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It's Rochelle's birthday, and her 34th is certainly a heck of lot better than her 33rd was. This year, she gets to celebrate her day with friends and family. Last year, she was in the ICU two days after a life-altering stroke, completely immobile on her left side as well as recovering from a surgery to remove a piece of her skull in order to save her life.
And as far as she's come this past year, all she wants is to continue progressing in her recovery. She's fought hard and made significant progress, re-learning how to walk and talk and in general to make parts of her body work again. She continues to work hard on her rehab via OT, PT, and at-home exercises, and continues to show improvement in the functioning of her left side. But, there's a ways to go yet: she still needs to use a wheelchair to travel more than short distances, and remains unable to use her lower left arm for most tasks, both things she hopes to change with continued work and healing. She is also still waiting on the skull piece they removed to be returned to her body (though thankfully a recent CT showed that the operation to replace it is likely to happen in the next 2-3 months, after a preparation proceedure & evaluation in the coming weeks).
For now, she remains medically unable to work. She applied for SSDI months ago, and while it is expected by her providers that she will be approved, the Social Security Administraion is experiencing a record backlog and applications for benefits are now frequently taking 7 months or more to process. Additionally, there is a rehab device strongly recommended by her providers (the BioNess H200, info below) that could significantly accelerate the healing of her lower left arm, but that is not covered by her insurance and would cost several thousand dollars out of pocket. So, she both needs help in bridging the gap on rent, utilities and other household expenses until her SSDI application reaches the top of the stack for approval, and in acquiring this potentially life-changing medical device.
We hope that you will contribute if you are able, and share this with your network as well, because meeting this goal would be an incredible birthday present for Rochelle, and a big step towards meeting both needs. Thank you for your support of this incredible fighter and human being.
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Studies on the effectiveness of Bioness (via NIH): link
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