Help Kelly Pederson Defibrillator Medical Bills
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Hello friends,
As some of you may know, my sister Kelly has had a very rough and scary few months.
Kelly was born with a hole in her heart. She had surgery to repair it soon after but has still had issues with it throughout her life.
This last October, she hadn’t been feeling right for awhile, nauseated and feeling faint.
She headed to a centra care, which turned into 3 different ER visits that same day.
She spent the next week at the hospital, having all kinds of testing done.
When she had an EP study (Cardiac Electrophysiology) done, they recreated a Ventricular Tachycardia (irregular heartbeat) that they had observed during her hospital stay.
Her heart fully stopped during the EP study and she had to be resuscitated.
Her doctors decided she needed to be fit with a Subcutaneous Implanted Cardiac Defibrillator (s-icd). If she were to ever go into cardiac arrest, this would be able to shock her and bring her back. She was also given the option of wearing a defibrillator life vest (that would do the same thing) but after trying the vest out for a month, she and her doctors decided to move forward with the implanted defibrillator.
Unfortunately, during her recovery from surgery, Kelly, Chris and Kyra were all diagnosed with Covid.
If that weren’t enough, a few days later, Kelly developed an infection around her defibrillator. This led to her spending another 6 days in the hospital. Luckily, they were able to fight the infection with antibiotics and did not need to remove and then reimplant the defibrillator.
Kelly is finally home and slowly feeling better, but now has to deal with the stress of her new way of life and all of the medical bills...
I know it’s pretty awful for almost everyone right now, but if anyone is able to help out in any way, it would be so UNBELIEVABLY APPRECIATED!!
Praying that Kelly stays healthy and that this is over and done with!!
As some of you may know, my sister Kelly has had a very rough and scary few months.
Kelly was born with a hole in her heart. She had surgery to repair it soon after but has still had issues with it throughout her life.
This last October, she hadn’t been feeling right for awhile, nauseated and feeling faint.
She headed to a centra care, which turned into 3 different ER visits that same day.
She spent the next week at the hospital, having all kinds of testing done.
When she had an EP study (Cardiac Electrophysiology) done, they recreated a Ventricular Tachycardia (irregular heartbeat) that they had observed during her hospital stay.
Her heart fully stopped during the EP study and she had to be resuscitated.
Her doctors decided she needed to be fit with a Subcutaneous Implanted Cardiac Defibrillator (s-icd). If she were to ever go into cardiac arrest, this would be able to shock her and bring her back. She was also given the option of wearing a defibrillator life vest (that would do the same thing) but after trying the vest out for a month, she and her doctors decided to move forward with the implanted defibrillator.
Unfortunately, during her recovery from surgery, Kelly, Chris and Kyra were all diagnosed with Covid.
If that weren’t enough, a few days later, Kelly developed an infection around her defibrillator. This led to her spending another 6 days in the hospital. Luckily, they were able to fight the infection with antibiotics and did not need to remove and then reimplant the defibrillator.
Kelly is finally home and slowly feeling better, but now has to deal with the stress of her new way of life and all of the medical bills...
I know it’s pretty awful for almost everyone right now, but if anyone is able to help out in any way, it would be so UNBELIEVABLY APPRECIATED!!
Praying that Kelly stays healthy and that this is over and done with!!
Organizer and beneficiary
Kristyne Larsen
Organizer
Saint Cloud, FL
Kelly Pederson
Beneficiary