Meg Loney
Appearances
The Ramsey Show
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I am a marketing operations specialist, so I make things work.
The Ramsey Show
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All the back-end things that a lot of people don't want to do, I do.
The Ramsey Show
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So I have my four-year-old daughter, Tilly, is here with us today. When she was five months old, she was diagnosed with epilepsy. And we went through lots of medicines, 10 medicines. None of them stopped the seizures. She was having three, four seizures a day, sometimes more.
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And then ultimately we went the surgical route. So they found a small piece of her brain that hadn't fully developed or developed properly. And they were like, hey, we think if we remove this part of her brain that it will stop the seizures. Whoa. And at that point we had gotten to, she was getting rescue meds like once a week.
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So she was having seizures lasting longer than five minutes that required some extra medicine to stop them. So at that point we were kind of like, we gave it to God. We said, we know that we've been praying for answers and you've presented this one. So we started down the surgical route. And at that time we applied with Make-A-Wish Middle Tennessee and which is just an extraordinary organization.
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They worked with us to find the best wish for Tilly to have. And so then she had her surgery in October, October 18th. And then in April of 2024, we were able to go on this amazing trip to Disney World and so much more. So they covered, they picked us up in a limo. They covered our flights. They got us a rental car.
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They have an amazing resort called Give Kids the World Resort, which is only for wish families. Wow. It is like a small apartment. There were two rooms. Tilly's room had the bathroom connected to it. And Justin and I actually had to like leave to go use the bathroom.
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They provided meals at the resort and they have rides and a pool. So it's everything in a resort you could want. And then they give you tickets to Disney World with the Fast Pass or whatever it's called now. So we got to skip the line. Tilly went on her favorite ride, Slinky Dog Dash, three times in a row because they're like, yeah, just go back on it.
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Um, we went to universal studios and she had a blast and they give you a debit card so that you can buy meals at the parks. You can buy souvenirs. It was just,
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bigger than we could have ever imagined like even starting with like dreaming with them it was bigger than we could have even imagined um and it was just an amazing way to kind of cap off that journey um so because of today as of today she is 14 months seizure free yay praise god that's amazing wow she's clapping too which i love that says yeah amen everybody clap so uh
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So I actually made the connection when I was in one of the epilepsy groups on Facebook, just a support group. And I saw someone had mentioned that their child was able to get a wish. And I was like, I thought that Make-A-Wish was only for children that had cancer.
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cancer or had a terminal illness and then i did a little bit more research and i talked to our epileptologist and he was like yeah you should definitely apply um so we did so they have an application process that they use okay yes they have an application process okay so you did apply and then it takes a few months or whatever and they get back to you or what It wasn't even a few months.
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It was maybe a week or two. They just kind of verify everything that's going on. And I know they do like to move quickly so that they can help all of the children that apply that meet kind of the criteria. So they are super quick and they meet with you. They came to the hospital when we were in the hospital with Tilly during her first surgery. because we were in there for nine days for monitoring.
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So they came out and they saw us there and they took us out for ice cream. They did all sorts of things even leading up to the wish. Wow.
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Yeah, it's amazing. And she's a wish ambassador now, so she helps to raise funds now for other kids to have their wishes granted, which we love to be able to then give back to the organization.
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I would love if all the donations to Make-A-Wish could just take off because these kids deserve it all. They go through so much more than anyone should have to, let alone being 3, 4, 5, 6.
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I was. And the generosity from Ramsey during all of it was just amazing. There was never a question of like, oh, you need more time off. You have another doctor's appointment. It was so much grace. And I can't imagine working anywhere else during the time that we went through that. And the team also, that nine-day stay at the hospital, the team also raised a lot of money.
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They gave us like a $1,000 gift card to be able to buy food so that we didn't have to eat hospital food for nine days in a row.