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Help Alex Baker pay for medical expenses.

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Hello,


I’m Alex’s cousin Cindy. I decided to start this fundraiser for Alex so he can take his mind off all things financial and focus on HEALING! This will be a surprise for him.( I’m pulling the best to ask forgiveness than permission card ☺️) It will be so nice for him to have some much needed new gadgets and a new iPad to talk with his friends and family back home and know that his family can stay in the hospital hotel close to him without worrying about how they will pay for it.


Alex was taken to the ER and Diagnosed with COVID-19 on April 7, 2021, UPHS-Marquette ICU for 14 days, he was then transported to UPHS-Bell and admitted to physical rehab at UPHS-Bell. After 7 days he suffered a set back taking him back to IMCU at UPHS-Marquette, then into Rehab in hopes of being discharged to home. Again suffered another bout of pneumonia which took him back to the UPHS-IMCU for a couple of weeks; after exhausting all medical treatments locally, a decision was made to transfer him to a long term acute care hospital, on May 27th, he was transferred by medical plane to Select Specialty Hospital within St. Joesph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor Michigan in hopes of reducing his dependency on Oxygen enough to come home to recover further.


On June 4th his body was tiring again and was diagnosed again with another bout of pneumonia, he was admitted to the ICU of St. Joesph Mercy Hospital, where he remains to date, now in the critical care unit, still requiring oxygen support through a non invasive ventilator, and high flow nasal cannula during meals.

Alex is responding to treatments and each day is showing progress, the process is slow, and it is uncertain when he will be in returning home to Marquette.

His journey has been long so far, he has spent 83 days in the hospital, and will require a much longer stay.

He continues to be strong.


As a mother I can’t imagine the overwhelming emotions and stress that comes with a medical emergency such as this, not to mention the financial strain that gets added in from 4 weeks of hotel stays along with all the other expenses that come with living out of a hotel. And the uncertainty of the time that this will take. It’s my hope that this fundraiser will be able to provide Alex with any items he needs to stay mentally healthy and connected to his friends and loved ones and take some of the pressure off Alex’s family so they can focus on loving and caring for their son and continue to stay at the hotel in the hospital close to Alex until he comes home.


Thank you in advance for the generosity of these donations and prayers for Alex.


Miracles are real!


In love and light,


Cindy

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Donations 

  • Price Robert
    • $25 
    • 2 yrs
  • Anonymous
    • $50 
    • 2 yrs
  • Anonymous
    • $100 
    • 2 yrs
  • Sheree Gembolis
    • $50 
    • 2 yrs
  • Anonymous
    • $1,000 
    • 2 yrs
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Organizer and beneficiary

Cynthia Baker
Organizer
Marquette, MI
Tina Baker
Beneficiary

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