Katie Callaghan Benefit Weekend

Aunt Caco is organizing this fundraiser on behalf of Kathryn Callaghan.

Donation protected

October 22nd and 23rd 10% of sales all weekend will be donated to Katie for medical bills and future needs.
Please stop by any of these venues:

- Little Rickys Rooftop Bar
- Bar 39
- Cheeseburgers - A Takeout Joint
- The Blackstone Meatball
- Pageturners Lounge
- Renos Karaoke
- The Sports Hall

Friday October 22nd

9pm at Pageturners Lounge
50th and Dodge

VAX CARD MANDATORY

Local musicians perform LIVE

*Specter Poetics
*Mitch Gettman
*Bug Heaven

Cover goes directly to:

Katie Callaghan Weekend Benefit.

KATIE'S STORY

On Memorial Day weekend of 2021, Katie Callaghan called in sick to work at Blackstone Meatball where she was a server. Her symptoms were unusual: a weird tingling and numbness in her feet, hands, and lips, and deep pain in her hips, back and legs. It took a trip to her doctor’s office and two visits to the emergency room before she was finally diagnosed with a severe case of Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a rare neurological disorder in which the immune system attacks the peripheral nerves.

Ten days after her symptoms began Katie had developed full body paralysis, could no longer breathe on her own, and was placed on a ventilator. She spent nearly a month in the hospital ICU before transferring to Madonna Hospital in Lincoln, where she would undergo extensive rehabilitation to relearn how to swallow, talk, eat, see, hold a toothbrush, put on clothes, get into and out of a wheelchair, and finally, to walk again. At the end of the August, Katie returned home in Omaha, where she lives with her parents, and continues therapy at the Madonna Omaha location.

Symptoms of Guillain-Barre Syndrome:

• Prickling and tingling in your fingers, toes, ankles, or wrists

• Weakness in legs that spreads to upper body

• Unsteady walking or inability to climb stairs

For more information:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/guillain-barre-syndrome/symptoms-causes/syc-20362793