Help Aaron Overcome Heart Failure Costs

Hello all, My name is Aaron Wohrman. I am 28 years old, and during the week of Christmas in 2024, I was having some issues breathing. The issues breathing had been going on for about a week or two, but one night at about 2 am something told me to go to the ER. I went on over to TMC, which I ended up being admitted into a room and staying for almost a week in. When I first checked in, no one was really saying anything but it seemed like I was made a priority with how fast they were calling me in and out of testing for my symptoms. Come to find out, after doing x rays, CT scans, lots of blood work, EKG tests, and then some, when I went in, I actually am in heart failure. Not only that, by product of cardiomyopathy, there is also a roughly 2CMx2CM blood clot in my heart as well. Additionally, there was also some pneumonia I had apparently been fighting as well. I’ve since been discharged, with proper medication and have a follow up appointment with a cardiologist coming up. The whole reason for this is unfortunately when I had went into the hospital, I had no benefits at all. TMC was incredible enough to help through donations and the programs they have, to bring my $40,000 bill down to the ~$11,000 balance, with a couple thousand dollar individual bills for the doctors themselves, and some outside testing, as well. I have since been able to activate my benefits through my work, but it wasn’t until the new year started. I currently have a “Life vest” that I have to wear at all times, which is a vest that senses my heart rate and rhythm, and should it either stop or go into an unfamiliar rhythm, the defibrillator will activate and shock it back, theoretically. I can only wear this vest for 3 months for some reason, and after that I believe it will either be to have a defibrillator surgically implanted inside my chest, or to have a full heart transplant. Please consider helping me pay off these medical debts, I would be forever grateful and thankful.

Update; after some research and follow up with cardiologist. I am in the “end-stage” heart failure. According to my paperwork and doctors, the ejection fraction of my heart, which a typical person is operating on ~70% , I am operating at 10% , which is effectively classified as a nonfunctional heart. My only goal at this point is that should anything happen, I don’t have debts to pass along and allow the funding of my life insurance to all be put to my children rather than to bills. Thank you.