Stem Cells for Lincoln
Donation protected
On November 6, 2016 I spent the entire day being incredibly ill. I was weak, nauseous, and felt like I was about to go into labor. The next morning on November 7, 2016 I went into full blown labor. I delivered the sweetest little girl that afternoon but she was completely lifeless. She was resuscitated in the hallway and rushed to the NICU where she was placed on a ventilator. 
The neonatologist, who we already knew well due to our son being born with a rare GI disease, came in and told us things weren’t good. She was deathly anemic and her condition was extremely serious. We signed consent after consent to get her the care that she needed and waited impatiently to learn what the outcome might be like. The next morning, doctors told me that my blood had a massive amount of fetal cells mixed in with my own blood. That meant that little Lincoln’s blood had emptied into my system. We had experienced a placental abruption and that’s why I was so sick the day before.
She spent a month in the NICU undergoing a full body blood exchange, blood transfusions, platelet transfusions, MRIs, EKGs, EEGs, and numerous other small procedures. When she was 14 days old we were told that she had a condition called periventricular leukomalacia and it would deeply effect her quality of life. We were told that she’d never walk, talk, feed herself, or live a “normal” life. I went from elated to finally have a daughter to completely devastated. Lincoln was also having intense seizures which led to a diagnosis of epilepsy. She had a stroke due to the lack of oxygen which resulted in a brain bleed as well.
Fast forward 18 months and Lincoln is doing incredibly well, all things considered. When she was 3 weeks old we started physical therapy and since then we have had regular physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, vision therapy, massage therapy, and taping. We’ve also tried water therapy. We’ve spent countless hours on therapy and research to make sure Lincoln lives life to it’s absolute fullest.
Right now we are commited to getting stem cell therapy for her as well. We truly believe that stem cells will improve Lincoln’s quality of life and show us forward progression in her brain’s recovery. She needs 30 million stem cells for an initial treatment and that is not covered by insurance at all. The price of 30 million stem cells is $9,000 and a microcurrent machine which will direct the cells directly to her brain is an additional $1,000. The doctor we have chosen to provide this treatment is in Pasadena, CA and I’ve chosen him specifically for a few different reasons. We’ve had an appointment over the phone and a lot of conversation back and forth via email and this is who we’re comfortable with treating our girl. I set the goal of this fundraiser under the cost of treatment because I don’t want it to be perceived that we’re asking for a hand out, because we aren’t. Anything over our goal will be put towards Lincoln’s future treatments because hopefully we can get more than one round of stem cells for her eventually.
If aren’t in a place to donate, please pray for us to meet our goal and for this treatment to go as smooth as possible!
The neonatologist, who we already knew well due to our son being born with a rare GI disease, came in and told us things weren’t good. She was deathly anemic and her condition was extremely serious. We signed consent after consent to get her the care that she needed and waited impatiently to learn what the outcome might be like. The next morning, doctors told me that my blood had a massive amount of fetal cells mixed in with my own blood. That meant that little Lincoln’s blood had emptied into my system. We had experienced a placental abruption and that’s why I was so sick the day before. She spent a month in the NICU undergoing a full body blood exchange, blood transfusions, platelet transfusions, MRIs, EKGs, EEGs, and numerous other small procedures. When she was 14 days old we were told that she had a condition called periventricular leukomalacia and it would deeply effect her quality of life. We were told that she’d never walk, talk, feed herself, or live a “normal” life. I went from elated to finally have a daughter to completely devastated. Lincoln was also having intense seizures which led to a diagnosis of epilepsy. She had a stroke due to the lack of oxygen which resulted in a brain bleed as well.
Fast forward 18 months and Lincoln is doing incredibly well, all things considered. When she was 3 weeks old we started physical therapy and since then we have had regular physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, vision therapy, massage therapy, and taping. We’ve also tried water therapy. We’ve spent countless hours on therapy and research to make sure Lincoln lives life to it’s absolute fullest.
Right now we are commited to getting stem cell therapy for her as well. We truly believe that stem cells will improve Lincoln’s quality of life and show us forward progression in her brain’s recovery. She needs 30 million stem cells for an initial treatment and that is not covered by insurance at all. The price of 30 million stem cells is $9,000 and a microcurrent machine which will direct the cells directly to her brain is an additional $1,000. The doctor we have chosen to provide this treatment is in Pasadena, CA and I’ve chosen him specifically for a few different reasons. We’ve had an appointment over the phone and a lot of conversation back and forth via email and this is who we’re comfortable with treating our girl. I set the goal of this fundraiser under the cost of treatment because I don’t want it to be perceived that we’re asking for a hand out, because we aren’t. Anything over our goal will be put towards Lincoln’s future treatments because hopefully we can get more than one round of stem cells for her eventually.
If aren’t in a place to donate, please pray for us to meet our goal and for this treatment to go as smooth as possible!
Organizer
Lauren George
Organizer
Tulsa, OK