Coastal Southeastern Family Practice

02/28/2025

Sooooo not only do I have a big back I have a broke back !!! Saw Neurosurgeon yesterday Surgery is the only option per HIS Report (I still no the ULTIMATE PHYSICIAN in whose report i will believe) he says he's going to have to fuse l4 and l5 with metal plates and screws. I have a stress fracture which means its completly broken at L6 so he can't fuse that one so he will remove and insert titanium and spacer . The earliest he can do is March 12 because he will need assistance. Stay one to two nights depending on how I do with pain control. I ask for prayers for me specifically mentally as this is wearing on my joy and peace. I feel like a failure. Ive missed 2 of Kendall competitions and possibly his 3rd as it is 16 days after my anticipated surgery. My last two babies are 2 and a half and 1 and half so I haven't been the same Nana to them that Mahala, Caden and Lakhaza got. I miss my outings with families, church and SIMPLY being who I am. To MOST of my patients thank you. Thank you for understanding the past year my pain and tears. Thank you for sending an encouraging word, the calls and prayers. Ive had several pts stop me and say can I pray for you. I pray that this will end my surgical journey for at least 68 years or so. To my church family thank you gor being a constant in my life. I mean a Pastor that will come in the middle of my work day to lay hands on me and pray. Thank you ALL for the kindness.

02/19/2025

Due to inclement weather the office will close today at 2:30pm 2/19/25, Weather permitting we will open tomorrow at 10:00 am. If you have an emergency dial 9-1-1 or go to nearest E/R or Urgent Care. Please everyone take precautions and be safe.

01/22/2025

12/25/2024

My holiday season may look and definitely feel different. I had a lot of "im sorry I can't do it, I'm sorry I can't go I'm sorry I'm hurting to bad" but you know what I'm still here. I have a testimony. Many times over the paat 3 months the devil tried to kill me. What he don't understand is I win no matter what. But I knew my children and famiy wasn't ready for me to leave. After an emergency Mri due to losing sensation in my left hand I was called for an emergency neuroconsult to go that very day to Raleigh. Well it's no secret we all get our reports through our My Charts (Lord seems just like yesterday I was using MySpace thank God for growth). One of the first things I read was mass near brainstem extending to c2 level Immediately I felt overwhelmed not for me but for my family. Well it's no secret that my mom is my front office manager so of course her being so proficient with clearning the fax she too saw the results. Lord help us mothers lol. The appointment revealed the need for emergency surgery. On Wednesday I reported to surgery by then my fingertips were discolored. I was in severe pain
i mean screaming, crying, snoting and all. So the anesthesiologist was gracious enough to give me some of the good stuff well maybe a little too much because on the way to the Operating room suite I became unresponsive and crashed requiring emergency resuscitation. Side note I'm not sure it was at the time but I was told as my family was in the wating room my dad gets an urge to pray. He asked them all to join in prayer as he felt in his spirit the urgency to pray. Look at God!!!! I was told the mass was ruptured bone material from cervical spine that had moved near my brainstem. I have to have repeat MRI in 6months just for precautions.
Due to the emergency efforts I unfortunately have developed an aspiration pneumonia which has complicated my recovery significantly. Trying coughing a lung up through a neck with 3 plates and 6 screws caged together. I have been placed on antibiotics and breathing treatments. If that wasn't enough then they had difficulty waking me from surgery. Today is the first day I don't feel like warmed over death. But as greatful as I am to be here I feel so unworthy and guilty to make this post. You see right now I know 2 close families fighting stage 4 brain cancer. I don't know why God didn't chose me to fight that battle but what I am committed to doing is praying for them just as if it was me and my family.
This is my testimony.
Undeserving, unworthy but still here.
Merry Christmas to All.
Remember HE is the reason for the season.

12/17/2024

First, I want to thank everyone for your love and support. Every phone call, meal, text message and mostly prayer has not gone unnoticed. Despite every failed option I will be going for surgery at Duke tomorrow at 1. Being told things like it's life threatening and serious has resonated deep within my soul. However, despite any outcomes tomorrow I know whom I'm going in with and coming out of surgery with, my Savior Jesus Christ. It's been a long and tiring 6 weeks filled with suffering, pain and tears. But, I know from whence cometh my strength. Keep my family in prayers , many nights Jr and Kendall have spent all night crying with me, praying with me and trying to ease my pain. I may not know what tomorrow holds for me but I know who holds it. May Gods will continue to be done in my life. Thank you to all my family, church family, patients at CSFP, work family and friends.

12/13/2024

I stand on his word. Today I {Katara} received a call stating I had an abnormal MRI and I would need to go to Raleigh Neurosurgeon immediately. We are on the way home from there now. I will be having surgery early next week pending the authorization from insurance. It will be an extensive surgery as they will have to take out the plates and screws I had placed in 2022. They will then replace 3 levels of disc in my neck and bolt them together with a cage. I was told it was life threatening and had to be done immediately as parts of my spinal cord was compressed and without oxygen. There are some other things found they will be evaluating as well. I ask prayer for my husband, my children, and my family in general. I have a long road ahead of me and I ask prayer for God to lead the surgical team if he doesn't heal me first. It's been a long exhausting 6 weeks both mentally and physically. Once I can process all this we will inform our patients as to our future direction.at Coastal Southeastern Family Practice.

I am asking everyone that will to Please remember Katara in your Prayers.

10/10/2024

I'm sorry for the inconvenience but I was taken to the hsptl yesterday with Atrial Fibrillation my heart rate was 180 for nearly 3 hrs. UNC HealthER was amazing in getting me promptly treated. However after several hours on the stretcher I can barely walk today. I was placed on cardiac medication that has me feeling weak and lightheaded. I was discharged because of the high census and the fact I actually was placed in the last critical care bed the hospital had. Please bare with my office as they reschedule visits.

09/28/2024

FYI, This hospital is located in Florence,SC

08/27/2024

The office of Katara Chavis CSFP will be closed 08/28 until 09/05/2024
Please utlize after hours support if needed. For true emergencies please go to Er and for additional support Urgent Cares are available as well.