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Life-saving Surgery

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I started getting sick about 4 years ago, just 2 months after I got silicone breast implants which I was assured were FDA approved and could never leak into my body, meaning they were 100% safe. It started with little things like, ear infections, mild UTI's, and just feeling a little more tired than usual.
       At the time I was bartending nights in Key West and being a single mother to my beaufitul daughter of pre-school age so I just figured my fatigue was a normal addition to my busy life. Not long after I started getting severe UTI's that some even turned to pylonephritis and required hospitalization, which as most bartenders know, health insurance is not one of the benefits that comes with the job. I decided to move back to Ohio where I am from so that I had better healthcare options, and slowly but surely my health declined.
       My ear and sinus infections soon turned to bronchitis and pneumonia and I still was getting chronic kidney infections, even had my appendix removed during one really bad one. I have been on antibiotics for the better part of 3 years now, nausea meds, pain meds, and still getting infections and down to 97lbs and not enough energy to get out of bed most days, and missed so much time with my daughter who is now in the 3rd grade. I have debilitating migraines, constant muscle spasms, burning and tingling in extremities, edema, joint and muscle pain, intermittent fevers, constant nausea and flank pain, etc. I have been to numerous doctors and specialists and countless diagnosis that always end with the doctors and myself still being puzzled.
         That is until I landed in the hospital a year ago with a MRSA infection in my right implant from a permanant suture that had been protruding through the skin for some time. The infection was coming out of me through my left nostril and what I had orignally thought was a spider bite on my right calf as well. I slowy started researching and putting the pieces together. Once I had a severe tightening and malposition of my right implant, and after finding Dr Susan Kolb in Atlanta Ga, I finally knew what was making me so sick all these years. It was my silicone implants that have been leaking into my body from day 1. While I have been trying to save for this implant explantation and detox, I felt quite sick again in September, having such a bad kidney infection that my urine was straight blood and what looked like sand coming out of me. By the time I got to the hospital, my infection had spread to my blood causing a sepsis infection. The doctors told me if I had waited 24 more hrs I would have been dead.
      Now few months later I ended up in hospital again with another kidney infection and hydronephrosis and needing a tube put in to drain kidney or a uretal stent. I am at the point, I am afraid I may lose this fight for my life and desparately need your help to raise money for the $15,460 surgery to remove without replacement, these silicone implants. This includes repair to my muscle and chest wall, removal of remaining silicone that leaked from implant, detox for 6 months, and all post op appts for life.
      I have always had a hard time asking for help but im doing this not just for myself but mostly for my daughter that just wants her mom back to be able to get out of bed again everyday. Every bit helps and even if its just a prayer, I will gladly accept it! Thanks for taking the time to read my story! My appt with surgeon is March 10th so Im hoping to raise enough by then to get my life back!

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  • Jim Jernigan
    • $50 
    • 7 yrs
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Heather Gordon
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Columbus, OH

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