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Help Maria and her family

Maria Helena Malta has always been a loving wife, mother, sister, and friend.  She has always known the value of hard work, and she would take the shirt off her back if it meant helping those she loved. When her husband got hurt at work over 12 years ago and could no longer work, she stepped up to the plate and began working 60 hours a week to support her husband and two sons.  For the last 12 years she has been the sole income of the household and she has carried that burden without hesitation. As long as her family is happy she is happy.  Our mom began feeling sick about a month ago, it began as just nausea, then it turned to uncontrollable dizziness and she was unable to go into work.  For about 3 weeks, she laid in bed every single day because she could not make it down the hallway without help.  She was in and out of the emergency room, but the doctors said it was just vertigo.  When we finally got her to a neurologist, we learned that her condition was much greater. She has inflammation all around her brain, her condition continues to worsen.  With each passing day, she speaks less, remembers less, eats less, walks less, and understands less. She went from a strong, independent, and active 60 year old to the equivalent of a 90 year old with severe Alzheimers overnight.  As her family members, we are devastated to watch the person we knew deteriorate before our eyes with no definitive promise of a recovery.  We wait on pins and needles for spinal tap results that will tell us if she has a severe infection, and autoimmune disease or a rare fatal condition called CJD. Our only hope is that whatever her diagnosis becomes, that it is something we can treat and at least partially reverse. Please help our family to be able to pay her monthly bills as well as her hospital bills to come which will be hitting us both fast and furious. Without her working, our father will lose everything, and our mom won’t get the proper care she needs.
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  • Andrea Costa
    • $50 
    • 5 yrs
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Marylup Victoria Malta
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Danbury, CT

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