Jayda’s medical expenses

Jayda is a 12 year old girl going into 8th grade at Nelsonville York Middle school. Jayda participates in cheerleading and volleyball. She’s a sweet girl who wears her heart on her sleeve and loves everyone she meets. Understandably she is very scared with her new diagnosis.

On May 24th Jayda was admitted to Children’s hospital ICU with severe stomach pain. After multiple CT scans, a kidney biopsy and blood work it was discovered that jayda has Goodpasture Syndrome which is an autoimmune disorder in which the body’s immune system creates antibodies that are attacking her lungs an kidneys. Due to this disorder her lungs and kidneys have suffered irreparable damage.

She underwent emergency surgery this morning to place a central line in her neck for plasmapheresis- a treatment in which they will remove blood from her body and cycle it through a machine to separate her plasma and other cells and then put the blood back into her body. As of now we have no idea when jayda will be released as she needs this treatment everyday for the next two weeks. How she responds to this treatment will determine the next steps in her care.

What we do know, is that jayda will need impatient hospital stays for monthly IV infusions and daily medication. with this comes a lot of medical bills and uncertainty for her parents Kourtney and Jeffrey who Both have full time jobs but have had to take time off to be at Childrens Hospital with Jayda.

Between Copays from this hospital stay and future hospital stays along with travel costs and normal utilities, they are under a lot of stress financially.

Our hope is to raise enough to cover medical and travel expenses and ease some of this financial burden.