Help Dad with his life saving surgery

Life takes many turns, One day you are on top of the world living healthy, spending time with family, engaged in career, and modelling a productive healthy lifestyle for your kids enjoying the time. Then in a blink it can all be disrupted and change. I find myself to be in this situation having been faced with a severe blood clotting event that ended up placing me in hospital with a 40% chance of survival one night. Everything changed, A massive Pulmonary Embolism that created enough back pressure to enlarge my heart to near critical failure. Obviously I made it through, the next couple of months put me on disability, and slow recovery with the thought that blood thinners and my body would dissolve the clots and return me to normal - this was not the case, the clots turned to scar tissue and became a larger problem.

This caused a diagnosis of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) the surgery I am lucky to have been selected for is surgical pulmonary thromboendarterectomy (PTE), also called pulmonary endarterectomy (PEA). This surgery is completed through an incision (cut) in the breastbone, you are put on a heart-lung machine and cooled from 37 degrees Celsius to 18 degrees Celsius. After cooling happens, the circulation is stopped. This lets the surgeon look into the arteries of the lungs. Surgeons use special tools to carefully separate the clots from the normal wall of the artery. This delicate surgery should be done by a specialist team with experience. In these circumstances, the surgery is safe and can cure this disease. As I have been living a healthy lifestyle, and my blood work shows positive I have been granted this opportunity. 

 I am lucky enough to have been accepted for this life saving surgery by one of only two physicians in all Canada found in Ottawa and Toronto Ontario. I am to undergo lung surgery to remove these sections of tissue in the lung to allow for blood flow and release of pressure on the right side of my heart. Covid has put a wrench into the surgery dates as well the provincial red tape of travel between provinces. I have finally received my surgery date of August 6 2021. I was under the impression that being in Canada and having a system of medical care I would be covered for allocated costs of logistics and travel. Turns out not to be true.

I am truly thankful for the help I have received thus far with the insurance I have, though at a dramatic financial decrease, as well I am certainly thankful our province will pay the doctors in Ontario for the surgery and "in hospital time" unlike many other countries elsewhere. However, I am finding out I will be having to cover costs associated with travel, stay, recovery and any other medical costs associated with a lengthy recovery.

So, I find myself directed to this site in a humble ask for your help whomever you may be. I will get better, I will recover, and I will be back to enjoying my career, my family, and live a healthy life I have no doubt; This is just my mountain I have to climb and am hoping I have some friends and community at my side to travel with through this journey.