Help Nichole in Her Life-Threatening Health Battle

To all of those who may not know, my sister-in-law, Nichole Stefanski, underwent an L5 to S1 spinal fusion in early June of 2021. A week after surgery, she began experiencing significant leaking from her wound as well as from her actual spinal cord. She visited her neurosurgeon twice, but they were unable to get a grasp on Nichole’s decline. Last week, Nichole had unbearable pain in her right leg and began having difficultly eating and walking. By Sunday, she was vomiting and convulsing with a fever of 104 degrees. At month’s end, she has taken a turn for the worse. She has contracted a severe MRSA infection that is trying to make its way through her body. Doctors have placed her on Daptomycin, the strongest and most expansive antibiotic there is, to help in the fight against this infection. The doctors have deemed her infection life-threatening due to the aggressiveness of her MRSA. Tomorrow, doctors will perform another operation on Nichole to hopefully extract all of the MRSA from her body and insert a wound vacuum to continuously rid her body of infectious fluid. This procedure is extremely painful and her recovery may take two weeks in the hospital. If the doctors are unsuccessful in reducing the infection’s impact on Nichole’s spine, her outcome is very bleak. If the doctors are able to stop the spreading of this infection and the procedure is successful. Nichole will still have an extremely difficult road ahead of her, which includes but is not limited to the wound vacuum, a PICC line for her antibiotics and other medications, and the need for around-the-clock home care for two months. My brother has been by her side every chance he has, so income has severely depleted in their household. Between the onslaught of medical bills and their lack of income during these life-threatening circumstances, any help would be beyond appreciated! If you are unable to donate, a share will still make a world of difference! Thank you for your time! ❤️