For years, I have been fighting severe, deeply infiltrating endometriosis — a disease that has impacted my daily life, my breathing, my ability to work, and my overall quality of life. Since 2023, I have undergone three excision surgeries, including my most recent one earlier this year, which also required a hysterectomy. Despite these major steps and expert care, my symptoms have continued to progress and significantly affect my chest and abdomen.

While imaging has never captured the full extent of my disease, my surgeries tell the real story. Each operation has revealed endometriosis in places where it shouldn’t be, causing ongoing pain and dysfunction that has become harder and harder to live with. My doctors now believe that to fully evaluate and treat the areas contributing to my symptoms, I need both thoracic and abdominal excision surgery with a highly specialized team in Atlanta.

This team is the closest available provider with the expertise required to treat complex cases like mine.

Why We Need Help

My husband and I have already faced an overwhelming year of medical expenses — scans, appointments, medications, ER visits, specialist travel, and previous surgeries. We’ve done everything we can to keep up, but the cost of yet another major surgery is simply more than we can manage on our own.

This upcoming surgery involves:

• A multidisciplinary surgical team

• Thoracic and abdominal excision

• Out-of-state travel and lodging

• Pre-operative testing

• Post-operative recovery and follow-up

Even with insurance, the out-of-pocket expenses are extremely high. We’ve already exhausted so much while trying to get the care I need.

How Your Support Will Help

Every donation will go directly toward:

• Surgery costs and hospital fees

• Anesthesia and specialist expenses

• Travel and lodging for surgery in Atlanta

• Required pre-surgery imaging and labs

• Medications and post-operative care

• Lost wages during recovery

What This Surgery Means for My Future

This is not “just another procedure.” This is a crucial step toward understanding and finally treating the source of my symptoms — symptoms that impact my lungs, chest wall, abdomen, and daily functioning.

To understand what this surgery means for my future you must first understand how my symptoms affect me presently. I have been extremely humbled by my dependence on others during this season. I have been out of work for months from a career I was striving and growing in as a dog groomer until I found myself in tears from the pain, out of breath, and on the verge of passing out each day I went in. I used to sing freely; worshiping at church, singing around the house, and even received a degree in music, but I now find myself in tears leaving each church service because with each song I sing comes hours of sharp pain in my chest. I used to be independent but now I have to use a shower chair and my husband helps me get ready some days as I cannot do it on my own. This surgery is supposed to change this. This surgery is supposed to clear all of the endometriosis causing my pain and is supposed to restore my voice, independence, and life. 

Asking for help is incredibly humbling. But we cannot manage this financial burden alone. If you feel led to donate, share, pray, or simply encourage us, please know that it means more than we can ever express.

Thank you for standing with us in this fight for healing, relief, and hope.