Help for the Bishop family!
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Stephen Bishop has always been a very hard worker, a great friend, and above all a wonderful father.
He had thought life was done throwing the heavy curve balls when cancer took his beautiful wife Erica Bishop from him Breyanna and Jakob in 2009.
Unfortunately on March 26th 2016 life decided it was time to throw Steve another huge curve ball. When he went to get checked for what he thought was pneumonia, was just the beginning of a huge life changing event.
The doctors at Unity Hospital in Batavia NY had made him aware his heart had failed and was only operating at 7%. At that time they transferred him to Rochester General where they tried an Aortic Balloon Pump to see if that would help his heart. After waiting the time they hoped it would help, unfortunately it did not. He then was transferred to Strong Memorial Hospital to set up open heart surgery to place the LVADD. The LVADD is an artificial heart pump that Steve will keep until a heart is found for the full transplant.
Needless to say this has been a long, tough, and tiring road for not only Steve but the kids, his parents, his sister and her family, and finally all of us friends trying to put a hand out there to help.
He is not able to work at this time and bills for himself and his two beautiful children will continue to add up, as we all know the bills don't stop just because things are tough in life.
I just want to say thank you to everyone for reading this and hopefully people can help my best friend to make things a little easier in this long road he has ahead of him.
He had thought life was done throwing the heavy curve balls when cancer took his beautiful wife Erica Bishop from him Breyanna and Jakob in 2009.
Unfortunately on March 26th 2016 life decided it was time to throw Steve another huge curve ball. When he went to get checked for what he thought was pneumonia, was just the beginning of a huge life changing event.
The doctors at Unity Hospital in Batavia NY had made him aware his heart had failed and was only operating at 7%. At that time they transferred him to Rochester General where they tried an Aortic Balloon Pump to see if that would help his heart. After waiting the time they hoped it would help, unfortunately it did not. He then was transferred to Strong Memorial Hospital to set up open heart surgery to place the LVADD. The LVADD is an artificial heart pump that Steve will keep until a heart is found for the full transplant.
Needless to say this has been a long, tough, and tiring road for not only Steve but the kids, his parents, his sister and her family, and finally all of us friends trying to put a hand out there to help.
He is not able to work at this time and bills for himself and his two beautiful children will continue to add up, as we all know the bills don't stop just because things are tough in life.
I just want to say thank you to everyone for reading this and hopefully people can help my best friend to make things a little easier in this long road he has ahead of him.
Organizer
Amy Earsing
Organizer
Caledonia, NY