UPDATE: Today is Sunday, August 13th, and Gillian and I arrived at Klinik St Georg for her five-week treatment. We arrived in this little hamlet called Bad Aibling - the German word BAD indicates a SPA or natural spring setting. This and many hospitals sprung up around Germany in proximity to the natural baths, much like Saratoga Springs in NY (where Gillian was attending Skidmore College). She is so excited to be here, but nervous too! Today we met several of the nurses and one of the doctors. Tomorrow the exams and treatments begin. THANK YOU all for your incredible support! Please continue to share and post, if you are comfortable doing so. We love you! UPDATE: WOWOWOWOW - thank you all so very much for the incredible support, kind words, and love love love! We never expected this much generosity! Truthfully, however, this is only a fraction of our costs this summer and what we expect to incur upon her return. Unfortunately, this isn't a light switch that will just shut off. We anticipate months of recovery and another approximately $20,000 to $30,000 in medical expenses to help her heal. If there is any way, can we keep this going?!? I've added to our goal in the hopes that those who just find us can continue to give. Thank you all so much. ***** Hi I'm Gillian Williams! I'm 19 and I have been on a torturous journey since October 2024 when I developed Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, the most painful disease known to science. Because nothing was helping my CRPS we kept looking for answers and discovered I had advanced neurological Lyme Disease, and two tick co-infections: Bartonella and Babesia. Lyme Disease and Bartonella have caused extraordinary damage to my nervous system and generated uncontrollable inflammation in every part of my body from my brain to joints to nerves. In fact, my doctors believe the tick illnesses triggered my CRPS, which is incurable. My doctors believe that I will not be able to get the CRPS pain under control until we can beat the Lyme into remission. After several years of trying everything (!) available in the US, we have found a private hospital in Germany that aggressively treats Lyme disease and other infections. It is called Clinic St. Georg outside Munich. The hospital has an impeccable reputation and is known for its success in treating cancer and Lyme Disease with Hyperthermia, a treatment in which doctors medically raise the body temperature to 107 degrees to help the antibiotics and other medications really penetrate the tissue and bones and get to the virus. I can not get this treatment in the United States. I am going to Germany for a 5-week inpatient stay from Aug 13 - Sept 16, 2024. My mom will stay with me in the hospital the entire time. I will get treatments 6 days per week, all day. The hospital costs are about $50,000 and it is not covered by any insurance! We have already spent about $150,000 on medical care in the last three years, and tens of thousands this year alone. Our family has all chipped in for the cost of the German treatment but we aren’t quite there yet. We hope to raise $20,000 to help us shoulder this incredible expense. If you can, please help me get to Germany for this life saving treatment. I am grateful for your help! Thank you! Gillian :)
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