilding the muscles and nerves is a very slow process in the body only repairing at a rate of the thickness of a coin a day. She was told to expect a full year of rehabilitation and the possibility of oral antibiotics for a life time. Hope for herself is that she will once again walk independently, drive a car, return to the classroom full of preschoolers and play freely with her grandson.
It humbles her as a self sufficient supporting women to need help. Between the earlier back surgery and the spine abscess she has exhausted her employment earned sick/vacation time and short term disability under health insurance wasn’t offered so therefore was never an option to sign up for. Tammy-Lyn is in need of help with medical expenses, loss of income, rehabilitation costs, and the need to adjust her home. Average yearly costs for a first year spinal cord injury is $347,484. Any monies accumulated through this event will be used to offset the expenses from her injury.
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Dixfield, ME