Thony's Gettin' His Heart & Things Spiffed Up

Well, my husband never does anything by halves...

May 22: Thony had a heart cath and was admitted into Hunt Regional Hospital ICU.

May 24: He was transferred to Medical City Dallas where he was to have a quadrulple bypass.

May 28: He was told that his heart is too diseased for a bypass (there is no healthy tissue to which a graft can be attached) and that at some point he would need a heart transplant.

He was also told that until such time as a transplant was necessary that the Coronary Artery Disease and Heart Failure could be controlled with medication and diet (like diuretics, needs to help his heart beat harder, low sodium diet, and restricting fluid intake).

The plan was to give him a defibrillator so that when his heart goes into afib and/or he does have a heart attack that it will shock him back to life until he can get to a hospital.

May 30: Thony was told that he couldn't have the defibrillator yet because there is a spot on his pancreas that was seen during his CT and MRIs and they want to investigate that. A tech came in a did an ultrasound of his abdomen. I'm not an ultrasound tech but I sat there watching the man highlight and measure spots on Thony's liver and kidneys...

He was moved across I-75 to Medical City Dallas that evening and had a liver biopsy because it's "in the middle" between the pancreas and kidney.

May 31 The oncologist tells Thony that it'll be a couple of days before the results will be in and leaves. In a little while he comes back and says that while the spot on the liver is, indeed, cancer and that it is from the pancreas that it is a cancer that is very easy to treat. Thony has NeuroEndocrine Tumor(s), Grade 2 (because it has metastasized), which are treated with a steroid.

This will be a life-long, once-a-month injection to control the tumours.

One of our nephews said, "Uncle Thony is collecting diseases like they are Infinity Stones."

Thony's response? "Just wait til I have five!!! Muuwahahaha!"

June 4: Thony has a kidney biopsy, during which some of the "ick" from the tumour gets in his blood stream causing sepsis on top of the UTI he'd developed due to the diuretics.

June 5: He's collected his fifth "infinity stone"; it's Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma, Grade 1.

Tl;dr: My Extra Special Husband has diabetes, severe coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, pancreatic cancer, and kidney cancer.

I have lupus.

He's self-employed. I can't work and don't qualify for disability. I'm applying for disability for him but it could be months before it's approved. Insurance is going to pay for most of his hospital stay but we also have to keep a roof over our heads while he's out of work. We have some income aside from his barbering but it's not enough. So, I'm asking for help. Please and thank you.