Enucleation - Prosthetic Eye for Lauren
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It is with many years of surgeries, treatment, eye drops, eye specialist visits, that has now reached at time for the end.
This is our daughter Lauren. She is in need of getting her eye removed due to a childhood traumatic injury leaving her blind in her right eye. She has managed to overcome the pain both physically and emotionally for the past 30 years; however, the pain is beginning to get out of control and unmanageable day to day. She is a loving mother and educator, and I hate to see her in pain day to day.
It is advised that she has a full enucleation of the right eye as soon as possible. We have scheduled the surgery for May 17, 2021. I have all the faith that this will change her life 100%. To live pain free is going to be amazing.
With all of this said, it comes at a time where finances are challenging. With this surgery, comes a multitude of medical bills but the worst part is that insurance does not cover any portion of the prosthetic eye. WIth the expenses from the actual procedure, this adds a huge burden of $3,900.00 (prosthetic eye cost only) on top of the high deductible and portion of the medical bills not covered by insurance.
I know that my daughter has been through so much with her eye injury, and I want to see if we can help her get through the last part of this traumatic journey together.
We are asking for any form of support or donations to help Lauren and her family with the financial burden of getting her eye removed and getting fitted for a prosthetic eye.
I know that this part of her journey would be much less stressful without the financial fears she faces.
We are asking for the help of our family and friends to help provide Lauren (Mrs. G.) with her eye removal procedure and prosthetic eye.. We are blessed to have come this far fighting the battles that We’ve faced and we now graciously ask for support or donations to help our family see Lauren through to the end.
Thank you and God bless❤️
Lauren’s journey:
“In the year of 1990, I was a 5 year old ready to explore the world. It is this year that would change how I was able to view the world and everything around me.
When I was just 5 years old an old rusty nail fell into my right eye causing a severe traumatic eye injury, leaving me now with a diseased (injury induced glaucoma) and painful blind right eye.
I had a multitude of eye surgeries between 1990-1995 ranging from a lens transplant to numerous corrective surgeries. I spent many of my elementary school days either in and out of surgery, at a multitude of eye doctor offices, wearing a patch over my right eye and simply being/looking/feeling different.
As you may be aware, none of the surgeries were successful in keeping my vision in my right eye. It was at this time that I had to accept that I would see and be seen by the world a little differently.
As a child, my eyes created many challenges physically and psychologically. Everything seemed manageable until I developed traumatic injury induced glaucoma. My pressures were high, most times running in the upper 30 to 40s as I progressed into adulthood.. That is high. I began having to use many different cocktails of eyedrops.. My eye at this time was stable with a multitude of eye drops. Painful but stable. I simply went to my ophthalmologist and was treated for many years without complications other than slight eye pain from the glaucoma and of course having Monocular vision (sight in just one eye).
It was not until the past few years that my eye has really become a pain in both the literal and figurative way. I noticed a huge change physically and heightened pain after I had my son just about 3 years ago. My eye is failing me. Each time I blink it is as if I have a million tiny cuts or almost like shards of glass. This is due to the size of my eye and the amount it protrudes. It truly has become unbearable at times. I have been able to manage and mask the issues that my eye is causing up until now.
I have begun to struggle to smile through the pain and Advil just at times is not cutting it. This makes my day to day profession as an elementary school teacher challenging at times as well as motherhood at home. I am ready to feel what it feels like to live without daily eye pain and to see what woman I can become!
I spend many days in severe pain and have a very unsightly enlarged right eye that seems to be the topic of many. (I am an elementary aged school teacher, so you can only imagine the honesty of the kiddos).
I no longer am ever without a day of either slight pain to extreme pain. The pain leaves me laying down icing my eyes in the evenings or simply needing my eye to be closed. I try to wear an eye patch to relieve some pain, however, my eye bulges out and just the soft brushing up of the patch against my eye causing too much pain to bear. Basically, my eye is painful without the patch as well as with a patch. It is in the way.
My eye began to be more and more painful and seemed to protrude much more. My eye has almost completely turned white and is very painful due to a multitude of scratches and high pressures that happen on the daily. My diseased and injured eye has become too big of a problem for me to mask or face alone.
I was just told by my Opthmologist that my eye is in great need of removal. I have met with the surgeon and he is ready to go now.
I am burdened with this financial hill that my family will have to climb. The magnitude of the expenses for my needed surgery will only hurt us at a time that we were already fighting to make ends meet.. I feel selfish and very bad for this need. I tried to live with it as long as I could, but I have reached a point that my livelihood is hindered tremendously from my diseased and painful unsightly eye. I always knew that my eye caused me and my family pain physically and mentally, but never realized the pain that my eye could cause us financially.
I have struggled my entire life with not feeling whole with each day I mask the pain or each time I catch a glimpse of my reflection in a mirror. I truly believe that the day I get to look in the mirror and see 2 painless matching eyes… will be LIFE CHANGING. I know that this part of the journey will be worth it in the end!d “
This is our daughter Lauren. She is in need of getting her eye removed due to a childhood traumatic injury leaving her blind in her right eye. She has managed to overcome the pain both physically and emotionally for the past 30 years; however, the pain is beginning to get out of control and unmanageable day to day. She is a loving mother and educator, and I hate to see her in pain day to day.
It is advised that she has a full enucleation of the right eye as soon as possible. We have scheduled the surgery for May 17, 2021. I have all the faith that this will change her life 100%. To live pain free is going to be amazing.
With all of this said, it comes at a time where finances are challenging. With this surgery, comes a multitude of medical bills but the worst part is that insurance does not cover any portion of the prosthetic eye. WIth the expenses from the actual procedure, this adds a huge burden of $3,900.00 (prosthetic eye cost only) on top of the high deductible and portion of the medical bills not covered by insurance.
I know that my daughter has been through so much with her eye injury, and I want to see if we can help her get through the last part of this traumatic journey together.
We are asking for any form of support or donations to help Lauren and her family with the financial burden of getting her eye removed and getting fitted for a prosthetic eye.
I know that this part of her journey would be much less stressful without the financial fears she faces.
We are asking for the help of our family and friends to help provide Lauren (Mrs. G.) with her eye removal procedure and prosthetic eye.. We are blessed to have come this far fighting the battles that We’ve faced and we now graciously ask for support or donations to help our family see Lauren through to the end.
Thank you and God bless❤️
Lauren’s journey:
“In the year of 1990, I was a 5 year old ready to explore the world. It is this year that would change how I was able to view the world and everything around me.
When I was just 5 years old an old rusty nail fell into my right eye causing a severe traumatic eye injury, leaving me now with a diseased (injury induced glaucoma) and painful blind right eye.
I had a multitude of eye surgeries between 1990-1995 ranging from a lens transplant to numerous corrective surgeries. I spent many of my elementary school days either in and out of surgery, at a multitude of eye doctor offices, wearing a patch over my right eye and simply being/looking/feeling different.
As you may be aware, none of the surgeries were successful in keeping my vision in my right eye. It was at this time that I had to accept that I would see and be seen by the world a little differently.
As a child, my eyes created many challenges physically and psychologically. Everything seemed manageable until I developed traumatic injury induced glaucoma. My pressures were high, most times running in the upper 30 to 40s as I progressed into adulthood.. That is high. I began having to use many different cocktails of eyedrops.. My eye at this time was stable with a multitude of eye drops. Painful but stable. I simply went to my ophthalmologist and was treated for many years without complications other than slight eye pain from the glaucoma and of course having Monocular vision (sight in just one eye).
It was not until the past few years that my eye has really become a pain in both the literal and figurative way. I noticed a huge change physically and heightened pain after I had my son just about 3 years ago. My eye is failing me. Each time I blink it is as if I have a million tiny cuts or almost like shards of glass. This is due to the size of my eye and the amount it protrudes. It truly has become unbearable at times. I have been able to manage and mask the issues that my eye is causing up until now.
I have begun to struggle to smile through the pain and Advil just at times is not cutting it. This makes my day to day profession as an elementary school teacher challenging at times as well as motherhood at home. I am ready to feel what it feels like to live without daily eye pain and to see what woman I can become!
I spend many days in severe pain and have a very unsightly enlarged right eye that seems to be the topic of many. (I am an elementary aged school teacher, so you can only imagine the honesty of the kiddos).
I no longer am ever without a day of either slight pain to extreme pain. The pain leaves me laying down icing my eyes in the evenings or simply needing my eye to be closed. I try to wear an eye patch to relieve some pain, however, my eye bulges out and just the soft brushing up of the patch against my eye causing too much pain to bear. Basically, my eye is painful without the patch as well as with a patch. It is in the way.
My eye began to be more and more painful and seemed to protrude much more. My eye has almost completely turned white and is very painful due to a multitude of scratches and high pressures that happen on the daily. My diseased and injured eye has become too big of a problem for me to mask or face alone.
I was just told by my Opthmologist that my eye is in great need of removal. I have met with the surgeon and he is ready to go now.
I am burdened with this financial hill that my family will have to climb. The magnitude of the expenses for my needed surgery will only hurt us at a time that we were already fighting to make ends meet.. I feel selfish and very bad for this need. I tried to live with it as long as I could, but I have reached a point that my livelihood is hindered tremendously from my diseased and painful unsightly eye. I always knew that my eye caused me and my family pain physically and mentally, but never realized the pain that my eye could cause us financially.
I have struggled my entire life with not feeling whole with each day I mask the pain or each time I catch a glimpse of my reflection in a mirror. I truly believe that the day I get to look in the mirror and see 2 painless matching eyes… will be LIFE CHANGING. I know that this part of the journey will be worth it in the end!d “
Fundraising team (2)
Cynthia McDainel
Organizer
Pilot Point, TX
Jeremy Gilbreath
Team member