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Help save my son Joshua!


                                         He is my Son! I Love him. WE NEED YOUR HELP!
 


Amiodarone  is the culprit! By moving to sea level perhaps he can get off or at least reduce intake. This drug causes his skin to be more sensitive to the sun. With long-term treatment, he may develop blue-gray color of the skin. 

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a 501(c)3 Texas charity recently applied for.

Joshua has spent the last 35 years of his often-INDOOR-due-to-poor-health
LIFE here in Midland. And if I don't get him to west coast soon I fear he might die!

30 years ago, my son Joshua's heart, was attacked in 1989 by a heart virus, enlarging his heart 5-times its normal size within a short 3-week duration, and after local doctors told me that he was going to die, I had to fly him to the Texas Heart Institute in Houston; where a team of 20 cardiologist-doctors from around the world were prepping him for a heart transplant , of which I was not aware.  www.gofundme.com/Save-Joshua-or-He-will-DIE

"Cardiomyopathy" , is the congestive-heart-failure condition that was a result of this mysterious virus that had attacked Joshua's heart; weakening it for life, in 1989; forcing him to live life here in hot Midland as a nomad; mostly indoors, for the last 30 years of his life, which is why I need to get him out of the Texas heat, and into the cool climate of southern California.

Coincidentally, “cardiomyopathy” was the same virus that attacked the character portrayed by actress Barbara Hershey who died in a film, in one of the biggest hits of that year when Joshua first went into the hospital (1989) that's plot revolved around Bette Midler. This now is a classic film named "Beaches"; which gave Bette her signature song for life "The Wind beneath my Wings". Joshua had seen that movie just six months earlier, not knowing that same virus would soon attack his own heart within a mere matter of only months! You can be the WIND beneath JOSHUA's wings!

Joshua is now 44, and sustained by 10 medications per day, one of which doesn't allow him to be in heat above 80 degrees, and he can't be in sun light for longer than 30 minutes because of our searing west Texas sun and the irregular rhythm it causes Joshua's heart so easily when out in it for only a matter of minutes which can result in death. He is up nights because of this, and he goes down during the day.

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And after 30 years of having to live this way, it has caused him extreme low levels of melatonin and calcium, due to not having any sunlight, due to the heart medications he started taking in 1989, one in which also MAGNIFIES the sun, and BURNS Joshua INSTANTLY!

It is a MEDICAL fact, that those with heart conditions, do better and live longer at sea level in a tropical climate.

That was 30 years ago (and he still has his own heart!), the reason we refused to accept the transplant, was because at that time in 1989, in order for the body to accept the transplant, a drug called Cyclosporin  had to be used for one's body to accept the new organ; and its purpose, is to “kill off' the “immune system” to prevent the body from rejecting the foreign transplanted organ … for LIFE! And once taken, one drop does the trick. We refused that too. Here's why:

Heart transplant recipients, in 1989, were only given 3 to 5 years before another one would be required; which would mean Joshua would now be on his sixth heart transplant. Most at the time, in those late 1980s, that partook of a heart-transplant, didn't even make it to the second, due to the immune system collapsing with just one drop of Cyclosporin.

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Though Joshua left Houston in 1989 with his own heart (shocking the medical-field at the time ... who told him that “if he refused the transplant, he would soon die!”) by the time the mid '90's arrived, the expense of Joshua's heart medication, forced him to file for “Disability” from the government, in order to be self-reliant. But shockingly, the government turned Joshua down twice.

 The Rainmaker . The plot of the The Rainmaker revolves around a young man who has leukemia, whose mother keeps getting turned down for disability by her own insurance company, and only after hiring a young attorney portrayed by a young Matt Damon, does she uncover that the insurance companies turns down EVERY body, even those with OUT health conditions.

Josh was also hit by a car (not his fault) which required him to get an artificial disk in 2007 for his L4.  Due to the synthetic-material in which the artificial-disk  is made of, whenever the temperature here in Texas falls below 50 degrees or rains, Joshua's back hurts so badly, he is often bedridden for days on end, until the barometric-pressure changes, and the weather rises back up, or it stops raining.

I just know, as his father and caregiver, that once we get to Santa Monica where its climate permits year-round 70-degree temperatures; Joshua will gain back the sunshine that he has had to go without for 30 years, and will bloom! 

Joshua Crawford (who was originally born and partially raised in Roswell,NM until he landed in Midland in 1984 at the age of 9, has already written two 1,000 page novels about latchkey kids who had no parents growing up (they were both working, or divorced) and composed over 500 songs on the piano with lyrics to each and every one of them; despite not even being able to read music, but has played by ear since a toddler before he could even talk!

Respectfully, and I Thank You very much for your kindness!

His Father! 

I will respond to all emails sent to:
[email redacted] 

Joshua Crawford's OFFICIAL ThrillerBaby Facebook page where updates will be revealed about the book are www.facebook.com/ThrillerBabyNEWS  and his official facebook CHARITY where you can see how our mission is coming along is, www.facebook.com/JoshuaCrawfordCharity  And of course, there's Crawford's 3 well-known official major websites outside the facebook world where you can read allot more about him and his miraculous life:

www.JoshuaCrawford.com 

www.SignaturePlace.com 

www.Thrillerbaby.com 

You can here his music here! 

You can hear Joshua Crawford's well-know 3-track single album “Play Me”, “Cryin' Party”, and “Sing Along” on either iTunes or Amazon music, or wherever fine downloads are sold. www.gofundme.com/Save-Joshua-or-He-will-DIE 

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