Please Help Cover My Daughter’s Surgery and Medical Expenses

I am seeking donations to help cover the astronomical medical expenses I have incurred as caregiver for my daughter who lives with a chronic illness, she was born with a collection of vascular compression syndromes that if not treated surgically are fatal. She has had 12 surgeries over the past 4 years and hopefully will not need any more in the future. The vascular compression surgeries she has needed were for Superior Mesenteric Artery Syndrome (SMAS) Median Arcuate Ligament Syndrome (MALS) Nut-Cracker Syndrome (NCS) and her most recent surgery for May-Thurner Syndrome (MTS). May-Thurner is a vascular compression of the iliac vein, it constricts blood flow back to the heart and lungs which causes severe pain, breathing problems, headaches, POTS, leg and calf swelling, possible blood clots and pelvic pain. Her surgery was successful in that her normal blood flow has now been restored. It takes a long time for your vascular system to heal after this surgery and my daughter is taking it day by day, trying to get her life back.

Over time, routine treatments, specialist visits, medications, and necessary home supports have created severe financial strain, and the additional costs associated with travel, hotel stays, time off of work, pre/post-operative care, the surgery itself (all of her specialists were not covered by insurance), hospital stays, anesthesia, post‑operative rehabilitation, and any unexpected complications are beyond what our family can manage alone. Your support will help us start to be able to breathe again as she continues her long road to good health.

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