Thanks for stopping by, my name is Angela, Tracy Michaud has been a friend of mine for almost 15 years. Each member of the Michaud Family has touched my life and numerous other lives in some way over the years. They've never asked for help, instead always asking who can they help, so I'm asking anyone reading this to please consider helping them and praying for their son Tyler.

 

 

The Michaud's need our help, in the past few month's they have dealt a handful, the biggest being their son Tyler being hospitalized unexpectedly, fighting for his life, to add to that pain and worry they were faced with their home flooding and on New Year's Day they found out that Tyler's house had also flooded. Tracy and John have been spending as much time at Tyler's bedside while he recovers and Tyler has been out of work while hospitalized. The financial strain this has put on both households is so much more than I can explain. Please consider donating to help offset some of the expenses they have and are going to be faced with. If you would like to donate to them directly, please email me and I can provide you with the information needed to do this.

 

 

Here is a summary that Tracy provided regarding Tyler's illness and hospitalization:

 

"He slipped off the step of his 18-wheeler several weeks ago and hurt his ribs. He didn’t think much of it at the time. He wasn’t feeling and went to the Urgent Care with a fever.

They said he had bruised his ribs (I think) and had an ear infection. Sent him home with Amoxicillin. After 3 doses he got a rash and discontinued. He still could not get rid of fever and had not urinated for 3 days even though he was drinking and was shaking like someone with Parkinson’s times 100. Finally, he went back to a different urgent care, and they sent him to ER. I will not go into those details. Let's just say we were not happy with them.

He finally got into a room at the hospital, but we still could not see him because they were waiting for a third covid test. Won't go into that either. He was very confused and not making sense. He was vomiting a lot and aspirated. At this point we had had enough and were going to take him to another hospital. They advised us he was not stable enough to move.

He ended up having to get a Lumbar Puncture and they moved him to the IMU floor. We finally got to see him. He was doing OK considering. Sometime during the late night/early morning he just could not breathe any more on his own. Scariest thing ever. I lost it. Every time I think about it, I get nauseous. They moved him to ICU at this point and he remained on the Ventilator. When he improved, they removed the tube, and he did really good. Later that night he just got very tired and again could not sustain his oxygen level and we almost lost him again. He was again intubated and remained on the vent for a few more days.

When they removed it, he did good once again. His determination came through and did all the things they asked of him so he could get better. Some of the things that made his recovery difficult were aspiration pneumonia, stabilizing his oxygen, Blood Pressure, temperature, sepsis, blood clot, low sodium no feeling in legs/feet and allergic to something to name a few. Over 56 different medications and at least twice that in tests. The unofficial diagnosis is viral meningitis and/or Guillain-Barre Syndrome."