Help Support a North Texas Family Raising Three Medically Complex Children

For most parents, feeding their kids every night can feel like a challenge. For the Olin family here in North Texas, it’s something else entirely.

They’re raising three medically dependent kids in Plano. Twins who are about to turn three, and a four-and-a-half-year-old daughter.

All three are G-tube dependent. This is their everyday life.

Their twins were diagnosed with Nemaline Myopathy, starting on NG tubes around five or six months old and transitioning to G-tubes by the time they turned one. Their daughter’s path looks different but just as complex. She’s diagnosed with autism, anxiety, sensory processing disorder, and ARFID, all of which play a role in why she relies on tube feeding.

Their weeks are filled with therapies, specialists, and constant care. At one point, they were managing more than 15 medical appointments every single week. While things have stabilized some, the need for care hasn’t gone away; it’s just shifted.

They’ve tried to get help.

In-home nursing support would change everything for their family, but their insurance won’t cover it. The only path forward is through a Medicaid waiver, and they’ve been on that waitlist for over two years.

So for now, they do it all on their own.

Financially, the weight is just as heavy. The family hits their $10,000 out-of-pocket maximum by February almost every year, and that’s just for what insurance covers. Everything else, from therapies to equipment to daily care needs, comes out of pocket.

They’re a single-income household.

They show up every single day for their kids.

That’s what carries them through all of this.

This fundraiser is here to support the Olin family, to help ease some of the financial pressure so they can focus on what matters most, caring for their children.

If you’re able to give, it makes a real difference.

If you can’t give, sharing this story helps more than you know.

Let’s show up for a family that’s been carrying so much, for so long.