Jessica’s fight for recovery ❤️‍

All this started years ago either a debilitating headache that wouldn’t go away. Than one of my cjoldten gaves their lovely germs they got from school. I tried getting on work sphere o sneezed sbd then my vision was lost. Completely blind for at least 10 minutes but started tothe 26/03/2025 the day ny life changed forever.

Prior to this day I had been suffering from chronic headache and migraines es that were debilitating affecting my quality of life snd my work. I ignored it for months was told it was stress from. Ring d mother snd having small children. It wasn’t until one of those small children gave me his germs because you know children. Ate the breeding ground for spicy cough 3.0 tobreak out. I took a few days off snd rested because it really knocked mr hot 6. But clear as day I remember it got up early got the kids ready for school snd went snd did

H house calls and played catch up from the ones I missed when I was off unwell.

I remember I has a very runny nose snd it was driving ne mad sniffling do I blew my nose snd I heard a pop fromy ears and everything went black not intently but clouds ️ of black flooded my vision. I couldn’t see anything. I remained calm and felt for my phone to ring my partner to come get me sbd take me to hospital. Did I blow to hard ang rupture something in my brain ?? It wasn’t until enough to scare the life out of me enough that I went to my local GP who sent me for scabs it showed I haf a excessive Samoa T of fluid around my brain do I was sent to a neurologist who also did urgent scans and it came back shoring the same thing so was urged to go to my local ED to have a urgent lumbar puncture done to check the level of spinal fluid so I did just that the next day Jason and I spent hours to Dubbo base hospital. Finally after many failed attempts they finally got it and it instantly shot up to the highest pressure so was unit to properly measure the exact amount but it was well over 70. They drained it back fleb to below 18 where they like it to be. I remember my legs being like jelly because of all the failed attempts and the damage to the nerves because of it. Luckily for me my beautiful 8 years old daughter helped me shower that night and even shaved my legs for me. I went to my neurologist appointment and he then referred me onto s neurologist surgeon.

I hadmy appointment with the neurosurgeon and he confirmed I needed to have a stent placed into s section of ny right sinus vein to hrll Ruth blood flow to my brain but to also help drain the spinal fluid so there wasn’t a msssice build up of pressure constricting my optic nerves which in turn was affecting my brain.

Knowing I needed brain surgery scared the shot out of my I was only 29 years young. We locked in a date for my surgery down at a private hospital in Sydney. I remember krigibslly I o lu took s few days off snd got nieve I was thinking ‍♀️ I would be fine to return to rotk just a few days after.

Jason snd I made our way down to Sydney on the 23/April 2025 to undergo testing sbd more scans and given medications through an Iv to thin my blood do I didn’t end up with a ablood clot

26 of April I woke up but strangely enough I wasn’t nervous I was done best excited, hopeful that it would be straight forward and successful Hor wrong I was, it’s true what they say if you make life plans god will laugh snd reach you that his in charge even when it comes to your own life. My mom and dad went with Jason on the ferry ️ to manly who were holding markets. Jason had a missed call from the neurosurgeon Dr Allen who said the surgery was successful sbd that I was in recovery.

❤️‍ I laid in recovery for an extended period of time but the medical team couldn’t work out why I hasn’t yet woken from the anaesthesia. They decided to finally do checks on me sbd it was then that they realised my pupils were fully dilated and unresponsive they rushed me into imaging to do scans on my brain snd it was then that it was discovered I had suffered from a massive bleed in myeft frontal lobe

They then rushed me into emergency surgery once again to perform an urgent crainiotomy to allow room for my brain to swell and swell it did so much so that at one point my brain was outside of my skull to try snd televise itself and compact the swelling. I will attach some images but look at your own discression.

I was then in a coma for 2 weeks while my body tried to allow itself to recover.

Jason says that when I woke the first thing I did was reach up to the top of my. Hair and it was then that I knew it was pretty much all gone 29 years of growing my hair gone in the blink of an eye. It was my comfort. My ability of feeling ‘pretty’andfeminem it was my mask sbd my muse bring shot to curl or straighten it my time glt mr to just sur and be still sbd do something flr myself. Being able to go to the hsir salon ‍♀️ to change the colour of it depending on the season I was in. Dark or light all taken away without my knowledge or even my consent.

My oxygen saturation kept dropping but shy ? They ended up laying me flat my 02 went from 90 and then plummeted down to 60. They did blokds and my ehite cell count was elevated thru took me off for an act scan of my chest which showed a double chest infection. They put a camera down my throat d d found that my right lung was closed off due to thick secretions ‘zphlegm. The doctors reported back that it wasn’t looking good so they phoned the family to come be by my side. My mum dad brothers sbd my sister all came to my side ang my beautiful young children. They were scared seeing their mother, their safe person their mother was laying there just clinging onto life by a thread. My partner Jason had the gut trenching job of telling them that mummy wasn’t going to make it that she will likely die; even at the age of 30 if I heard those word about my mum Tommy heart would break snd my whole world would crumble right before my eyes. My sister sbd Jason took our children snd my nephew to the beach for sb adventure. Xavier my 9 year old son collected shells and brought them back to the and placed the shells one by one sbd described them too me while I was laying their motionless s d rubbing the shells on my fingertips do I could feel the different textures and groves. He did this for every single shell he found sbd crouch back right him he knew mummy loved the beach ️ it was my favourite place to visit the salty site the feeling of the sand between your toes and seeing people outside participating in numerous amounts of activities and seeing the pure joy on their faces; body boarding. Surfing, snorkelling. Swimming g. Building sandcastles or trying to bury one another in the sand the pure joy on their faces bring at one with nature ‍♂️ ‍♀️ ❤️ making memories sbd soaking in the sun and good vibes.

I woke up from my cona with an itchy atm but wait why can’t I move my right arm is it no longer her there is it tied down for some reason. No I was paealysed down my left side. Imaging going to sleep and waking up no Longer being able to walk, toilet yourself or even brush your teeth without assistance my would crumbled around me but where were my children? thankfully they were there by my side holding my hand. Telling mr stories s and robbing one another in for stipid little things. We laughed, we cried snd we were just still there together taking in their touch, their smell and the look in their eyes of ❤️‍ knowing that their mother was paralysed but at least she was still hre I woke up living in the past tbh Ming we ere still in year2010. So I have fully recovered from the double test infection my tracheotomy wound has fully healed and my vocal cords have healed and I have re-learnt how to talk I won’t br doing any late night karaoke anytime soon but at least I can tell my kids got much I love them, hoe special they are sbd that they are my reason to recover do I can come home.

As for our children Xavier snd Isabell’s are in counselling g after they were starting to wake in the middle of the night screaming, breaks my heart bring their mother that I can’t be there to comfort them. Hold them and love on them telling them that everything will be ok.

Now this go fund me is to help Roth ent further follow up appointments I have with Dr Allen snd any costs including accommodation to attend the appointments form in Sydney. I spent my 30rh birthday in hospital in agonising pain down at Ct trying to figure out the cause of my extreme pain.

My hope and maids is to try snd Dave tonight money to take my babies back down to Sydney to make new memories do they don’t associate Sydney with trauma because beside the polluted air it is a beautiful city especially at night with the city lights

I am Aldo currently on leave without pay as I had no leave accumulated after having to take yi d off Ruth the flu I had and the kids were sick so rad mind it. U love my job I am a pathologist in the small torn of Gilgandra my favourite part of my job would have to be watching g a women go through all the weeks of her pregnancy grow and her belly slowly but surely expanding and than finally having that said child snd then. To them finally giving birth to that child sbd that being sbmf to meet they social baby that I watched fgrroe makes me feel like a honorary aunty. It does not fervent more special then that.

The worst part is seeing chemo patients slowly deteriorate over time sbd. Lt being svkf to do absorbing about it to help them or cure them from the horrid cancerdisease. I also enjoy going to the nursing home snd doing house calls where I get invited into peoples houses to take their blood as they are uncle to come down to the collection centre it makes me feel very privileged knowing they trust me enjoy to invite me into their home, their safe space sbd knowing you may be there only siuecs of human unreraxtuon die the week I always enjoy having a chat and asking if they needed anything done while I was there to help help in any way they seem becessary. I can’t wait to be back on the tools Tami g blood for the Woolf of Gilgandra again. I miss you all and file you are all doing ok.

if you could spare even a few dollars ir al adds up and my family and I would be extremely grateful.

As for right now I dm at a rehab facility in Dubbo y serving intense rehabilitation to try and regain movement and function of my left side I am nor also partly blind in my left the snd cs t see much in my peripheral visuob on my left side sbd have been diagnosed also with left side

From my family to yours I thank you for reading through my story it I am beyond grateful. Sydney hospital was awful I was left to sit in my stool so long do that it would burn my skin. I was left busting to do a wee do Lo g do that I would wet myself and you guessed it left to sit in it for hours leaving my skin excoriated and irritated. My basic human rights were thrown out the window. Our beautiful young children deserve some time away to make new memories sbd to hopefully replace the old scary memories of Sydney with new ones filled with love, laughter snd happiness & adventure. during this time my beautiful children came to see me as the doctors ere telling my parents and Jason to gather the family. My beautiful children came to be by myside where Jason had the unimaginable task of telling our young children I wasn’t going to survive. Xavier 9, Isabella 9 and Alexander 14 spent days by myside along with close family and friends. Doctors say in 1 in a million, that will the bleed that happened in my left frontal lobe was equivocate to that of someone driving down the freeway at 100km/h and going head on into s truck. I wake up everyday feeling like my body is punishing me like I am useless but I fight u spend hours in the gym putting the hard work in so that one day I might walk again or get to bear hug my kids with both arms snd hold them close to my chest so that their hair tickles my nose. ❤️ I am not asking for much I just want my life back.