Jeremy Survived Covid. Help With Rehab And Bills
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For those of you that don't know Jeremy Smith is battling COVID-19.
November 4th Jeremy was admitted to the hospital with flu-like symptoms. Upon further testing it was discovered he had coronavirus. He was immediately admitted to ICU where they put Jeremy into medically induced coma and put him on a ventilator.
He had one hour to call all friends and family to say he loved them and goodbye in case he didn’t make it through. One hour to try to get all his affairs in order while trying not to panic, wondering if he would survive this.
During his stay in the ICU, it was a rollercoaster, and because of the lockdown no family could visit. Each day family called and called to find out how he was doing. Somedays the nurses said he wasn’t doing well, and they couldn’t say for sure if he would survive this or not. They used many experimental treatments that will have unknown long term effects. One was an experimental convalescent plasma treatment. The others were remdesivir and dexamethasone. He had many scares while on the ventilator as well, they had found blood clots forming in his lungs, infections flairing up and his pancreas is having problems.
On the 19th day of being on the ventilator, the doctors have to make a decision on what to do with a patient. Staying that long on a ventilator is not a permanent solution. They called his family on the 19th day and said his breathing had still not improved enough and that they would have to perform a tracheotomy. This is not the news anyone had hoped to hear. As faith would have it, Jeremy was blessed with an amazing ICU nurse on the 20th. She called his family and said, I’m going to get him off of this ventilator today, no matter what. She did it and Jeremy made it through. However, Jeremy still has a long hard struggle in front of him.
Jeremy's is about to embark on tremendously difficult journey of healing and rehabilitation.
Jeremy's treatment included heavy sedation, a ventilator, feeding tube, multiple iv's and an induced coma for 20 days. All of which have difficult and lasting side effects.
PTSD, muscle atrophy, speech therapy, physical therapy, are just the beginning. Jeremy will have months of rehabilitation ahead of him, and quite possibly a lifetime of trama and lung damage from this experience. Jeremy is just barely able to start speaking again. He has months and months of rehabilitation to endure and life long health issues as a result of this incredibly destructive virus.
Jeremy is a loving father to his 3 sons Kobe (15) Bryant (13) and Griffen (10) and partner to his girlfriend of 10 years Kaycee . Jeremy has obviously been unable to work and his future with his company is in doubt. With the holidays coming up and huge financial burden from this upon them, Any help would be greatly appreciated
Funds raised from this GoFundMe will be spent on: Hospital bills. Past due bills due to Jeremy's inability to work and earn money. Construction at Jeremy's house building and adding rails, steps and stools, in order to make his home livable for a person that’s disabled and in recovery.
November 4th Jeremy was admitted to the hospital with flu-like symptoms. Upon further testing it was discovered he had coronavirus. He was immediately admitted to ICU where they put Jeremy into medically induced coma and put him on a ventilator.
He had one hour to call all friends and family to say he loved them and goodbye in case he didn’t make it through. One hour to try to get all his affairs in order while trying not to panic, wondering if he would survive this.
During his stay in the ICU, it was a rollercoaster, and because of the lockdown no family could visit. Each day family called and called to find out how he was doing. Somedays the nurses said he wasn’t doing well, and they couldn’t say for sure if he would survive this or not. They used many experimental treatments that will have unknown long term effects. One was an experimental convalescent plasma treatment. The others were remdesivir and dexamethasone. He had many scares while on the ventilator as well, they had found blood clots forming in his lungs, infections flairing up and his pancreas is having problems.
On the 19th day of being on the ventilator, the doctors have to make a decision on what to do with a patient. Staying that long on a ventilator is not a permanent solution. They called his family on the 19th day and said his breathing had still not improved enough and that they would have to perform a tracheotomy. This is not the news anyone had hoped to hear. As faith would have it, Jeremy was blessed with an amazing ICU nurse on the 20th. She called his family and said, I’m going to get him off of this ventilator today, no matter what. She did it and Jeremy made it through. However, Jeremy still has a long hard struggle in front of him.
Jeremy's is about to embark on tremendously difficult journey of healing and rehabilitation.
Jeremy's treatment included heavy sedation, a ventilator, feeding tube, multiple iv's and an induced coma for 20 days. All of which have difficult and lasting side effects.
PTSD, muscle atrophy, speech therapy, physical therapy, are just the beginning. Jeremy will have months of rehabilitation ahead of him, and quite possibly a lifetime of trama and lung damage from this experience. Jeremy is just barely able to start speaking again. He has months and months of rehabilitation to endure and life long health issues as a result of this incredibly destructive virus.
Jeremy is a loving father to his 3 sons Kobe (15) Bryant (13) and Griffen (10) and partner to his girlfriend of 10 years Kaycee . Jeremy has obviously been unable to work and his future with his company is in doubt. With the holidays coming up and huge financial burden from this upon them, Any help would be greatly appreciated
Funds raised from this GoFundMe will be spent on: Hospital bills. Past due bills due to Jeremy's inability to work and earn money. Construction at Jeremy's house building and adding rails, steps and stools, in order to make his home livable for a person that’s disabled and in recovery.
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Matt Goodwin
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Spokane, WA