It is with deep sorrow that I have to plan a very sudden, unexpected funeral for my mother, Tonya M. Frankina. 11/3/62-3/7/23. I am her oldest daughter, Kaylyn.

On Monday 3/6, I was stopping by my mom's after work, my sister Justine called me earlier that day to see if I had talked to her recently. Justine had received a call from my mom's friend asking if she had talk to my mom cause her friend was suppose to pick her up on Sunday, the 5th, but it didn't happen. I tried calling her on my way and started to have a bad feeling. I hadn't heard from her all day Monday or Sunday. She was expecting me to stop by Sunday, so it was very peculiar that I hadn't heard from her since I didn't let her know Sunday that I wasn't coming. When I arrived at my mom's it was dark inside and quiet, no TV on. No answer on the phone. I popped the lock and ran right in, straight to her bedroom screaming, "Mom where are you?!" I didn't find her in her room and checked her bathroom..still don't see her. Walk back out to the kitchen/living room, didn't see her when I ran in and past, I turned on the light and then I find my mom lying on the floor. I screamed, "Mom, Mom, what happened are you alive, please God be alive." I reach down to check for pulse and she lift her head, opened her eyes and said, "what?" I'm still trying to check her pulse and check her over and call 911. We got to Lake West ER and my fiance arrives, my sisters arrive, her grandchild arrive. It's bad, but she's alive. She needs to be intabated, her oxygen was low, her BP was low. Her oxygen been so low for so long, her left foot had comparement syndrome and the doctors said it would need to be amputated. They admitted her to ICU. She must have been laying there for over 24 hrs by the time I found her.

Tues the 7th I was there with her, with my sister's. They needed her to be stabilized before surgery. Her BP was better from meds. Her lactic acid and potassium were high. They put her on dialysis to filter her blood and bring the potassium down. My sisters left earlier and Jon and I were going back to her place to take care of her dogs. They had stopped the dialysis cause complications with her blood being too thick. They were giving her more heparin and putting heparin in the dialysis to thin her blood more. I told them to call me if ANYTHING at all changed or happened and we said goodnight so they could get her hooked back up. While I was at my mom's, about a half hour later, maybe a little more they called me and told me they were doing CPR on my mom. I was in her room 11 mins after they called. I ran in and asked, "how long, how long has she been down?" The doctor said, "15-20 mins." I cried out, "stop, just stop. She doesn't want this, she wouldn't want this." I put my hands on the nurse's while I'm sobbing and said, "you can stop now, please stop." Then I huged my mom, and someone dropped the siderails to her bed. I climbed in her bed and cuddled on her chest and cried to her, "Ma, I'll be okay, Justine and Alicia will be okay, the boys will be okay, Dad will okay. It's okay Ma, you can go be with Al (my step-dad) and Gramma (her mom) now. I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, as long as Im living my mommy you'll be." (Its basically the same thing she told her mom when she was with her when she passed away.) They were trying to listen for a heart beat and Jon, my fiance, had to pull me up off her. I called my sisters and told them get there quick but they might not make it in time. I called my oldest son, still sitting on her bed holding her hand, and told him if him and his brothers wanted to come they might make it in time. I looked over at the nurse and she shook her head. Tonya M. Frankina was pronounced at 10:18pm while I was on the phone with my son.

Our lives are forever changed. She leaves us and her two doggies behind.

I've done and am doing everything for my mom on my own financially, with some help from my sisters. My mom wanted to donate her body to medicine, she was an nurse's aide and loved to help other's, however, she didn't have those arrangements made. Her second choice was burial, she's is Catholic.

I'm giving her a funeral just like my grandmother's, her mom. She loved my grandma SO much and was just like her.

I've made arrangements at Vintantonio's funeral home in Little Italy, Cleveland, Ohio and burial at Lakeview Cemetery.

I've already paid the full $4,000 for her burial plot.

Vitantonio's service is $8,000. They require half down to set the date of the funeral and the other half the day of the service. I am applying for emergency financial assistant through work, but they only grant up to $3,000. That will take a couple weeks to come through, so that money can help pay off the remaining balance come the day of her service. I need to raise at least $4,000 for the deposit for my mom's funeral so she can be laid to rest and we can have a date set.

I'm implore you to look deep in your heart to make any contribution that you could afford. I would be eternally grateful to you, and appreciate the ability to grieve the loss of my very best, first and forever friend, my mommy.