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Those of you who know Nathaniel and Jenny Boggs, know that Jenny was admitted to the ICU due to Diabetic Ketoacidosis at the beginning of November, after her 25th birthday. The DKA resulted in her being diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes, and a few days stay in the ICU and then on to the Telemetry wing. She was kept in the hospital to make sure her BG levels were brought down, other markers found in her blood were brought back to normal, and to be quickly educated on the big life change she had ahead of her.
Upon release she was immediately in charge of going out and paying for all of the things that a Type 1 Diabetic needs to survive: a BG meter, lancets, test strips, two types of insulin, and the pen needles needed for the insulin pens. Being a Type 1 Diabetic is extremely expensive, even after insurance pays for it's part, and unfortunately the Boggs' had to dip into the Grad School/Moving fund they had set up.
Thankfully, after 2 months of this new life, Jenny is doing really great and is staying on top of her Type 1 through her Insulin and eating balanced meals.
Unfortunately, through a stroke of unluckiness, Nathaniel found himself spending almost a week in the hospital at the beginning of December, due to a softball size abscess found in his liver.
After running a fever Halloween weekend, Nathaniel went to Same Day Care and was sent home being told it was just a virus. He began getting additional symptoms every few days. He started a journey of continually going to see doctors to find an answer and a solution to the miserable way he was feeling. He visited Same Day Care again (being told it could be Whooping Cough), the ER a week later (being told it was an upper respiratory infection) , and a primary care physician the next week (some type of inflamation). Thankfully, later that same week due to connections at the school he teaches at, he had an appointment with a Doctor of Internal Medicine, which is when he was admitted to the hospital to actually figure out what was wrong, instead of guess work.
Thanks to a CT scan, the abscess was finally found, biopsied, and drained. However, since the abscess wasn't drained until a few days into his hospital stay, after he had been on antibiotics the whole time, they were not able to culture anything taken from the abscess to figure out what type of infection had caused the abscess to grow.
Nathaniel has been out of the hospital since December 8th, and has been doing an at home antibiotic IV through a PICC line since then. He recently had another CT Scan done and we are waiting to hear back about it. Hopefully the abscess has completely dissapeared by now.
We have received such an amazing outpouring of love, support, prayers, gifts, and well wishes over the past 2 months, and it has left us absolutely speechless and overwhelmed with thankfullness. We both are still on our parents health insurance, and those policies have paid a large chunk of our medical expenses. However, the amount leftover is still way too much for us to pay on our own, and our finances would be stretched too thin when it comes to the 12 month payment plan the hospital has to offer us. Any money that we receive will be going towards the payment of our hospital stays, and other health bills we have received from various medical departments.
We appreciate your continued support and love throughout this crazy time in our lives, and we would love to send you all handwritten thank you notes instead of the email ones, so please be sure to Facebook me your mailing address!
Upon release she was immediately in charge of going out and paying for all of the things that a Type 1 Diabetic needs to survive: a BG meter, lancets, test strips, two types of insulin, and the pen needles needed for the insulin pens. Being a Type 1 Diabetic is extremely expensive, even after insurance pays for it's part, and unfortunately the Boggs' had to dip into the Grad School/Moving fund they had set up.
Thankfully, after 2 months of this new life, Jenny is doing really great and is staying on top of her Type 1 through her Insulin and eating balanced meals.
Unfortunately, through a stroke of unluckiness, Nathaniel found himself spending almost a week in the hospital at the beginning of December, due to a softball size abscess found in his liver.
After running a fever Halloween weekend, Nathaniel went to Same Day Care and was sent home being told it was just a virus. He began getting additional symptoms every few days. He started a journey of continually going to see doctors to find an answer and a solution to the miserable way he was feeling. He visited Same Day Care again (being told it could be Whooping Cough), the ER a week later (being told it was an upper respiratory infection) , and a primary care physician the next week (some type of inflamation). Thankfully, later that same week due to connections at the school he teaches at, he had an appointment with a Doctor of Internal Medicine, which is when he was admitted to the hospital to actually figure out what was wrong, instead of guess work.
Thanks to a CT scan, the abscess was finally found, biopsied, and drained. However, since the abscess wasn't drained until a few days into his hospital stay, after he had been on antibiotics the whole time, they were not able to culture anything taken from the abscess to figure out what type of infection had caused the abscess to grow.
Nathaniel has been out of the hospital since December 8th, and has been doing an at home antibiotic IV through a PICC line since then. He recently had another CT Scan done and we are waiting to hear back about it. Hopefully the abscess has completely dissapeared by now.
We have received such an amazing outpouring of love, support, prayers, gifts, and well wishes over the past 2 months, and it has left us absolutely speechless and overwhelmed with thankfullness. We both are still on our parents health insurance, and those policies have paid a large chunk of our medical expenses. However, the amount leftover is still way too much for us to pay on our own, and our finances would be stretched too thin when it comes to the 12 month payment plan the hospital has to offer us. Any money that we receive will be going towards the payment of our hospital stays, and other health bills we have received from various medical departments.
We appreciate your continued support and love throughout this crazy time in our lives, and we would love to send you all handwritten thank you notes instead of the email ones, so please be sure to Facebook me your mailing address!
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Jenny Boggs
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Hutchinson, KS