Breathing Easy: Supporting Theresa

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Theresa Evans
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Kraaifontein
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Started 2 months ago
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Title: Every Breath is a Battle, Every Step is Agony: Please Help Save Theresa.

Imagine the simple act of breathing becoming a terrifying, daily struggle where your oxygen levels plummet to a life-threatening 18%. Now, imagine your body swelling so severely from heart failure that fluid literally forces its way through your skin, causing massive, painful blisters.This is the heartbreaking reality for 55-year-old Theresa Evans.Theresa is fighting a severe, combined crisis of Primary Pulmonary Heart Disease and Cor Pulmonale. Because her right heart is failing to pump blood effectively through her lungs, fluid is backing up massively into her lower body. As you can see from the heartbreaking photos we’ve shared, her legs are in a state of severe medical distress. They are profoundly swollen, raw, and covered in massive fluid-filled blisters (edema bullae) because her skin can no longer hold the fluid building up inside her. Her skin is incredibly fragile, weeping, and at a massive risk for severe infection.Theresa is in deep physical and emotional distress. She is completely b...

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