QUITMAN (KYTX) - A 14-year-old Quitman girl with a serious immune system disorder is getting a hand from her community.
People from all over East Texas showed up to a fundraiser Saturday in Quitman, "Fighting for Sarah."
Sarah Davis is as active as teenagers get.
Her mother Cindy Adams says, "She is an outgoing little 14-year-old, she was mascot last year, she runs track, cheerleading, basketball, volleyball."
Looking at Sarah's smiling pictures, you'd never know she's having the toughest summer of her life.
"She has always had kind of a low immune system in her nasal cavity, but not like this," Cindy says.
Her extremely weak immune system has caused her all kinds of health scares this summer.
"In May she got spinal meningitis, and we stayed a week and a half in the hospital. She got out, and four days later we went back because she had mono and pneumonia and then four days after she was diagnosed with that, she got diagnosed with pluerisy."
Now, she's doing better but she has to be very careful.
"She's on quarantine right now. If she goes out or anybody comes over, she has to wear a mask and use hand sanitizer," Cindy says.
Sarah's parents say without their community's support they would never be getting through it.
"The community is amazing," they said. "It's not just Quitman community. All around Mineola they've given for the silent auction."
A silent auction was just one part of a huge fundraiser thrown at the Quitman Fire Department Saturday in Sarah's honor.
The entire fundraiser was colored neon yellow. They sold shirts for $15 and bracelets for $2 and every cent went straight to Sarah.
All the money raised will help Cindy and Nathan Adams pay for Sarah's medical bills, which could start piling even higher.
"In a month, month and a half we'll have to go back to Children's Hospital in Dallas and see what her immune system is like. Then at that point, if it's up they're going to let it keep building itself up. If it's not then they are going to have to do invasive immune system build up," Cindy says.
Until then, the whole community is joining together, and "Fighting for Sarah."
Carter Blood Care is also helping Sarah, they are taking blood and plasma donations in her name in Quitman.
