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In serious need of serious help

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Over the last month my dad has been so sick to the point where he was going to work and coming home only to instantly lay down exhausted. At first our family thought it was just a bad flu bug and working 12 hour days that were making him so tired. Well things starting to get noticeably worse. Extreme fatigue,extreme weight loss, pain, coughing, dizziness, paleness, etc. He had a few doctors appointments and was found out to have Viral pneumonia, but the doctors still thought there was something else. After being Admited to IU hospital they found an infection in his blood stream, and on 2 of his heart valves. He was put on IV antibiotics to begin cleaning the blood to prepare for open heart surgery. He had a really rough Friday night/Saturday morning, the pneumonia has fluid in his lungs that is giving him trouble breathing. He was airlifted to IU Methodist hospital in Indianapolis. He is now in ICU where he is still on IVs fighting the infections and preparing for surgery. As of today 2/28/16 he is looking better and is improving. It looks like the surgery could come next week. After surgery he will be at Methodist for at least another 10 days. He will be out of work for at least 3 months. Which brings me to the reason of this campaign. Our father has been the sole financial provider for our family for the past 15 years. He has worked many jobs, and sometimes 2 jobs to keep us up financially. Even by doing that our family has always struggled financially. This is a devastating hit to our family. In addition to all of that my parents have no health insurance. We can't even begin to guess what the medical bills will be, not to mention keeping up with the mortgage and all other associated household bills. If you can help in any way possible our family couldn't even begin to explain how grateful we would be . Thank you so much for your continued thoughts and prayers.We  are anxious to get our Dad back to the Summer loving, Hard working, Funny, Weird, Family loving man he is.
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Donations 

  • Alice Haefke
    • $25
    • 7 yrs
  • Anonymous
    • $40
    • 9 yrs
  • Anonymous
    • $100
    • 9 yrs
  • Jamie Whitley
    • $100
    • 9 yrs
  • Shanan Sims
    • $30
    • 9 yrs
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Organizer and beneficiary

Dustin Elliott
Organizer
Lafayette, IN
Pete Elliott
Beneficiary

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