Colin Walker's medical bills

Hi everyone,

I’m Chris Bohnsack, I’m posting this for my nephew Colin Walker. He was diagnosed with a rare bone disease called Chronic Recurrent Multifocal osteomyelitis (CRMO) a couple years ago. He has chronic bone pain which he takes naproxen for twice a day and now is doing an IV infusion a day 3 days every 3 months to hopefully help heal the bone lesions that keep recurring. Since being diagnosed he's gone through 2 biopsies where they cut him open to get a sample of his bone to test, one of them included cutting him from ear-to-ear, pealing back his skin and pulling bone from the lesions on his forehead. Just a couple weeks ago he spent 5 days in the hospital getting treatment, now he’s back again.

Here’s the kicker, the doctors aren’t entirely sure they have the right diagnosis since the treatments they’ve been doing haven’t been working, so now they want to do another biopsy. If he does in fact have CRMO there is no cure, there is only hope that he will eventually grow out of it. Still, Colin is such a little trooper. I never hear him complain and he always has such a sweet nature.

I can only imagine how heart-wrenching it must be for Jimmy and Melissa to see their son in pain, but on top of that they have two other children to care for, and then they have to deal with hospital bills. The last time I saw Jimmy and Melissa, Jimmy told me they just finished making payments from the time Colin was in the hospital a couple years ago, now the bills are quickly piling up again. If we can help this family with one less stress I know it will be sincerely appreciated. Melissa tells me their insurance deductible is $5000.

A million thanks for any help you can provide, no amount is too small.

Best regards,
Chris


P.S. If having one child in the hospital isn’t hard enough, their oldest, Jackson, was just in the hospital at the same time as Colin after giving himself 2nd degree burns (possibly 3rd degree pending a specialists review) by spilling a cup-of-noodles on his arm.