GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Family members are working to raise money to bring a 19-year-old high school graduate who suffered multiple strokes while in Hawaii back home to Michigan for continuing care.

“I’m waiting to just wake up and find out this was just the worst dream that I ever had, it’s a nightmare and I’m going to wake up," Jessie Marchant's mother Tammi Victorino said.

Family says Marchant, of East Grand Rapids, excelled in school and dreamed of going to Michigan State University to become a veterinarian.

“She’s always wanted to be a vet ever since she was a little kid," her older sister Chloe Brown said.

She's also a devoted aunt. At her two nieces' Grand Rapids home, she painted brightly colored flowers and bumblebees on the playroom wall.

"This will always remind me of

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