Help with Kee's Medical Fees
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They say that you meet some of your best friends while in college. I beg to differ. I met a life-long sister. Her name is Kiara (“Kee”) McConnell. Kiara is the type of person that will split the bill in half with you (if not pay for it herself), let you drive her car, laugh with you, cry with you, or even hold your hand in gloomy situations. Now that’s she’s going through this rough patch in life, I can only hope that I can return the favor(s) with my words, in hopes of drawing the help of her beloved community, family, and friends.
As of three weeks ago, Kiara was just your average, healthy, 24 year old graduate student, laboring as a Site Director for the YMCA in the Dougherty County area. In her leisure time, she enjoys coaching both girls and boys basketball and traveling with the Georgia Go Hard team. She has also been busy with checking on the health of her new bundle of joy, whom presence is due this June.
It was around Christmas time that she began getting excruciating migraines. She believed that it was due to the higher levels of hormones that’s accompanying her new bundle of joy, therefore she somewhat dismissed it. She even double-checked to get a second opinion at the ER, but they agreed with her that the headaches were due to her pregnancy. After repeated migraines, consulting her doctors, and taking some medicine which was prescribed by her OBGYN (which believed that it was the hormones too), she felt that she had to do something more because nothing would ease the pain. This past Monday, the OBGYN realized that perhaps something more serious could be going on and finally called her in for a CAT scan. Further testing needed to be done, so that doctor sent Kee in for an MRI at the local hospital. What they found blew us all away.
The doctor believed that there was an abscess on her brain; she then sent Kiara to the local Phoebe Putney hospital to get further diagnosis and treatment. On Tuesday, after being admitted into the hospital, the doctors there declared that it was an abscess as well. The neurologist and neurosurgeon later recanted their story and stated that they weren’t sure of what it was and states that they “…hadn’t seen anything like it in 25 years!” While still dealing with the debilitating pain, the medical staff could not begin aggressive treatment due to not having the expertise and equipment to deal with her medical emergency. However, they needed her to be treated immediately because of the potential of the abscess to burst and spread poison into her bloodstream, harming her and her unborn child.
Two prestigious hospitals did not want to accept her case because of the seriousness and risks involved. The third time was a charm, and God opened a door for her to be accepted into the Georgia Regents Hospital of Augusta, Georgia, where they are beginning treatment. The doctors’ plans are to begin treatment with antibiotics, while continuing to monitor her brain for any signs of shrinkage in the abscess. We’re praying that this works, because if not, she will be subject to a major invasive surgery of the brain where the risks are greater than the benefits.
During the course of waiting to see if the antibiotics will work, her loving parents have been taking off of their busy schedules in order to take care of the needs of their only daughter. While being forced to abandon their work duties, traveling from one end of Georgia to the next, tackling accumulating hospital bills, and remaining positive in the midst of the unwanted stress that this is causing on their daughter Kiara and the baby, life is taking its toll on this family. Kee is expected to be in the hospital for awhile and due to the circumstances, money is no longer coming in as fast as it’s leaving out.
If you are reading this and God touches your heart to be a blessing, please feel free to do so. Any donation of any sort is greatly appreciated and would help the McConnell family. We do believe that if you choose to be a blessing, blessings will be returned unto you. Much Love To You All!
As of three weeks ago, Kiara was just your average, healthy, 24 year old graduate student, laboring as a Site Director for the YMCA in the Dougherty County area. In her leisure time, she enjoys coaching both girls and boys basketball and traveling with the Georgia Go Hard team. She has also been busy with checking on the health of her new bundle of joy, whom presence is due this June.
It was around Christmas time that she began getting excruciating migraines. She believed that it was due to the higher levels of hormones that’s accompanying her new bundle of joy, therefore she somewhat dismissed it. She even double-checked to get a second opinion at the ER, but they agreed with her that the headaches were due to her pregnancy. After repeated migraines, consulting her doctors, and taking some medicine which was prescribed by her OBGYN (which believed that it was the hormones too), she felt that she had to do something more because nothing would ease the pain. This past Monday, the OBGYN realized that perhaps something more serious could be going on and finally called her in for a CAT scan. Further testing needed to be done, so that doctor sent Kee in for an MRI at the local hospital. What they found blew us all away.
The doctor believed that there was an abscess on her brain; she then sent Kiara to the local Phoebe Putney hospital to get further diagnosis and treatment. On Tuesday, after being admitted into the hospital, the doctors there declared that it was an abscess as well. The neurologist and neurosurgeon later recanted their story and stated that they weren’t sure of what it was and states that they “…hadn’t seen anything like it in 25 years!” While still dealing with the debilitating pain, the medical staff could not begin aggressive treatment due to not having the expertise and equipment to deal with her medical emergency. However, they needed her to be treated immediately because of the potential of the abscess to burst and spread poison into her bloodstream, harming her and her unborn child.
Two prestigious hospitals did not want to accept her case because of the seriousness and risks involved. The third time was a charm, and God opened a door for her to be accepted into the Georgia Regents Hospital of Augusta, Georgia, where they are beginning treatment. The doctors’ plans are to begin treatment with antibiotics, while continuing to monitor her brain for any signs of shrinkage in the abscess. We’re praying that this works, because if not, she will be subject to a major invasive surgery of the brain where the risks are greater than the benefits.
During the course of waiting to see if the antibiotics will work, her loving parents have been taking off of their busy schedules in order to take care of the needs of their only daughter. While being forced to abandon their work duties, traveling from one end of Georgia to the next, tackling accumulating hospital bills, and remaining positive in the midst of the unwanted stress that this is causing on their daughter Kiara and the baby, life is taking its toll on this family. Kee is expected to be in the hospital for awhile and due to the circumstances, money is no longer coming in as fast as it’s leaving out.
If you are reading this and God touches your heart to be a blessing, please feel free to do so. Any donation of any sort is greatly appreciated and would help the McConnell family. We do believe that if you choose to be a blessing, blessings will be returned unto you. Much Love To You All!
Organizer and beneficiary
JeAntae Jordan
Organizer
Statesboro, GA
Kiara McConnell
Beneficiary
