Lisa Allen Medical Bills

Mary Lisa Allen was so proud when she graduated from the Police Academy. Her brother, Danny Harris, an officer with Fayetteville Police, was right there with her.  She joined the Fairburn police department; joined the Tri County joint task force and also became a training Sgt in 2005. During that time, she coached girls fastpitch softball with her police partner.  She then moved to Cumming and joined that police force.   She is a huge softball and college football fan. Her favorite is Florida Gators, mainly because of Tim Tebow. While on duty, she was injured; breaking a disk in her back. It was replaced by a titanium disk.  She partially recovered, going back to desk duty as a training officer. Three years later, that titanium disk broke and she had to have extensive surgery to have a cage inserted around it and fusion to the top and bottom disks.  She also had to have SI joint surgery.  These injuries prevented her from returning to work and she was let go without any retirement or medical benefits.  She is now living on Social Security and Medicare.  This past Christmas Eve, she was complaining of stomach pain.  She was taken to the hospital with gall stones.  Since that time, she has been in Piedmont Atlanta for the past 90 days  with a blood clot in her lung, an infection on her pancreas, and now an bacterial infection abscess on her abdominal walls.  The doctors have finally find an antibiotic that will fight the infections.  Her medical bills are over $35,000 now and are still coming in.  This is after Medicare has paid their portion. She needs to heal at home without the stress of trying to figure out how to pay her medical bills.