02/07/2026
April health Update..
She's not dead, she's still very much alive!
Just want to start off by saying we miss our seafood business and all of our amazing customers over the years!
April was suffering a slow painfully miserable death until God stepped in and last August when some amazing angels at Chapel Hill showed up to the rescue!!
I'm not going to go into the whole story or specifics but here it goes..
As you know, April has been fighting a deadly illness for the past 4 years and not a single doctor in our medical system would help or knew how to help her if they even tried.
Her pain doctor at ECPC Dr. K has kept her body level managing her pain the best he can but pain meds can only do so much while having an active root cause affecting her whole body.
April had 15 teeth removed. 6 upper teeth on Aug 25th 2025 and 9 lower teeth removed Sept. 5th 2025 at UNC Chapel Hill School of Dentistry emergency room.
They were infected from a cracked mercury tooth and the infection spread from her mouth to her brain and down her spine. It was causing mayhem on her entire body and no doctor would help in any kind of way as yall know with her being soo "medically complex". I don't wish trigeminal neuralgia on anyone, even on my worst enemy!
She woke up one day in 2021 with burning mouth syndrome and lost her vision.. and that's when it all started going down hill with spine pain and crazy symptoms on her body.
Fast forward to today..
Yesterday Feb 5th 2026, we went to a prosthodontist appointment at Chapel Hill and the amazing Dr. Ray checked her gums and said she has an amazing amount of jaw bone, measured her mouth, took a bunch of pictures of her facial structure as well as did a gum mold on her upper and lower gums.
The Dr. and his team are starting to get a game plan to get new teeth put back in her the safest route and give her the beautiful smile she deserves! He seems like such an amazing doctor who truly cares for his patients and is a true angel!
We have another Chapel Hill appointment coming up Feb 16th for 3 hours and hopefully they will start the process of installing implants into her gums and tossing some beautiful Hollywood white teeth in! They will only be temporary teeth until she heals and the permanent ones are made. So far it looks like she will have 9 implants drilled and installed intolerant jaw bone for the teeth to snap on to.
April has lost a part of her left hand and arm function from something compressing but hopefully she can gain function back one day soon.
April has recently had an updated MRI to see what is going on in her spine but we are still on standby with those results. She may need an MRI of her neck as well.
Theres soo much more to this story and maybe one day the rest will be shared, but for right now this is better news then what we've had in the past.
She still has a broken spine with a tumor wrapped around it, lots of chronic pain syndromes and a lot more issues but we are trying to put those fires out one at a time and get her a better quality of life then she's had.
Thank you for all of the prayers and love sent our way over the years, we truly appreciate it!!!
Shout out to
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ecpc Pain Specialists
For keeping her alive and saving her life ❤️
April and Brian J
