Thank you

I wanted to reach out and personally thank everyone for the kind words, prayers, donations, and overall support while I have been going through my recent health challenges. Your kindness and love means more to me than I know how to express and a million thank-yous doesn’t seem enough.

When I was diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematoses, I had no idea the challenges I would face. After being well-managed for so long, things got a little more difficult in the spring of 2022. After almost two years of working with numerous specialists, I lost a major organ in March of 2024. This seemingly began this very long and crazy road I have been on these past several months. Two months after recovering from that surgery, I ended up with an infection in my bloodstream and subsequently an abscess on one of my kidneys.

While still taking antibiotics from the infection in my blood and kidney abscess in early August, I developed chest pain and was hospitalized with another awful infection, this time in my lung. This infection was so severe that it killed the lower part of my lung. This led to 12 trips to the operating room for surgical procedures, wash outs of my chest and other additional treatments over the course of my 65 days in the hospital. I still have many months of wound care, antibiotics, and follow-ups ahead of me as well as one more planned surgical procedure on November 15th. For right now, finally being home has been amazing.

It gets pretty dark when you’re sick and stuck in a hospital for 65 days. The amount of people that reached out, sent words of encouragement, and just let me know they were thinking of me was completely unexpected. Every single one of you truly brought a little light to those hard days. Your donations have also significantly eased the financial stress that this has caused for me as a single mom navigating through my health challenges and trying to raise my teen daughter. I am both overwhelmed and humbled to have the love and support of all of you and I can never thank you enough.

From the bottom of my heart,

Randi Lovec