Team Minnie Bradshaw
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Meet Minnie Bradshaw. She was a career woman, a mom to two children, Jodie (13 years old) and Dylan (12 years old) and has been married to her college sweetheart, Dean for 18 years. Suddenly in late July, life as they know it took a drastic turn for the worse as Minnie became immediately disabled.
Minnie was in and out of the Stanford hospital while experiencing frightening symptoms such as extreme dizziness, weakness to entire left-side of her body, fatigue in her neck muscles, double vision and stabbing pain & numbness throughout her body. Minnie was forced to stop working and driving.
Finally, after 2 months of anguish and pain, Minnie was diagnosed with multiple cavernous malformations in her brain two of them were found to be bleeding. This was a serious and extremely high risk case as the major bleeding was found at the delicate base of her brainstem. The bleeding was pushing on the nerves which would ultimately stop her ability to breath and swallow.
On October 30, 2018, Dr. Gary Steinberg, a neurosurgeon from Stanford performed a intensive 6 hour brain surgery to alleviate the pressure caused by the bleeding. Surgery was the only option as Minnie would have soon died from the bleeding. Dr. Steinberg removed the ball of vessels and excess blood. Minnie spent 10 days recovering at Stanford, then was transferred to Santa Clara Valley Medical Center's brand new, state of the art Acute Rehab Unit for 4 weeks where she underwent intense therapy 6 days a week.
With any delicate surgery comes risks.
Although Minnie chose life, the removal of the blood caused severe nerve damage in her brain. She is in rehab for the next 6 months to a year, but only time will tell. Minnie is now wheelchair bound, has a feeding tube as she has lost her ability to swallow (has not eaten since 10/29/18), experiences stabbing pain to the left-side of her body, has very limited mobility to the right side and sees double vision.
Minnie has a long road ahead of her with this life-altering condition. She is back home and receiving in-home therapy and lots of doctor's appointments at Stanford, SCVMC, and with her primary care physician.
How can you help?
The Bradshaw's are not ones to ask for help - whether physical or financial - but the outpouring of support by their community of family and friends that want to help is amazing.
Your consideration and support would mean the world to Minnie and her family, Dean, Jodie and Dylan. Hope and prayers are welcome! They must now find a new normal while Minnie cannot work and Dean is not working as he has been trained to be her full time and primary caretaker. Please help their family to help offset expenses such as in-home care, one-time handicap accessible costs and medical needs beyond insurance coverage.
Please spread the word, share her story, and donate to support Team Minnie!
Minnie was in and out of the Stanford hospital while experiencing frightening symptoms such as extreme dizziness, weakness to entire left-side of her body, fatigue in her neck muscles, double vision and stabbing pain & numbness throughout her body. Minnie was forced to stop working and driving.
Finally, after 2 months of anguish and pain, Minnie was diagnosed with multiple cavernous malformations in her brain two of them were found to be bleeding. This was a serious and extremely high risk case as the major bleeding was found at the delicate base of her brainstem. The bleeding was pushing on the nerves which would ultimately stop her ability to breath and swallow.
On October 30, 2018, Dr. Gary Steinberg, a neurosurgeon from Stanford performed a intensive 6 hour brain surgery to alleviate the pressure caused by the bleeding. Surgery was the only option as Minnie would have soon died from the bleeding. Dr. Steinberg removed the ball of vessels and excess blood. Minnie spent 10 days recovering at Stanford, then was transferred to Santa Clara Valley Medical Center's brand new, state of the art Acute Rehab Unit for 4 weeks where she underwent intense therapy 6 days a week.
With any delicate surgery comes risks.
Although Minnie chose life, the removal of the blood caused severe nerve damage in her brain. She is in rehab for the next 6 months to a year, but only time will tell. Minnie is now wheelchair bound, has a feeding tube as she has lost her ability to swallow (has not eaten since 10/29/18), experiences stabbing pain to the left-side of her body, has very limited mobility to the right side and sees double vision.
Minnie has a long road ahead of her with this life-altering condition. She is back home and receiving in-home therapy and lots of doctor's appointments at Stanford, SCVMC, and with her primary care physician.
How can you help?
The Bradshaw's are not ones to ask for help - whether physical or financial - but the outpouring of support by their community of family and friends that want to help is amazing.
Your consideration and support would mean the world to Minnie and her family, Dean, Jodie and Dylan. Hope and prayers are welcome! They must now find a new normal while Minnie cannot work and Dean is not working as he has been trained to be her full time and primary caretaker. Please help their family to help offset expenses such as in-home care, one-time handicap accessible costs and medical needs beyond insurance coverage.
Please spread the word, share her story, and donate to support Team Minnie!
Organizer and beneficiary
Naté Carrillo-Reyes
Organizer
Milpitas, CA
Dean Bradshaw
Beneficiary