Let's help Lauryn get to her medical appointments

Hi, my name is Stacy. I'm making this Go fund me for Kim Rizzo, whom most of my Facebook friends know. Kim is probably the most liked person I have ever had the pleasure of knowing. Most of you may know her from Holiday as the friendly, bubbly, sometimes loud cashier. Kim went from always being told she could not have kids to being the best mom ever to a little girl named Lauryn, pregnant with number 2 on the way, and has been put on medical leave from work due to being a high-risk pregnancy. Well, now Kim needs the community's help; Lauryn has medical problems causing Kim to take her to frequent appointments in Milwaukee, Marshfield and Rice Lake. With no income coming in, this won't be easy.

Here is a little back story on Lauryn.

Lauryn was born with PDA (patent Ductus Arteriosus) in infants. It usually goes away within the first day of life for children, but her's never went away. I requested an ECO of her heart due to heart problems in the family, and that's when it was discovered at six months old.

Lauryn had difficulty letting the doctors touch her, so they had to sedate her to check her out thoroughly. When we had that appointment, they found that her PDA was the largest case they were dealing with, and there would have been a possibility of them having to do open heart surgery because it was so large.

We scheduled her to have her surgery, which was going to be the less invasive surgery to start out with. When they went in, they found out that her lungs had not developed correctly and were considered "stiff lungs" or "not relaxed," causing the surgery to come to a complete halt. Lauryn could have lost her life if they hadn't seen the problem with her lungs.

She will now have to go to Milwaukee Children's Hospital to meet a team of doctors that will ultimately save her life. She will be put on a series of medications for up to 3 months which will cause her to go into heart failure. This will allow her lungs to "relax" and be able to get the surgery she needs. Once the surgery is done, the heart failure "should" reverse itself.

If the medications don't work, she will be in long-term heart failure until the doctors figure out another plan.

With all this information, Kim needs our help with travel expenses to get Lauryn to these much-needed appointments. There will be fuel, hotel and food expenses to cover, so anything anyone can spare would be greatly appreciated more than you know.

Thank You