Finding A Diagnosis For Nadia
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My precious daughter, Nadia, and I need your help with medical expenses and a trip to Mayo Clinic (they told me to plan on staying a week) in hopes someone can finally find out why she is sick. Mayo does not accept her insurance and requires a large deposit before they will see her.
Nadia has been seriously ill for about a year and the doctors can't figure it out. We have been to every specialist in Kansas City, even to Omaha for genetic testing. No answers :(
She has constant nausea with frequent vomitting, severe headaches, hot flashes, dizzy spells, neuropathy in hands & feet, irritable bowl and heart palpatations to name some of her symptoms. A good day is showering and getting dressed, which is becoming fewer and farther in between.
She asks for prayers often and I'm so glad she hasn't lost her faith (since God is difficult for her to comprehend).
She has suffered through all kinds of tests that include an EMG, which was terribly painfull, and spent nine days in the hospital last summer after a lumbar puncture started leaking.
She has been too ill to attend school since April of 2015 but the school sends a teacher to our home so she doesn't fall behind. With the help of the school she will graduate in May!
Nadia is mentally impaired with obsessive/compulsive tendencies which makes life difficult enough (and expensive - personal hygiene is her obsession) without being sick on top of it. Because of this she will never live on her own and she often has a difficult time articulating what is going on with her illness.
Nadia is 19 years old, bright, kind, soft spoken, quick to smile and very gentle. Her favorite colors are pink and purple. She loves horses, HGTV, our dog Griffin and the tv show Heartland.
I'm sure all you parents know how heart wrenching it is to see your child suffering. You'd give anything to take it away, even take the suffering on yourself if you could.
A little about me: I am a single mother and self employed. I have had to cut back on work so I can be home to care for her and take her to the almost weekly medical appointments. So we are living pay check to pay check and barely making it.
Please keep Nadia in your prayers and thank you so much for your help. God bless you!
Nadia has been seriously ill for about a year and the doctors can't figure it out. We have been to every specialist in Kansas City, even to Omaha for genetic testing. No answers :(
She has constant nausea with frequent vomitting, severe headaches, hot flashes, dizzy spells, neuropathy in hands & feet, irritable bowl and heart palpatations to name some of her symptoms. A good day is showering and getting dressed, which is becoming fewer and farther in between.
She asks for prayers often and I'm so glad she hasn't lost her faith (since God is difficult for her to comprehend).
She has suffered through all kinds of tests that include an EMG, which was terribly painfull, and spent nine days in the hospital last summer after a lumbar puncture started leaking.
She has been too ill to attend school since April of 2015 but the school sends a teacher to our home so she doesn't fall behind. With the help of the school she will graduate in May!
Nadia is mentally impaired with obsessive/compulsive tendencies which makes life difficult enough (and expensive - personal hygiene is her obsession) without being sick on top of it. Because of this she will never live on her own and she often has a difficult time articulating what is going on with her illness.
Nadia is 19 years old, bright, kind, soft spoken, quick to smile and very gentle. Her favorite colors are pink and purple. She loves horses, HGTV, our dog Griffin and the tv show Heartland.
I'm sure all you parents know how heart wrenching it is to see your child suffering. You'd give anything to take it away, even take the suffering on yourself if you could.
A little about me: I am a single mother and self employed. I have had to cut back on work so I can be home to care for her and take her to the almost weekly medical appointments. So we are living pay check to pay check and barely making it.
Please keep Nadia in your prayers and thank you so much for your help. God bless you!
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Mary Gilbert
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Kansas City, MO
