Humberto Hernandez Medical Expenses
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My name is Shaira Iveth Leon I'm 28 yrs old and I married my best friend a year and a half ago, he's 34yrs old and his name is Humberto Hernandez
This is how my husband's Asthma hospital visit changed our lives and turned into 4 chronic diseases: Autoimmune Hepatitis, Ulcerative Colitis and a Primary Sclerosis Cholangitis.
On Christmas day 12/25/15, I brought my husband to the Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, TX due to a severe Asthma attack. Also approximately 2 weeks prior to coming to the hospital I took my husband to a TexasMed Clinic for a severe Asthma attack he was told he had seasonal asthma, received a nebulization treatment and got sent home with a 5day prescription of steroids where he stared by taking 2pills the first day, then 1 each day until he finished the pills as well as a proair inhaler, it only helped him for about a week and half, then his asthma episodes started becoming more frequent and severe,
On Christmas day we visit my parents house about 7min away from our apartment to have breakfast and open Christmas presents, it was 11am and my husband was sweating and felt so uncomfortable, looked exhausted, pale and didn't even eat much, he didn't wanna alarm us or feel like he ruined Christmas for all, he asked my brother to drive him back to our apartment to get rest, as my brother arrives back my husband calls my brother on the phone, since I had my phone in vibration and didn't hear it, I had just sat down to eat breakfast when he tells me "I'm not gonna make it, I can't breath, take me to the hospital." I panicked, told the family the situation and I took off immediately to our apartment to pick him up, I had never experienced anxiety like that day before, I asked him to meet me at the gate, by then we had opened a new inhaler and was pressing it over and over again, the inhaler was no longer working for him, he was soaking wet from his sweat and wheezing too hard, I couldn't pull over to wait for an ambulance, each minute was critical, besides we live aprox 8-10 min from the medical center area, never have I felt so desperate, I pulled in to the first ER entrance I saw, and immediately got off the vehicle to ask for help, his lips were already looking blue, he was getting cold and shaking, he was taken immediately into the ER no questions asked, no pre-vitals checked or named asked.
I have been his translator from then on, due to the lack of oxygen we were told that his heart was affected.
Doctors found enlarge lymph nodes on his chest, he needed a lung biopsy that the hospital did not had the machine for it, luckily there was a lymph node found in his left axillary easy to perform a biopsy on. We got the 1st pre-diagnosis after blood tests and CT Scans: Lymphoma. However pathologist didn't have answers since the biopsy showed mainly tissue, and also the CT Scan showed abnormalities in his liver, still no final diagnosis. The following day he was ordered an open biopsy or his first surgery to remove the full lymph node for an accurate and better pathology diagnosis. Our first prayers answered, there was no Cancer, no Lymphoma!
However the surgeon found possible signs of TB (Tuberculosis), he was placed in an isolation room or negative pressure room for 4 days until the results arrived, it was now New years day and weekend.
Again results came back negative, and Doctors still had no final diagnosis, once my husband was taken off the oxygen and heart monitoring they brought in a GI Dr.(Gastroenterologist) that ordered a liver biopsy and many other blood tests to explain his liver and bowel abnormalities, by then the other Doctors suspected some sort of Lupus or Hepatitis. You can't imagine the frustration to see all types of test and analysis being done and still have no answers.
We had 3 different specialists Medicine doctor, Pulmonary doctor and Gastroenterologist.
Finally they confirmed his 1st diagnosis Autoimmune Hepatitis, the next step was scheduled a Endoscopy and a Colonoscopy and that leads to his other 2 conditions Ulcerative Colitis and Primary Sclerosis Cholangitis.
He is also going to need a liver transplant.
On 01/12/16 he received a Ileostomy surgery, we are adjusting and learning the caring and maintenance that the stoma and the Ileostomy requires.
He had developed many Polyps in his colon that are very advanced and with the Ulcerative Colitis and PSC a surgery needed to be done immediately. If it were to turn into Colon Cancer, he will no longer qualify as a candidate for a Liver transplant.
This surgery has now provided him better chances to prolonged his liver.
A transplant team has visited him and is outgoing reviews and interviews to approve him as an accepted candidate and finally put him on a waiting list.
At this time there is no exact time frame as of when he could need the liver transplant, it can be within 1yr, 5yrs, 20yrs or more.
He has no medical insurance and we have been turned down by few insurances due to a chronic disease, also because of his legal status is hard to obtain a disability or other benefits.
I have not left his side since we came to the hospital, I have not been eating well, sleeping well and I must admit I have felt defeated at times, it simply has been to much and our help and support has been very limited. It seems that all we get is bad news after bad news but our faith is strong.
It has been a lil over a month, a month where the bills don't stop, where new bills have piled and a month were I have not been able to work nor him, all our savings are now gone.
Is hard to leave his side for extended hours, he tells me I'm his angel, his rock, he has made me his charge nurse, his translator, personal assistant and more, we honestly can count w/one hand the time we have had a fluent Spanish speaking nurse.
Our faith is what brings me here today, because I know the power of praying, because families that pray together stay together and Jesus once told Thomas "Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed. "
I have found my purpose in life, my husband is changing my life and I know that God is not only giving him a second chance to find his purpose in life and continue helping everyone in need, I'm also getting a second chance myself, to change my life, our lives, and I'm blessed to have him in my life.
Please we need your support, any amount can make the difference !
This is our story, please help me fund my husband and share his story.
God blesses you and your family.
<3 Love
Shaira & Humberto Hernandez
This is how my husband's Asthma hospital visit changed our lives and turned into 4 chronic diseases: Autoimmune Hepatitis, Ulcerative Colitis and a Primary Sclerosis Cholangitis.
On Christmas day 12/25/15, I brought my husband to the Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, TX due to a severe Asthma attack. Also approximately 2 weeks prior to coming to the hospital I took my husband to a TexasMed Clinic for a severe Asthma attack he was told he had seasonal asthma, received a nebulization treatment and got sent home with a 5day prescription of steroids where he stared by taking 2pills the first day, then 1 each day until he finished the pills as well as a proair inhaler, it only helped him for about a week and half, then his asthma episodes started becoming more frequent and severe,
On Christmas day we visit my parents house about 7min away from our apartment to have breakfast and open Christmas presents, it was 11am and my husband was sweating and felt so uncomfortable, looked exhausted, pale and didn't even eat much, he didn't wanna alarm us or feel like he ruined Christmas for all, he asked my brother to drive him back to our apartment to get rest, as my brother arrives back my husband calls my brother on the phone, since I had my phone in vibration and didn't hear it, I had just sat down to eat breakfast when he tells me "I'm not gonna make it, I can't breath, take me to the hospital." I panicked, told the family the situation and I took off immediately to our apartment to pick him up, I had never experienced anxiety like that day before, I asked him to meet me at the gate, by then we had opened a new inhaler and was pressing it over and over again, the inhaler was no longer working for him, he was soaking wet from his sweat and wheezing too hard, I couldn't pull over to wait for an ambulance, each minute was critical, besides we live aprox 8-10 min from the medical center area, never have I felt so desperate, I pulled in to the first ER entrance I saw, and immediately got off the vehicle to ask for help, his lips were already looking blue, he was getting cold and shaking, he was taken immediately into the ER no questions asked, no pre-vitals checked or named asked.
I have been his translator from then on, due to the lack of oxygen we were told that his heart was affected.
Doctors found enlarge lymph nodes on his chest, he needed a lung biopsy that the hospital did not had the machine for it, luckily there was a lymph node found in his left axillary easy to perform a biopsy on. We got the 1st pre-diagnosis after blood tests and CT Scans: Lymphoma. However pathologist didn't have answers since the biopsy showed mainly tissue, and also the CT Scan showed abnormalities in his liver, still no final diagnosis. The following day he was ordered an open biopsy or his first surgery to remove the full lymph node for an accurate and better pathology diagnosis. Our first prayers answered, there was no Cancer, no Lymphoma!
However the surgeon found possible signs of TB (Tuberculosis), he was placed in an isolation room or negative pressure room for 4 days until the results arrived, it was now New years day and weekend.
Again results came back negative, and Doctors still had no final diagnosis, once my husband was taken off the oxygen and heart monitoring they brought in a GI Dr.(Gastroenterologist) that ordered a liver biopsy and many other blood tests to explain his liver and bowel abnormalities, by then the other Doctors suspected some sort of Lupus or Hepatitis. You can't imagine the frustration to see all types of test and analysis being done and still have no answers.
We had 3 different specialists Medicine doctor, Pulmonary doctor and Gastroenterologist.
Finally they confirmed his 1st diagnosis Autoimmune Hepatitis, the next step was scheduled a Endoscopy and a Colonoscopy and that leads to his other 2 conditions Ulcerative Colitis and Primary Sclerosis Cholangitis.
He is also going to need a liver transplant.
On 01/12/16 he received a Ileostomy surgery, we are adjusting and learning the caring and maintenance that the stoma and the Ileostomy requires.
He had developed many Polyps in his colon that are very advanced and with the Ulcerative Colitis and PSC a surgery needed to be done immediately. If it were to turn into Colon Cancer, he will no longer qualify as a candidate for a Liver transplant.
This surgery has now provided him better chances to prolonged his liver.
A transplant team has visited him and is outgoing reviews and interviews to approve him as an accepted candidate and finally put him on a waiting list.
At this time there is no exact time frame as of when he could need the liver transplant, it can be within 1yr, 5yrs, 20yrs or more.
He has no medical insurance and we have been turned down by few insurances due to a chronic disease, also because of his legal status is hard to obtain a disability or other benefits.
I have not left his side since we came to the hospital, I have not been eating well, sleeping well and I must admit I have felt defeated at times, it simply has been to much and our help and support has been very limited. It seems that all we get is bad news after bad news but our faith is strong.
It has been a lil over a month, a month where the bills don't stop, where new bills have piled and a month were I have not been able to work nor him, all our savings are now gone.
Is hard to leave his side for extended hours, he tells me I'm his angel, his rock, he has made me his charge nurse, his translator, personal assistant and more, we honestly can count w/one hand the time we have had a fluent Spanish speaking nurse.
Our faith is what brings me here today, because I know the power of praying, because families that pray together stay together and Jesus once told Thomas "Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed. "
I have found my purpose in life, my husband is changing my life and I know that God is not only giving him a second chance to find his purpose in life and continue helping everyone in need, I'm also getting a second chance myself, to change my life, our lives, and I'm blessed to have him in my life.
Please we need your support, any amount can make the difference !
This is our story, please help me fund my husband and share his story.
God blesses you and your family.
<3 Love
Shaira & Humberto Hernandez
Organizer and beneficiary
Hdz Shai Betto
Organizer
San Antonio, TX
Amanda Pesina
Beneficiary