
Help justin with medical bills
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Hi everyone, as hard as it is to swallow my pride and ask for help, friends are suggesting I make this for anyone who is able to help me and my family. In August i had a full knee replacement surgery because a previous partial knee replacement that failed from a few years back. After 3 and a half months off work, I returned but was still having pain and complications due to something called fabella syndrome. On December 30th I had to go back in for a 2nd surgery to correct the issue. Again, that meant more time off work, more FMLA and more PTO being used. If that weren't enough to cause medical bills to pile up, on Friday Jan 29th I went in for a follow-up appointment because it seemed the surgical site from the 2nd corrective surgery was full of fluid. To my surprise they found it was infected and took me into emergency surgery that afternoon to clean the whole surgery site and kept me in the hospital for IV antibiotics . On Sunday Jan 31st the culture sample they took revealed the infection had spread throughout the knee replacement and a 4th surgery was needed to replace the spacer and liner and to clean out the area in the replacement that were compromised. In that surgery they took more culture samples and cleaned the previous incisions again to help the infection. I am still in the hospital to date Feb 2nd receiving IV Antibiotics and being monitored by the infectious disease department. I will have 6 weeks of antibiotic infusions 2 times a day and then 3 to 6 months of oral antibiotics when i am sent home. All of this has been very stressful on me because not only have I exhausted all of my FMLA and PTO at work to secure my position, if anything else should arise, I may have to take time off of work unpaid and bills are still due and hospital bills are racking up. The hospital already mentioned thousands in IV treatments and in hospital stay costs just this visit since Jan 29th till now. Not counting the two previous surgeries and hospital stays I had. I am the bread winner and main financial provider for my family and let's just say I'm overwhelmed with the stress of where all of this money is going to come from, let alone if anything else happens and am at the risk of losing my job. If anyone has it in their hearts to donate and help me and my family I would be forever grateful. Thank you for reading this long story of my recent and unfortunate health events and thank you to anyone who can donate. I will pay it forward when I can. ❤️
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Justin Priebe
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Sioux Falls, SD