Help My Mom Support Her Brother With Heart Surgery

My mom is blocked from this post as well as my dad because they would not want me to do this.

Without going into a ton of detail, my mom’s brother who is one year older than me suffered from a heart attack this week. He lives in Wisconsin and has a job that he has maintained for quite some time as well as has his own apartment. My family is the only family that he has his…. His mother abandoned him without going into further details and … his other mother abandon him as well.

My mom and dad are essentially his only family members that keep in touch with him and care for him… in addition to my siblings.

My mom got a call from the hospital that he had a heart attack and he had to have emergency heart surgery. If you can imagine, she was a mess.

They found out an additional heart surgery is needed because of blockage on the other side. If he continues to be stable he can have an additional surgery in about a month because they don’t like to do heart surgery back to back. There is a small chance he will need to have it sooner - if he presents any concerning issues.

When my mom finally got to talk to him after his first surgery, he was crying. He was scared. He just wanted someone there with him. It broke my mom’s heart that she couldn’t be there with him as she has a job and a family here in PA to take care of.

As of now his heart surgery is going to be around November 20th. The plan is for him to have the surgery and then move closer to home. I know my mom will be so upset with me doing this, but it is going to be around the holidays and she already works plenty of overtime.

I would love to be able to get a flight to and from Wisconsin and also help pay for a rental car and a hotel for her so she is able to be there with her brother.

Please do not share this post as I don’t want her to see it but if you could share with your friends via messenger, that would be awesome.

I really want to help her and my uncle. My mom drops everything for everyone and she would never ask for help. She is going regardless of funding… she’ll drive if she has to but I would love to take this burden off of her.

Thank you - I can provide receipts. Any left over money will go to my uncle to help him relocate back near us and with medical bills.

Moriah

if you’d rather give directly - I can provide my Venmo.