This last year has been a hard one for my wife and I. Her with infusion dependent anemia and me with Sarcoidosis and Bechet’s. Many who know us well have been asking,
 
1.        What is wrong with me?  (I have rare forms of two obscure autoimmune diseases.  One resulted in  my mom's death early 2019.)

2.      And how can I help?  (Bottom line, donate to the cause)


What started out as what we thought to be a normal flu and short term illness continued to progress and get worse until it affected my entire body.
Over the last year I have been working really hard with my doctors to heal from these diseases as they have affected my eyes, brain, heart, lungs, liver and kidneys.  I have been unable to work due to symptoms.  (Turns out when moving and reading make you vomit; you cannot work in the ICU or ER.)  I am on drugs to fight the diseases, but the side effects have compromised my immune system, wasted my muscles, and made it impossible to guess when I am going to be able to get out of bed.  I can’t do the work I love.  I can’t help the patients I love.  I can’t even go to the gym. I feel as though my entire self has been stripped from me. To make matters worse our self-sufficiency is ending, because of the duration of the problems, our safety net of disability has run to the end. Our insurance is also being taken away from us, because I cannot work, so I have lost my benefits.  We have exhausted every avenue that we can think of and are at the end of our rope. We would really love to get back to being healthy fun loving contributing members of our community; So….

We would be very grateful if you would like to contribute to keeping our doctors and paying a couple of bills.