On January 2nd while working, Bill Maher became short of breath, had slight pain in his chest and passed out hitting his head on the way to the floor. After receiving on site medical treatment including  the use of an AED Bill Maher was rushed to the hospital after suffering a massive heart attack. 

Bill received advanced emergency treatment upon arriving at Winchester Medical Center where they continued to try and keep his heart going while in such a weakened state and work through the building issues. After multiple treatments the emergency staff were able to get Bill into "stable" condition and began to discern what was the root of the issues. 

It was diagnosed that Bill's heart was working at 10% of capacity and failing on both the left and right side. Bill had been having multiple small heart attacks over at least the last 2 months that were mistaken as asthma attacks due to his underlying diabetes causing the attacks to have little to no real pain, just shortness of breathe and tightness in the chest. It was these continued attacks that weakened his heart, and Bill continued to work long hours, and through the attacks thinking them basic breathing issues. Well due to the prolonged stress, and the weakened state of his heart, Bill's body gave out and his heart was operating at a total of 10%. 



The hospital needed to fix the heart, but could not go in and do open heart surgery for in his weakened state, they were not sure they would be able to keep hi heart going while they worked on him and he underwent more stress on his body. So after 4 days of monitoring, more  heart attacks, and trying to get him stronger it was decided they would place 2 stints in his heart and a groin pump to help promote blood flow and hopefully remove some of the stress his body was enduring. Well after the procedure was completed and all looked like it was getting better, Bill was rushed into emergency surgery again as his SATS plummeted, and they realized that during the surgery his bladder was filling with blood due to the blood thinners and he had generated a massive clot inside of his bladder that was adding more strain to the rest of his body and was keeping him from being able to undergo more work on his heart to fix and repair the issues there.  He was rushed from a normal room and has been on constant critical care to manage and monitor the progression of the now 2 separate issues.

So currently they are having to monitor all of his SATS to keep him stable, continue to pump a retinue of medications into his system to control the situation, and having him try to urinate and pass blood clots that are roughly the size of his thumb and pinky finger. As one might expect, that sort of material passing through the urethra is extremely painful and tiring, so they are having to keep putting more and more pain medication into him to keep him from passing out from the pain, but not too much to affect his heart.



Currently at 10 days in Bill is still in critical care, and is still passing the blood clot from his bladder. His heart is doing somewhat better with it now operating at 25% on his left and 30-35% on his right. They are trying to get the blood clotting issue taken care of before they can restart working out a plan of action for his heart.  So they are unsure of  a timeline of when they will be able to remove him from the critical care unit and back into a normal room, so the option of when he would be able to leave is unknown.

So why Bill needs your help? As you can assume with Bill out of work, being held in the critical care unit, the number of emergency procedures, and no idea when he might be released the medical bills are going to start to pile up, not to mention the normal day to day bills. We have applied for financial aid, but they said that it probably wont cover the extremely high deductible of the provided employee insurance by Martins. So anything you can provide to help is greatly appreciated, and if you cannot donate to the fund, well wishes and a share of the effort is also appreciated. The whole purpose is to give Bill as little stress as possible while in the hospital, and when he actually gets to leave so he can focus on healing, and regaining his strength.

Thank you so much and please continue to check back for updates.