Medical Bills for Michael

Michael Litt is a wonderful father, friend and mentor. He has helped many alcoholics & drug addicts find their way into a new life of recovery, hope and healing through the doors in AA over the last 45 years. He was always a strong and healthy man ready to make you laugh with a joke or be your friend and listen to your story and be an encouragement. He is generous and would help you with money as he had relative business success.

He had been enjoying a slower pace of life after semi-retirement and was working as a substitute teacher with special needs children until an accident when he fell and broke his knee in 2019. The knee injury ended up deteriorating his left hip and he needed a full hip replacement. Michael was excited about the surgery and the prospect of being well, physically able to work again, and just be a person to live a normal independent life. He is a strong man that has made it through a lot of tough times: he recovered from a triple bypass heart procedure in 2011, but that pales as to what he is enduring now.

In August 2023, he was cleared for hip replacement surgery, but he barely made it to the operating room as he had aneurysm which postponed surgery. We are praising God that the doctors caught it and was handled properly!

He went back for surgery in September 2023, and the recovery has been a nightmare for him. He has been in and out of Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) with hematomas, open wounds, and skin infections. He was still not able to walk or properly take care of himself, but he reached what Medicare calls a "baseline" and was discharged from the SNF. It was not a safe discharge and because of the numerous doctor visits, he had developed some delirium and overdosed on his new 14 medications. The trauma from the overdose led to another hospital intake and a decision from staff that he can no longer safely live alone and care for himself.

Most recent is that the full hip replacement got infected, and he had to undergo a revision surgery in January 2024 to clean out the wound and replace some hardware. This happens in only 1% of people after a surgery like this. Because the infection was so bad, he is now on a PICC line which delivers antibiotics straight to his heart. He will be on this antibiotic until March.

He went through his savings and retirement on nurses, in home wound care, and medications that are not covered by Medicare or his supplemental insurance. He had to give up his apartment near his children recently because he had no money left from all the medical bills and no means of income. He sold his car and liquidated everything he had to cover his care needs and that has quickly run out. The kind of care he requires now is extensive and include medication management, shower and bathing, use of the bathroom, preparing meals, and wound care.

He was moved by his family into a wonderful group care home so he could get the attention and medical care he needs. The family has been denied by the State for long-term care aid and they are reapplying. This is a family that will not relent or give up. To be transparent, here are his current out of pocket costs:

We are praying for God to intervene on his behalf and give him strength and healing quickly! He is fighting for his life and his family is fighting for him because he is not strong enough to fight for himself right now. He is very weak after caring for others and fighting for others his whole life.

We now humbly ask and pray for your help. We are praying for a physical and financial miracle on his behalf and if you are moved to give, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts. And if you can't give, we value your prayers even more !

We believe God sees all and knows all hearts. God knows everything. We believe in miracles, there are no coincidences. Thank you so much for reading this and thank you so much for your help and prayers!

Love - Debbie, Adam, Arielle and AJ Litt