Hello, my name is Marshall Earl Jones. I am a Dallas Texas native. I am a 69-year-old Vietnam Era Veteran. I volunteered to serve in the Vietnam Conference after graduating from high school in August 1973; and I enlisted in the United States Army at the age of 17 in February 1974. My tour ended five years after the war officially ended in March 1975. I was honorably discharged December, 1980 with the rank of Specialist-5/E-5.

I am humbly and desperately asking for your support as a result of having two major heart attacks, known in the medical profession as 'The Widow Maker'. Last year, I suffered the first major heart attack in May 5, 2023. I flatlined in the ER for 45 minutes with 100% blood flow blockage. An emergency procedure was performed to unblock the major arteries in the upper and lower chambers of my heart by inserting stents. However, for whatever reason the doctors inserted the wrong size of stents. They were too small to function properly. As a result, over the next 16 months, a massive blood clot formed in the lower chamber of my heart, thereby causing the upper chamber stent to be completely blocked with no blood flow.

All the while, I was dying a slow quiet death which were punctuated with several mini-heart attacks, blackouts/fainting spells and passing out at work and at church. I have been rushed by EMTs to the ER severally for emergency care and diagnosis. But none of the ER visits detected the clot in the lower chamber of my heart. Invariably, the diagnosis was always deemed incorrectly as dehydration and/or side-effect of any one of the multiple medications that I am taking.

However, the second major heart attack occurred at the New York City’s JFK Airport lobby during a layover flight to Dallas on my way back from a short vacation in Jamaica. While waiting for my connecting flight, I passed out and was resuscitated by my wife and a handful of Good-Samaritans in the lobby. The EMT arrived and rushed me to the nearest hospital, Jamaica Hospital in New York City for immediate ER Care. Five days later they transferred me to the best Cardiology Surgical Unit at the Lennox Hill Northwell Health hospital in Manhattan. It was there that the doctors determined that the wrong size of stents were put in during my first heart attack.

They corrected the error by putting the right size of stents and cleaned out the blood clot partially. So, they put me on blood thinner medications that will gradually break-off the rest of the blood clot. But the recovery time has been projected as long-term, and thus far it has been super grueling, very slow paced and under extensive VA cardiology doctors and team care.

Unfortunately, I lost my job with Amazon this summer, and as a direct result my mortgage; hospital, medical along with reoccurring miscellaneous bills have piled up and overwhelmed my wife, 12-year-old son and myself. Therefore, my fellow countrymen; friends and family, with all humility, I am asking and appeal to you for your recurring or one-time generous support to help us to overcome these 'Mounting' medical bills and monthly expenses. I pray that God will touch your loving hearts to help out my family and I in a time such as this in my life.

I thank you so much, dearly and respectfully, in advance, from the bottom of my heart. May God bless you and replenish that which you have sown into my life.