Help a Healer Heal: Support My Journey to the Mayo Clinic

Hi Friends and Colleagues, this is Dr. Jeffrey Kaplan, Chiropractic Physician.

For 24 years, I have dedicated my life to helping others regain their health and quality of life as a chiropractor in Lakewood Ranch, Florida. I've always been strong, healthy, and passionate about my work with people until one day, everything changed.

Over the past fifteen months, I have been battling a severe autoimmune disease that has slowly taken away the use of my hands. Imagine your life work, spanning decades, healing others, only to wake up one day unable to perform the work you love. I have seen multiple neurologists, functional medicine doctors, and kinesiologists searching for answers, but not have been able to pinpoint exactly what is happening to me.

Recently, I was referred to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota, one of the best medical facilities in the world for complex cases such as mine. This is my best chance to get the answers I so desperately need. However, my Florida Blue Insurance is out-of-network for the Mayo Clinic, and the costs of this crucial, lengthy evaluation, along with travel and lodging, are overwhelming. As a single father of two young boys, this financial burden is one I cannot bear alone.

I am reaching out to my community, the very people I have spent my life serving, for support. Any contribution, big or small, will help me afford the testing and care I need to regain my health, continue supporting my children, and hopefully, return to the work that brings me so much purpose.

Please consider donating and sharing my story. Your kindness and generosity mean the world to me, and I am forever grateful for any help you can provide.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

P.S. This is the current status of my hands due to this debilitating condition that I am seeking answers for.