Help Newlywed After Tragedy: Heartbreaking Surgery

UPDATE 07/14/25:

A general surgeon will also be joining my surgery to help excise endomtriosis they couldn't get to last time because there wasn't enough time.

UPDATE 07/03/25:

I got bad news today, again.

I've been experiencing pain and bleeding (which is abnormal after having a total hysterectomy), and today my specialist found endometriosis around my cuff (where they 'sealed' me off).

Another surgery is needed to clear everything out and redo the cuff entirely.

I feel completely disheartened and defeated. I thought this was over with. We now have to pay for a SECOND surgery within the span of one year, out of what? From where? HOW??

I don't know what to do anymore.

Nobody owes us anything, and I'm so aware of that, and I'm sorry to ask, but please share or help if you can. This GoFundMe is still active. Please reach out if you have any questions for me. I appreciate all of you so much.

UPDATE / EDIT:

The damage to my uterus is too extensive -- it has to come out during the surgery. We are heartbroken beyond words.

Hunter and I got married in April.

When I met Hunter, so many things changed for the better. He taught me (and is still teaching me) what it meant to be loved in ways I never could have imagined. We'd spend hours talking about our future, and the family that we'd build one day. We'd talk about what we wanted to name our kids, and how we would parent them. We were adamant that we'd do better than the generations that came before us, and we put in active work to make that happen; to be our best selves for the kids that we would have one day. We were grateful that, no matter where we came from, we'd be able to raise kids that would always know how loved they are.

And it's heartbreaking, even while knowing that we still have options (ie. adoption, that we will be looking into in the future). And it's even more heartbreaking to know that it's MY body that's the reason for this. It's hard not to feel like I failed us, especially when the bills come too.

(Hunter in no way makes me feel like this. He's incredibly supportive, and kind, and beautiful).

You'd think that the price of losing something so great would be enough to pay for the surgery that takes that something great away from you in the first place. But it's not. We have to pay everything we have, and much more, to lose the dreams we had.

I'm falling, and I'm so tired; I'm exhausted, and I'm in need of hope. I need help to carry this. Please don't let us pay twice for this heartbreak. Please don't let us do this alone.

Please help by carrying just one brick so that we can build our house back up.

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On the 16th of September 2024, I was diagnosed with stage four endometriosis, again.

I had had excision surgery four years prior and was not expecting this result. Endometriosis came back with a vengeance, and the MRI results shocked everyone, including the doctors.

The results showed that I have ovarian torsion of both ovaries, that my uterus is stuck to my colon via growths, that I have deep infiltrating endometriosis in various areas, and two large endometriomas, among other things. This was only an MRI of my pelvic area -- it does not even show what's going on in the rest of my body.

Needless to say, I have to have urgent surgery in order to save my uterus and ovaries, and prevent further damage to other organs, but... I can't afford it.

This news has been gut-wrenching, to say the least. I'm twenty-five years old. I have a whole life in front of me. I just got married this year, and I don't want my ability to have children to be taken from me so soon.

On top of that, we're looking at a large bill because the severity of my case necessitates an excision specialist.

We've been quoted $13,000 after insurance, but were told it could be more depending on what happens during the surgery, and what care I would need afterwards.

I feel caught between a rock and a hard place, and I find myself begging for acts of kindness.

- If you could share this around, I'd be incredibly thankful.

- If you could send good vibes into the universe for me, please do.

- And if you'd be able and willing to donate to my cause, even just the smallest amount, I'd be forever grateful.

Thanks for reading this far, I appreciate it.