We fly in a month!!! WHAT WILL THE NEEDS BE?
PRAYER: Prayer to cover the doctors and
hospital staff; for her safety; for safety in travel; that surgery will be a
success; for her pain management; for the rest of her medical system that will
be affected like her bladder and GI track; for her comfort; for the physical,
mental and emotional state of her and all of us; for the Lord to meet the
physical and financial needs listed below:
PERSONAL
CARE: Wynter will require ALL of her daily personal
care to be done FOR her:
- Care
and cleaning of the 8 pins at least twice a day (this will require at least 2
people)
- Body
cast care; Feeding
(needs things cut small and fed TO her); Toileting; Sponge
bathing
- Hair
cleaning (with out getting the cast wet); Skin
care under the cast; Constant
monitoring while she plays and manipulates through her day to ensure she
doesn’t fall; Someone
to help with housecleaning/ errands/ transportation when we return; Other
unknowns yet
SPECIAL
ITEMS:
- All
of her clothes will have to be 2-3 sizes too big, then strategically cut and
manipulated to fix up and around the 4 metal bars; She
will need a very special car seat to accommodate the halo; Wheelchair
or stroller to accommodate the halo; Sterile
medical supplies for halo, body cast and wounds; Other
unknowns yet
FINANCIAL:
- Airfare
for Mom and Wynter to get to and from Philadelphia several times, fist for
surgery and then for post ops over the next 2 years.
- Gas,
hotel, meals for Dad and brother to travel to Philadelphia for surgery.
- Funds
for hotel (7-10 days)/ meals/ maintenance while in Philadelphia for 3 weeks.
- Funds
to pay the mortgage an electric bills since I will be unable to work for those
3 weeks.
- Funds
for the special medical supplies, clothes, DME equipment needed. A TOTAL OF ABNOUT $6000 for the initial surgery, and $1500 for each additional post op visit.
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Contact
information: Adam & Tiffany Young
705 Gardenvilla
Circle, Georgetown, TX. 78628 (512)
924-9680 tiffany_pa@hotmail.com
I promise it will NOT require two people to clean the pins! I know it's hard not to over-think things, but the pins really aren't that big of a deal once you get used to them, get a system figured out, etc.
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