Family of an Aneurysm Suvivor Needs Help

My name is Wendy. My husband, Anthony, survived an aneurysm on December 21st, 2013. He went golfing that Saturday morning, which happened to be my daughters(Amber) birthday. He took a swing of a golf club, felt a pop, and called 911. He had a hypertension aneurysm, a blood leak directly in the center of his brain, caused by high blood pressure. They did an aneurysm coiling procedure where you go up through the groin, to the brain, and cauterize(burn) the blood leak to seal it. After that he had a seizure. He was in the ICU for 2 weeks and was released on January 3rd, 2014. The doctors all told us that the fact that he is alive is nothing short of a miracle. The neurologist explained to us very bluntly that 50% of people who have aneurysms do not live until the ambulance gets there, and 50% of the people who make it to the ambulance do not make it to the hospital. Anthony is a freak of nature, and like a cat with nine lives, his luck is running out with his Polycystic Kidney Disease, broken collar bone, broken neck, high blood pressure, and now an aneurysm and seizure.

It has been about seven weeks since Anthony has worked. When he first got home, he was sleeping for 20hrs a day. His energy and strength are slowly getting better. He sleeps about 16hrs a day now. My family and I all just went to a checkup with his neurologist Wednesday in Daytona at Halifax Hospital and were told Anthony is permanently disabled now, just like me. He has been a roofer for 30yrs, and has not done anything else. Problem is, he cannot do that anymore. Since his accident 2 years ago when at a job site, bricks fell on his neck, breaking it and paralyzing him temporarily, we've lost his health insurance. This lead to us not being able to afford his blood pressure medication, which directly caused the aneurysm. His neurologist on Wednesday said that he has a malformation of blood vessels in his brain that has been there since he was born, that could or could not burst at any time. He has referred us to a place in Gainseville FL to get it fixed in the next few months, but without money or insurance yet, there is no way we can even consider it. Even if we can get to the facility in Gainseville, the consolt will be us weighing the options, which are to either leave the malformation to possibly burst one day, or to perform surgery to remove it, though we have been told if we do that he will live, however it is almost guaranteed he will be paralyzed in an arm or a leg afterwards.

I've been on disability since 2007. I have Degenerative Disc Disease, where the discs between the vertebrae of my spine erode away. I also have bone spurs growing from my vertebrae in my neck into my spinal cord, giving me the threat of paralysis from the neck down. I've had two spinal surgeries so far to remove the spurs. We have been signing Anthony up for everything we can do(food stamps, disability, medicaid, etc). But as we all know, trying to get disability can take years, just like it did for me.

This leaves us with no form of income to put towards the Gainseville travel, consolts, and procedures we need to do in order to try to better ensure my husbands life. My family and I live in Deltona, FL, which is three hours from Gainseville. Our car is already not exactly reliable for travel like that, but we have no other choice. We are sorry it has come to this, but we truly need to ask for help. Literally anything, even $5, would be amazingly helpful to assist us in this frightening journey we have to take.