morgan_dhu | I need your help

Yes, I’m begging again.

My health has continued to deteriorate in a truly spectacular fashion. Two years ago it was lesions on my parathyroid glands requiring surgery, and a broken foot. Last year, kidney failure. Gall bladder attack. Kidney stones filling my kidneys and blocking my ureters so I can’t pee normally. Nephristomy tubes and stents in one of my ureters, that require regular changing. Waiting to be healthy enough for the necessary imaging to be done before surgery (it’s not safe to do contrast CT scans on someone in kidney failure, but they needed a contrast CT to determine where the stones are for surgery). Constant trips to the hospital.

Well, I’ve finally had the CT scan, but my nephrologist was still leery about surgery so he is trying to treat the stones pharmaceutically - if he can get them to dissolve a bit, he can go in to remove them with robots through my bladder rather than having to do an invasive and much riskier surgical procedure. I will need more imaging once this treatment is completed, to see if it worked. More trips to the hospital for imaging and consults and finally surgery.

And.... the imaging showed a mass on my ovary and lesions in my left lung, and I need to be seen by oncologists to check those things out.

Every visit to a hospital for scheduled imaging or consults with doctors or changing my my nephrostomy tubes means I have to hire an ambulance and two crews because I’m fat. Each visit costs me around $800 dollars. I’ve been going in once or twice a month for eight months now, not counting all the visits from two years ago, which still aren’t completely paid for. Our savings are gone and we’ve exhausted our credit but I still have medical appointments that are necessary for my state of health, and possibly my life if it turns put that I have cancer. But I have no money left and no way to get more.

I have a small, fixed income. My partner is my 24/7 caregiver and can’t work on top of doing that. We have already cut our expenses to a minimum to at least pay the interest in what we’ve had to borrow to cover hospital travel to this point. And we know that between the kidney specialist and the oncologist, I will need at least five or six more hospital trips, just to fix the kidneys and get diagnostic tests done on my ovary and lung.

So I’ve started a new GoFundMe. If you can help at all, please consider it. I’m out of options.

https://www.gofundme.com/morgans-2018-medical-expenses