Kat Baird's Healing Campaign

Our sister Kat is in serious need, and my sister Erin and I are asking for your help. Kat has a chronic auto-immune condition called Psoriatic arthritis (PsA), a severe chronic inflammatory condition that is causing her huge amounts of pain and currently has her completely disabled. This disease affects her skin and joints. The photos only show a small part of the pain and swelling that she is experiencing and can’t begin to tell the story of her enormous pain and suffering. In most cases, the joint pain and inflammation caused by PsA responds well to treatment and rarely causes severe deformities, but it doesn’t appear Kat will be one of the lucky ones. A couple of years ago we had hope that Humira could help. Her psoriasis was clearing up, and her joint swelling became tolerable. Unfortunately, she started having severe side-effects to the medicine and had to stop. Because the multiple medications haven’t provided relief she started a rigorous diet. She's been sugar and gluten-free for over a year and has removed all triggering foods so she might have a chance of reducing her pain and inflammation. Kat has been so faithful to her diet that she carries food where ever she goes so she’ll have something healthy to eat. However, her body is attacking her more than ever leaving her unable to work.

Kat has a lot of medical expenses not covered by insurance, treatments are costly, and her insurance only covers the medicines that have caused more harm than good. Her upcoming appointments will incur costs of $540 for an initial appointment and $340 each hour after that. We are expecting the doctor to order many expensive medical tests not covered by her insurance. Kat uses CBD cannabis products to help manage her pain, with the costs hovering around $400+ a month (also not covered by insurance). And lastly, Kat needs to address possible mercury toxicity by replacing all of her old mercury fillings with composite materials.

Kat is determined to fight for health and can no longer postpone treatment without risking increased deformity and permanent damage. No donation is too small, and all help is appreciated and will be used to support Kat during her disability, and medical and nutritional care.