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Please help Joshua with medical expenses.

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I am starting this Go Fund Me for my husband Joshua's multiple medical complications and the need for him to get Proper medical assistance. This amount will be for his initial visits and testing that need to be performed in order to get this process started. His troubles started after being implanted with a defective hernia mesh for an inguinal hernia in 2009. He was told by his doctor that he would never ever have a problem again. Starting approximately 3 months after the mesh was placed, he started experiencing abdominal pain. After multiple ER visits, hospital admissions, 7 colonoscopies, 2 upper endoscopies, and scores of abdominal CT scans, and other various nuclear medicine studies, the doctors gave him various suspected causes. These included Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, celiac disease, just to name a few with no definitive answer. One doctor in 2012 told him that a benign tumor next to his  T2 T3  vertebrae was the cause of his abdominal discomfort, resulting in a back operation in September of 2012. Over the years he has just dealt with the pain, ending up in the hospital about once a month when the pain was very severe. He would be admitted anywhere from 3 days to 2 weeks due to inflammation of the sigmoid colon and pancreatitis, suspected to have been caused by the above-mentioned digestive disorders. After being seen by what felt like every physician in Las Vegas and a year fighting with the insurance company, they finally sent him for a 2nd opinion in California. The mesh had adhered to his colon and bladder with two of the seven titanium tacks eroding into his pelvic bone. The mesh was much smaller than it was when placed. A team of Surgeons performed a revision surgery in October of 2017  to remove the mesh and tacks. Unfortunately a portion was unable to be removed because it had eroded into his inferior epigastric artery. Testing showed that he had a foreign body giant cell reaction to the material. Now he has developed new allergies/intolerance to all kinds of things. Food for starters.. He is on a very strict and limited diet and if he adds anything it will result in hospitalization. Allergies to Clothes detergents, perfumes, chemicals of any kind, fragrances, and even polyester. Over Christmas of 2019  his body began to reject the scleral Buckle that was implanted to repair the detached retina in 2017, just a few months before the hernia mesh revision surgery. After a week of pain and agony, yet another hospitalization, and 5 doctors all concluding that it was conjunctivitis without performing a single swab or test. He finally convinced a surgeon to remove the buckle. Now, his symptoms are back and seem to be getting worse. As many of you know, he is a very talented musician and has been completely grounded since 2017. Music is his passion and has been his entire life since he was very young. To have this ripped out from under him due to a faulty medical device has been extremely painful for him to endure and has caused him a great amount of stress, anxiety, and depression. He has been doing everything he can to combat this on his own and try to stay positive through his diet, exercise, and hours of meditation every day, but it's not enough. Anything to help him get to facilities he needs, is greatly appreciated. Love To All!!

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Karin Scott
Organizer
Las Vegas, NV

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