'GoFundMe felt demeaning,' but Illinoisans are turning to it as a health care lifeline
Born just two weeks ago, Zalina's tiny hand grips her mother's finger as if to say "Everything is going to be OK."
Janna Schnell isn't allowing herself to think about the impending medical costs of Zalina's premature birth, or being part of a growing trend that finds financial help in the kindness of strangers via platforms such as GoFundMe.
A $25,000 GoFundMe campaign has been created for Zalina, who was born one month premature with a distended abdomen. Soon after her birth, Zalina was transported from Presence St. Mary's hospital in Kankakee to the neonatal intensive care unit at University of Chicago's Comer Children's Hospital, where doctors performed a surgery to remove a
