Support Tiffany's Urgent Kidney Surgery and Recovery

Hi! My name is Tiffany Toland-Scott. I'm an artist/illustrator and I have a kidney stone that has to be surgically removed. The hospital would very much like me to prepay $1200, which I just don't have after months of medical problems and working less to be my grandfather's home hospice caregiver.

Normal kidney stones are painful and non-life threatening. Unfortunately mine is really big, really stuck, and causing a life-threatening condition called hydronephrosis - basically my kidney is full, swollen, and in peril.

With prompt treatment my prognosis is great. Somehow my kidney hasn't been damaged even though I'm in the final stage of hydronephrosis. The sooner we can get the stone out the better off my whole body will be as hydronephrosis can rapidly devolve into sepsis and kidney failure.

There is very little chance that I will pass the stone on my own, and expenses are mounting from multiple CT scans to see if it has moved, a visit to the ER to get antibiotics and pain relief, and a scheduled surgery to remove the stone and place a stent on 11/13, the day before my birthday (clearly the best birthday ever). I also have bills for bloodwork, urinalysis, medications, co-pays, and travel to the nearest hospital with a surgical urology team.

Right now my estimated costs total over $3,000, but do not include bills for anesthesia, the surgeon's time, my ER visit, or the removal of the stent on 11/20. I also have no idea how much money my prescriptions for after care will cost or how many more visits will be required to follow-up with the urologist, so I may have to adjust the funding goal as time goes on.