WHITNEY NICOLE FONTENOT

WITH WHITNEY FONTENOT PERMISSION, I AM STARTING THIS GO FUND ME ACCOUNT FOR HER AS SHE IS ON HER ROAD TO RECOVERY.  ALL THAT KNOW HER KNOW THAT SHE HAS BEEN ILL FOR ALMOST A YEAR NOW.  A WEEK AFTER WHITNEY HAD GENESIS IN AUGUST OF 2018 SHE FELL ILL AND WENT TO WOMAN AND CHILDREN HOSPITAL (as we all know it).  SHE WAS BURNING WITH FEVER AND SHAKING UNCONTROLLABLY.  THEY TREATED HER AND DISCHARGED HER.  WEEKS LATER SHE WENT TO MEMORIAL ER WHERE THEY DID THE SAME THING.  WEEKS LATER SHE WENT TO ST PATRICK ER AND THEY DID THE SAME.  BY OCTOBER 2018 SHE COULD NOT WALK  AND HER HEALTH HAD DECREASED TREMENDOUSLY.   SHE WENT BACK TO  WOMAN AND CHILDREN.  AT THIS TIME SHE COULDNT WALK BURNING WITH FEVER, HAIR FALLING OUT, SHAKING UNCONTROLLABLY, SHORT OF BREATH, NOT EATING ,THROAT INFLAMED AND WEIGHT DECREASING DRASTICALLY.  WHITNEY UNDER WENT THE PAIN OF TEST AFTER TEST.  FINALLY, THE DR INFORMED HER THAT SHE WAS IN STAGE 2 LYMPHOMA AND REFERRED HER TO AN ONCOLOGIST WHERE SHE WENT THROUGH MORE PAINFUL TESTING AND HOSPITAL STAY AFTER HOSPITAL STAY.  BY MAY OF 2019 WHITNEY HAS NOT HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO PROPERLY BOND WITH BABY GENESIS AND WAS DOWN TO UNDER 100lbs.  AT HER LAST ONCOLOGIST APPOINTMENT WITH TEARS IN HER EYES THE DR INFORMED US THAT THERE WAS NOTHING ELSE THEY COULD DO FOR WHITNEY HERE IN LAKE CHARLES THAT SHE NEEDED TO GET HER TO SHREVEPORT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.  BY THE TIME WE GOT THERE, WHITNEY WAS BURNING WITH FEVER AGAIN, HER STOMACH WAS APPEARING AS THOUGH SHE WAS 9 MONTHS PREGNANT AND SHE WAS BEARLY BREATHING.  THE ER DRS IMMEDIATELY BEGAN TO WORK ON HER.  THIS WAS ON A WEDNESDAY AND BY FRIDAY THEY DIAGNOSED HER WITH AN AGGRESSIVE FORM OF LUPUS.  THE DRS INFORMED ME THAT IF SHE WOULD NOT HAVE GOTTEN THERE WHEN SHE DID THERE MIGHT HAVE BEEN A TRAGIC REPORT.  THEY INFORMED ME THAT WHITNEY’S HEART HAD ENLARGED AND HAD FLUID ALL AROUND IT. HER LEFT LUNG WAS FILLED WITH FLUID AND HER HEART HAD SHIFT TO THE RIGHT SIDE OF HER BODY, HER WINDPIPE WAS BEING CRUSHED BY ALL THE FLUID AND WE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT SHE WAS SAYING UNLESS WE PUT OUR EAR TO HER MOUTH.  AFTER STAYING IN CCU FOR 4 DAYS SHE WAS TRANSFERRED TO A REGULAR ROOM AND NOW IN REHAB LEARNING HOW TO WALK AGAIN AND BUILDING HER STRENGTH.  SHE IS ANTICIPATING GETTING BACK TO HER KIDS.  IM ASKING YOU TODAY TO HELP THIS MOTHER OF 5 GET BACK TO BEING THE AWESOME MOTHER THAT SHE IS.  SOW A SEED INTO MAKING HER RECOVERY A SMOOTH TRANSITION.  IN THE MIDST OF ALL SHE IS GOING THROUGH  SHE IS CONCERNED ABOUT GETTING HER KIDS PREPARED FOR SCHOOL AND CATCHING UP ON HER BILLS.  SO WE THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR PRAYERS LOVE AND SUPPORT FOR WHITNEY GOD BLESS YOU. ❤️
WE ARE STARTING THIS FUNDRAISER TODAY 6/20/2019...

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