Help For Isabella
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It’s been five years since Isabella’s seizures started, and EVERY treatment so far has failed. Our next hope is to take Isabella to a treatment center, for an extended stay, in Malvern, PA where she will be under the extensive care of an experienced, highly credited physical therapist who has had incredible success in helping patients with all types of diseases and ailments for the past 50 years. His therapies have worked for people when nothing else has. This could be the treatment that finally helps Isabella and promises a more hopeful future for her... this treatment is not covered through their insurance. Isabella will need at least 2 weeks of intense physical therapy at the treatment center before she is released to continue her therapy at home...please help us reach our goal in getting Isabella to this promising treatment center.
Isabella’s story...
Isabella was a beautiful little girl with the sweetest personality. She brightened every room she entered and brought joy everywhere she went. She loved bubble baths, tea parties, and decorating with her vintage linens and lace. She loved gardening, foraging for berries and leaves, picking flowers, and just being out in nature, admiring the beauty around her! She loved learning and using ASL (American Sign Language). She LOVED her baby dolls, in particular, her most special “baby Ed” doll who, to this day, accompanies her everywhere she goes and sleeps with her every night. She was very sociable and loved making new friends everywhere she went. According to Isabella, every day was “Great!” She woke up every morning thanking God for a “beautiful new day” and she went to bed every night thanking Him for “the best day ever!"..
When she was 4 years old, Isabella had her first seizure and everything changed.
She was taken by ambulance to the nearest hospital and admitted overnight for observation. After extensive tests and evaluations, Isabella was diagnosed with a severe, catastrophic form of epilepsy and sent home from the hospital with the suggestion to start a round of anti-seizure medications, and hope for the best...
Soon after that first seizure, Isabella’s condition worsened drastically. She began having hundreds of a seizures a day, with lots of accompanying injuries and terrible side effects.
Isabella has idiopathic intractable generalized epilepsy. She has so many different types of seizures, in all different areas of her brain, so medications, which only target one specific area of the brain have been proven ineffective for her.
Because her seizures are so unpredictable, Isabella can no longer go places (even big family gatherings) where there’s too many people, or too much noise because it will overstimulate her senses and trigger seizures. She can no longer play outside if the weather is too hot or too cold because any extreme in her body temperature will trigger seizures. For Isabella, every bit of fun and excitement must be limited because every “great day” for her, usually comes with a price of increased seizures afterwards.
It’s been 5 years since that first seizure, and although Isabella has shown some improvement, the many seizures to her developing brain has caused her to be developmentally and emotionally far behind her peers.
*I am Nicole Capotorto, from Little Falls, NJ and I created this fundraiser for my niece, Isabella, in order to help with the financial costs to cover an intensive treatment plan with a highly recommended, physical therapist who specializes in myofacial release. All donations will be withdrawn directly by Isabella’s mother, Christie Palmieri-Filan, and used to put towards the costs of Isabella’s treatments*
Isabella’s story...
Isabella was a beautiful little girl with the sweetest personality. She brightened every room she entered and brought joy everywhere she went. She loved bubble baths, tea parties, and decorating with her vintage linens and lace. She loved gardening, foraging for berries and leaves, picking flowers, and just being out in nature, admiring the beauty around her! She loved learning and using ASL (American Sign Language). She LOVED her baby dolls, in particular, her most special “baby Ed” doll who, to this day, accompanies her everywhere she goes and sleeps with her every night. She was very sociable and loved making new friends everywhere she went. According to Isabella, every day was “Great!” She woke up every morning thanking God for a “beautiful new day” and she went to bed every night thanking Him for “the best day ever!"..
When she was 4 years old, Isabella had her first seizure and everything changed.
She was taken by ambulance to the nearest hospital and admitted overnight for observation. After extensive tests and evaluations, Isabella was diagnosed with a severe, catastrophic form of epilepsy and sent home from the hospital with the suggestion to start a round of anti-seizure medications, and hope for the best...
Soon after that first seizure, Isabella’s condition worsened drastically. She began having hundreds of a seizures a day, with lots of accompanying injuries and terrible side effects.
Isabella has idiopathic intractable generalized epilepsy. She has so many different types of seizures, in all different areas of her brain, so medications, which only target one specific area of the brain have been proven ineffective for her.
Because her seizures are so unpredictable, Isabella can no longer go places (even big family gatherings) where there’s too many people, or too much noise because it will overstimulate her senses and trigger seizures. She can no longer play outside if the weather is too hot or too cold because any extreme in her body temperature will trigger seizures. For Isabella, every bit of fun and excitement must be limited because every “great day” for her, usually comes with a price of increased seizures afterwards.
It’s been 5 years since that first seizure, and although Isabella has shown some improvement, the many seizures to her developing brain has caused her to be developmentally and emotionally far behind her peers.
*I am Nicole Capotorto, from Little Falls, NJ and I created this fundraiser for my niece, Isabella, in order to help with the financial costs to cover an intensive treatment plan with a highly recommended, physical therapist who specializes in myofacial release. All donations will be withdrawn directly by Isabella’s mother, Christie Palmieri-Filan, and used to put towards the costs of Isabella’s treatments*
Organizer
Christie Palmieri-Filan
Organizer
Little Falls, NJ