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I love being outdoors fishing and hunting. I love to read, listen to music and watch my daughter dance and my son swim. I also have two adorable Weimer Reiner’s that give me comfort and joy. I just want to get back to living active a normal life. I don’t view this transplant as a cure but a safe positive treatment toward restoring some of my functionality. I desperately need your help to afford stem cell therapy, and deserves the chance to halt her MS and a chance at a better life!
To help with the financial burden of Michelle’s expenses, a fundraising campaign in her honor has been established with Help Hope Live. Mickey has chosen to fundraise with Help Hope Live in part because Help Hope Live assures fiscal accountability of funds raised and tax deductibility to the full extent allowed by law for donors. Donors can be sure that funds donated will be used only to pay or reimburse medically-related expenses. To make a donation to this fundraising campaign, click on the Donate Now button.
For more information, please contact Help Hope Live at 800.642.8399.
Thank you for your support, kindness and prayers. Please know that every contribution counts.
Gratefully,
Michelle Reigel
The stemcell therapy was a success so far!! I have relief from pain and pins& needles!!! Thanks again everyone!
Finally finished my month long course of steroids.
I have 21 days of cleaning eatting and get back in the gym this week!!
#stepstostemcell
Great news!! I have been able to walk this week without needing ANY canes!!! Two more weeks of steroids :( But, they are working. I completed my blood work in preparation for July's treatment. Now just waiting for MRI scheduling!!
Thank you again for all of the support! The calls, texts, emails etc mean a lot!
Things are coming together.
Only 10,000 away for the medical treatment!
I am still not walking very well, I should hear today if the doctor is able to prescribe anything. So far the insurance company has denied coverage but I know she had filed an appeal.
Thank you to everyone that has called or written!! It means more than you know!
I am humbled by the support we have received!!! We were able to put the deposit down for the StemCell transplant on July 25th!!!!
The next step is to book the flights out to San Diego!!
Thank you everyone!!
Having a lot of trouble walking :/ using two canes to get around most of the time.
I finished my week of steroids. Waiting to hear from the doctor to see what is next.
Bloodwork and MRI on Thursday 05/26/2016
What a great start!! Thank you!!!
Keeping you in my prayers....
Debbie Shaver
Michelle, Brett Please let me know if there is any way I can help.
Chris Duphily
If there is more that I can do then just donate money, please let me know. In the meantime, I'm sorry my donation isn't more then it is.
Rudy
Anyone that knows me knows I am not good at asking for help. In fact, I suck at it. But sometimes you must do things that are hard, that hurt or that make you feel small and unsuccessful.
My wife, Michelle, has MS. Right now, she is experiencing a rather nasty “flare” up where she either can only walk with two canes or not at all. Sometimes she has to crawl up the steps. Sometimes the only way off the floor is if I pick her up. It is easier to dress our 3 year old during a tantrum than it is for her to put on her socks. We must set phone reminders for medication and to eat, because she will just forget to do either. I won’t add the rest of the indignities she suffers as a result of this miserable disease; suffice to say there are many. She’s a week into a course of steroids that would often reverse the flare up, but this time it is providing little relief. (At least so far.)
We have long been at war with insurance for treatments and to cover things that would seem “common sense”, but, instead require appeals and fights and payments to providers in the meantime.
This year, we will be seeing Michelle begin to receive Medicare benefits, but, with the necessary supplemental policy, our front end expenses will INCREASE from the current premiums being paid. Hopefully, the treatment expenses will decrease.
What will not be covered by this or any insurance—at least until it is classified differently—is stem cell therapy. Michelle is a candidate for stem cell replacement, using her own stem cells. This avoids the possibility of rejection issues.
The cost of the therapy alone, without travel, without me being able to go for support or assistance is, bluntly, frightful. When those other things are added, it becomes downright terrifying.
While I am successful, this burden is daunting. And it comes with a tight deadline because if not done during this summer, a more traditional treatment will have to be begun and that treatment, though likely covered by insurance, will preclude her from stem cell therapy. So, the conjunction of the cost and the timeframe requires us to ask for help. We have money; and we can get some more quickly. But we are asking for assistance that will stretch the funds we do have and those we can obtain quickly to have enough to do this thing in time. Stem cell treatment is not likely to “reverse” anything from the MS; but it may provide relief from the flare and return Michelle to where she was just before it hit.
I’m not nearly as strong as my wife. She does hard stuff everyday. She does stuff that hurts—honestly, for her, waking up hurts. She asks for help with activities the rest of us take for granted—like getting a drink from the kitchen. I hate asking for help, as it feels like I have let her down; that I am not “enough” and that my successes have been weighed and are left wanting. But I am asking. Because I love her. Because our kids love her. Because she is important to many people. Please donate if you can. Every penny brings us closer to being able to schedule the appointment and helps her hope, and mine, to live.
Brett J. Riegel
I know the Stem Cell Therapy will go great! Only met you a few times, but I can still feel your positive energy. You're such an amazing person. Feel better
Briana Davis
I'm sorry to hear that you are experiencing this...... I pray God Grant You healing.... And use you to restore hope to many. You are a Brilliant Woman with a Heart of Gold and Thank God for your Life
Lisa Villano
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In honor of Michelle Riegel
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100 Matsonford Road
Radnor, PA 19087
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