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Medical bills and house bills for Freckles

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(terrie is my mother) What is there to say. Well I go freckles or Carly Brooke or some variation of the sort for starters.
I've had health issues for the majority of my life but when I hit 20yrs old they became unbearable and fast.

I went from being mostly healthy and functioning to not being able to get out of bed up to 3weeks out of the month. Because it all happened so fast once it started going downhill my partner and I were never prepared. We had just lost our insurance so the ER was my only option for any help.

First ER doctor I ever saw, she told me I most likely had endometriosis and to come into her office the next week. Because we had no insurance and no money that couldn't happen. Thus begining the cycle of Drs not believing me or diagnosing me with everything else under the sun but endometriosis.

Through the last decade I've learned just how many don't know it exists, don't believe it's real and don't think the pain can be that bad.

By 2013 I had went from 145 down to 90lbs. My partner moved me to Oregon and stayed in NC because we couldn't afford both and my mom took me in to try and get someone to help. More hospitals and ERs in Oregon, more of the same.

Everywhere I went I must've just been on drugs and couldn't possibly be in unbearable pain. At this point I just started going to planned Parenthood to try and get on hormones to manage the pain because it was the only option I had. In the end I ended up on the depo shot, it worked okay except for the horrific mood swings and suicidal tendencies from being on it.

I cycled off and on the depo shot until becoming pregnant in 2015 after being convinced by the Drs it would help with the pain, that having kids was my next only option. I was deathly ill and in the hospital constantly while pregnant. Ended up needing an emergency C-section.
The next 2 years were the worst two years of pain yet in many many ways. I ended up back on the depo shot, homeless and worse. Finally ended up moving in with my poppa because we had no choice and nowhere to go, no help.

By late 2017 we had finally got health insurance so I found a new doctor. Was told that hysterectomy wouldn't be possible without having had two kids, especially before 30. (I was 24ish)

So in 2018 I was working full time at a plant until I was once again too sick and we had our son. I was in the hospital even more thus losing my job and they had to take the baby early because he couldn't get anything else from me, I was drained dry of nutrients. I got the mirena iud after.

2 months after his birth my uterus and bladder prolapsed out of nowhere, I was finally approved for a hysterectomy after two pregnancies that tried to take me out and my literal uterus trying to fall out.

The hysterectomy was not a fun experience but they took everything except my ovary. For a year and a half I was pain free from that kind of pain atleast. I knew it would most likely come back some day but I took what options I had every time.

By the time I started getting ungodly sick again after the hysterectomy we had been living with and caring for my poppa for awhile. Poppa was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer not too long after our son was born. From then to Nov. 3rd 2022 we cared for him.

I won't get into why the years I spent caring for my poppa were so traumatic but I am not okay. I'm trying to get my life in order again though

During the years we spent caring for my poppa unfortunately that didn't leave a lot of time for taking care of us. We inherited his house and are extremely grateful but have been left in a shit position thanks to my loads of medical bills and ongoing and new costs. At this point I already need dentures from the constant acid erosion from the puking from pain, there's so much that needs to be done but this is the first step on me (us) having our own lives without someone else controlling us anymore because we need help still.

After speaking with the ambulance services I owe $4,000 just to them alone. Once I get the large break down of the bill I will try to negotiate down and post the updated bill from them.

We just want to break the constant cycle of abuse from the family by proving we can do this and keep going instead of losing everything again. Thanks for taking the time to read this if you did and thanks if you were able to donate.

As of right now I owe over 19k to one hospital, as I was making this gfm I went into my lchart for a breakdown of the bills. There is 1 bill I can dispute for 11k that it says was completely not covered by insurance, however since it's already in collections I don't know what will happen. They waited until this year to put all of it into collections and come after me, I just don't want to keep going through this.
I had originally thought only the ambulance bills were in collections but I was wrong. As of right now it says there 19k in collections not including the ambulance bills.

I'm going to try and raise money for all of it except the one bill I think insurance wasn't even sent, it makes no sense but I'll update on the situation and if it changes. If they take our taxes it wouldn't even cover all the bills anyways but I'm just really hoping we can get by somehow and not lose everything this year.




Ambulance bill until I get the breakdown of the total amount which is 4k according to them

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Terrie Romero
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Central, SC

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