Jake's Road To Recovery And After Care

Hello,

My name is Leandra. I have never had to do one of these before so, please bear with me. I started this GoFundMe to help raise money for my husband's rehab care, hospital bills, helicopter transport bills and everything we will need for when we are eventually able to take him home. Things needed for our home will be walkers, wheelchairs, ramps at each exterior door, a handicap-accessible shower and a toilet, we will need to make our home more handicap accessible, and he will need a new bed until he is physically able to get in and out of our normal bed and a lot more.

Any help would be amazing so we continue getting my husband the care he needs and deserves. Jake is 28 years old. He is an amazing father to three children, a great friend to all, a hard-working employee, and so much more

Here is my husband's story on how we got here.

On April 1st around 6:30 pm a tragedy struck our family. Our daughter came running to my car screaming that Daddy had fallen on the ground. I run inside to find my husband face down on our kitchen floor hardly responding and soaking wet in sweat. I immediately called 911 because it looked like he had a stroke. I meet him at the first hospital to find the paramedics that assisted him still there and they were apologizing. I was then met by doctors and nurses telling me that my husband was now on life support and Tampa General Hospital was on their way with a helicopter to transfer him.

The doctor grabbed my hand was showing me this very large bleed in his brain. He had just been diagnosed with an AVM Rupture to the right side of his brain with a blood clot near his brain stem. He had an EVD placed into his skull in the emergency room to help drain and reduce the pressure on his brain. Upon my arrival to Tampa General Hospital, I was told that he was going to have emergency surgery to remove the blood clot near the brain stem and to perform a Craniectomy to the right side of his head. The surgeon then decided to leave the right side of his skull off until further notice to make sure his brain did not swell again. After we were able to successfully take him off of the vents we were then able to discover the deficits that he had been left with due to the injury to his brain.

Unfortunately, Jake has been left with partial facial paralysis, speech deficits, loss of short-term memory, no use of his left leg, and no use of his left arm, among other things.

After his release from the hospital, he will need to go to an inpatient rehabilitation facility made for people with these injuries like this. We do not know how long he will have to be there, but it is going to be costly.