Urgent Help for Phillip Wright's Recovery

My son, Phillip Wright, has been in the ICU at the UofM since August 6, 2024. He could really use some help. Not only is he currently unemployed, but he also has no health insurance.

Phil is a vibrant young man with many, many friends. He loves to play his many guitars and he loves to cook. He is only 48 years young and my only child.

Phil went to see a physician a few weeks ago complaining of a harsh cough and at times he was spitting up some blood. The doctor advised him he had bronchitis and prescribed an antibiotic and a rescue inhaler. He would later complain to me that the rescue inhaler hurt too much to even use it.

On August 6, 2024, he started coughing up blood. A wonderful friend of his, Melanie, drove him to our local Emergency Room. Phil called me to say he would need a ride home. I left my home (4 miles from the ER), talked to him on the phone when I was a mile away to say I was on my way there.

When I entered the ER, a call came over the PA as CODE BLUE-ER followed by his room number. My heart sank. The receptionist escorted me to a waiting room and I was told to wait for a doctor to come by and talk to me. In what seemed like hours, a doctor came in and stated he was not his doctor, but he just wanted to let me know what was going on with my son.

They had found a large mass on the left lobe of his lung which was bleeding. They were doing the best they could to control the bleeding, and that he was critically ill and they did not expect him to make it through the night. He was sedated and vented and a critical care ambulance rushed him to the UofM ICU.

Yesterday the doctors at the UofM found many lesions in the bronchus’ during a biopsy and a bronchoscopy. We should have those results in 3-5 days, but the Pulmonologist believes it is lung cancer given the amount of bleeding, the lesions and the mass in the left lobe. He remains sedated and vented yet today and they are hoping to try and get him off the vent and breathing on his own in the next few days, but his vital stats are just not there and he still has some bleeding. He becomes quite agitated when they attempt to wake him even for a few seconds causing his vital stats to become unstable. After he can breathe on his own and the results come back, chances are great that he will be transferred to the Oncology unit for treatment options.

The amount I stated is just a number, but really any amount will certainly help.