Help for Landon Geriks medical expenses.

We are raising money to help offset Landons medical expenses due to Wilson’s Disease. On September 15, 2021, Landons dad unexpectedly passed away in a work accident. While down for the funeral proceedings, Landon experienced some severe leg swelling. This prompted him to schedule a doctors appointment for the end of September. At this appointment it was discovered that he had stroke level blood pressure with no symptoms. Bloodwork was ran which came back so abnormal that the doctor originally thought it was a lab error. Repeat bloodwork disproved that theory. From the end of September until December 16, 2021 Landon underwent 2 ultrasounds, a HIDA scan, an ER visit, full cardiology workup including EKG and Echo, unknown numbers of lab tests, an endoscopy, and finally a visit to an ophthalmologist. With all of this testing, the Gastroenterologist was able to finally diagnose Landon with an extremely rare genetic disease called Wilson’s Disease. This disease causes your body to store all of the copper eaten on a daily basis whereas normally it would be metabolized out by the Liver. Due to this, copper has been stored in all of his organs for his entire life causing continuous damage. Wilsons Disease typically focuses on Liver and Neurological symptoms. Thankfully Landon has mostly only encountered the liver side of things. He does have some of the neurological symptoms such as hand tremors and muscle spasms but thankfully no seizures or loss of mobility yet. As of right now we are both able to work in between doctors appointments but the Liver Specialist has warned that we need to prepare for Landon to be unable to work as he expects the symptoms will progress. We transferred care to 1 of only 2 practices in all of Texas that is familiar with treating Wilson’s disease ( a 2 hour drive each way) and since April, Landon has undergone a Liver transplant evaluation, MRI’s to check for cancer, Liver biopsy, more Cardio workups and never ending lab tests. His liver has been found to be fully cirrhotic and not functioning to its full capability resulting in other health problems. One of these problems is an extremely low platelet count (most recent is 36) that very likely will soon result in him needing a transfusion. He will also need a full liver transplant to cure the Wilsons Disease and save his life. The most recent Echo also found Landon to have a PFO (hole in the heart) that did not close up at birth like it should have. This is scheduled to be corrected before he can be accepted on the transplant list. Currently the heart surgery is scheduled for August 1, 2022. Osteopenia was also diagnosed (weak bones but not to the level of osteoporosis) and he must see an Endocrinologist to treat this. When meeting with the liver transplant team, we learned that Landon will be out of work for at least 6 (possibly more) months post transplant and will need a caretaker (me) with him 24/7 during that time period. On top of that we also need a sizable amount saved up to pay our portion of the bills along with our equivalent of monthly salary for the estimated time frame that he will be unable to work or they will not do the transplant. When we first began the hunt for a diagnosis we sold our home and have since had to use all money from the sale on medical bills. Due to these factors we have come to the realization that we have no choice but to ask for help. Anything means the most to us and we are so so grateful for all of the support we have seen so far! The outpouring of prayers and kind words mean more to us than anyone can ever know. UPDATE: Landons surgery to close the hole in his heart was successful. He's having to stay overnight in the hospital for monitoring but we should be able to go home tomorrow. He will be off work (unfortunately without pay) for an entire week but will hopefully be able to return next week.