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Expenses for Mark Erickson COVID-19

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As many of you know, my husband Mark has been in the hospital with Covid-19 for the past 9 days! At this point we have no idea when he will be able to come home. He developed Covid pneumonia and he is now on bipap to keep his oxygen flowing and up. It’s in the lower 90’s right now, but it was dropping down to 70 at times over the last couple of days. Mark was sick for a week before being hospitalized. Running high fevers and trying to fight it off at home, but he got too weak and his fever spiked to almost 105 when the ambulance came to pick him up last Wednesday. 
Mark has only been able to work a week in August. Being quarantined and exposed to Covid-19 then getting the virus, we have no idea when he will be able to go back to work. He had another chest X-ray yesterday and the pneumonia is no better but not any worse!
We have had so many wonderful people who are praying for him and sending him healing vibes! He knows this! He hasn’t been able to talk much on the phone because of shortness of breath. 
We have had some pretty amazingly awesome people who have brought Kolbi and I food and other things we’ve needed. I am also Covid positive and I am quarantined to the house! Mark is at TriStar Horizon Medical Center in Dickson, Tennessee. There are no visitors allowed at all at this time due to the massive Covid outbreak and the staff is working overtime to try to keep all of their patients cared for, but it is also hard on them! 
He is in total isolation which is horrible in itself! 
He is receiving steroids, which in turn raise his sugar levels so he’s also having to take insulin in the hospital. He has type 2 diabetes! I am trying to raise the money to pay our monthly bills (Electricity, Water, etc.) and keep food in the house! This is what any donation will be used for! 
When he gets out of the hospital we are going to have a lot of medical bills as well. 
He has expressed how grateful he is for all of the prayers from people he didn’t even think cared for him! But he knows now that you do! Please keep praying that he will get better. Mark served his country in the USMC. He is proud and he is tough! But this virus has almost done him in!! 
If you can spare anything, that would help us tremendously! If you can’t, prayers will also help him! 
If you don’t feel comfortable donating through GoFundMe, I also have PayPal, and I will be happy to give you my email address for that. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me! I am trying to include all of the information in this so that everyone knows what is going on! Ive been trying to keep everyone informed and up to date on his condition as it changes. I didn’t hear from him today so I had to try to get nurses to call me back and let me know something, but I finally heard from him via text! 
Thank you so much for taking the time to share this and if you can donate it will be appreciated so much!! I know that times are hard on us all now. I just don’t know where to turn at this point so I made this GoFundMe to try to raise awareness and keep everyone informed on Mark and how he is doing! 
Thank you for taking the time to read and if you can donate!!  



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    Becky Erickson
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    Erin, TN
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