Nick Bauso's Battle Has Only Just Begun

Earlier this year, Nick Bauso's bank account had been wiped clean of all funds raised by our previous campaign. Thus far, CitiBank has shown no interest in helping to recover the $20,000+ taken from his account. We have contacted a lawyer who will hopefully be able to remedy CitiBink's mistake. Because of this, we figured we'd be better off starting fresh with a new campaign. Now more than ever, my family needs your financial support. With hospital bills, physical therapy bills, and now legal fees to deal with as well, we are asking once again for your generosity.

Since March of 2020, Nick has been confined to a hospital bed due to complications with COVID-19. Just as the pandemic began its initial spread throughout much of the world, my uncle was among the first to be stricken with the illness. As an individual with pre-existing respiratory problems, the disease hit him especially hard, forcing him onto a ventilator in a medically induced coma for nearly six months. Out of everyone in his Covid ward, he was one of two people who ultimately survived. Though medical professionals know much more about treating the virus now than they had initially, the damage to Nick's body had already been done. Still requiring a machine to breathe, he had eventually woken up to an altered world, unable to move, unable to speak, and barely able to form a coherent thought. He remains confined to a hospital bed to this day, but has since been removed from his ventilator, begun rehab therapy for his atrophied muscles, and is in good spirits.

However, we have recently learned that Nick's health insurance had not been covering his extended stay at the hospital since January 2021, and now we need your financial support. Our family needs your help to ensure Nick's steady road to recovery can continue unimpeded, without the stress of a looming hospital bill that grows higher each and every day. Please help us help him learn to walk again so that he can return to living an everyday, healthy life.