Joseph's recovery

Hi, my name is Samantha, I am Joseph's mom. On November 12th we were admitted to our local emergency room after Joseph, my 12 year old first born son, had a head stroke. At around 1pm, after our family breakfast, a hair cut, and a trip to Dunkin', we came back home and Joseph started complaining about blurry vision. I thought it was strange, but not that strange as I sometimes get ocular migraines, and so I thought to myself that it really sucked he was going to have them too. I told him to drink some water and take a shower since that sometimes helps me with my migraines and also to get the newly cut hair off his head and shoulders. A few moments after his shower he told me that his head was really hurting, like someone was squishing his head together from both sides, and that sounded about normal for migraines so I told him to lay down for a while meanwhile I got ready so we could take him to the urgent care. I had the ibuprofen and thermometer ready to come into his room and check up on him when he called me from his room... I rushed in to see what happened and his speech was all garbled, he had tears in his eyes, and I could tell that he was scared. I saw that he was really trying to communicate but his body just was not responding to him. As soon as I saw his face, how he couldn't move his mouth, the image of a poster on a public bus I took a long time ago flashed through my head. I didn't think it could possibly be a stroke but I knew that we had to get him to the hospital immediately. I made the split second call to drive him there instead of waiting for an ambulance. I grabbed Joseph, brought him downstairs and ran to drive the car up as I yelled to his father that we had to leave NOW. He quickly dropped everything and got in the car with me and we got him to our local emergency room. The doctors there found out he had a cerebral AVM, an arteriovenous malformation in the brain. The local neurologist informed us that he needed to undergo emergency brain surgery three hours away from us in Buffalo, NY. I stayed with him the entire time meanwhile a friend traveled back and forth for supplies whenever he could during the middle of a snow storm until a week later he brought us home after Joseph was finally cleared to go home post-surgery. It was a crazy ride, he got out of surgery with weakness on his right side and couldn't walk, but thankfully the doctors and neurosurgeons were highly skilled and did an amazing job! And thanks to them and to Joseph's hard work and dedication to get better he is expected to make a full recovery. We still have many follow-ups, he is on seizure medication and he will have to be checked for the rest of his life, but the most important thing is that he is okay. He is up and walking around and will be back at school hopefully soon. We were barely making it before this happened, and, now that we are settling back to normal family life, bills have very quick piled up and we needed to get some specialty items for when he first got home. We have all been picking up as many hours as we can, however between the mounting bills and the stress it has become very hard on all of us. Several people have told me I should do this to get help, so here it goes.