My name is Courtney. I am the daughter to, Tamy. I am starting this to help us cover her medical bills and help create a safety net for her while she is in Long Term care. In February of this year, my mom was rushed to Intermountain Hospital. Where they chased her high blood pressure and attempted to fix an impaction within her colon. They did emergency surgery to explore the state of her intestines and they were deemed to be dead and narcotic. From there, they created an ileostomy after removing 95% of her bowels. After 9 days of Trauma Care, they moved her to a normal room. Where she then started to have seizures and suffered more neurological damage. You could say this is just an awful butterfly effect from her past health scares and strokes but unfortunately this has taken away her independence, normalcy of life and even her ability to walk. She is now in a state where she needs around the clock care and someone to help her with the essentials; Brushing her hair, teeth and the bigger things like changing her ostomy. She is currently in a long term nursing facility to help with those necessities. As we were getting ready for the 4th of July, one of the CNA’s listened to my mom’s pain and noticed she had overnight grown a hole from her new scar. She was once again rushed to the hospital with an abscess in her abdomen that needed immediate medical intervention with a drain being placed and a port for antibiotics. Within her stay, they noticed her lack of bowels has also created a lack of nutrients being absorbed, so a feeding tube has also been needed to help with that. Since February, my mom has been transferred to 3 different facilities to help her get the physical and occupational therapy she needs. Alongside that, her insurance ended coverage. We sought out ways to help cover all of this. Most Nursing homes cost out of pocket $9,000 dollars a month and we could only see the light at the end of the tunnel by applying for medicaid. Which we have been approved for but they have a “shared cost” every month. In which they take most of her income (which has been social security and disability) leaving her with $45 a month. Not allowing us room to pay medical bills or even HOA and phone bills. Over the course, my mom has acquired over $900,000 in medical bills, but with a blessing that insurance covers most, we are still left with roughly $5,700 to pay. I am just reaching out for at least the payback for the facility she is currently in so she can be safe and not have medicaid cancel their plan with us. My mom is maintaining such a wonderful outlook on going home, being comfortable in her large bed and having her dog back. Dreaming of a family BBQ in her little back yard, and not wanting to miss out on what I have in store for my future or my cousins and their children. If any one knows my mom, she has the biggest and brightest smile that warms a room. She was once lavish, full of confidence and proud. I see glimmers of that, but it's fading and it hurts. Yet somehow she is smiling though it all, rocking those wonderful gowns and grown out gray roots. We have spent all this year's holidays, and birthdays inside a small 4 walled room. Somehow bribing the nurses to surprise me with small gifts on my birthday. Her birthday is coming up, August 1st, she will be 63 years young. Having this as one of her gifts would be an honor, she has done so much and answered every crying phone call at 3 am since high school boy drama. Whatever you can do, even just kind words to show that people are in her corner is all we need. I love my mom, and I know we all somehow go through life that screws us over, I know we aren't alone. I've met many wonderful people that have shared their stories to help me know we aren't alone. I just want to say Thank you, even if you just read this. Thank you.
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