Healing Heart Failure for Teri-Lisa Stagg aka Mom

Hi friends and family and friends of family,

My name is Noelle Mulligan, aka Noelani Tsunami! Thank you for taking the time to read. My mother, Teri-Lisa Stagg, went into heart failure with the L ventrical pumping at 24% a few days before Christmas this last year. She had been sick for a month and we couldn't figure out what the heck was going on. She was getting swollen and puffy and so tired after work that she would just come home and sleep for hours. Walking up the stairs was hard, breathing was weird, and memory was a little foggy. She was tested several times for corona, everything was negative; she went to several specialists, yet no one could figure out what was wrong. She was told to rest.

Those that know my mother know that she never rests; she is usually a goofy, high-energy woman devoted to her students at the high school she works for (she is a career counselor at one of the most underserved schools in the USA. She works tirelessly to connect students from the foster care system, refugee families, non-English speaking, students with special needs and disabilities, from gang backgrounds, with scholarship programs, a food pantry grocery store, a robotics program, bikers against child abuse and personally achieved grants from the governor, the list goes on. One of my favorite stories is about a kiddo who was going to drop out of school at 15, but with my mother's counsel, he ended up earning a scholarship all the way up to medical school). She also spent her time caring for a woman with Alzheimers after her school hours and is an active member of her church and family.

Finally, in December, after a heartbreaking event in my immediate family related to a severe mental health emergency, my mother went to the ER one more time to get tests done. She was admitted that night, and we got the news that she had been in Heart Failure. Her L ventricle was pumping at 24 %. It was an awful text to receive especially after the week our family had just had, and to be completely honest it has been really scary since. The doctors believe it may have been due to damage caused by the chemotherapy treatment she underwent while she had metastasized breast cancer ten years ago. My mom has not been able to work at nearly any capacity since her heart failure diagnosis, and now she has pneumonia. We are all doing as much as we can to care for my mom and help her have the rest she needs to help heal her heart while staying on top of bills; we've now reached a point where we need help.

All I want for my mom is for her to have a peaceful summer to rest up and have a clean home with warm food and sunshine in the backyard putting her cute little feet in the baby pool with her dog, get to see her grand kids and watch her favorite shows like reno 9-11 with my brothers, sister and stepdad and not have to worry about things she at this time literaly cannot do, which is work. She is a very private person when it comes to family matters so it took alot of convincing for her to allow me to share this and start this fund.

If you've made this this far I greatly thank you for taking the time, if you are able to help in anyway whether that is financially, by sharing, or just checking in on her I am eternally grateful. My mom is an overflowing cup of love and she deserves to be cared for the way that she does for everyone else in this time.

Lots of love, noelani