Hello my name is Keri and I am starting this GoFundMe for my brother Ryan Salewski and his family.

It all started on July 6th when he was feeling really ill and had a really high fever. Later that night he went to the Sherwood Park hospital and they immediately rushed him to the emergency room where they did a CT scan, x-rays, bloodwork and stool samples where he was diagnosed with salmonella and they also diagnosed him with a rare disease called MALS. They then sent him to the Royal Alex hospital on July 7th where he spent 5 days getting antibiotics to clear the salmonella. Once that had cleared up they sent him home. Again he was feeling unwell and returned to the Royal Alex a few days later. They told him that everything was ok and had to wait to see the surgeon as an outpatient. Then on July 20th he ended up feeling really sick again with a fever of 104 and fainted five times at home and his wife and kids threw him into their vehicle and rushed him to the hospital where they had to perform life saving measures as he was unable to breathe on his own and his blood pressure was extremely low. Had they not taken him to the hospital when they did he would have died at home. He was rushed to the St Albert hospital where he was in the ICU for 12 days and was diagnosed with C-diff. The doctors weren't sure if it was MALS so they did more tests to rule everything else out. He has become severely malnourished and his body ate all of his fat and reserves and started eating the muscle in his body. They put in a feeding tube to help him get the nutrients and proteins into his body because he was unable to eat. Already a thin man, he lost over 40lbs over the course of 5 months because he was unable to eat due to the pain from the now diagnosed syndrome MALS. As of today he has been in the hospital for 23 days where he now has a PICC line inserted to feed him the nutrients he so desperately needs. He will be getting another feeding tube to give him much needed nutrients. They will see how his stomach handles the food over the next few days. If all is well then they will insert a peg tube right into his stomach to feed him. This will be a long-term process as he has a long road to recovery. He will be referred to a vascular surgeon who has dealt with MALS before. He will then find out if and when he will be going for surgery or if he will be living in chronic pain and have a feeding tube for the rest of his life.

I know that times are tough for so many people right now and I hate to ask but anything will honestly help them in their time of need as Ryan is obviously unable to work and is awaiting to be accepted on AISH but apparently that process can take quite a while.

Any and all donations would be so greatly appreciated