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After having gastric sleeve surgery my stomach healed weird and scar tissue began to cause a constriction. Unaware a year after surgery certain foods began to irritate the constriction causing it to fully inflame and not let in food or liquids without a tremendous amount of pain. I found an excellent surgeon after several referrals to wrong departments and specialists. He found my stomach was shaped like an hour glass and twisted!  As we were trying to figure out what to do the condition started to get worse and I began to have malnourishment, malabsorption, severe chronic dehydration, and bad anemia. I had to get fluids regularly, and an iron infusion. With all of this happening slowly I began to lose clients, and could no longer run my flooring company. Money began to dwindle and all of our bills started to stack up. The surgeon placed a feeding tube while we waited for surgery to be approved. Wednesday Jan.9th I got the surgery ar Legacy Good Samaritan to revise to a gastric bypass. Everything seemed great they sent me home on Saturday. But Saturday evening I began puking and by Sunday morning I was rushed to the ER and admitted. 
I had a blockage where the small intestine meets the large. On the 16th Jan. I had a second surgery. The surgeon cut out the blockage and removed some bowel and redesigned my insides a bit to help things. I've now been in the hospital almost 2 weeks away from my kids and home. At this point the gas bill, power bill, and phone bill are all past due. Rent is around the corner. I need help and hate to ask for it. But me and my family need help and I need to focus on getting home and getting healthy. 

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  • Carolyn Simmons
    • $200
    • 6 yrs
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Heather Beckett
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Portland, OR
Angelia Beckett
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