My name is Noah Lynch, I’m 24, and I’ll try to make a long story short. In 2020, when I was 19, I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. It stayed present all the time for a few years. It slowly ate away at my body, causing me to be malnourished, lose a ton of weight, and have agonizing abdominal pains and debilitating nausea. My quality of life crumbled for years as I slowly became incapable of doing anything. It became classified as severe and complicated. By 2023, I was getting fistulas, which is when the body tunnels new pathways from the intestines to the path of least resistance and to the outside of my body. I had to get surgery. Over the next few months, the wounds became infected, and my Crohn’s became so bad it inflamed my intestines shut, and I began to starve. This led me to need major surgery, removing several sections of my small and large intestines. But it didn’t go as planned. Being as malnourished as I was, my body couldn’t heal on its own, and I still couldn’t eat. The muscles began to pull my abdomen apart at the scar, it got infected, and the resection didn’t hold. After a month and a half of a downhill recovery, I was re-hospitalized, now under 100 pounds. There was a small hole in the colon that had to be fixed, and I needed intravenous nutrition. So I had another surgery and ended up with a PICC line in my upper arm going to my heart for six months. During this time, every waking moment was agony. After four months of this with no end in sight, another fistula formed and needed another surgery. Two weeks later, another. Then a month after that, I got sepsis and was back in the hospital. After that time in the hospital, I really started getting better. The PICC line was gone, and I started rebuilding my life. That was two years ago. I have an amazing wife, a good job, a home, and bills to pay. Now, I’m being told, out of the blue, that there are holes in my colon and that the inflammation is closing pathways again and that I need to redo the major surgery and resection multiple parts of my intestines again within the next few months. I’m going to need at least two months off work. Me and my wife both work full-time and are paycheck to paycheck as is. This surgery is going to pass over several needed paychecks. So, as much as we don’t like asking for help, I don’t see another option at this point. I don’t truly know how long I’ll be in recovery, but without help, we can’t pay our bills. The Lord has always provided for us, so I know He will this time as well. But anything helps. I’m not trying sound like a ‘woe is me’ ploy but this is the reality of it and I don’t really know what else to do.