Michele Ogut-Prince’s Handicapped Home Renovation

Hi, my name is Alley and I’m starting this GoFundMe to help with the massive expenses of my mother’s recent CIDP diagnoses and the inability to walk that has come with it.

My mother has been a part of the Highland Mills/Woodbury community since 1979. Most would recognize her as “Missy from Jay’s Deli”, or as Michele Ogut from CSA/Keller Williams Realty. She worked at Jay’s Deli from 1986 to 2014, as was an associate broker from 1998-2019, and to this day still coaches new agents that need a jump start. She also spent time as a Nursing Assistant for Horton Hospital/Orange Regional, as well as a cook at the Orange County Infirmary. She has always been a very generous and loving person, and always does as much as humanly possible to help others. She always goes out of her way to be available when others need her. My mother has always worked multiple jobs to support her kids and family, and give us the best life possible. Now she needs as much help as I can attempt to get her.

In April of 2021, my mom received her COVID-19 vaccine in an attempt to protect herself from the virus. Within 2 weeks of the second dose, a rare auto-immune condition was triggered called Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP). This is a RARE neurological disorder that targets her body’s nerves. This left her with numbness and weakness in her whole body, and inability to use her right side. She cannot lift her right leg more than an inch, and struggles to use her right side. It is slowly progressing to her left side, and she has extreme difficulty with basic tasks, and cannot use the stairs to get to the only second floor bathroom. Therefore, the downstairs kitchen must be cut in half so that a handicapped accessible bathroom can be built, so my mother can be at home comfortably, rather than in a facility. She will also need a ramp built at the front door, so she is able to get to physical therapy and doctor’s appointments, which are currently very difficult for her as she has to use the steps and use 2 wheelchairs to do so.

I’m asking for help so that my mother is not a prisoner in her own house. Anybody who knows my mother knows how much she’s done for her friends, family, community and even complete strangers. She is a giver in every sense of the word, and desperately needs help in the funding of this bathroom build. (The permit has been granted to build the bathroom/ramp, so as soon as financially able, the building of it will start.)

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this, and for helping me get my mother her freedom back.