My Father's Surgical Bills
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My name is Jon, and with a stroke of luck I was able to get my mother into a care home. Recently my family and I were faced with a choice of pulling the plug on my mother. But she has since stabled and I was able to get her into a care home. But my father (who lives separately from my mother and raised me all on his own) found out a couple of months ago he would need heart surgery.
My father went to the hospital about 4 months to go through a procedure known as an angiogram. He then found out While having the procedure done that having the angiogram would be pointless due to the fact that the right side of his heart was 80-90% clogged, the left side isn't doing too well either. We had also found out that he had already had 2 minor heart attacks. Not big enough to damage him entirely, but big enough to damage his heart. He would need to have a "CABG" (pronounced "Cabbage.") Which is also known as a quadruple bypass. We have been stressing over the fact that this is going to be a hard time for him. But just a couple of days ago he went through his breifing with his doctor and found out that he needs a 6-7 bypass surgery on his heart.
The normal risks for an individual getting a regular bypass surgery is a 3-5% risk of failure, but for my father it is a 10-15% risk.
Normally this would be ideal for a healthy individual, but because of my fathers extremely poor physical health as well as his mental health, the risk for his procedure becomes higher.
My father is not a rich man, nor even a well maintain man. He doesn't like to admi it but he lives paycheck to paycheck. He'll put his family before himself. To help him I have been putting almost all the money I make at work as well as my savings towards his up coming medical bill and recovery bill.
The hard part is knowing that he is not going to be fully covered, he is partly covered. The average cost of heart surgery is $100K+. Luckily the cost we have to pay is only around $50K. Which includes recovery, but that is still a lot for us. I have been working my butt off putting all the money I get from work towards paying for his medical bills. But I am no where near the amount needed to cover it. So I am asking for your help. Help me support my father.
Yes, my dog looks terrified.
please help. My father is on pension pay and my mother is in a CareHome. We do not have nearly enough to cover the remainder of the bills. Please help my father.
My father went to the hospital about 4 months to go through a procedure known as an angiogram. He then found out While having the procedure done that having the angiogram would be pointless due to the fact that the right side of his heart was 80-90% clogged, the left side isn't doing too well either. We had also found out that he had already had 2 minor heart attacks. Not big enough to damage him entirely, but big enough to damage his heart. He would need to have a "CABG" (pronounced "Cabbage.") Which is also known as a quadruple bypass. We have been stressing over the fact that this is going to be a hard time for him. But just a couple of days ago he went through his breifing with his doctor and found out that he needs a 6-7 bypass surgery on his heart.
The normal risks for an individual getting a regular bypass surgery is a 3-5% risk of failure, but for my father it is a 10-15% risk.
Normally this would be ideal for a healthy individual, but because of my fathers extremely poor physical health as well as his mental health, the risk for his procedure becomes higher.
My father is not a rich man, nor even a well maintain man. He doesn't like to admi it but he lives paycheck to paycheck. He'll put his family before himself. To help him I have been putting almost all the money I make at work as well as my savings towards his up coming medical bill and recovery bill.
The hard part is knowing that he is not going to be fully covered, he is partly covered. The average cost of heart surgery is $100K+. Luckily the cost we have to pay is only around $50K. Which includes recovery, but that is still a lot for us. I have been working my butt off putting all the money I get from work towards paying for his medical bills. But I am no where near the amount needed to cover it. So I am asking for your help. Help me support my father.
Yes, my dog looks terrified.
please help. My father is on pension pay and my mother is in a CareHome. We do not have nearly enough to cover the remainder of the bills. Please help my father.
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Jon Cheng
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Bremerton, WA
