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My name is Wade Bruce, and my whole world went from normal ole joe blow; to chaos and stress in a matter of hours/days. On Thursday November 13, 2025 while working out of town in Brunswick, GA I experienced bad chest pains and what I thought was just a cold or maybe even bronchitis trying to come. I took some aspirin an went back to work. The next day, Friday, after finishing what needed to be done on the job I went on to drive myself back home to Macon, GA. In the early hours of Saturday Nov. 15 the chest pains came roaring back and I could no longer ignore the pain. My wife rushed me to the e.r where they told me that I had suffered a mild heart attack, mind you I drove roughly 4 hours home not knowing I was having a heart attack. After the initial shock of the news from the doctors, they went in on Monday November 17 and had 2 heart stints put in. My right heart ventricle was 99% clogged. I still have to go back for another stint as well as I still have several arteries at 90% clogged. I will have to continue taking medications to clear the majority of the clogs. I have a beautiful little 6 y.o girl who i not only need to be here for her but pray to able to watch her grow up, as well as my loving wife who has been my rock through all of this. I could not imagine life without them nor their life without me. The tragic part of all this is that it happened while we are in between insurance we had just lost our insurance and were waiting for open enrollment while my wife was looking around for us a new insurance the heart attack struck! Because I do not have insurance the 3 main medications I have to have to get my heart back to where it needs to be and to keep me from having another possibly bigger heart attack or stroke costs are outrageous. One medication alone the one for my blood cost right at $400 the other 2 added on will be roughly $2000 for one months prescription. Now, before anyone goes assuming I'm just looking for a handout; know I work a 40 plus hour a week job doing plumbing. My wife is a homemaker for our daughter and I so our income at the moment is tight. I'm not asking for anything I wouldn't return in favor if had the ability, at the moment I do not have the ability nor the funds. My wife is talking to everyone she can through the hospital and the companies that produce these medications to try and see if I can get any financial assistance through them. I whoel heartedly believe that through the power of prayer and God himself, and through any help from communities and good hearted people not only will God provide a way for me to receive and pay for the medicines I but he will see me through this and thriving with this second chance at life he has given me. Let me tell it has been a huge eye opener injust how quick we can be ripped away from our loved ones and life itself. I would never ask for assistance or a handout whatever you would call it if it were not quite literally a life and death matter. Im just asking for more time to watch my daughter grow up and more time to love my wife like everyday could be the last day, because I just learned that any day and any moment could be our last moment with our loved ones. I know its right at the holidays and I'm just asking for help spending more holidays with my little girl. Prayers to all and may your life be as blessed or more so than anything you could bless me with.

