travel, expenses, food etc for Lawson family

Hello, my name is Lexii. I am the mother of Nova Lawson, my 10 week old baby girl who was born 3-11-22. Post having her I had to receive multiple blood transfusion due to blood clots after pushing for three and a half hours of pushing to give birth to her, but she is the light of my life, worth anything I had to do to give birth to my sweet girl. It is hard to admit, to needing help but maternity leave that was not fully paid as I had to use my saved vacation and james being the one working but none of our bills stop. I started a new job as a juvenile probation officer, but of course the cost of gas with a 50 minute commute has been a concern and attempting to catch up from past bills. Love my new job though! However, daycare prices have been hard to follow through with paying, my grandparents have even taken an extra day upcoming to help us with that even though as parents we should be able to afford her daycare, but catching up again has been a struggle.

Nova journey: nova was born with a clogged tear duct and it was fine with just wiping it and doing warm compresses at times however, on or about May 3rd her left eye started to get red leading to a bump by her eye that was very infected, causing her to need it drained daily and to be on antibiotics, the first antibiotics did not work so another 10 day dose was ordered and that seemed to work however, her eye started getting worse again, we had taken her to two follow up eye appointments to address this infection and last week a visit to the ER but they said it was fine. nova started having involuntary left side seizures over the past few days and it started to get worse and worse, my grandparents called me yesterday while I was at work really voicing concern of these seizures and her eye infection seeming back to square one, so I called the nurse line of her doctor, made an appointment for the next day at 4 but my gut felt like something was wrong. I talked to my boss, which was nervous for me as I started a new job at the end of April and want to seem like I care for my job as I do so much, and not being an unreliable employee however, I was so lucky he was understanding and wanted me to leave to be there for Nova and to keep him updated. I drove to Battle Creek to get nova from my parents to take her to the ER and her father, james left work too to meet us. I am so glad we did, they were very concerned about her infection and her seizures on her left side. The doctor at the ER transferred us to Helen Devos Childrens Hospital in Grand Rapids and I rode with nova in the ambulance while her father went and grabbed clothes and fed the cats as we both left work in a hurry to get nova the care she needs. They admitted us over night and have done the following tests, CT scan and an MRI that lead the doctors to informing us the infection is a clear concern and not sure why the two doses of antibiotics did not address it fully, and that her seizures are a separate issue so this was all frustrating and mentally draining to james and i as she is our baby girl and we just want her to be ok also not really sure what to feel when this happened all so fast. They have monitors hooked her to head over night and currently to monitor her brain activity to see seizure activity if any, in her brain to try and get an understanding as to why this is happening to diagnose her, and she is on a pretty intense med for her seizures that prevents her from harming herself as her arms were going everywhere and would hit herself in the face which is super concerning too.

I hate asking for help because I have been able to do most on my own but now I have a little baby girl involved and I need to be vulnerable and ask for help as I know I would help others in need, in this situation if I had the extra money to do so. The travel to Grand Rapids, days off work for both of us hoping it isn’t to the point of using all of our vacation time so trying to prevent that as she will be sick I am sure in future and things come up with an infant, the travel expenses, food, medical expenses, and just trying to catch up from having her two months ago has overall been so overwhelming and stressful. I feel defeated. If you are able to help, I will pay it forward when I am out from under this and if you cannot, and just have the ability to be there for us that is completely appreciated and loved as well.

we hope to get answers, diagnoses and understanding of all of this soon. We love her so much. Nova, james and I appreciate all the kind words and help, seriously it means the world.

love, lexii