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Joe is my husband and father to our 6-year-old daughter.
My husband was in the USMC and in 2005 he received a vaccine given by the military that almost took his life but he survived and now lives with ongoing complications from that vaccine and is 100% service connected disabled from the USMC. You can read more about his story by googling David Fey mystery vaccine.
My husband, who goes by Joe lost his kidneys due to the vaccine and went through 3 years of dialysis, in 2009 he received a new kidney donated by a high school friend. Because of the medication he had to take everyday to prevent the new kidney from being rejected, he ended up with post transplant b-cell lymphoma in 2019. He beat that cancer but because of the invasive chemo they did it has caused cancer again. He was diagnosed with MDS (Myelodysplastic syndrome) which is a bone marrow cancer in January 2025 he has been undergoing treatment at the James cancer center at OSU and waiting for a bone marrow transplant, in order to get the bone marrow transplant his bone marrow blast must be under 5% and he must be making his own blood and platelets. He did several rounds of a test study chemotherapy that did not work and he did one traditional inpatient treatment that also did not work. His blast are up to 40% and his cancer has progressed to AMS (Acute Myeloid Leukemia). Because of the kidney transplant he is limited on the test studies he qualifies for. There are two options with OSU but there is a waiting list. I feel like we’re running out of options at OSU, we have a meeting this Monday 9/29 with his hematologist at Ohio State and if they do not have a solid plan for us we have scheduled an appointment with MD Anderson in Houston Texas for Friday 10/3. That means we will have to fly from Cincinnati to Houston they requested we stay in town up to 5 days for them to complete any testing they request so we also have to pay for hotel and also means I have to take more unpaid time off work. We are looking into programs for future financial help for travel but most programs require 2 week request and we just don’t have that time right now.