Hey Friends,

I've been going thru a lot. I am asking for help with medical bills from my initial car accident that car insurance didn't cover, upcoming medical expenses, and debts acquired surviving when I'm unable to work and my husband needs to be my care giver.

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I've been trying to keep everyone updated over the last year but here's a quick time line to get everyone up to speed.

6/13/2021- I was in a car accident that gave me significant pain in my low back. I was off work for 6 months while going to physical therapy. I started having episodes of orthostatic hypotension and presyncope. I had to get cleared by a Neurologist nd my cardiologist has determined I have Dysautonomia, a dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system. I see a specialist 3/26/22

12/2021- i went to an orthopedic surgeon who found an extruded disk that was pushing on my right S1 nerve and recommended a partial discectomy of my L5S1 vertebral disc.

1/1/22- I went back to work in a limited physical capacity. Short term disability had ended, Long Term offered the same pay and was not sustainable. I needed to work while I waited for surgery

2/8- I was involved in a work place accident and ground off the back side of my middle and ring knuckles. doctors were able to repair my ring finger. they needed to take a piece of tendon for my wrist to replace my middle finger tip tendon. they did a reverse finger flap to graft most of the skin and a small piece of skin from my hand.

-follow ups have been going well. I start physical therapy to learn how to use my hand again this Friday 3/25. the next month will tell how much I've lost function.

3/10 i went in for back surgery. everything as far as the surgery is going fine, pain is reducing and i can sit like a normal human. no lifting, bending or twisting for another month.

3/12 I had an allergic reaction to medications from/after surgery. My husband took me to the ER at 5pm and I was immediately admitted. My blood test was crazy abnormal. I was "septic" but my vitals were stable. they couldn't tell me what was going on. i was there for 4 days, on day 3 they realized the blood thinner they were giving me contained pork, which I'm allergic to. it took 2 more days to figure out how to send me home as I cannot take Zofran, Reglan, or Phenergan. Ultimately, my mammal allergy triggers cyclical vomiting syndrome, because of that and my recent need for spine surgery at age 30, the resident believed I have Ehlers- Danlos Syndrome and has referred me to a rheumatologist as well as a geneticist.

8/19 saw the geneticist. I have a not fully manifested connective tissue disease. I'm waiting a genetic panel.

8/31, i had my 3rd epidural for my back and this will be the last one before we start deciding which spine surgery is next. That apt is in 2 weeks.

2/1/23 finger amputation

2/20/23 Artifical disc replacement.

That is where we are at now, There's a lot of uncertainty and I'm not sure how wraps up.