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The famous Joey Butterfield’s new battle.

If you know Joey then you know his complex medical history since birth, if you don’t know Joey he is a 16 year old Down syndrome who has Crohn’s which he gets infusions for every 4 weeks, heart problems and a list of other issues that no child should ever have to battle but yet he fights each battle with a smile and sassy personality. He has had 4 heart surgery’s and the last one in July 2018. 




Sunday may 19, 2019 Joey got admitted to Sanford in Bismarck ND for a blood infection. His pulse was high, he had a fever and they did more testing which showed us that his heart has been affected by the blood infection and his new valve is shot and another one that’s back flushing on top of part of the heart not pumping blood at all. They transferred him to Fargo ND Sanford and upon evaluating him and doing more test they said he could be there for up to 4 weeks then have to go to Mayo hospital for heart surgery again. Joeys blood pressure was dropping, his oxygen was getting lower then normal so they put him into ICU and decided to fly him to Rochester MN yesterday and he’s in ICU there. Doctors are trying to get the infection under control and find out what’s causing it. They said plan on  at least 6-8 weeks as of now at the Mayo and that’s if nothing worsens. 



Joey lives in Mandan ND with his two dads Donnie and Chad along with his brothers Kamrin and Kiptyn. His Mom Kathy lives in Muncie IN along with his lil sister Rylan and big brother Josh and his fiancé Allysa and their son Eli. We are asking for donations to help with the travel expenses with both sides of the family and to help offset bills that will be hard to pay when they are off work and will not be getting paid for most the time they miss to take off to be with Joey. Donnie, Myself and Kathy will be taking turns going down to be with him so we all don’t miss 6-8 weeks of work we will rotate weeks. All Donations will be used for travel expenses, hotel if need be, food, lost wages for them and any medical expenses if not covered and airfare if there’s a major emergency and one of us are not there so we can hop on a plane. 





Joey is the most adorable, strong willed and sassiest kid you will meet. Everyone he meets he touches their heart ❤️ for a lifetime. Please check out his Facebook page to follow his journey and learn more about him. His Facebook is Joseph Dale Butterfield. Joey has been through so so much since birth and continues to amaze everyone with how strong he is and no matter how miserable he feels he’s smiling and giving everyone a hard time. 

Joey attends Mandan Middle School
and all his teachers and all the students are beyond amazing to him. They are very caring and treat Joey so well. He has become very popular in school giving kids Knucks and doing the dab. 




                         JOEYSTRONG


 You can see by looking at these pics just how happy and loving Joey is, he brings so much love and joy to all of us and teaches us all a lesson on no matter what happens or comes are way you smile and fight at the same time. Again thanks to all who are donating and messaging us with all your thoughts and prayers it’s amazing and there’s no words to explain how much it means to our family and no way to ever repay you back the beauty in all your heart.

Organizer

Chadwick Wangler-Butterfield
Organizer
Mandan, ND

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