Single Mother having Heart surgery.
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Eva Henderson in a nutshell, is a survivor. She has dealt with this medical issue her whole life, never letting it stop her from moving forward.
She is a single mother of two young boy's, whom she has raised alone since they were both still in diapers.
She has overcome so much and somehow has done it with grace, dignity, and without complaint. How I'll never understand, but I admire her all the more for it.
Eva has struggled her entire life with issues that doctors somehow could never diagnose. She has had loss of consciousness since childhood, and no one could figure out why.
She continued to be misdiagnosed with things like, anxiety and migraines, non of which were the actual problem.
Doctors at one point thought she had epilepsy & put her on medications she did not need, and for several years.
As an adult she's tried tirelessly to figure out why. What was happening that no one could seem to figure out?These spells would increase to the point that she was barley able to function for days sometimes, due to the lack of oxygen to her brain.
She called them rolling black outs, because that's exactly what was happening.
The frustration this caused while trying to raise her two boy's alone, juggling a full time job & two active boy's with sports etc, it was taking it's toll on her as a mother & now, also her career.
Then one night, having had another trip the ER , with her "head stuff" as she would say, a young intern Dr. was there watching the monitors as she kept losing consciousness.
He is the one who noticed her heart change on the monitors, and figured out that that was probably the reason behind the loss of oxygen to her brain.
From that point on, there were tests being done of a different kind. Everything shifted after that, it wasn't a head thing after all, it was a heart thing.....
Long story short, after many tests, they decided she had to have a pace maker put in to monitor her heart and to kick in when she needed it.
That was in December of 2016.
After home & trying to heal after her surgery, Eva was noticing her arm was turning purple, and she was having pain in her chest and in her arm. So back to the doctors to figure out what was going now.
More tests.....
After almost a year of this, they come to the realization that it's her pacemaker that's causing the symptoms. It was located wrong & was cutting off circulation.
This poor girl has now had to have heart surgery twice, having to have the first pacemaker taken out of her heart & now, a whole new one put in on the other side.
After a 4+ hour surgery, she is now home & starting her, what we pray is a final recovery process.
Eva has been one of my closest, most dearest friends over the past 25+ years simply because she is a gem of a human being.
She is only 47 years old & has had to go through so much more than most that are her age.
Due to her surgeries & the recovery this requires, she will be missing around a month of work unpaid.
She is sole income for her family & the monthly bills on top of the medical bills that are growing, this has created a stress she does not need or deserve.
Please, if you have the resources to help her out with the overwhelming task at hand, it would be very much appreciated.
If anyone deserves it, it's her.
She is very proud, and isn't one to ask for help if she can somehow manage it herself, but this time, I'm stepping in & asking for her.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this.
Her longtime friend, Vel Lopez
She is a single mother of two young boy's, whom she has raised alone since they were both still in diapers.
She has overcome so much and somehow has done it with grace, dignity, and without complaint. How I'll never understand, but I admire her all the more for it.
Eva has struggled her entire life with issues that doctors somehow could never diagnose. She has had loss of consciousness since childhood, and no one could figure out why.
She continued to be misdiagnosed with things like, anxiety and migraines, non of which were the actual problem.
Doctors at one point thought she had epilepsy & put her on medications she did not need, and for several years.
As an adult she's tried tirelessly to figure out why. What was happening that no one could seem to figure out?These spells would increase to the point that she was barley able to function for days sometimes, due to the lack of oxygen to her brain.
She called them rolling black outs, because that's exactly what was happening.
The frustration this caused while trying to raise her two boy's alone, juggling a full time job & two active boy's with sports etc, it was taking it's toll on her as a mother & now, also her career.
Then one night, having had another trip the ER , with her "head stuff" as she would say, a young intern Dr. was there watching the monitors as she kept losing consciousness.
He is the one who noticed her heart change on the monitors, and figured out that that was probably the reason behind the loss of oxygen to her brain.
From that point on, there were tests being done of a different kind. Everything shifted after that, it wasn't a head thing after all, it was a heart thing.....
Long story short, after many tests, they decided she had to have a pace maker put in to monitor her heart and to kick in when she needed it.
That was in December of 2016.
After home & trying to heal after her surgery, Eva was noticing her arm was turning purple, and she was having pain in her chest and in her arm. So back to the doctors to figure out what was going now.
More tests.....
After almost a year of this, they come to the realization that it's her pacemaker that's causing the symptoms. It was located wrong & was cutting off circulation.
This poor girl has now had to have heart surgery twice, having to have the first pacemaker taken out of her heart & now, a whole new one put in on the other side.
After a 4+ hour surgery, she is now home & starting her, what we pray is a final recovery process.
Eva has been one of my closest, most dearest friends over the past 25+ years simply because she is a gem of a human being.
She is only 47 years old & has had to go through so much more than most that are her age.
Due to her surgeries & the recovery this requires, she will be missing around a month of work unpaid.
She is sole income for her family & the monthly bills on top of the medical bills that are growing, this has created a stress she does not need or deserve.
Please, if you have the resources to help her out with the overwhelming task at hand, it would be very much appreciated.
If anyone deserves it, it's her.
She is very proud, and isn't one to ask for help if she can somehow manage it herself, but this time, I'm stepping in & asking for her.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this.
Her longtime friend, Vel Lopez
Organiser and beneficiary
Vel Lopez
Organiser
Newport, OR
Eva Henderson
Beneficiary
