LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – Parents are rallying around a beloved Las Vegas pre-school teacher who lost both of her legs, after she recently struggled to pay for insulin medication.
Julie Cross, known as “Ms. Julie” to parents and families, is a Pre-K teacher at Crossroads Academy and has been an educator for nine years. Her mother founded the small school and her sister taught and helps run the school.
Cross has autoimmune diabetes, and just had surgery at Summerlin Hospital. Doctors were able to save both her knees, which will help her get prosthetics to walk in the future.
Mother Tammy Cross said recently, her diabetes progressed and current medications wouldn’t work; according to her family, doctors recommended some time ago that Julie use insulin, but even with health insurance, she couldn’t afford the quoted $700 a month.
Her mother tells FOX5, Julie did not tell her loved ones about her predicament. Cross said Julie had recently achieved the “American Dream,” paid off her vehicle and bought a condominium, and kept mortgage payments current because she didn’t want to lose her home.
“It’s a struggle. She’s got a long road to take, It wasn’t planned. She’s already saying, she can’t wait to get back to class. She misses her kids,” Tammy Cross said. who struggled through tears.
“It’s going to be an expensive road. I just want her to live her dream,” Cross said.
Parents helped create a GoFundMe for Ms. Julie.
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