GREAT GRANDMA NEEDS HELPS!
Cathy is an amazing person who has helped so many people! She has been a champion for the underdogs, the less fortunate, the needy, the unloved. She has literally given her life to the cause of helping others.
Cathy came upon several medical issues that changed her life. She had 2 heart attacks, massive, which changed the course of her life. She now has heart failure where her heart is operating less than 20%. She has had many set backs in her health. She has had a nasty fall. Currently has swollen, non-healing wounds on her feet. She moves about slowly. She has an amazing spirit through all of this. She is a fighter, her Faith is Amazing.
She is helping to raise her 2 great grandchildren because their mother passed away. She has always sacrificed her life for others!
She only lives on limited social security. So, she uses credit cards to help survive and the interest rates are very high. So, it is never ending cycle of being way in debit due to unforseen circumstances. The unexpected medical expenses and helping to raise her greast grand children with limited income has caused her bills to mount up. She has maxed her credit cards out trying to may bills.
Her prayer is that she would be able to raise enough money to pay off her mounting bills. Due to the overwhelming stress of knowing that she owes so much money that she cannot see the light at the end of the tunnel, it is causing an effect on her health.
Please, please donate anything that you can to this great cause....NOTHING is too small!!!
Pleaseplease share with others. Maybe, there is an angel that will step up and say, I will help!
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When a mutual friend introduced me to Cathy Shipley in October, 2016 her legs were black due to very poor circulation, she had no palpable pulse in either of her feet, her left leg was cold to touch in comparison to her right and she had a non-healing wound on the inner aspect of her left lower leg. Cathy told me her wound had been treated by wound care nurses at home for 2 months and by a wound care doctor at the wound center for 4 months. While she was going to the wound center for doctor’s visits and wound care she paid a copay of $100.00/week. Before Cathy started with the extensive wound care she had been asked by her heart doctor (who had already placed 4 stents due to 2 heart attacks) if she was “prepared” due to the fact that she was in congestive heart failure, and her heart was getting weaker and weaker. The doctor explained she was not a candidate for a heart transplant due to her age. Cathy wanted to live. She was not willing to accept that it was time to “prepare.” She has 2 great grandchildren and they need her influence, love and guidance and…Cathy’s community needs her as well! Anyone who knows Cathy also knows…you cannot find a more caring or generous soul. In spite of her enormous health challenges, Cathy has been amazingly responsible with her finances; she’s stayed grounded in her faith and somehow has found a way to keep a “song in her heart.” She’s amazing! In October of last year, the same time I met Cathy, she was made aware of a medical device that could possibly change her life and she was open and willing to give it a shot. For the last 4 months being on this device once a day, driving from Winter Springs to Winter Park, a 30 min drive one way, longer depending on traffic…her body is healing itself. After 3 weeks on the device, her wound on the left leg healed, her energy and endurance increased, left leg warmed up, the pulses in her feet are now back and she is gradually continuing to improve due to the increased circulation throughout her body. In my 20 plus years of nursing, I’d NEVER seen anything like it! Cathy needs this device for life! In order for Cathy to receive the complete healing benefits of this therapy, she needs to use the device twice a day and at night during the sleep cycle. If Cathy can have this FDA approved, registered class I medical device in her home, it will enable her body to heal itself and get Cathy back to the quality of life that we all deserve. Unfortunately it is not covered by insurance. This go fund me account can be the answer to Cathy’s prayers. The goal is $6500.00. If we can get just 800 people to donate $9.00, that’s less than $10.00 from less than 1000 people…Cathy can purchase this “gift of life!” Please, if you possibly can; donate to this very important cause. If you are able to donate or not…we respectfully request that you share this by posting on your page and or forwarding to your fb friends so we can make this a reality and Cathy can have her very special life back.
If you have any questions about the device or how it’s changed her life, please send her a private message on fb messenger or if you have her phone number; you can call or text. The sooner Cathy can have this device in her home…the sooner she can advance to the next stage of healing and independence!
Thank you for taking a few minutes to read this message! Please keep Cathy and her great grandchildren in your thoughts and prayers.
From the heart,
Melahn, IBDS