My husband, Scott, was admitted to the hospital on May 20th, 2025 with his eighth kidney stone, which led to lab work that showed he is in Stage 5 (End Stage) Kidney Failure. He started dialysis while in the hospital on May 27th, 2025, and a dialysis catherer was surgically implanted on May 30th, 2025. After eleven long days in the hospital, he was released on May 31st, 2025, and immediately started out-patient dialysis on June 2nd, 2025, and goes five days a week for 3-5 hours at a time.
He will remain on dialysis until he can get a kidney transplant, which could take years.
He also had three heart attacks and three stents placed, is diabetic, has diabetic neuropathy, has coronary artery disease, had skin cancer, had two DVTs and a pulmonary embolism with saddle block in May, 2024, suffered a third-degree burn, suffered a massive GI hemorrhage that needed seven blood transfusions – and he is only 59 years old.
We are waiting and waiting for short-term disability to start but it is still being processed. If approved, Scott will receive appx. 60% of his pay, but deductions and taxes are still taken out. We cannot survive like this.
We will soon have a BGE (gas and electric) turn-off, both our car payments are past due, both cars are having major issues, we are running out of groceries, we need gas for at least one car for appointments and going back and forth five days a week for dialysis, will need to pay out-of-pocket for his daily medications and his home dialysis supplies (see the boxes in the pictures) for when he is transferred from out-patient dialysis to at-home dialysis, the remaining hospital bills, all of his specialists’ co-pays, property taxes soon due, and much more. His new list of prescriptions are in the photo above.
We are a family of three with one income and right now, he will have zero pay this week and next week for certain. We are waiting for the short term disability to get approved, if it gets approved, but it won’t be enough for us to survive.
I hate being a position to ask for help, but some friends and even some medical staff suggested I create a fundraiser. We have literally $80, no savings, no assets, no credit, nothing. If anyone could help, it would be greatly appreciated.
