Helping the Calloway Family Heal

Hello to our circle of friends and family. It goes against our nature to ask for help, so please realize this is difficult for us. Becky recently had a mental health crisis that was precipitated from our grief in losing our daughter Ailish, combined with an inability to process that grief because of Complex PTSD from multiple traumatic events in Becky's life. She spent a week in inpatient hospitalization, or as we described it to our daughter Georgia, “Grief Therapy Spa”. She has been referred to a partial hospitalization program which will be two to four weeks of intensive 8-3:30 therapy before continuing her therapy in a less frequent manner. We are hopeful because it is one of the top programs in the world for treating Complex PTSD. She is also starting grief counseling which will go along with this. Together we are seeking couples counseling to talk through all of this, and I am going to see a counselor separately at least for a little while. Georgia also sees child trauma specialist weekly so she has an outlet for her emotions. In short, even though we have insurance, this is adding up a lot of copays especially given the hospitalizations and ambulance rides that were required. The bills haven’t hit our mailbox yet, but we are expecting it to be thousands of dollars over the next few months. When we lost Ailish many people reached out and offered to pay bills or give us money to help cover our costs. We refused money and said please send something to cheer up our children as we put them first. Honestly, we didn’t know what kind of help we needed. After a lot of soul searching, we know we don’t need anymore stuff even though we know every single thing was sent with love, and we greatly appreciate every gesture. Additionally, we also greatly appreciate everyone who has donated to Type 1 research, and taken time to donate blood in Ailish’s honor. Please continue donating and giving blood if that has been what you have been doing. However, we know what type of help we need now and that need is money to help cover this surge of costs for copays, transportation, medications, and other associated things. We don’t need to come out the other side of this with a huge debt that will weigh us down for years to come and prevent us from giving our children the thing they really need which is new experiences, happy memories as a family, and relationships with people we might not see often otherwise. The concerns of money have been particularly stressful for Becky in seeking help and treatment to address her grief and PTSD. If you would like to help us out in what has become our most critical time of need please consider donating to our fund. We have already been showered with love by several people close to us who have come in to stand in the gap while we navigate this process by watching our children, entertaining them, cleaning and organizing our house, assisting with the great purge to create a calm ordered environment for Becky to heal in, and getting our yard work under control. We had honestly been struggling leading up to this and should have asked for help sooner, but here we are swallowing our pride and asking while there is still time.