Liza Scott, seven, an Alabama resident, is selling lemonade to help pay for her brain surgeries, reports the local agency WHNT.
The child is selling outside the Savage Bakery in Homewood, Alabama, which is owned by his mother, Elizabeth Scott. Interested customers can also order bakery online, with profits from lemonade sales going to help fund Liza Scott’s brain surgery.
In late January, Scott suffered a Grand Mal seizure, and in the weeks that followed, neurologists and neurosurgeons discovered that the child had several brain malformations that require immediate attention.
“In almost all cases of these rare malformations, doctors see only one malformation – in Liza’s case she has three,” wrote her mother, Elizabeth, on Liza’s fundraising page, Mightycause. One malformation includes a cleft in the frontal lobe of the brain, while the other is an aneurysm, and another is known as a dural arteriovenous fistula – a rare condition in which branches of veins and arteries connect.
On the fundraising website, the family initially set a goal of $ 75,000, but by the time this article was published, it had raised more than $ 130,000.
Scott’s first surgery is scheduled to take place the week of March 8 at Boston Children’s Hospital, and the family is expected to spend several weeks “away from his 3-year-old brother, family and friends” to look after Scott during his surgeries.
Liza’s mother wrote that “the excess overhead, time away from work and the additional resources needed to do things at home” have already started to accumulate for the family. Elizabeth bought additional insurance, according to WHNT, but the family is already facing about $ 10,000 in entry and exit expenses.
“As a single mother and financial supporter of my two children, this is not something you can budget for,” Scott told the channel. For now, Scott wrote online that she is praying and that God “allows difficult times in life to help others see His incredible love, protection and faithfulness”.
“I find comfort in knowing that God always provides,” she wrote. “I’m learning that it’s okay to not be well at times, that it’s okay to ask for help and that it’s okay to share this journey with those who love Liza, love our family, love our bakery and love God.”
Elizabeth Scott did not immediately return Insider’s request for comment.