Urgent Help Needed for Chad a double lung transplant

Our family is desperately doing something we never thought we would do- we are putting our pride away and praying and asking for help. We understand everyone is suffering. And we have and will do anything continue to do anything to help those who need us. We are very private people and so putting ourselves and our stuff on the internet Is hard. However, it is harder knowing what the immediate future is looking like for Chad. We will do anything to save him!

Chad always was diagnosed with “asthma” but it is not. He has bronchiectisis, which is worse. His lungs are failing at an extremely fast rate after we found out he has an extremely rare form of lung cancer alomg

wirh pulmonary fibrosis. Due to his lungs; we received a prognosis of a year or less but was extremely blessed when he hit that year in May. He has always been a fighter and provider and all who know him knows how much he loves the kids and I. He went from oxygen at night and as needed to now having to be on it pretty much all day and night with some exceptions. He is weak and tired.

With that said, his cancer is so rare that less than 30k people in the world are diagnosed with it. He must have a double lung transplant to survive. Due to developing a mold in his lungs from soil called aspergillosis and requiring 6 months of intense treatment along with a surgery which almost took his life life (literally), he was removed from the list after being #3 late in 2024. We changed insurance, completed treatment for the mold, and he is now back on the list and we have an amazing team of doctors coordinating with us. This mold is found in soil (he worked for a landscaping company at that time) and it is something everyone breathes in but he couldn’t fight it with weakened lungs.

Chad has been hospitalized for 4 times since 1/2/2025 (it’s only Feb 12 2025 when I’m writing this.) We were just released a few days ago after spending a week in the CCU. He is now in Chronic Systolic and Diastolic Heart Failure Stage 3 class C (the stage before needing a transplant intervention), Atrial fibrillation with RVR rhythm, and his heart is pumping with an ejection fraction of 10-15% now and it was 30-35% less than a year ago, he also now has chronic stage 3 kidney failure. He also has a new diagnosis of diabetes. These ALL have been triggered by his chronic respiratory failure. The kidney failure is due to having to overload him on lasix to get the fluid out of his lungs and around his heart and the diabetes is due to chronic steroids. His lungs are aggravating his heart and causing his system to shut down.

During the hospital stay last week, he was on a machine that was breathing 40% for him because he had a massive amount of carbon monoxide that had gotten in his lungs and stayed in those “pockets” the bronchietsis has created. In layman’s terms, he breathed air in but his body wasn’t releasing the air and it poisoned his blood. That’s why even on 3 liters of oxygen at home we couldn’t get his pulse ox above low 80s: He was admitted to the CCU straight from his heart failure doctors office when we went for a hospital follow up from the 3rd (prior) visit. All doctors are sure that once his lungs are fixed that his heart and kidneys will reverse themselves. (It was explained to us that all systems work together in our bodies and his lungs are to the point that it is triggering everything into chaos in him.)

As a result, he is not able to work much (yes disability is being applied for but this isn’t a fast fix), the kids are working to help and since I am disabled from my brain surgery and waiting on the 2nd (which we must put on hold as long as I can due to the recovery), we are drowning and suffering beyond words. We have no “plan B.” There are no options. I have been able to float us as long as I can.

We have applied for government assistance like food 13 times since last March with denials every time. We make $37 too much with the kids working. Food banks expect us to come there but I can’t drive due to my seizures and everyone is trying to work. This has forced Dalton to work 2 jobs trying to save us, which is a lot for a 20 year old to carry!! I have tried reaching out but no luck. Our house people are willing to work with us if they are receiving immediate payments to pay the rears which is the $12050 (7 months).

Even $1 will help!! All money will be paid directly to the house. If you would like to donate directly to them, contact me and I’ll give you the info. Yes we have other needs but a roof is the most urgent. I understand also that some aren’t comfortable giving through these pages so if that is the case, we do have cash app, Zelle, Venmo and PayPal. But again you may pay directly to the company also. Please contact me for the info if this is the preference (it won’t let me post the link info on here.)

Please continue to pray for us!! The past year has been the worst wver. We lost Chads parents, my grandmother and on 1/2/2025 my brother was killed in a motorcycle accident. So the trauma of watching Chad suffer and trying to grieve has needless to say, made us not ourselves. Please forgive us if you see us in public and this is how you feel because we are in survival mode.

Thank you to those who check on us (forgive me for not telling everything. We don’t want others to feel burdened with us). Please pray, share and remember every penny matters. Please help me, Dalton, Skyler and Claire make Chad as comfortable as we can by not losing the house and letting him find peace somehow. This is the only way we can. The less he stresses, the more his body can rest and hopefully give him strength to keep fighting!! We need him!

Thank you again and I’m happy to answer any questions if any are needed. We are happy to be 100% transparent (with a few boundaries due to him deserving some privacy). Please understand posting this is us being extremely raw since we don’t normally show such sensitive private info. We love you guys! Thank you in advance!!