
Support Kenneth Rivera's Heart Transplant Journey
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Hi, my name is Brenda Velez,
I am Kenneth's mom.
Kenneth is 23 years old,
was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy congenital when he was 14 he was in treatment for it since.
On Decemeber 4th he caught Pneumonia and RSV was in the hospital for 7 days the infection for that time deteriorated his heart from 25% to 10%.
When he got released from the hospital he was feeling fine but then 2 weeks later he stopped eating and suffocating a lot walking from the kitchen to the bedroom and feeling very tired. Kenneth had an appointment the week of Christmas of 2021 and when we arrived that's when our journey began,
they admitted kenneth right away because he was on the verge of heart failure he wasn't getting any blood flow to his organs, blood pressure low, pulse was over 150, oxygen low.
He was basically slowly dying they had told us if he would have waited a couple of more days he would have died. After the admission they put in a catheter through his neck,
a ballon pump through his inner thigh to get his heart pumping and blood flowing back to his organs again. After a day of blood work and CT scans,
x-rays and medications he was stable but the heart got weak and he got an impella in his heart and he is now on the heart transplant list and will not leave the hospital.
I am starting the go fund me campaign to help us for medical bills not covered by insurance and kenneth house bills expenses due to wage lost.
Please help me share this story so many more can help us.
Don't think of organ donations as giving up apart of yourself to keep a total stranger alive,
It's really a total stranger giving up almost all of themselves to keep a part of you alive...
-Author Unknown
Organizer
Brenda Liz Velez
Organizer
Gainesville, FL