Help a nurse pay her medical bills
Fundraising campaign by
Kenneth McGuire
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SG$2,000.00raised of SG$10,000.00 goal goal
No more donations are being accepted at this time. Please contact the campaign owner if you would like to discuss further funding opportunities
Campaign Story
Miller Fisher syndrome is a rare, auto-immune, acquired nerve disease that is considered to be a variant of Guillain-Barré syndrome. It is characterised by abnormal muscle coordination, paralysis of the eye muscles and absence of the tendon reflexes. Like Guillain-Barré syndrome, symptoms may be preceded by a viral illness. Additional symptoms include generalized muscle weakness and respiratory failure. Only about 1-9 people in a million are unfortunate enough to be afflicted with this.
When Russell became ill initially she only had cold and flu symptoms. Soon it degenerated into something far worse, and now she's been in hospital for a few days, and expects to be there for at least a week. She's an overseas foreign worker from the Philippines working here in Singapore, doing a fantastic job as a nurse looking after elderly people with Alzheimer's syndrome and dementia. The salary is, as you might expect, pretty low. She's 30 years old, and was never expecting to fall ill so early in her life.
She found out that even though she's a nurse, her insurance will only cover the first S$15,000 of her hospital bill, and the total (including MRI scans, blood tests, Intravenous Immunoglobulin, which is some very expensive medication) is likely to come to about S$25,000 once she is hopefully released in a few days time.
She needs your help.
Any small amount would be massively important to helping her pay this bill. Actually, we have no idea how she is going to pay for it if asking you for your assistance doesn't work.
Please give as much or as little as you can. She might lose her job soon due to this illness, and if it has been diagnosed correctly it might actually be a degenerative condition. But we will just have to cross that bridge when we come to it.
We hope you can help in some small way. Please try, even the smallest amount.
Many thanks,
Kenny & Kate, on behalf of Russell.
Fundraising Team
- Kenneth McGuire
- Campaign Owner
- Kathleen Espenida
- Friend and fellow nurse colleague
Donors
- Richard Doculan
- Donated on Aug 24, 2017
- Anonymous
- Donated on Aug 24, 2017
END of the Campaign
Update posted by Kathleen Espenida at 05:36 amWe have reached S$2000.00 and we would like to thank you all for your generosity! We will be stopping the campaign ahead of time (whether we reached the target amount or not) as there were negotiations being made between Russell, her company, and the hospital. This amount will be given. . . . .
After Hospitalization
Update posted by Kathleen Espenida at 04:02 amUpdate:Russell is out of hospital last Aug 5, 2017. Below is the interim bill.And this is what the insurance covered:Russell is still on hospital leave and hasn't started work yet as she is still having double vision and her follow up check up with the ophthalmologist is on the 24th.In
Donors & Comments
- Russell Doculan
- Posted On Aug 25, 2017
Thank you all so much for the help and love you had sent me. Even though I didn’t know some of you, yet you didn’t hesitate to extend your heart and blessings to me. I am truly grateful. God bless you all! 😘
- Richard Doculan
- Donated on Aug 24, 2017
- Anonymous
- Donated on Aug 24, 2017
- Suw Chen
- Donated on Aug 21, 2017
Hope you get well as soon. From Suw Chen, USA
- Cyd McCarthy-Akrill
- Donated on Aug 18, 2017
Hope you get well soon. Love Cyd & family x
- Shylla (through KH)
- Donated on Aug 17, 2017
- Georgi McCarthy
- Donated on Aug 16, 2017
Every little helps! Hope she gets there. G*
- Anonymous
- Donated on Aug 16, 2017
- Anonymous
- Donated on Aug 16, 2017
- Guest
- Donated on Aug 15, 2017
Thank you all so much for the help and love you had sent me. Even though I didn’t know some of you, yet you didn’t hesitate to extend your heart and blessings to me. I am truly grateful. God bless you all! 😘