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 agoKayli, your generosity does not go unnoticed and is so sincerely appreciated! Destiny saw your message and was so touched. Many hugs sent to you and THANK YOU more than you know.
Reply from Elizabeth Price Miles3 years agoValerie, Thank you so much for your kindness and generosity! It has been overwhelming (in a good way) to see the hearts of angels like you during this time. Many sincere hugs sent your way <3
Reply from Elizabeth Price Miles3 years agoThank you so much for your generosity and support of our daughter! She sees these as well and we have all been brought to tears by angels like yourself. This means the world to us and we look forward to the day that we can pay it forward!
Prayers for comfort and healing. 🙏
Reply from Elizabeth Price Miles3 years agoCandice, Thank you so much for your friendship, generosity and support! You know how much we love you but just in case.......LOVE YOU TONS AND THANK YOU!
Prayers for you, your daughter and the rest of the family!! 🙏🏼♥️
Reply from Elizabeth Price Miles3 years agoNicole, Our family have been so moved by the prayers and generosity of angels like yourself. Honestly, I feel like I keep using the same words of appreciation over and over but it's because there really are none to express the impact this has made on our family. THANK YOU for being an angel to us <3
donated $250
Reply from Elizabeth Price Miles3 years agoJohn, THANK YOU so much for your generosity and support! It means the world to Destiny and all of our family. You are appreciated more than we can express. Hugs!
Pulling for you, D! Stay strong ❤️
Reply from Elizabeth Price Miles3 years agoAmanda, Thank you so much for this! Destiny also saw your message. We have all been so touched. Many hugs to you my friend <3
My prayers are with you all during this tough time.
Reply from Elizabeth Price Miles3 years agoJacqueline, Destiny and our family have, literally, been moved to tears at the support and generosity from people like yourself! This means more than we can put into words. THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Pray you get well soon
Reply from Elizabeth Price Miles3 years agoThank you so much! You do not know what this means to our daughter and our family! You are truly a blessing. Many appreciative hugs are sent to you <3
Praying for your daughter 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Reply from Elizabeth Price Miles3 years agoJennifer, the kindness, prayers and generosity extended to us by people like yourself has meant so much. It will never be forgotten! Thank you!
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