Get Kristie Buckingham Home
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Update: Apr 8 – Kristie is home from hospital and resting un-comfortably but happy to be home !!!
Thanks everyone for your support and keep sharing. We have raised $8900 of the $14500 goal!!
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Update: Apr 3 – Kristie flew home evening of Apr 2 and was admitted to Ortho Trauma Centre. She has had a second surgery on Apr 3 and is now starting the long recovery road. Hospital release date if TBD depending on pain levels etc.
Thanks everyone for your support and keep sharing. We have raised $8500 of the $14500 goal!!
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Update: Apr 1 – The goal has been updated to $14,500 to reflect the additional cost to keep Kristie in hospital until her flight so her Pins and Halo are monitored and cleaned and also so she gets the much needed pain medication. This is includes estimate of additional travel costs.
We have raised a total of $6500 of the $14,500 if you include the donations outside of Go Fund me.
Based on results from surgery she has doctors clearance for a flight tomorrow Tuesday Apr 2 which is a huge milestone.
We are in process of arranged medical transportation from the airport to a Canadian hospital for full assessment and more than likely more surgery.
Thanks everyone for your support and keep sharing.
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Below is Kristie agonizing saga. She is still in hospital and we still need more money reimburse her Angel funds already sent and spent. WE need to keep her in hospital until the flight and also arrange the flight. Thank you in advance for your support. We have raised approx 4000 of the $10000 cost for Surgery. This cost will go up for additional days needed in Costa Rico hospital and her flight home.
From Kristie FB Page:
I know there's some sorcery going on with my friends to help me get this traumatic experience resolved temporarily so I can come home to have the rest finished. It will be such a long and painful process. And I just want to thank you all from my aching heart. I can't even put into words how OVERWHELMINGLY loved and grateful I am to be so blessed to have you all in my life. I don't even know many details yet, I know it wouldn't have been possible without Elaine Laporte, Deanna Lee, Jodi Bouma-Denny, Elaine Schieck making me swallow my pride and accept help. You're my angels. So are the rest of you.
This experience has been extremely traumatic for both Chris and I. He has been such a punching bag and deserves so much credit.
I'm not sure who's helped in what ways, but thank you! All the messages and tears I've shared with so many old and new friends and family. Proper personal thank yous will follow
This was most certainly not your typical broken bone. It was a fluke of me rolling my ankle on a steep downward path of the resort and falling wrong.
After screaming so badly, someone came for help and an ambulance was called. That was quite an hour ride. Chris vomited a few times on the ambulance (he was sober) because of the mangled shape and look of my leg and foot. To the clinic we went (picking up another couple on the way, like a taxi). They couldn't treat me, so back in the ambulance we went to Baltodano Briceño PUBLIC Hospital. i certainly then and there took our health care for granted. I had x-rays and morphine galore. The language barrier was very hard. The (very nice) doctor told me she needed to give me Valium to "shut me up", meaning calm me down () because I was screaming and screaming. After 24 hours of Chris sun poisoned, standing beside me in a hallway gurney, with 40 sick people (including one deceased with a sheet over him), I finally had x-rays, I was told i need surgery because my tibula and fibula were extremely snapped with fracture fragments all through my ankle as well. The surgery couldnt be performed for 15 days, as it's a public hospital. And I'd have to wait there.. in a hallway gurney, for the while time. Peeing in a bed pan or a diaper on front of everyone. I opted to go against recommendations, get a plaster cast (in a utility closet), get my Spanish Codeine tablets (woohoo ) and Blood Thinners, and take my chances flying home the next day. I signed a waiver relieving them of responsibility. The cast was ONLY to be on 24 hours max. No way i was staying there
Next day; Air Canada brings a doctor to assess me and I was not approved to fly. Dying in the worst pain I've ever experienced. My plaster temp cast was growing tighter by the moment and was already supposed to be removed. Tried to find quotes for a check-up at a decent hospital that had an aircast and pray they'd help me get home. Chris is lifting my 40lb plaster cast while i squirm to a wheelchair every time I needed to use the bathroom (romantic). DENIED to fly. No exceptions due to the severity of the breaks and length of cast. Just awesome.
Next day; An angel sent me here to see about getting an aircast. The hospital is very modern and clean. We felt safe and trusting. Better than home. Except my pain was unreal. I had extreme pain still but I was optimistic. UNTIL after way better xrays and an Ortho consult, my.world crashed. I needed immediate surgery and it was to be one of many. I was a mess!
I FORGOT TO GET INSURANCE. I know. Stupid. Please, no one say that again. I know - trust me!
My Angels who sent me here for a consult would not let me leave without this surgery. I needed to have 5 rods drilled through an external apparatus to keep my bones in place. I would love to give the recognition to the amazing woman who sent me her credit card to pay for this $10,000 USD surgery, but I will leave her privacy for now.
This is just the beginning. I have to keep staying for IV pain meds now. It's so unbearable. I screamed for 3 hours for morphine last night. Fun fact: Costa Rica gives Tylenol and ibuprofen to everyone for whatever their emergency is. They need special permission. I need morphine and badly. I FINALLY got a shot and slept. I had to BEG for one today and he finally let me have one for my dressing change.
Now I'm supposed to stay for IV meds until we leave. Cross.your fingers I'm approved.
I prayed to my Daddy to help me and he reached out in someway and got me some help from someone special to him ❤. And you guys.
It's still a long haul. Flights still have to be adjusted; probably Toronto accommodations for my next steps. Just want to update you all because you deserve to know.
I love you all. Please bare with me not responding to messages. I have tons and just get too overwhelmed with texts.
Thanks everyone for your support and keep sharing. We have raised $8900 of the $14500 goal!!
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Update: Apr 3 – Kristie flew home evening of Apr 2 and was admitted to Ortho Trauma Centre. She has had a second surgery on Apr 3 and is now starting the long recovery road. Hospital release date if TBD depending on pain levels etc.
Thanks everyone for your support and keep sharing. We have raised $8500 of the $14500 goal!!
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Update: Apr 1 – The goal has been updated to $14,500 to reflect the additional cost to keep Kristie in hospital until her flight so her Pins and Halo are monitored and cleaned and also so she gets the much needed pain medication. This is includes estimate of additional travel costs.
We have raised a total of $6500 of the $14,500 if you include the donations outside of Go Fund me.
Based on results from surgery she has doctors clearance for a flight tomorrow Tuesday Apr 2 which is a huge milestone.
We are in process of arranged medical transportation from the airport to a Canadian hospital for full assessment and more than likely more surgery.
Thanks everyone for your support and keep sharing.
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Below is Kristie agonizing saga. She is still in hospital and we still need more money reimburse her Angel funds already sent and spent. WE need to keep her in hospital until the flight and also arrange the flight. Thank you in advance for your support. We have raised approx 4000 of the $10000 cost for Surgery. This cost will go up for additional days needed in Costa Rico hospital and her flight home.
From Kristie FB Page:
I know there's some sorcery going on with my friends to help me get this traumatic experience resolved temporarily so I can come home to have the rest finished. It will be such a long and painful process. And I just want to thank you all from my aching heart. I can't even put into words how OVERWHELMINGLY loved and grateful I am to be so blessed to have you all in my life. I don't even know many details yet, I know it wouldn't have been possible without Elaine Laporte, Deanna Lee, Jodi Bouma-Denny, Elaine Schieck making me swallow my pride and accept help. You're my angels. So are the rest of you.
This experience has been extremely traumatic for both Chris and I. He has been such a punching bag and deserves so much credit.
I'm not sure who's helped in what ways, but thank you! All the messages and tears I've shared with so many old and new friends and family. Proper personal thank yous will follow
This was most certainly not your typical broken bone. It was a fluke of me rolling my ankle on a steep downward path of the resort and falling wrong.
After screaming so badly, someone came for help and an ambulance was called. That was quite an hour ride. Chris vomited a few times on the ambulance (he was sober) because of the mangled shape and look of my leg and foot. To the clinic we went (picking up another couple on the way, like a taxi). They couldn't treat me, so back in the ambulance we went to Baltodano Briceño PUBLIC Hospital. i certainly then and there took our health care for granted. I had x-rays and morphine galore. The language barrier was very hard. The (very nice) doctor told me she needed to give me Valium to "shut me up", meaning calm me down () because I was screaming and screaming. After 24 hours of Chris sun poisoned, standing beside me in a hallway gurney, with 40 sick people (including one deceased with a sheet over him), I finally had x-rays, I was told i need surgery because my tibula and fibula were extremely snapped with fracture fragments all through my ankle as well. The surgery couldnt be performed for 15 days, as it's a public hospital. And I'd have to wait there.. in a hallway gurney, for the while time. Peeing in a bed pan or a diaper on front of everyone. I opted to go against recommendations, get a plaster cast (in a utility closet), get my Spanish Codeine tablets (woohoo ) and Blood Thinners, and take my chances flying home the next day. I signed a waiver relieving them of responsibility. The cast was ONLY to be on 24 hours max. No way i was staying there
Next day; Air Canada brings a doctor to assess me and I was not approved to fly. Dying in the worst pain I've ever experienced. My plaster temp cast was growing tighter by the moment and was already supposed to be removed. Tried to find quotes for a check-up at a decent hospital that had an aircast and pray they'd help me get home. Chris is lifting my 40lb plaster cast while i squirm to a wheelchair every time I needed to use the bathroom (romantic). DENIED to fly. No exceptions due to the severity of the breaks and length of cast. Just awesome.
Next day; An angel sent me here to see about getting an aircast. The hospital is very modern and clean. We felt safe and trusting. Better than home. Except my pain was unreal. I had extreme pain still but I was optimistic. UNTIL after way better xrays and an Ortho consult, my.world crashed. I needed immediate surgery and it was to be one of many. I was a mess!
I FORGOT TO GET INSURANCE. I know. Stupid. Please, no one say that again. I know - trust me!
My Angels who sent me here for a consult would not let me leave without this surgery. I needed to have 5 rods drilled through an external apparatus to keep my bones in place. I would love to give the recognition to the amazing woman who sent me her credit card to pay for this $10,000 USD surgery, but I will leave her privacy for now.
This is just the beginning. I have to keep staying for IV pain meds now. It's so unbearable. I screamed for 3 hours for morphine last night. Fun fact: Costa Rica gives Tylenol and ibuprofen to everyone for whatever their emergency is. They need special permission. I need morphine and badly. I FINALLY got a shot and slept. I had to BEG for one today and he finally let me have one for my dressing change.
Now I'm supposed to stay for IV meds until we leave. Cross.your fingers I'm approved.
I prayed to my Daddy to help me and he reached out in someway and got me some help from someone special to him ❤. And you guys.
It's still a long haul. Flights still have to be adjusted; probably Toronto accommodations for my next steps. Just want to update you all because you deserve to know.
I love you all. Please bare with me not responding to messages. I have tons and just get too overwhelmed with texts.
Fundraising team (3)
Elaine Laporte
Organizer
Sarnia, ON
Deanna Lee
Team member
Jodi Denny
Team member
