Help Sasha restore her vision
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I am writing this on behalf of my good friend, Sasha Kai Moore & her family. On February 12, 2021, Sasha woke up and discovered she could not see anything. Her whole life was changed that day. Over the next few months Sasha & her family spent their days in doctor’s offices and hospitals scrambling to figure out what was the cause of this sudden blindness. After spending weeks in the hospital being filled with steroids, and medications, and plasma transplants they found that Sasha was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disease called Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder. This disease affects the central nervous system most specifically the optical nerves and spinal cord. On April 8th of 2022 after weeks of suffering from serve pain throughout her body she became paralyzed and was admitted into the hospital where she once again needed to receive a plasma transplant and be treated with medicine. After a month of treatment she stayed in the hospital an additional two months receiving physical rehabilitation so she could learn to walk again.
Sasha is the oldest of 6 children and a true leader and inspiration to the younger siblings that followed her. Sasha graduated highschool a year early at the age of 17. She enrolled in Southern Crescent Technical College to become a dental assistant with greater plans to attend university and become a Prosthodontist. With only months away from graduating she completely lost her vision. For those of you who know Sasha, you know she is a kind hearted, intelligent and ambitious young woman who loves her friends and family and has always been the kind of person to lend a helping hand to anyone who may be in need.
Leading up to this Sasha did not have any medical insurance and since she has been diagnosed with her disease her family has faced constant rejections from medical insurance and are still awaiting on approval from Medicare. They are awaiting benefits from Social Security as well. The medicine that Sasha uses costs thousands of dollars per dose and need to be administered every 6 months to only suppress the disease during this interval. Due to the lack of insurance coverage, once Sasha turns 21 in April, she will no longer be able to receive treatment from the Children’s Hospital of Atlanta for free and will have no way to afford her treatment.
I am writing this as a last resort for my friend and her family. They are seeking any donations in order to fund Sasha’s medicine, as well as fund a trip over seas to a medical facility where she will undergo an extensive stem cell therapy treatment which is asserted to help restore her vision, repair the spinal and optic nerves which are affected by her disease.
Any donations are greatly appreciated. Please join me in assisting my friend with affording the medicine she needs in order to continue to live and funding the surgery for her to one day soon regain her eyesight. Thank you all.
I am writing this on behalf of my good friend, Sasha Kai Moore & her family. On February 12, 2021, Sasha woke up and discovered she could not see anything. Her whole life was changed that day. Over the next few months Sasha & her family spent their days in doctor’s offices and hospitals scrambling to figure out what was the cause of this sudden blindness. After spending weeks in the hospital being filled with steroids, and medications, and plasma transplants they found that Sasha was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disease called Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder. This disease affects the central nervous system most specifically the optical nerves and spinal cord. On April 8th of 2022 after weeks of suffering from serve pain throughout her body she became paralyzed and was admitted into the hospital where she once again needed to receive a plasma transplant and be treated with medicine. After a month of treatment she stayed in the hospital an additional two months receiving physical rehabilitation so she could learn to walk again.
Sasha is the oldest of 6 children and a true leader and inspiration to the younger siblings that followed her. Sasha graduated highschool a year early at the age of 17. She enrolled in Southern Crescent Technical College to become a dental assistant with greater plans to attend university and become a Prosthodontist. With only months away from graduating she completely lost her vision. For those of you who know Sasha, you know she is a kind hearted, intelligent and ambitious young woman who loves her friends and family and has always been the kind of person to lend a helping hand to anyone who may be in need.
Leading up to this Sasha did not have any medical insurance and since she has been diagnosed with her disease her family has faced constant rejections from medical insurance and are still awaiting on approval from Medicare. They are awaiting benefits from Social Security as well. The medicine that Sasha uses costs thousands of dollars per dose and need to be administered every 6 months to only suppress the disease during this interval. Due to the lack of insurance coverage, once Sasha turns 21 in April, she will no longer be able to receive treatment from the Children’s Hospital of Atlanta for free and will have no way to afford her treatment.
I am writing this as a last resort for my friend and her family. They are seeking any donations in order to fund Sasha’s medicine, as well as fund a trip over seas to a medical facility where she will undergo an extensive stem cell therapy treatment which is asserted to help restore her vision, repair the spinal and optic nerves which are affected by her disease.
Any donations are greatly appreciated. Please join me in assisting my friend with affording the medicine she needs in order to continue to live and funding the surgery for her to one day soon regain her eyesight. Thank you all.
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Sasha Moore
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McDonough, GA