Help Wade Family while their son is in hospital
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Hello wonderful humans, my name is Belinda and I am starting a go fund me page in hopes to help raise funds to ease the financial pressure for my beautiful friends, the Wade Family.
Tara, Phil, Indiana and Mason are a loving and kind family of 4, experiencing what no parent wishes to go through with their 5 year old son.
Middle of July this year, Tara (mum) took Mason to Gympie Hospital, with the assumption of Mason having a nasty viral infection. Not long after being admitted, Mason was then transferred to Sunshine Coast University Hospital, with thoughts of first having Kawasaki disease, then severe tonsilitis, then possibly meningitis, then being treated as an 'unknown virus'.
The time that Mason spent in Sunshine Coast hospital, his illness only worsened, with no clear answers. Mason began having uncontrollable seizures and was soon transfered to Brisbane Children's hospital where he went straight into PICU (peadiatric Intensive Care Unit) and placed in an induced coma.
Mason has had test after test, including an MRI, confirming there was severe brain inflammation, causing brain damage - the words no parent wants to hear about their child. Due to Mason spending so long in bed and without movement, he has lost weight and muscle tone.
Throughout all of this ordeal, Mason has had lung infections, gut issues and infections and his heart not constricting properly, and many more medical issues.
Mason's plan for intensive rehabilitation has now begun, and will last up to 6 months so he can learn how to eat, drink, walk and talk again - all basic daily tasks which we take for granted.
Tara and Phil live in Gympie, roughly a 3 hour drive from Brisbane Children's Hospital. Mason's older sister, Indiana, is living in Gympie with her grandmother who has stopped her life to come and look after Indi while Tara and Phil are there for Mason, to try to keep Indi's school routine as normal as possible. Tara and Phil try to travel back to Gympie when they can to spend time with Indi too.
Phil has had to take months off work to support his family through this, and they have recently been told to expect to be in hospital for 6 months.
With the increase in cost of everything, the Wade family are in need of our help, to help ease their financial worries. Bills don't stop and they never will, rent, travel expenses, school expenses, groceries, electricity, the list is never ending.
The Wade family are a normal, down-to-earth family of 4, just like you and me, who never expected to have to deal with what life has thrown at them, on top of Mason already being diagnosed with an abnormal mitral regurgitation (heart murmur) at around 2 years old and Tara having her own health issues.
Mason has good and bad days, just when he seems to be improving, another issues arises and to this day, Mason is still having seizures. Just recently the Neuro surgeon has informed Tara and Phil that Mason's short term memory has been damaged :(
So If you or someone you know could help, please please PLEASE donate, even the smallest amount can help. Even sharing this, can help in getting the word out there.
Myself, Tara and Phil are so grateful and appreciate every donation and share.
Let us pray for Mason's health and hope they can bring Mason home for Christmas.
Organizer and beneficiary
Belinda Stott
Organizer
Toolara Forest, QLD
Tara Wade
Beneficiary