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Erika's Heart Attack Recovery

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So many people have asked "how can I help" so I'm setting up this gofundme to help ease some of the burden from Erika, as her heart truly cannot handle the stress she is putting herself through due to all of this.
Heres a little back story on her health
In April 2016 Erika started having bad headaches. She had gone to see her doctor twice but her doctor thought the headaches were coming from a change in her insulin.
In June 2016 Erika was rushed to the Grand Strand Medical Center during a beach trip where she suffered a stroke and discovered she had swelling, bleeding, and a blood clot on her brain. She was put on blood thinners and sent home, still with an intense head pain.
In December 2016, she woke up unable to stand, and not able to use her legs. Back to the hospital where she suffered 2 more strokes and it was discovered she had 4 more blood clots on her brain. The recovery here was extremely hard, as she had to retrain her legs and learn to use them again. This left her with vascular disease in her leg.
She has endured a lot and refuses to give in but now shes feeling like shes hit a road block. You see at this time she has no medical insurance. On Sunday February 16th she had a heart attack and a pretty bad one. The cause of the heart attack was 2 blood clots that formed and went into her heart. She had them removed and went into ICU for a short stay. Now here is where she needs help. She has doctor appointments with a heart doctor, physical rehab, she needs a c-pap machine so she has an appointment for a sleep study. She has her regular doctor appointments, an appointment with an oncologist and she needs to see a specialist about her diabetes. Right now her hospital bill is 59,400.47 and it will probably continue to go up. She has gotten other bills totalling 5,800.00. She was suppose to do a sleep study per hospital doctors orders but she can't afford the sleep study because the charge is 600.00 so that has been cancelled until she can afford it. She was sent home wearing a life vest defibrillator. The first month is paid for by the hospital but she is responseable for month 2 and 3 and was told to rent the machine is around 3,900.00 a month. Her heart is only functioning at 20-25% and in order to be able to go without the life vest she had to be at 35% and maintain.
My hope is to get her some help so she can afford to see the necessary doctors and buy the necessary medicines. She has not been working and she's been trying to get disability for 4 years now. She was denied 3 times so she requested a court hearing before a judge and she was finally given a court date. The date was 2-18-2020 while she was in ICU in Atrium Pineville so now she's had to request another court date.
If anyone is able to help that would be wonderful, no amount is to small and every donation will be greatly appreciated, even if you could just share the post. She's not giving up, she has faith that God will see her through this but its wearing on her mentally, the doctors have stressed to her to not get stressed but she can't help but be stressed with all that is going on. I've set up this gofundme with the hope to lighten the stress of money. Please share this on your page, please continue to pray for her healing physically and mentally. My deepest thank you!
God bless
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  • Anonymous
    • $2,000
    • 5 yrs
  • Shawn Peterson
    • $40
    • 5 yrs
  • Anonymous
    • $100
    • 5 yrs
  • Katrina Tarlton
    • $20
    • 5 yrs
  • Patti Ferron
    • $100
    • 5 yrs
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Jenny Menear
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Marshville, NC
Erika Peterson
Beneficiary

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