Lt. Miles and his wife have spent the largest part of their lives, both on and off the job, serving their community. It is with heavy hearts that they now find themselves reaching out for assistance. Their 24 year old daughter has previously battled an aggressive form of Crohn's Disease but has now developed an undiagnosed illness as well. Since October of 2020, she has spent weeks in the hospital and, when not hospitalized, requires ER visits several times per week. She has been largely unable to keep down solid foods since October, they have recently discovered her right kidney is not functioning properly and her liver and thyroid are not functioning correctly either. They have yet to be able to determine a cause. She has been hospitalized for Sepsis, hospitalized as a result of a nonworking kidney, hospitalized for dehydration and has even been treated with an antifungal on the off chance she has developed a fungus in her blood from so many antibiotics, etc. She has met with Urologists, Digestive Disease Specialists, Infectious Disease specialists and more. Her specialists have recommended that she seek treatment at the Mayo Clinic to determine the cause that they have yet to locate. None of her specialists are located in Lake City, requiring frequent trips out of town for her ER visits, hospital stays and doctors appointments. The Mayo Clinic does not accept her insurance but are willing to accept her case and take monthly payments but she will still be required to pay a sizable deposit. Due to all of the above, she has been unable to work since October and will be unable to work for the foreseeable future. She and the family are currently unable to meet the deposit or the additional monthly payment requirements. She has two 4 year old children as well. Lt. Miles and his wife have been covering her expenses for a number of months to include co-pays for testing, transportation expenses, living expenses, etc. She does have an additional surgery upcoming in January to address the Crohn's side of her illness. She will have a recovery time of at least 6 to 8 weeks. She will then need to be seen at the Mayo clinic for diagnostic testing. The Mayo Clinic will bring an additional set of expenses such as transportation, lodging, time missed from work, etc. Lt. Miles and his wife are doing their best to, not only locate resources and medical treatments, but to keep up with the added expenses. As a result, the ones that have always been a support to others now find themselves is need of support........please note that the family continues to work to identify other resources. In the event that money is raised beyond what is actually needed in the future, it will be donated back to another Fund the First campaign. Thank you in advance for sharing this, any donations and your continued prayers for the family.
Updates
Late Friday evening, Destiny tested positive for Covid. She had developed a pretty nasty cough and was complaining that her chest hurt. Honestly, we all thought that it was because she has been bedridden for a week, as that sometimes happen with bedridden patients. She has been tested for Covid at every ER visit (several per week) and every hospitalization. Unfortunately, it appears that she contracted the virus while hospitalized for her other ongoing issues. She has been moved to the COVID floor and is unable to have visitors so we are trying to video chat as much as possible to keep her spirits up. She has yet to be able to keep anything down since being admitted on Christmas. They have also started her on oxygen earlier today just to help give her lungs a boost.
She is able to see everyone's messages and both she and our family have been overwhelmed with the love, support and prayers sent by so many! Please keep them coming! The first objective is to treat her and keep her as comfortable as possible relating to the virus. Secondly, to get her to a point that she can begin to keep down either solids or liquids as that is what caused her hospitalization to begin with and lastly, once released, to get her to the Mayo Clinic as soon as possible.
We are inching closer and closer to our goal. Please continue to share the link with your friends and family so that we can get her diagnosed and active again.
Thank you!
Destiny has been back in the hospital since Christmas day. They did a colonoscopy and endoscopy yesterday and are awaiting biopsy results. She still has been unable to keep much of anything down despite the IV anti-nausea medications. Her iron is very low so they gave her an IV iron infusion last night. There was not much change to her iron levels so they have ordered another infusion this morning. Thank you all for your continued prayers!
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Reply from Elizabeth Price Miles3 years ago
Reply from Elizabeth Price Miles3 years agoTim, I know that we speak regularly so you already know but... THANK YOU for your generosity, your longtime friendship, your prayers and your support! We love you <3
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Reply from Elizabeth Price Miles3 years ago<3 <3 <3 <3 <3
Sending many thoughts and prayers. From Jon & Zena Reville
Reply from Elizabeth Price Miles3 years agoJon and Zena, We have been so moved by the support, prayers and generosity extended to our daughter by people like you! You will never know what this means to our family <3 THANK YOU!
I love you Destiny! You got this girl!
Reply from Elizabeth Price Miles3 years agoJess, Destiny saw your message and was so touched! Thank you so much for the continued love and support that you offer her. <3
God bless your family.
Reply from Elizabeth Price Miles3 years agoMs. Jackson, You will never know how touched we have been by the angels like yourself who have offered support and prayers to our daughter and family! Thank you just doesn't seem to even cover it! Many hugs sent to you <3
Reply from Elizabeth Price Miles3 years agoJessica, From the bottom of our hearts, a sincere THANK YOU for your support of our daughter. There really are no words! Sending you many sincere hugs <3
donated $50
Prayers sent your way 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Reply from Elizabeth Price Miles3 years agoJorge, Our family cannot express what your kindness means to us and our daughter! Thank you doesn't begin to cover it. Sending you many appreciative hugs!
donated $250
Reply from Elizabeth Price Miles3 years agoBrad, We have struggled to find the words to appropriately say THANK YOU! We never imagined that we would be in a position to need or request the assistance of others but....life! Your generosity and support of our daughter means more than we can express. Thank you for being an angel to us. We look forward to coming out the other side and paying your blessings forward. Many hugs!
Reply from Elizabeth Price Miles3 years agoOur family has struggled to find the right words to express our gratitude for angels like you. We have been truly moved <3 THANK YOU so much for your support of our daughter!
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Dee, We have tried to put into words how moved we have felt by the kindness and support extended to our daughter and family. There really are no words to express the sincere gratitude and how much it means to our family! THANK YOU so much and many hugs sent to you!