Help the Beishl Family During Matt's Recovery

Hello, my name is Matt Beishl. I've been married to my wife Dawn for 23 years, 24 years this November. I have two beautiful children who I couldn't be more proud of, Olivia and Ava. I'm a big Philadelphia sports fan, love to cook, and try to do the best I can for everyone around me. I've always worked hard and usually I can handle anything that comes up by just finding some other way to earn money to handle it. But this time the problem is me and I can't do anything about it. I don't like to beg; it's not in my nature and that's what this feels like, but I don't have a lot of choice.

In April, I wasn't feeling well and I thought it was just back pain. I was home in bed and kept feeling worse and worse. My wife was begging me to go to the emergency room and I finally did go to the community hospital emergency room, and I was lucky that I did. I am a type 2 diabetic and somehow developed a severe infection called Fournier's gangrene. If I had waited any longer, I probably would not have survived. At the community emergency room, they informed myself and my wife that they could not handle my case and I was rushed by helicopter to the University of Penn in Philadelphia. There were many odds against me: survival, maybe never able to walk again, possibility of being sterile. I went into emergency surgery and a medically induced coma. I had numerous surgeries. I had an adverse reaction and almost died on the operating table during one of the procedures. The doctors told my wife I might be brain damaged. All that being said, I have somehow bucked the odds and am fighting hard to recover. I'm a very lucky man. All the things that they told me were against me I have overcome so far. I can walk, I can talk, and I am alive. I can still kiss my wife and my children, and I know many, many people love me and I love them too.

Prior to getting sick myself, my brother-in-law was also very sick with pancreatic cancer. My wife was taking care of him and taking him to the VA for treatment for quite some time. She also has not been working for quite some time, but we were managing with my income. But now we have nothing coming into the house. It is looking like I'm going to have a long recovery and won't be able to work for months and we are already falling behind on our bills. There isn't another job for me to get, which is what I would normally do because I'm the one that can't work. We don't even know what we are going to do because it is likely we will need my wife to help clean my wound and take care of me in some instances that I can't do it for myself. Our bills are already spiraling out of control. Everyone tells you don't worry about it, just get healthy, but that doesn't always work in your head. I am super reluctant to do anything like this but I am doing it. If it is in your heart to help, I appreciate it. Blessings and God be with you.