Thank you again to everyone who has supported Annette (Annie) and our family through this long, difficult process. Mom is fighting hard with the help of on-going Crohn's treatments. She is so strong, but financially we are struggling to keep afloat while she battles this disease. The hospital bills, steroid treatment, daily nutritional IV (TPN), in-home nurse visits, doctor's appointments, medications and colostomy supplies have been incredibly costly over the last year and a half. At the end of last year, when she had finally stabilized nutritionally and was regaining her mobility and strength, the TPN company terminated treatment demanding payment without the option of a payment plan. Without the TPN, mom began to decline again and was hospitalized the week of Christmas. Mom is now home and we are working with a new TPN company, but the additional $800 per week just for nutrition so that mom may fight the Crohn's disease has been increasingly difficult to come up with. I have reopened this donation platform with the hope of getting mom the nutrition and treatment she needs so that she may regain her strength for surgery. Thank you to everyone who has already donated, supported, shared, and/or prayed for our family. 

I wanted to thank everyone for their donations, thoughts and prayers throughout this difficult year. I also wanted to provide you all with an overdue update on my mom's health. 

She was discharged from Mayo Clinic in November, just in time for Thanksgiving. Mom was so excited to spend the holidays at home with her family. Since then, she has been working with physical therapists, nutritionists, and in-home nurses to regain her strength and mobility. During her 4 months of hospital admissions, her muscles atrophied significantly due to the lack of nutrition supplementing her body and the difficulty in moving due to severe pain. Thankfully, she has started the treatment for Crohn's, but the high-dose steroids take a toll on her body. Every day is an uphill battle. 

A week and a half ago she was admitted back into the hospital for a few days. She has had some adverse reactions to the IV nutrition (TPN) which causes recurring vomiting daily. This is making her very weak again, causing her to spend most of the day in bed from the pain. She will need surgery again, but is too weak at this time for the surgeon to operate. The gastroenterologist has struggled to scope through the scar tissue in the intestines to determine the level of Crohn's inflammation and internal damage. She is scheduled for more scoping and a biopsy in May. We hope to gain more information at this appointment to determine if the current treatment is working. 

Please keep my mom in your hearts and prayers during this time. We greatly appreciate all of your help.

Thank you sincerely to everyone who has donated, shared, and/or kept mom in their thoughts and prayers thus far. Our family greatly appreciates all of your help and love!

This week she received her first negative test for the virus preventing her from receiving the Crohn's treatment. She only needs one more negative test before preceding with treatment. Very exciting news! We hope within the next week mom will be sent home or to an outpatient facility, and we may start the path of treatment, physical therapy, and recovery. It will be a long, hard journey to healing. Thank you again for all of your support through this difficult time. 

Love,

Susan Webber