Stand with Crissy in Hennessey's Battle

My name is Crissy. I'm Hennessey's momma. Hennessey just turned 20 years old on October 8, 2024. She is a young, beautiful, smart, sweet, creative, outgoing little girl. Even though she's 20 years old, she'll always be my little girl.

Hennessey's story begins on April 10, 2025. I've been letting Henny go out to concerts and nightclubs for people her age here in New Orleans, LA every weekend to be a young adult and enjoy the city life of New Orleans that we all know and love. That's why we live here. It's part of our culture. The concerts she would go to are pay-to-enter, safe, clean, have security, and are theme-based. She'd ask me what to wear, and she'd be so excited about it! 'Momma! Can I borrow your skirt or that shirt!? What makeup should I wear? What jewelry? And what shoes?' She would always love to borrow my boots with the fur; that was her absolute favorite! Anybody who knows me well knows how I used to rock the boots with the fur. It's no question about it! After she would get ready and put her outfit on, makeup, hair, nails, jewelry, and everything else, she'd always ask me, 'Momma! How do I look!?' And as always, I would tell her, 'You look absolutely gorgeous, and you know it!!' Hennessey loved being a social butterfly and especially hanging out with her best friends at these events. We've all been young once, and with a young age and parties comes the party life. We've all been there. Henny's two best friends would always look after her. They are good kids like she is.

But, a few days ago, she got mixed in with the wrong crowd despite her friends doing their best to look after her and telling her she should stay with them. Henny is a 20-year-old consenting legal adult by law and made decisions that night that will affect herself, family, and friends for life. Henny decided, for whatever reason, she was gonna hang out with other people that night, and she got a hold of some really bad stuff. When she was just doing what we've all done at that age, trying to have fun, fit in, and party. Cocaine and fentanyl were tested positive in her system, unfortunately. The combination of the two caused her to go into cardiac arrest twice. The people that she went off with that night called me and said she was unresponsive, turning blue, and had no heartbeat; she wasn't breathing. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. They did chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth, AKA CPR, for a while, and I was told this happened for a whole hour before the ambulance showed up. I don't see the ambulance taking an hour to get to you if you went into cardiac arrest! Hennessey was so long without oxygen or a heartbeat that they told me she has a very slim chance of living, that she is probably going to be brain dead, and I'll have to take her off life support. And that if she did make it through this, she'll have neurological damage for the rest of her life. If it came down to that, I would never put my child in a facility! She didn't ask to be put on this earth; she didn't ask me to be created, so it would be a no-brainer for me. I would take care of her, and that's what I plan to do. It delays me getting finances to look after her as her situation is dire, and I can't leave her side. I would never, in a million years, forgive myself for putting her somewhere where she could be abused or mistreated. That's not going to happen. I've been staying in a waiting room literally 5 seconds away from her; that's my new bedroom every night. I refuse to leave her side and abandon her when she needs me most. This is going to put an overwhelming financial struggle on our home. I can't lose her, and I can't lose my house too because I have another child that I have to be strong for and look after, and I can't fail him or her.

Back to her story, I told her she could stay the night at her friend's house, not thinking anything bad would happen, and the first time I do let her stay somewhere overnight, this happens... The overwhelming guilt I have is incredible. If I would have just told her to stay home, this wouldn't have happened. Henny suffered brain damage, kidney damage, heart damage; she's on life support. She has to have a machine breathe for her. They try to tell me she was brain dead. I don't believe that one bit because she's not. She's starting to be responsive to things. It'll be a long road ahead of her. They have her on fentanyl and propofol for pain and to keep her sedated for her brain to heal. They have her on fentanyl, the same stuff that hurt her, to help her because this is hospital grade; this isn't the crap out on the street. They say the street fentanyl she accidentally took, after a few days of it leaving her system, she started having seizures and withdrawals, so they had to administer hospital-grade fentanyl to stop all that. I asked the doctors and nurses, 'It only takes her one time to start having withdrawals and seizures?' and they said, 'Yes, that's all it takes is one time. One time you get a bad line, you get bad drugs, this is what happens.' She's in the ICU fighting for her life, and she's a beautiful young girl with the rest of her life ahead of her. She didn't deserve this. But none of us can be hypocrites because we have all made bad decisions and bad mistakes, and what you do is learn from them and move forward.

My little girl is in bad shape. She's gotten a little bit better, but she's still in really bad shape. She's really, really sick, and I have to give my attention to her 1000% because the doctors say touch and talking to her is what's going to heal her and keep her brain stimulated to stay alive. We have family and friends that come and see her every single day. We visit her so much she gets exhausted and overstimulated from just the visits alone. The doctors gave her a 15% to 20% chance of living, but she's fighting the odds because she's fighting hard and starting to show good signs despite what doctors have said. But regardless, she has a long road ahead of her, and she needs her momma, and I refuse to leave her with people I don't know to take care of her! I refuse to put her in any kind of disability facility where she can potentially get abused and neglected! She needs her mom and her family around her, so I'm coming to you to ask for help with a GoFundMe. All the money will be used towards bills, groceries, household needs, and insurance needs like down payments for medicine that insurance won't cover for her recovery. I'm not one to ask for handouts at all! I'm not one to have a pity party! I'm not one to take money easily! I'm not one to be lazy! I'm not one to make excuses! But, I need help! I have to give my daughter 1000% of my time, energy, love, understanding, and patience. Because those things are what heal people in her situation, and I will never forgive myself if I am somewhere at work or somewhere else and something happens to her, and I wasn't there for her. And God forbid she was to die alone, scared, and confused in her last moments, not knowing where her momma was. Please share this with as many people as you can. Please don't judge me or think of me any differently for asking for help that is very much needed in this situation. I can't do it alone. Thank you all for all the love and support through this very horrible time for me and my family. All bills and everything will have receipts provided.

I want everybody to know that the GoFundMe I set up is to make Hennessey Poston comfortable. The money is 100% hers receipts will be provided for the amount you gave and what it was spent on when she is well enough for us to spend it even if it involves her funeral. If she pulls through this getting a bigger place that's not upstairs to where she can have room for a wheelchair or medical equipment possibly that she needs and it goes towards bills and rent to where I can be a million percent dedicated to her comfort & care 24/7 I can't function at a job right now with the situation she's in because it's dire and very serious. My daughter is still at deaths door she is no where near out of the woods yet but she's fighting hard! I could never forgive myself as I mentioned that if I was away from her and something God forbid something bad was to happen and I wasn't there for her which is not going to be an option I'm not going to let the situation happen because I'm going to be there for her no matter how hard it is, no matter how exhausting it is, no matter how long it takes, no matter what I have to do, I refuse to let her go through this alone. I refuse to let her pass away alone and scared wondering where her mom was at in her final moments and if that horrible time was to come she'd be in my arms where she belongs safe and loved. I'm very grateful for the donations that have come in so far and in the worst case scenario God decides to call her home all the money would be used toward her funeral and just saying that breaks me because that's not the option she's going to have she's not going to die I refuse to let her and as horrible's as this sounds I rather her be disabled and handicapped than dead because she's still alive she can still enjoy life even with a life changing disability. That's when me her mommy steps in for support and love! People that become disabled or severely handicapped after something horrific happens they need somebody there for them 24/7 to show them that yeah things are different now but I'm going to teach you you can still be happy and you can still have a beautiful life despite this. I will never send my child to facility for disabled people I don't believe in that and people that do, do that for an option I don't judge them for it everybody's different I don't think anything bad I have different beliefs that I'm not comfortable with and people I don't know taking care of my child when I'm not around is one of them where she can possibly be neglected or abused and why would I want her to be stuck with 100% total strangers? That's stressful & frightening especially when she's already been through so much already! She'd be very unhappy and she be depressed when she can be with her mommy somebody she trust 100% that would never hurt her & loves her and knows her and somebody that would do anything for her even if I have to feed her, dress her, bathe her and change her everyday. I did it when she was a baby why wouldn't I do it now? I'm just preparing for possible disability to where she can be in a bigger place not upstairs and the bills are going to be covered for a while and she can have a bigger room you know for machines or wheelchairs or whatever she needs You know to make her as comfortable and happy as possible It's something to do now not wait at the last minute and I be more stressed out and overwhelmed more than what I already am. But no matter what the money is 100% hers whether it goes towards a bigger better house with a bigger room to meet her medical needs, bills, rent etc so I can care for her 24/7 because she needs her mommy she don't need anyone else as much as she needs her mommy right now and I am willing to do anything I can and move mountains to do that for her because she deserves it and she deserves to be comfortable and happy no matter what happens... I don't want to use the money for a funeral because I refuse for my child to die. I just wanted to explain it and put it out there to give everybody a peace of mind to what exactly being done with the donations and better detail. Again thank you all so much for helping me and my daughter and my family Thank you so much for support and being here for us My daughter thinks you too even though she can't say it I'm her voice right now and she does appreciate it and she loves you all for being there for her. She has a whole army behind her and it's so amazing how much y'all love her and how much y'all love me Thank you so so much and please share.