I am a Navy Veteran who married another Navy Veteran. Together we are raising a family of daughters who also want to serve our community.
After a 4 year battle with stage 4 breast cancer that almost took my life more than once, I was well enough to support my husband in following his dream of becoming a Police Officer in New Smyrna Beach.
With everything going as planned I became a Patient Care Tech working in the Progressive Care Unit at Advent Health New Smyrna. We were living the dream.
October 2nd as I was working I had a stroke, was coded and sent to the ED of my own hospital. Since then I have learned that I am having uncontrolled seizures every hour. Some are minor and some are full-blown petite mal seizures. My husband has tried his hardest to stay by my side and care for me but as we all know the bills never stop coming.
I hate to have to ask for help, but our simple life is more than the Police department pay can handle. I am hopeful that by the end of the year my doctors will figure out what is happening and get me back to work. But I am terrified that I may be put on permanent disability. I'm a worker and don't know where to turn to cover the gap between now and then.
My husband's brother in arms has afforded us the opportunity to turn to all of you for help. We do so with heavy hearts and a face full of tears. We don't know what the future looks like but we need your help to get there.
As we pay the endless doctor bills and co-pays to keep moving forward with treatment we keep falling further behind and I don't want my husband worried about finances, I want his mind clear to protect the community he swore to protect and be vigilant and keep himself and his shift mates safe.
Our goal for this campaign is just to survive this journey and be able to continue to live. Please find it in your heart to help our blue family and help in any way. We promise to do the same when we are out of our storm. This to shall pass, we believe this with all our heart.
Thank you in advance from the bottom of our hearts.
Updates
43? I can't believe it! I never thought that I would be grateful to be this age. But after Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer at 36, countless infections, infinite and continuing reconstructive breast surgeries, a mini stroke which brought out a seizure disorder at 42, while working. So I am overjoyed and blessed to be 43 today. My daughter had to give me a sumatriptan injection for a migraine which almost always leads to a seizure. She is a brave girl and wise beyond her 17 years. Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes, the continuing love, support and well wishes. I am truly blessed and I could not do this without each of you. Thank you. I truly love and appreciate all of you. Love Tonya❤
Good morning to our beautiful community, family, and friends. It's been a few days since I've given y'all an update. I'm not sure if I told you in my last update about my most recent MRI results, but my neurologist says that the lesions look the same and that nothing has changed with them which is a good thing. I'm now at 150mg of Topamax in conjunction with 3000mg of keppra for my seizure disorder. Next week I will begin 200mg of Topamax which is what my neurologist is thinking will be my max dosage. so far I think I agree. I honestly feel better than I have since before all of this came crashing down on me, October 2nd. I'm thinking a little bit more clearly with each passing day, I'm a bit more stable on my feet, I'm having more complete sentences and praise God, I believe that this is day #5 without any seizures! That's the longest without seizures since this nightmare began. I am hopeful and prayerful that this progress will continue and that we are on the right track with treatment and meds and that hopefully I won't have to go to Mayo clinic. All I'm doing is taking it one day and sometimes 1 hour at a time. I'm still going through breast reconstruction surgeries from cancer and I meet with my amazing surgeon next week to discuss and plan the next surgery. I hope that everyone has a great day. Thank you all for blessing my family in every way imaginable. Lots of love, The Beatty's
Here's an update from today's neurology appointment as promised....
I saw my neurologist today. She's happy with the progress that I'm making with the Topamax, but we I am not quite where she needs me to be. I've had 2 seizures since my last appointment. 1 induced by a virtual eye exam and one like the day when things started at work. But her train of thought is because I'm making such good progress with Topamax that once I reach my max dosage of 200mg the week of 12/14 Jessica thinks that I should be ready to come back to work after my next appointment on 12/21. I feel much better each day. although I do have moments of setbacks. some big. some small. I am praying so hard to come back to work after my next appointment it'll be the best Christmas present I could ask for. I'm being cautiously optimistic. I hope that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends With love and thanks, Tonya
Tomorrow is another follow up appointment with my neurologist. Hopefully they'll have the results from the MRI that I had this past Wednesday and it'll shed some light on things. These appointments make me so nervous and fill me with so much anxiety. it's like when I meet with my oncologist.... the fear never lessens. This neurology journey is quite different. Scarier in a lot of ways. My oncologist put it best at my last 6 month check up "the brain is so unknown It's such a mystery." Maybe that's why it's so scary for me. it's so unknown and every pill, every test is almost like a guessing game to see if it's going to work or what's going to happen. After I have my appointment tomorrow I will post another update Thank you again for all of the prayers and support
Happy Thanksgiving to my Fund the First family, beautiful community, family and friends. I began my day by watching Fund the First's segment on CBS at 0840 and learning more in depth about why and how they are able to do so much good for our big first responder family. Thank you to everyone at Fund the First for everything that you do for First responders behind the scenes. With gratitude, love and appreciation The Beatty family ❤
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Reply from Tonya Beatty4 years agoThank you McClain family. I receive that healing and I thank you for your blessings and generous donation. ❤
Best wishes for you and your family.
Reply from Tonya Beatty4 years agoThank you Jerome. I pray that you receive the same kindness and generosity that you have shown my family.
Thank you for your service! Although we don’t know each other personally we are a family of LEO’s and want to show our support to you and your family. I can’t imagine what you and your family are going through right now... sending you our thoughts and prayers for a speedy recovery. If your girls need gifts or we can help in any way for the holidays please feel free to email me. [email protected]
Reply from Tonya Beatty4 years agoThank you Tracy for your love and support not only as a fellow human being but also as a part of our huge, extended Leo family. your kind words and thoughts and prayers keep me going when I feel like I'm drowning. you are a true answer to prayer and I am completely humbled by your willingness to help and to donate to my family. I pray that you you know how much you have changed our lives for the better and I pray that even bigger blessings come your way. Lots of love, The Beatty family
I'm so sorry you and your family has to go through this and that our country hasn't done enough to support families like yours going through medical issues. I hope your fundraiser is successful so you can focus on getting better and not stress about money/bills!!
Reply from Tonya Beatty4 years agoI am beyond blessed by so many wonderful people like you Brandy who have reached out with prayers, words of encouragement, sharing our story and donating your own hard earned money to help my family. This was definitely unexpected and some moments are harder than others. but when I get alerts on my phone from the campaign and read the messages from such kind and selfless people like your self, it renews my strength and helps me to keep going ❤
Reply from Tonya Beatty4 years agoRhonda thank you for your generosity and donating to my family and me. I pray that you are blessed tenfold ❤
Reply from Tonya Beatty4 years agoThank you Jessica for thinking of my family and me and for generously donating to us❤
donated $100
Wishing you a speedy and full recovery. Thank you for your service. Although we don't know you, any friend of Mike Delahanty is a friend of ours.
Reply from Tonya Beatty4 years agoThank you so very much Mr. and Mrs. Vazquez. it was a true honor to serve our country. Thank you for your generous donation and considering me a friend simply because of our wonderful and common thread, Mike. He's a great guy and I know that the same is true about the two of you ❤
Prayers for your healing and your family!
Reply from Tonya Beatty4 years agoThank you Mrs. Christine. I welcome those prayers by faith. Thank you for your generosity and donating to my family and me ❤
Prayers for you and your family.
Reply from Tonya Beatty4 years agoThank you Scott for your prayers first and foremost and for your very generous donation. I continue to be amazed and humbled by all of the love and support.
Tonya, I miss seeing your face at work and I am keeping you in my prayers❤️
Reply from Tonya Beatty4 years agoCathy i miss you more than you know. you are one of the best and my favorite nurses to work with ❤ Thank you for thinking of me and for donating. it truly means the world to me
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Thank you for your service to us all. May God bless you and you family and place his healing hands on you.