Limerick family seeks help for house adaptation and medical expenses after the aftermath of their mother’s battle against Covid-19

A Limerick family seeks help – Mary T Walsh Sexton, pictured above, has been home for almost a year now and experienced more difficulty while in hospital including “double pneumonia and a blood clot on the lungs”.

A Limerick family has created a Gofundme page to help the “family’s financial worries, to help with modifications and Mam’s medical expenses” while they work through their hardship

A Limerick family is appealing for help as they cope with the aftermath of their mother’s battle against Covid-19 needing to adapt their home and to help with medical expenses.

The fundraising page has raised more than €8,000 of its €30,000 goal as the Limerick family seeks help so “so we can concentrate on getting through this nightmare”.

Set up by daughter, Aishling Sexton, the page reads, “Our lovely mother who even after having all her vaccines and cocooning at home, on top of her own illness that she had already, she ended up getting Covid 19. Soon after Halloween in 2021, she ended up in University Hospital Limerick, where she was put into an induced coma and also put on a ventilator for several months as her lungs went into lung failure.”

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Mary T Walsh Sexton, who has been home for almost a year now, experienced more difficulty while in hospital including “double pneumonia and a blood clot on the lungs”.

Aishling explains, “She was in such a critical condition we did not know what was going to happen or if she was going to make it. We were called into the ICU ward at least 3 times to say goodbye to her, which was very hard to be told by doctors that she would not survive.”

The mother of three “shocked absolutely everyone” with the progress she had made while in hospital, but Aishling says “she still had a long road ahead of her to get home”.

“After 5 months in Limerick Regional Hospital at the end of March/April 2022 she was moved onto rehabilitation at St Camillus Hospital Limerick. Here she had to re-learn all her motor skills e.g. walk, talk, sit up etc. But with the care and support from all the staff in both hospitals and Mam’s stubbornness, she made it home at the end of June 2022,” reads the Gofundme page.

Aishling continues, “She has been home for nearly a year now. At the end of last year, she was told that she has Pulmonary fibrosis which is a shock to us all, after going through so much and surviving, to now be faced with this life-limiting disease and with lifelong use of oxygen 24/7 and a very poor lung function in both lungs.

“There is no cure, or treatment other than a double lung transplant for Mam in Dublin. We don’t know if she will be lucky enough to get a lung transplant but we are trying and hoping she will.”

Many people have been asking how they can help the woman in her 40s, her daughter saying, “Well, this is how.”

“We would really appreciate it if you could spare as little or as much as you can donate. I would like to raise as much money, to help with some of our family’s financial worries, to help with modifications and Mam’s medical expenses so we can concentrate on getting through this nightmare,” she said.

Offering a thank you to those willing to help, “Thank you in advance for all your donations, we really appreciate it.”

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