I’m a 41-year-old mom of two kids. I still work from home every day to help support my family, but radiation that was meant to treat my AVM in 2023 instead destroyed part of my brain.

Now I live with seizures, tremors, memory that disappears mid-sentence, and anxiety so bad most days I can’t leave the house. I have infusions every two weeks and scans every week. I was intubated in ICU for four days, lost 30 pounds, and can’t afford simple things for my children or for myself that used to bring me peace.

One hospital stay alone was $255,000. After insurance we still owe over $103,000, and another $28,000 just went to collections not including all the little co pays and other little bills they send.

Every dollar keeps medicine in my body, food on my children’s table, and the internet on so I can keep working from home.

I’ve attached real proof (redacted bills, doctor notes, the frame they bolted to my head, my weight dropping from 138 to 108 lb, the intubation order) so you know this is true.

Please, if you can spare even $5, it means one more infusion, one more day with my babies, and one more paycheck I can still earn from home.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Erica – a mom fighting to stay here for her kids.”