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I Need a Heart Transplant




MY NAME IS LAQUISHA MATHIS AND I AM 35 WITH  FIVE KIDS. I HAVE HAD HEART PROBLEMS THROUGHOUT MY ENTIRE
 LIFE AND THESE PROBLEMS  HAVE BECOME PROGRESSIVELY WORSE IN THE PAST  TWO YEARS. AND DOCTORS ARE ONLY GIVING ME SIX MONTHS TO LIVE. 

I DON'T HAVE THE MONEY TO PAY FOR THE COSTLY HEART TRANSPLANT THAT I NEED. I HAVE APPLIED FOR SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE BUT HAVE BEEN TURNED DOWN MANY TIMES. WHILE I AM CURRENTLY ON MEDICAID, IT  WILL NOT COVER THE COSTLY  SURGERY. I NEED MEDICARE THAT I HAVE BEEN TOLD WILL COVER THE OPERATION. I'M STUCK. I AM SO WEAK AND I NEED A TOUCH FROM GOD TO HEAL ME. I WANT TO SEE MY KIDS GROW UP AND HAVE THEIR OWN KIDS. I AM UNABLE TO SLEEP ANSD AM ALWAYS TIRED AND WEAK AL DAY LONG. I WANT TO LIVE AND IT'S A STRUGGLE EVERYDAY. I THANK GOD I HAVE MADE IT THIS FAR. WILL YOU CONSIDER HELPING ME FUND MY SURGERY? AND WILL YOU PRAY FOR ME? THANKS

HERE'S A LINK TO THE LOCAL NEWS WHERE THEY DID A STORY ON  ME ON MARCH 11, 2015. IT GIVES MORE SPECIFICS ON MY CONDITION. AGAIN THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP.





BELOW IS MY STORY'S NEWS ARTICLE FROM WJXT.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -

A 35-year-old woman has been given six months to live and her only hope is receiving a heart transplant.

A local mother of five was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure. She said under her current health care policy she's unable to receive the transplant that can save her life. Her family is now making a plea to the public for help.


News4Jax spoke to the mother and her sister Wednesday and they said time is running out.

Laquisha Mathis has been keeping the secret from her five children for the last few weeks. Her heart is weakening from using the pump and doctors said she has less than a year to live.

"They just know mommy is sick and I don't know how to tell them because they're young," Mathis said. "In the last two years, it has done a whole 360 (turn). I can't even walk a long way. I can't stand up a long time. I can barely clean up, do grocery shopping, wash clothes, even hold my 1-year-old, because I'm always tired and always weak."

That weakness stems from a condition Mathis has had all her life. Cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure is a condition that has kept her in and out of surgery -- racking in multiple medications. She said she's able to pay for those medications while on Medicaid, but Medicaid will not cover the $1,000,000 heart transplant, which is necessary to save her life.

Her doctor, Sumant Lamba, said only Medicare will pay for the transplant. But first, she must qualify for disability, which could take two years.

"We have healthy people in our society on disability milking the system, but people who actually need it don't get it, so I wrote a strongly-worded letter saying (that) without her medication she would have been dead and her heart has given up and if she doesn't get a heart transplant she'll die," Lamba said.

Mathis said she applied for disability in 2012 but was denied. She has since reapplied and her wait continues.

"That's my sister, that's all I got and I want her here with me for as long as I can have her with me," said Moteisha Mathis, Laquisha Mathis' sister. "It's a day-to-day struggle. We have to save face and act like everything is normal, but we can't sleep at night. Our whole life is stopped literally because that's a death sentence,"

"If anybody knows any kind of resource that can help me with my case, so that I can have my procedure done. so that I can be here and watch my kids get grown and watch them have kids, I will be extremely thankful for every little thing," Laquisha Mathis said.

Her doctor told News4Jax, she needs $500,000 for the transplant and another $500,000 for post-surgery checkups.

 

http://www.news4jax.com/news/dying-woman-cant-receive-lifesaving-transplant-under-health-care/31745252
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