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Went in to have a Partial Nephrectomy to remove 25% of my right kidney due to cancer. I was diagnosed 6 months before with cancer. I’m a private man so I only told a few ppl. I started to get nauseous a lot and continuous pain during urinating. Some days I’d be really fatigued. Even with all of that I maintained cutting hair and training. April 5th I enter hospital for what was supposed to be a “routine “ surgery. Stay a night release next day take two weeks off work, 6-8 weeks no training. Well the procedure went 5hrs 2 hrs longer than originally expected. From this point on the hospital made horrible mistakes that almost killed me. Surgery is done at this point it took me three hrs to wake up. Transferred to little waiting room while they waiting for another room. At this time my mother and a great friend of mine who just happens to be a bomb ass travel nurse. Get to room where my family is awaiting me. Nurse doesn’t complete a skin assessment (requirement) my friend notices right away. I get in bed I’m still loopy I fall asleep. Another 2 hrs go by my friend decides it’s time to get up and get moving which is what’re supposed to do, to allow blood circulation. . I wake up in excruciating agonizing pain, but not from my right front side where surgery had taken place. I am now almost screaming in horror crying. My friend rushes over pull my shirt up to see “ looked like two brick protruding out of your back” She calls them immediately infuriated. Nurse comes in, friend asks why is his back hurting and looking like this?! Nurse takes a quick glance and says she will call doctor. Leaves room comes back 15-20 mins later(which at this I’m screaming in pain) there is no sense of urgency from staff. She says “ doctor said it was NORMAL and to apply ice pack. My friend says “no that is not normal get that doctor in here now”. My friend has to leave to tend to her family. Mother had already left. It was only supposed to be a short stay. So I’m by myself. I lay in that bed for another hour or 2 before the orthopedic doctor comes in. No joke, he takes one look and says out loud whoaaa! He doesn’t know exactly what or why this happened. Says he has to go to some research. Comes back around 11 pm says he’s diagnosing me with “Acute Compartment Syndrome” I’m in soo much fucking pain yoo by this time I don’t have any energy. I ask” what’s that. The muscle is breaking down in your body basically dying and it’s creating a toxin that is leaking in your bloodstream and will kill you. Have to preform emergency surgery to relieve pressure and clean toxins out. Rush back into operating room. I wake up several hours later I was they were able to save it but they could not close the wound because the muscle had been deteriorating for at least 10-12 hrs they will try tomorrow. So there’s a 13.5 inch open hole in back essentially. Filled with a foam that’s attached to a wound vacuum. I go back to my room. The next day I then go back under anesthesia this is the 3rd time in two days when if following the original schedule I would’ve been released today because I was only supposed to be there for 2 days. I wake back in the room I’m in the bed. Doctor says they couldn’t close it because it was still to inflamed and swollen they cleaned it and it looks good, mind you the whole time it’s not even supposed to be there. Next day they closed it. This whole time I’m in tremendous pain they are pumping pain meds orally and in my veins. Well that constipates you. It’s the 4th day and I have yet to get out of bed to keep the circulation in your body. My nurse friend is now here from out of town and she’s posses I’m in the bed funky haven’t been moved when you’re supposed to get up and moving right away, I was not. She gets me out and washes me. At this time I start to complain about my breathing I have asthma so I get worried tell the nurse because of my extensive pain I was on a PCA which just a pain push button the patient can control. She then accuses me of being a pain seeker. I spent two whole days complaining about chest pain like someone was stabbing me in the chest. Night shift comes in and I get a good nurse she listens to me and got the doctor to do a cat scan. We do the cat scan and immediately I know somethings wrong. They found pulmonary embolism in my lungs I also have fluid (pneumonia) in my lungs. they put me on oxygen my condition is declining 10-15 doctors hovered around me wondering how this happened as well. I’m telling all of them I didn’t want to die, must’ve said it a thousand times. I get to ICU they put that big breathing machine on you and it forces aim into lungs it is here in ICU I begin to come back to life. I haven’t eaten in a weak I’m constipated. The pain pills are making my stomach weak but I need them. I’m the hospital for a few more days During these last days no one was explaining why this happened to me. Hospital staff continued to state “ you’re big and strong and have more muscle mass than the average person who get that same initial partial nephrectomy” which turned into me almost dying and the hospital being so nonchalant about it accept the night I felt I was dying I had 20 staff members standing over me just like a funeral home. They made mistakes on every level and people need to hear this. I was there from 4-5-22 to 4-18-22 these tow smaller #s have and will negatively affect me for the rest of my life! Now recovery begins I’m confined to my 4th floor apartment. A shell of myself I don’t recognize. Had to get a pill tracker and set alarm so I wouldn’t overlap times for meds. I’m scared because I don’t want to become addicted like so many other have. At the same time I need the pIan meds. This injury requires a full year of recovery so I won’t be able to cut hair to earn money or train. I’m so distraught. I want to focus relentlessly on physical therapy to get back to at least 85% of the man I was before this horrendous freak accident. In order to do this I need as close to 50,000 as possible for my full expenses for the year. (Monthly expenses 3000x12 months) I am also applying for any and all assistance programs. I don’t need anyone’s empathy or approbation. Hospitals are cutting cost understaff and not following protocol or procedure and people are literally getting sick and or dying in the hospital at the hands of stress overworked underpaid employees. The negligence that Mercy had in my case was unimaginable and very much so uncalled for is only the proper procedure was taken place. So for the next 12 months I will focus rigorously on my mental and physical health and getting myself back through the standard that I’m used to in the meantime I will be filing a lawsuit against mercy hospital but these things take time up to two years like I said I’m unable to work I’m unable to earn money I’m borrowing from friends and family and I don’t know what else to do so I’m asking if anyone has anything to spare I don’t care if it’s $.50 man I don’t care if it says that there’s something that I don’t have and that I was robbed the opportunity to earn my own money this year I was well on my way to making $100,000 this year now I can’t earn anything so I’m asking for As close to my expenses as possible my full amount of expenses for a full year at the base of the Lois is $50,000 but I’m only asking for help towards $25,000 from files in your heart on your wall in the dresser in the car cancel help me a little bit I got to go the long way and I will definitely pay it forward myself thank you.






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    Tyrone Avant
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    Des Moines, IA

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