Medical Expense Help

In 2016 I was diagnosed with hereditary (genetic) hemochromatosis (HH). As a compound heterozygous carrier for the C282Y and H63D mutations, that placed me in a 3%-8% population of HH “sufferers”, but would likely not experience any symptoms associated with the genetic disease. I’ve attached the images from my medical records with that diagnosis information in an update on this page.

However, in Fall of 2017 I started becoming symptomatic. To treat HH, you blood let, which sounds like something from a medieval novel but is true. As an HH carrier, I was able to get a waiver and I can donate blood more often than the average person (it’s also REALLY good blood for someone to receive during a transfusion because it’s so high in iron), a service which is free thankfully! However, in three-month cycles, the process is as follows: I donate, do bloodwork (not free), and have a doctor’s appointment to go over bloodwork (not free). I can provide delinquent statments, final notices, etc.

I can't express how deeply I would appreciate any donations. We are drowning and hoping for a lifeline from anywhere.

This campaign was originally started on YouCaring with more pictures and details, but as GoFundMe and YouCaring merged, I ended the original campaign and switched over to this platform.

Thank you so much again!