Help for Jan Sanchez
Hi everyone,
This is a fundraiser for Nana’s hospital bills. She started having hearing difficulties at the end of 2019 and headaches early last year. She saw a neurologist and ENT, had some tests, and everything came back negative.
At the end of February, she was hospitalized for a brief episode of unresponsiveness. She had more testing, most of which also came back negative. They were concerned for seizures at the time but could not tell us why.
Since that hospitalization, she has had increasing memory, speech, hearing, and visual impairments - leading us to take her to the ER on 4/16. The repeat imaging of her head showed a drastic change with significant inflammation of her brain. She had MANY tests while in the hospital and the majority of them came back negative. The doctors felt she had autoimmune encephalitis, but they could not tell us why. She was transferred two hours away from home to Cleveland Clinic with the hope of finding answers.
After having plasmapheresis, 3 lumbar punctures, numerous scans, and a brain biopsy, the doctors finally determined that Nana had an anaplastic astrocytoma wild-type, which was located in multiple areas of her brain. The prognosis was a maximum of 6 months. We brought her home on hospice 5/15.
This is an extremely difficult time for the family. We are asking for help for Papa with the significant amount of medical bills from Nana’s hospitalization.
Thank you to everyone for your donations, support, and love.
Love to all