
Help Nicole Overcome Health Challenges
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Hi, my name is Nicole Buttino. I’m currently 25 years old. I was diagnosed with Goodpasture's syndrome, ANCA vasculitis, steal syndrome, hashimotos disease, hypocalcemia, annemia and thyroid cancer. I’m currently going through chemo, dialysis, and requiring multiple surgeries to help with everything, along with taking about 32 pills a day.
I’ve been fighting to get disability for over a year and have fallen severely behind on everything as it’s hard to work and hold a job while doing all these treatments as I’m normally sick after treatments. I’m run down, tired, and weak and have been trying to get by, but it’s getting harder and harder, and I’m at a standstill.
My blood pressure gets very unstable where I constantly drop, and I’m weak. Due to having the fistula, which is needed for long-term dialysis use, I’ve had nothing but issue after issue, which ended with me getting steal syndrome. I require an additional surgery to hope to relieve some of the symptoms. It’s called DRIL. They will be making a 6-inch incision on my upper thigh and taking the vein out of that leg and adding it to my arm. I’m not able to lift more than 5 pounds.
I currently go to dialysis 3-4 days a week for 5 hours. I’m currently on the transplant list to receive a new kidney, but unfortunately, due to active autoimmune disease that targets and attacks the lungs, kidneys, thyroid, and sinuses, I’m not eligible to receive one until I’m in remission for about a year.
Please, if anyone can help, I’ll be greatly appreciative. I’m at a standstill and don’t know how to get out of this hole as I’m about to have to file for bankruptcy, and I don’t know what to do. Just honestly losing faith and hope and want to just give up. THANKYOU TO WHO EVER CAN HELP ME THROUGH THIS ROUGH PATCH!
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Nicole Lynn
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Ligonier, PA