Help Alex with his medical bills

Hey everyone , we are putting this fund raiser together to help our pal / Tattooer / coworker Alex Sherker who has recently fallen on hard times Heath wise .... he was in the process of moving back to columbus from Detroit , came to town to guest spot for a week and has been in the hospital ever since (he will explain in his own words below) .... he was already in a tough spot , but now the cards are really stacked against him and he could use some help from his friends and the magical tattoo world .... thank you all in advance .... below is an update of Alex's condition from his own mouth .......

-Joey Knuckles

After days of discomfort, Saturday morning Nov. 20 it was clear I had to go to the ER; I woke up with chest pain, extreme shortness of breath, swelling and blood spots covering my body, blood weeping out of my skin, and blood clots coming out of my nose and mouth. At the hospital they discovered I was facing TWO deadly crises, and immediately checked me in. One was a very extreme and very dangerous case of a very rare blood disorder called Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia Purpura. Basically my blood was ripping itself apart; a healthy person has a blood platelet count between 200,000 to 400,000, at check in mine was under 5,000 - practically nonexistent. The other was a very serious case of the heart disease Atrial Fibrillation, where half my heart is beating dangerously out of synch with the other half. And the two diseases compromise each other: treating one could worsen the other, and vice versa; risks of heart failure, stroke, aneurism, organ failure, or just plain bleeding out were high. It’s over a week later and I’m still in here. After some serious setbacks, including the development of a blood infection, they finally seem to have some things under control to where I’m stable, but I’m not out of the woods yet and it’s not safe yet for me to be released. They’re saying at least a little longer for tests and screens here in the hospital before they can let me go, and then months of aftercare and followup. And ALL of this shit is while I’m in the middle of changing jobs, and moving cities.