Fahim Knight need a new Heart soon!
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We would want to greet all our family and friends with peace and also give you all a further update of my husband's Fahim health crisis and the uphill battle that we are up against. I have always put God out front and we both have tried to live our lives based on the moral and ethical principles set by him, which led us to being just towards strangers and friends; there may have been times we may have fallen short, but we were never without good intentions.
Perhaps many of you whom I am reaching out to did not know that my husband Fahim for over 11 years was battling a chronic heart disease (he never complained); he got up every day and operated Fahsyrah's Homemade Lemonade stand and as my soulmate and business partner; we built our small business around his magnetic personality because he loved people and he would spend hours engaging people (those who know him know that he never met a stranger).
He mentored a number of African American students that went on to graduate and received degrees from North Carolina Central University (he is a proud NCCU eagle and believed in given back to his alma mater) and has led a number of consciousness based study groups. Our home has always been an open door where he enjoyed teaching and sharing his abundant of wisdom and knowledge. I would come home and there might 8-10 young brothers sitting, listening and absorbing his wisdom. I would often have to run people out of our house because Fahim would wear his self out because he just loves people and often after these long sessions, he would just have enough energy to make it to the bedroom to lie down and take a nap. He never turned anyone away and you all who know him could testify to his level of commitment and passion to our community.
He has always given more to others and never expected anything in return; his life Path since we met 30 years ago has been built on the principle of paying it forward and he would often remind me that the Universe would never neglect good energy, but will reward all that we do base on the laws of attraction.
This correspondence is to inform our family, friends and our social media family that we need your help and assistance in a big way. As I stated above my husband for over 11 years had been battling heart disease (clinical terms heart failure) that involved Congestive Heart Failure. But he kept a work schedule with our small business and never made any excuses about his health. He had developed lines of communication with Hebrews, Christians and Muslims and had the ability to create positive interfaith dialogue amongst diverse groups and organizations. He as a member of Doric Masonic Lodge # 28 Prince Hall Affiliated would never miss an opportunity to impart his vast Masonic knowledge to the Freemasonic family.
On April 7, 2019, Fahim was admitted to Duke University Hospital and was immediately transported to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for heart failure and it was determined in order to save his life in short and long term, it would require a Heart Transplant and when the doctors brought me this initial news, I broke down in tears and started to pray for my husband, but I also prayed to God for strength and I asked him to be by my side like never before; this news posed one of the greatest challenges in my life and I had to gather myself because I knew I had to be strong for my husband as we take on this health crisis. I called my cousin Pam Knight and my friend Tonya Omar to come to the hospital because I needed some support at that moment after receiving this information.
Thus, I want to be as transparent as I can about the health and financial challenges that we are facing relative to the next step in my husband's transplant process. My husband has had a barrage of test, cat-scans, blood work, heart catheters via the major artery in his neck and a groin catheter in order to assess and evaluate his heart damage. It was determined by his treatment staff that a heart transplant would be the most viable option. This recommendation would add him as a potential recipient to the national heart organ donor list but even this is a process both health and procedural. You have to first clear all the testing to ensure that you are a healthy enough candidate to make it to the transplant donor's list.
There is a transplant team that consists of surgeons, cardiologist, nurses, physician assistants, dieticians, pulmonary specialist, psychologists, social workers, financial specialist team, etc., mandates in which they review all the medical data and they ultimately determine whether or not you are a suitable transplant recipient. Fahim met the criteria; but as I explained in my above commentary that I would be transparent. Moreover, I had a meeting with the transplant team, in particular, the financial office and they informed me that the total cost of the operation would be approximately 1 million dollars (USD). Our insurance would only pay 80% of the cost for the operation and this would leave a 20% balance (200 thousand dollars USD)--this is a separate issue that we will address in another discussion with the Duke social worker. This is a lot of money and we don't have assess to this amount of money.
Now, my husband before we can even take the next step in the transplant process, we have to fundraise $20.000 (USD) in which the Transplant Plant team at Duke University Hospital has to have proof that these funds are in place before the next step is taken. They must have tangible proof that my husband as a transplant recipient has these funds in place to subsidize the various and numerous medications that he would need post-surgery (but these medications would be ongoing for the rest of his life and the medicine expense does not end after we raise $20,000 USD the cost of his medicines will continue). These immunosuppressive medications would be a matter of life and death as a transplant patient. He would need these medications for the rest of his life as I have stated above. I'm asking everyone to help me and my husband in this life battle and we believe in the power of God that this money will be raised in his name and our family and community will sew a seed to ensure that Fahim can move on in the transplant process.
I did not leave his side and I spent every night at the hospital with him, but he was released home a few weeks ago under intravenous heart medications and a mobile heart monitor device. Yet he was in good spirits and wanted me to report to you all of his small recovery and was thankful for the many prayers, visits, gifts and cards he received. He wants to thank the clergy who visited him and prayed for him at bedside while he was hospitalized. So I am calling on the prayer warriors and the financial warriors to help me to help my husband during this time of need.
I want to thank you all in advance for this consideration and if anyone has anything they want to do separate and apart relative to helping me raise this money; you have marching orders to proceed. I am a little overwhelmed with being a caregiver and managing my husband's overall health situation. I Sylvia Ballentine-Knight can be reached by email at [email redacted] or by phone at 919. [phone redacted]. Love you all.
Perhaps many of you whom I am reaching out to did not know that my husband Fahim for over 11 years was battling a chronic heart disease (he never complained); he got up every day and operated Fahsyrah's Homemade Lemonade stand and as my soulmate and business partner; we built our small business around his magnetic personality because he loved people and he would spend hours engaging people (those who know him know that he never met a stranger).
He mentored a number of African American students that went on to graduate and received degrees from North Carolina Central University (he is a proud NCCU eagle and believed in given back to his alma mater) and has led a number of consciousness based study groups. Our home has always been an open door where he enjoyed teaching and sharing his abundant of wisdom and knowledge. I would come home and there might 8-10 young brothers sitting, listening and absorbing his wisdom. I would often have to run people out of our house because Fahim would wear his self out because he just loves people and often after these long sessions, he would just have enough energy to make it to the bedroom to lie down and take a nap. He never turned anyone away and you all who know him could testify to his level of commitment and passion to our community.
He has always given more to others and never expected anything in return; his life Path since we met 30 years ago has been built on the principle of paying it forward and he would often remind me that the Universe would never neglect good energy, but will reward all that we do base on the laws of attraction.
This correspondence is to inform our family, friends and our social media family that we need your help and assistance in a big way. As I stated above my husband for over 11 years had been battling heart disease (clinical terms heart failure) that involved Congestive Heart Failure. But he kept a work schedule with our small business and never made any excuses about his health. He had developed lines of communication with Hebrews, Christians and Muslims and had the ability to create positive interfaith dialogue amongst diverse groups and organizations. He as a member of Doric Masonic Lodge # 28 Prince Hall Affiliated would never miss an opportunity to impart his vast Masonic knowledge to the Freemasonic family.
On April 7, 2019, Fahim was admitted to Duke University Hospital and was immediately transported to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for heart failure and it was determined in order to save his life in short and long term, it would require a Heart Transplant and when the doctors brought me this initial news, I broke down in tears and started to pray for my husband, but I also prayed to God for strength and I asked him to be by my side like never before; this news posed one of the greatest challenges in my life and I had to gather myself because I knew I had to be strong for my husband as we take on this health crisis. I called my cousin Pam Knight and my friend Tonya Omar to come to the hospital because I needed some support at that moment after receiving this information.
Thus, I want to be as transparent as I can about the health and financial challenges that we are facing relative to the next step in my husband's transplant process. My husband has had a barrage of test, cat-scans, blood work, heart catheters via the major artery in his neck and a groin catheter in order to assess and evaluate his heart damage. It was determined by his treatment staff that a heart transplant would be the most viable option. This recommendation would add him as a potential recipient to the national heart organ donor list but even this is a process both health and procedural. You have to first clear all the testing to ensure that you are a healthy enough candidate to make it to the transplant donor's list.
There is a transplant team that consists of surgeons, cardiologist, nurses, physician assistants, dieticians, pulmonary specialist, psychologists, social workers, financial specialist team, etc., mandates in which they review all the medical data and they ultimately determine whether or not you are a suitable transplant recipient. Fahim met the criteria; but as I explained in my above commentary that I would be transparent. Moreover, I had a meeting with the transplant team, in particular, the financial office and they informed me that the total cost of the operation would be approximately 1 million dollars (USD). Our insurance would only pay 80% of the cost for the operation and this would leave a 20% balance (200 thousand dollars USD)--this is a separate issue that we will address in another discussion with the Duke social worker. This is a lot of money and we don't have assess to this amount of money.
Now, my husband before we can even take the next step in the transplant process, we have to fundraise $20.000 (USD) in which the Transplant Plant team at Duke University Hospital has to have proof that these funds are in place before the next step is taken. They must have tangible proof that my husband as a transplant recipient has these funds in place to subsidize the various and numerous medications that he would need post-surgery (but these medications would be ongoing for the rest of his life and the medicine expense does not end after we raise $20,000 USD the cost of his medicines will continue). These immunosuppressive medications would be a matter of life and death as a transplant patient. He would need these medications for the rest of his life as I have stated above. I'm asking everyone to help me and my husband in this life battle and we believe in the power of God that this money will be raised in his name and our family and community will sew a seed to ensure that Fahim can move on in the transplant process.
I did not leave his side and I spent every night at the hospital with him, but he was released home a few weeks ago under intravenous heart medications and a mobile heart monitor device. Yet he was in good spirits and wanted me to report to you all of his small recovery and was thankful for the many prayers, visits, gifts and cards he received. He wants to thank the clergy who visited him and prayed for him at bedside while he was hospitalized. So I am calling on the prayer warriors and the financial warriors to help me to help my husband during this time of need.
I want to thank you all in advance for this consideration and if anyone has anything they want to do separate and apart relative to helping me raise this money; you have marching orders to proceed. I am a little overwhelmed with being a caregiver and managing my husband's overall health situation. I Sylvia Ballentine-Knight can be reached by email at [email redacted] or by phone at 919. [phone redacted]. Love you all.
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Sylvia Ballentine Knight
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Durham, NC
