Ashley Cline's Medical Fund
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***Update!***
Ashley will be going to Washington University's Neuromuscular Clinic at the end of June. She was diagnosed with small fiber neuropathy. It's a neuropathy of the sensory nerves that regulate temperature, pain and touch. The underlying assumption is that Lyme triggered it. It's unclear if she still has Lyme, or if it triggered an autoimmune casecade. She continues to be on two different types of IV antibiotics through a picc line.
Please donate to assist in her trip to Washington University. And as always, your prayers are appreciated as well.
Ashley has been struggling with a severe and sudden health crisis that began two years ago unexpectedly. Previously a healthy, happy, active wife and mother of two beautiful girls, she found herself facing excruciating pain in her left abdomen, rib cage and lower back in January 2014. The pain has since spread down her legs, her arms, and even her face and head. She is debilitated, and spends her time visiting specialist after specialist in search of pain relief and some sort of a cure. The pain is neuropathic in nature, and includes severe burning, stabbing, tingling, numbness, pain and aching. What began as a small spot on her side is now head to toe, and she continues to decline at a rapid rate.
She was bit by a tick in October 2013, approximately two months before her symptoms started. She had a migratory rash over both arms following the bite, and has pursued the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease including IV and oral antibiotics for 15 months with no relief while her symptoms continue to spread. Doctors are not sure if her neuropathy is or was from Lyme, or if the Lyme set off a cascade of issues within her nervous system. The bottom line is: no one knows for sure, but she continues to decline.
Ashley is working with a Functional MD in Atlanta and spends approximately $1500 - $2000 per month on her care. She has spent over $8,000 since December trying various healing modalities including upper cervical chiropractic care, naturopathic MDs, traditional specialists, hospitals and doctor’s offices, various pain medications, acupuncture, a clean diet and meditation. Her search continues to find the right diagnosis and right treatment, which has dried up their financial resources completely. Ashley has spent over $30,000 in the last 12 months trying to find a solid diagnosis, and ultimately a cure and an end to this nightmare.
She is currently researching facilities to visit that cost upwards of $10,000 for two weeks’ worth of treatments. She would need to return for additional treatments as well. She is also considering joining a clinical trial at Johns Hopkins University that would result in a motor cortex stimulator being implanted in her brain for pain relief. She would need to fly, stay and visit Hopkins a total of 12 times, and they are unsure if her insurance would cover the implant.
If you have any ideas about where she can go to receive help, or if you have the means to help donate to her cause, her family would be forever grateful. Every little bit helps to take the financial pressure off of this precious family who is trying their hardest to bring their wife and mom back to health without the extreme burden of finances clouding the picture even further.
Thank you and may God bless you.
Ashley will be going to Washington University's Neuromuscular Clinic at the end of June. She was diagnosed with small fiber neuropathy. It's a neuropathy of the sensory nerves that regulate temperature, pain and touch. The underlying assumption is that Lyme triggered it. It's unclear if she still has Lyme, or if it triggered an autoimmune casecade. She continues to be on two different types of IV antibiotics through a picc line.
Please donate to assist in her trip to Washington University. And as always, your prayers are appreciated as well.
Ashley has been struggling with a severe and sudden health crisis that began two years ago unexpectedly. Previously a healthy, happy, active wife and mother of two beautiful girls, she found herself facing excruciating pain in her left abdomen, rib cage and lower back in January 2014. The pain has since spread down her legs, her arms, and even her face and head. She is debilitated, and spends her time visiting specialist after specialist in search of pain relief and some sort of a cure. The pain is neuropathic in nature, and includes severe burning, stabbing, tingling, numbness, pain and aching. What began as a small spot on her side is now head to toe, and she continues to decline at a rapid rate.
She was bit by a tick in October 2013, approximately two months before her symptoms started. She had a migratory rash over both arms following the bite, and has pursued the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease including IV and oral antibiotics for 15 months with no relief while her symptoms continue to spread. Doctors are not sure if her neuropathy is or was from Lyme, or if the Lyme set off a cascade of issues within her nervous system. The bottom line is: no one knows for sure, but she continues to decline.
Ashley is working with a Functional MD in Atlanta and spends approximately $1500 - $2000 per month on her care. She has spent over $8,000 since December trying various healing modalities including upper cervical chiropractic care, naturopathic MDs, traditional specialists, hospitals and doctor’s offices, various pain medications, acupuncture, a clean diet and meditation. Her search continues to find the right diagnosis and right treatment, which has dried up their financial resources completely. Ashley has spent over $30,000 in the last 12 months trying to find a solid diagnosis, and ultimately a cure and an end to this nightmare.
She is currently researching facilities to visit that cost upwards of $10,000 for two weeks’ worth of treatments. She would need to return for additional treatments as well. She is also considering joining a clinical trial at Johns Hopkins University that would result in a motor cortex stimulator being implanted in her brain for pain relief. She would need to fly, stay and visit Hopkins a total of 12 times, and they are unsure if her insurance would cover the implant.
If you have any ideas about where she can go to receive help, or if you have the means to help donate to her cause, her family would be forever grateful. Every little bit helps to take the financial pressure off of this precious family who is trying their hardest to bring their wife and mom back to health without the extreme burden of finances clouding the picture even further.
Thank you and may God bless you.
Organizer and beneficiary
Paige Silva
Organizer
Canton, GA
Ashley Cline
Beneficiary