Sarah's MS Medical Fund
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Sarah is a 20-year-old Finance and Accounting student at Georgia State University who has great hopes and aspirations to be a successful business woman one day. In her free time Sarah is very active, loves to read, has many friends, and is always the life of the party. She always has a way of putting a smile on someone’s face, and lending a shoulder to anyone in need. She has also been a great asset while working at the Loews Atlanta Hotel for about two years now.
On a Thursday afternoon after a shift at work, Sarah started to realize her vision was blurry. Thinking it was just exhaustion, she went home and took a nap. However, when she woke up her vision was still blurry and everything looked as if it was jumping up and down. After about two hours, it intensified to the point where it completely impaired her vision, so she taken to the emergency room.
Her vision was diagnosed by neurologists as nystagmus, which followed with dizziness, then tingling and numbness in the limbs. After several blood tests, CT and CTA scans, everything came out healthy and normal which made a MRI come into question. The MRI discovered 5 spots in the brain and the neurologist suspected Multiple Sclerosis. To verify a Lumbar Puncture was performed, which confirmed that her diagnosis was in fact MS. To stabilize her condition, Sarah had to stay a week in the hospital.
In Multiple Sclerosis, the immune system attacks the protective sheath that covers nerve fibers and causes communication problems between the brain and the rest of the body. Eventually, the disease can cause the nerves themselves to deteriorate or become permanently damaged.
The cause of MS is unknown but it effects more than 2.3 million people worldwide. In the United states, about 200 new cases are diagnosed each week, and women are more likely to be diagnosed than men. There's no cure for Multiple Sclerosis. However, treatments can help speed recovery from attacks, modify the course of the disease and manage symptoms.
Sarah will have to follow a course of Solu-Medrol steroid to correct her eyes, lifelong treatment that will be decided by the neurological clinic, and continuous follow-up with the treatments and groups at the MS Center of Atlanta.
Over the course of the next two months we will be raising money to assist Sarah and her family with any medical expense and to lessen the burden of such an unfortunate event.
We hope you keep Sarah in your prayers, and just being able to share this post will mean a lot to us.
On a Thursday afternoon after a shift at work, Sarah started to realize her vision was blurry. Thinking it was just exhaustion, she went home and took a nap. However, when she woke up her vision was still blurry and everything looked as if it was jumping up and down. After about two hours, it intensified to the point where it completely impaired her vision, so she taken to the emergency room.
Her vision was diagnosed by neurologists as nystagmus, which followed with dizziness, then tingling and numbness in the limbs. After several blood tests, CT and CTA scans, everything came out healthy and normal which made a MRI come into question. The MRI discovered 5 spots in the brain and the neurologist suspected Multiple Sclerosis. To verify a Lumbar Puncture was performed, which confirmed that her diagnosis was in fact MS. To stabilize her condition, Sarah had to stay a week in the hospital.
In Multiple Sclerosis, the immune system attacks the protective sheath that covers nerve fibers and causes communication problems between the brain and the rest of the body. Eventually, the disease can cause the nerves themselves to deteriorate or become permanently damaged.
The cause of MS is unknown but it effects more than 2.3 million people worldwide. In the United states, about 200 new cases are diagnosed each week, and women are more likely to be diagnosed than men. There's no cure for Multiple Sclerosis. However, treatments can help speed recovery from attacks, modify the course of the disease and manage symptoms.
Sarah will have to follow a course of Solu-Medrol steroid to correct her eyes, lifelong treatment that will be decided by the neurological clinic, and continuous follow-up with the treatments and groups at the MS Center of Atlanta.
Over the course of the next two months we will be raising money to assist Sarah and her family with any medical expense and to lessen the burden of such an unfortunate event.
We hope you keep Sarah in your prayers, and just being able to share this post will mean a lot to us.
Organizer and beneficiary
Kiayanna Washington
Organizer
Atlanta, GA
sarah aitcadi
Beneficiary