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Nurse Needs Heart Transplant Today!!

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HEART TRANSPLANT ASAP NEEDED for Tricia Burgess CRRN CRNN! Family and Friends, We are trying to raise money for Tricia's heart transplant, which came to us as a complete shock. On April 1st (2019), Tricia went to the emergency room expecting to receive steroid antibiotics for her usual severe seasonal allergy flareups with full intentions of going to work that night. Tricia walked herself into the ER triage with normal vital signs and without any distress symptoms. She was feeling a little tightness in her chest from the coughing and the ER doctor felt it was necessary to do an EKG to rule out any other possibilities of the chest discomfort pain. After labs, testing, etc were completed, Tricia was informed she would be admitted to the hospital and sent for a heart catheterization that evening for a possible stent placement. During the heart catheterization procedure, the doctor determined that she is 100% (one hundred percent) occluded and stenosed in all three (3) arteries, which  means there is NOTHING medically they can do to unblock the blockage in her arteries. She is now being seen at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville TN. She is now "trying" to get on the heart transplant list ASAP! The cardiology heart specialist has determined, Tricia only has 10 % (ten  percent) of the  heart functioning capabilities and is in STAGE 4 congestive heart failure and end stage coronary artery disease with all three (3) main heart vessels 100 % (100 percent blocked). The surgeons say that a CABG (triple bypass) will 100% guarantee death or she will never be able to function off life support machines. Tricia's heart is so weak, the doctors are giving her less than one year to live. As much as this is a huge, overwhelming shock to Tricia and her spouse as well as family, friends and work colleagues, the past 20 days have been detrimental to her world as she knows it.  The last year has been a tremendous challenge, as Tricia had to leave her job abruptly as a full time RN to go home (NC) to be her mother's full time sole 24/7 caregiver, due to her mother's stage 4 cancer. For 8 months, until her mother's passing. Tricia left her family, loved ones, friends and work colleagues to care for her dying mother. Which left her recently married "not the better half"  (joking) down to one income to pay bills and keep the household running on this end while caring for their three children. All of their household finances have been exhausted, while Tricia was away caring for her mom during this devastating time in their lives.    **Note** Tricia's spouse, Donnie Burgess, will be sole beneficiary of this Go Fund Me Account. This will be the official Go Fund Me Account set up by Donnie Burgess, Tricia's spouse. Donnie will have the sole designated responsibility  for paying for all of Tricia's medical needs - medications, surgeries, post transplant medications and necessities, in and out patient appointments/therapies etc. that are not covered under their health insurance will be paid from this account. Donnie is with Tricia 24/7 at the hospital (which is a requirement of the heart transplant team and the hospital) and this account is solely for Tricia's medical bills .
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  • Melissa Combs
    • $50 
    • 5 yrs
  • Elder Matthew Stewart
    • $40 (Offline)
    • 5 yrs
  • Friend Of G.B.
    • $20 (Offline)
    • 5 yrs
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Donnie Burgess
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Nashville, TN

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