Donations toward kidney disease

My name is Devante and I am starting this GoFund me page as a last effort for any help that anyone can provide to me. From March 2011 through April 2015 I served in the United States Army during “Operation Inherit Resolve in Iraq”. After serving four years and doing one deployment I made way back home and started to transition back into civilian life. I thought life couldn’t have gotten any better than it was until it took a turn for the worse and has not looked up since. In 2016 I became ill. Brushing it off thinking it was a common cold or flu; it eventually became unbearable as time went on and I was not getting any better. What I thought was a common cold became what my doctors diagnosed as “Nephrotic Kidney Disease”, also known as Minimal Change Disease. Hearing devastating news like that can shatter anyways of life and ripped it apart day after day, hospital visits after hospital visit. After a year of countless trips and extended visits to the hospital with little to no hope my doctors determined that I was misdiagnosed and what they were saying I have now is, “Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis”. Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis is the leading cause of kidney failure in adults. Through the past year I have been through vigorous treatments that caused physical changes to my body. My body has swelled and retained water so much that at times it was hard to recognize myself and hurt to look myself in the mirror each day. It’s hard for me to operate a car, walk at times, care for my new born son on my own, as well as get through day to day life without needing assistance.
Through the physical changes there have come mental changes that feel like a burden on me to try and cope with. To go from a healthy adult my whole life to spending most of my days in a hospital bed in a blink of an eye has changed me in ways I wouldn’t wish on anyone. Due to my illness I haven’t been able to work. Before becoming sick I was going to college and planning for my new future out of the Army. Now I have had to put college on hold, couldn’t start work as I had hoped and have been financially burden by this disease and have fallen behind in bills more than I am proud to admit. I have been fighting the VA since my first diagnoses last year trying to receive any help that they will give to me but every attempt has failed to make the slightest difference in the situation that I am in. I never thought I would go from fighting for everyone’s freedom, to fighting for my life with what felt like I was doing on my own. I had hoped that the government that I once fought for would help fight with me. My family and close friends have done as much, if not more than they could to help me. But at this time I need more. This disease has taken over my life and I want to take it back. I’ve always been a man of pride and doing for myself but I can’t fight this fight alone anymore. If anyone could please help in anyway, it would be greatly appreciated and will never go unnoticed.