© WDRB Fox 41Tabbatha Rhymer
At 17, Tabbatha Rhymer should be thinking about prom and the end of another school year, but she has just one wish. "To get better," she whispered softly.
She had a stroke in January and since then, doctors have found lesions on her brain but cannot figure out what is wrong. "The lesion caused the stroke, and the stroke caused the seizures," said her adoptive mother, Juanita Age.
Medicine helps, but she is constantly seizing, and Tabby's mother has to feed her through a tube. "Every time she goes to sleep my husband will say, 'She's fine, she's sleeping.' I'm in here seeing if her heart's still beating."
She's so weak, she hardly has strength to talk. "This has been scary. I feel like I'm gonna die every day," said Tabby.
She was perfectly healthy before January, and had picked out a prom dress in her favorite color --purple. Her best friend even painted Tabby's nails the royal color. Fellow Fern Creek students wore purple bracelets and held a $2 jeans fundraiser to help Tabby's family. "I've had kids tell me they've donated $10, $6, $15." said Chad, Tabby's boyfriend. "I'm hoping that we can definitely continue on through college, and have a family."
The kind acts continue as a local company donated and installed a handicap accessible shower. "There's just been one person after another. It's just overwhelming. It's really overwhelming."
Their church has donated gift cards and money to help the family out. And the students have raised over $2,300.
they can't find out about the biological parents, that would probably help them out.