
Help Chris on the 13th with his Heart Procedure
Hello dear friends and family, I am putting this together to help my 13 yr old son Christopher Helms. He currently goes to Legacy Traditional Charter school in Henderson NV and some of the moms were telling me to put together a Go fund me page which honestly I never even thought about it so here I go. He got diagnosed last May with WPW (Wolfs Parkinson White Syndrome) from a scorpion bite when we brought him to the hospital and they did an EKG. Its a extra electrical pathway in the heart that causes rapid heartbeat. There are about 1 in 100 people that can have a heart attack from heavy activity which he is very active in sports since he was 5. They will not know if he is the 1 in 100 until they go up his groin remove the pathway and get his heartbeat up to a tremendous amount and if he is they will have to restart his heart, this is what I am understanding from talking to his heart doctor, Dr. Samson here is Las Vegas. Last year they did several tests and sent him home with a monitor for 2 days and the doctor said he was O.k. for now but not on his visit recently. My friend that works at UMC in the Trauma Center for over 25 years said he is the best. My biggest worry are the what If's, always a ton a risk and only 1 parent will be able to be there with him due to Covid. I do not have insurance and the normal surgery is between 90k and 140k just for the hospital which they are willing to give me 90% off but still require 50% down and then the $500 an hr for the anesthesiologist and he will be under for 5 hours which is $2,500 which they want up front. Thank god his doctor is willing to work with me but don't know the details yet. Normally I have plenty in savings and this would not be a big issue but due to Covid and office shutting down in March this is the worst timing ever. Chris is not as scared as I think he should be so I put on a show as I think he is doing as well to not worry his mom. Chris is my miracle baby and I am freaked out so any help anyone can do would mean the world to us. I am worried if I don't come up with funds I will have to reschedule and with the virus cases going up I don't want the hospital to stop certain surgeries. Bottom line if I don't due this surgery and something were to happen I would never forgive myself and he would not be able to every play sports again. God bless everyone and thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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Lukowski Lukowski
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Henderson, NV