
Brother, Husband, Father needs help
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Before he got sick...



My brother Thor has been fighting an unknown illness for 7 years now. Seven whole years of endless testing, endless doctors appointments, endless bills and still no answers. He has seen every specialist imaginable and no one can determine what has caused his rappid weight lost or other symptoms that are too explicit to detail here. His body doesn’t absorb nutrients the way it is supposed to and you can tell just by looking at him. He has lost most of his hair, his face is sunken in because he is so thin, you can even see the veins on his shin bones because his body fat percent is so low. He still works despite feeling weaker and weaker every day. It doesn’t help that his job is very labor intensive. He has applied for disability but without a diagnosis they deny him every time. It is hard to look at the brother I once knew to be healthy, muscular, and full of life.
He is 6 feet tall and weighs 165lbs. That may just sound like he is a really skinny guy but if you knew my family, none of us are naturally skinny. We are all “big boned” and carry a good bit of weight on us. I was always the bigger one out of my friends, not fat, just bigger. Broad chest and shoulders run in the family; just an over all big build. Thor was the biggest out of all of us. Well, was the biggest. He was also born with a birth defect on his hand that caused him to have a rough time growing up. Kids would make fun of him and call him names, all because his thumb and pointer finger were thrice the size of the others. He has had a much harder life then me and my other brother. At this point he feels like God does not exist because of all the hardships he has had to endure. I am hoping he will find God again and you all can help me show him that God does still care for him.
He is constantly passing out randomly at work and has to be taken by ambulance to the hospital because he is incoherent. The same thing happens every time. They tell him there is nothing they can do for him and they let him go home. He has been told he has pancreatic cancer, then it was stomach cancer on the account of they thought he had bits of intestinal lining in his fecal samples. Next, it was parasites that were in his feces, so he was givin antiparacitcs. Nothing, however, proved to be a solution. One doctor told him he might have multiple sclerosis. Extensive and expensive tests later turned out to be a dead end. It seems to be a blessing and a curse...
His last hope is Mayo Clinic in Arizona. They have accepted him in for testing to try and determine what is going on inside my brothers body. The problem is they won’t except his insurance and he has to pay 20% down
before they will even schedule an appointment.
On top of the thousands of medical bills he still owes and cannot pay, he has lost all hope of being able to afford to go to Mayo Clinic. Me and my family are just asking for any help you would be willing to give in order to send my brother to Mayo Clinic. Me and my parents are willing to try and come up with the rest of the money in any way we can. Go-fund me is our last hope.
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Giselle Reynolds
Organizer
Atlanta, GA