Dr Steve Hinkey needs our help even more!
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Dr Steve Hinkey needs our immediate help!
For all who have not heard:
Dr Hinkey has a shattered glass eye dropper in his neck since 1/29/2020. The glass was impossible to find on imaging, he went to dozens of doctors and imaging experts to no avail. He was taken to surgery May 7th for exploration and to remove the glass threatening his life. The surgery was incomplete, left most of the glass inside his neck, requiring another surgery once new imaging shows where it is, and Steve recovers enough to have the second surgery, about 6 months.
After an exhaustive search at over 20 institutions and 32 tests, Steve found 2 new imaging teams late January 2021, who have identified the glass in exact location, and he has 2 surgeons willing to go in and remove it.
How it happened:
In 2002 Dr Steve took a swig from a bottle of trace minerals, not realizing the glass eye dropper had shattered in the bottle, accidentally swallowing a 1” long shard of radically sharp glass. He lived with the glass in his throat 18 years, as 5 top doctors couldn’t find it, forcing him to tough it out.
January 29, 2020 a sneeze dislodged the glass, which fell to the neck floor and wedged between his clavicle and esophagus. Then danced around cutting him up inside his neck cavity. The glass is extremely life-threatening for the entire year, slicing at vessels and tendons and nerves, leaving him wrung out and distraught, as he can barely sleep a wink. Up til now, no doctor would remove it, as it was impossible to see on CT/MRI scans.
Dr Steve raced around the country seeing doctor after doctor, from LA to NY. Unfortunately, while driving to a doctor, the shard migrated deeper into his neck on day 14, and shattered. Now 385 days later he's proved it, and can remove it. He refused to give up, though it nearly killed him.
It will be an expensive complex surgery, requiring hours of detailed and delicate work. Zero covered by insurance. Then weeks of rehab using hyperbaric oxygen. About $30,000 for surgery and $20,000 for rehab, as long as they don't have to do surgery twice...
This is really where we need community and effort.
Any dollar amount will help!
Dr Steve has not been able to work for a year, and spent all his savings, and the first GoFundMe round on doctors and scans.
He needs our support again.
Most of you know that Dr Steve has helped tens of thousands of people over 43 years to have life-changing miracles and transformations, while entertaining and inspiring us about the Soul, right living, and Love.
Everyone who knows Steve Hinkey knows what a blessing he is, and most of us have been affected by him in the most positive light-filled way. This is our chance to continue to band together and support someone we love who is suffering.
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If you wish to repost this GoFundMe on your pages, or email to friends he is most grateful. Should you wish to reach out to him directly, please do so on his email or text.
Please help! Thank you! Thank you!
*Dr Steve requests that no one send or direct energy, reiki, or any other distance healing towards him unsolicited.
Your Love is perfect. And enough. His Soul will direct all the Love to the right places.
Dr Steve is beyond grateful to you for all the love you have shared with him over the years.
love, the Hinkey team
For all who have not heard:
Dr Hinkey has a shattered glass eye dropper in his neck since 1/29/2020. The glass was impossible to find on imaging, he went to dozens of doctors and imaging experts to no avail. He was taken to surgery May 7th for exploration and to remove the glass threatening his life. The surgery was incomplete, left most of the glass inside his neck, requiring another surgery once new imaging shows where it is, and Steve recovers enough to have the second surgery, about 6 months.
After an exhaustive search at over 20 institutions and 32 tests, Steve found 2 new imaging teams late January 2021, who have identified the glass in exact location, and he has 2 surgeons willing to go in and remove it.
How it happened:
In 2002 Dr Steve took a swig from a bottle of trace minerals, not realizing the glass eye dropper had shattered in the bottle, accidentally swallowing a 1” long shard of radically sharp glass. He lived with the glass in his throat 18 years, as 5 top doctors couldn’t find it, forcing him to tough it out.
January 29, 2020 a sneeze dislodged the glass, which fell to the neck floor and wedged between his clavicle and esophagus. Then danced around cutting him up inside his neck cavity. The glass is extremely life-threatening for the entire year, slicing at vessels and tendons and nerves, leaving him wrung out and distraught, as he can barely sleep a wink. Up til now, no doctor would remove it, as it was impossible to see on CT/MRI scans.
Dr Steve raced around the country seeing doctor after doctor, from LA to NY. Unfortunately, while driving to a doctor, the shard migrated deeper into his neck on day 14, and shattered. Now 385 days later he's proved it, and can remove it. He refused to give up, though it nearly killed him.
It will be an expensive complex surgery, requiring hours of detailed and delicate work. Zero covered by insurance. Then weeks of rehab using hyperbaric oxygen. About $30,000 for surgery and $20,000 for rehab, as long as they don't have to do surgery twice...
This is really where we need community and effort.
Any dollar amount will help!
Dr Steve has not been able to work for a year, and spent all his savings, and the first GoFundMe round on doctors and scans.
He needs our support again.
Most of you know that Dr Steve has helped tens of thousands of people over 43 years to have life-changing miracles and transformations, while entertaining and inspiring us about the Soul, right living, and Love.
Everyone who knows Steve Hinkey knows what a blessing he is, and most of us have been affected by him in the most positive light-filled way. This is our chance to continue to band together and support someone we love who is suffering.
+
If you wish to repost this GoFundMe on your pages, or email to friends he is most grateful. Should you wish to reach out to him directly, please do so on his email or text.
Please help! Thank you! Thank you!
*Dr Steve requests that no one send or direct energy, reiki, or any other distance healing towards him unsolicited.
Your Love is perfect. And enough. His Soul will direct all the Love to the right places.
Dr Steve is beyond grateful to you for all the love you have shared with him over the years.
love, the Hinkey team
Fundraising team: the Hinkey team (5)
Steve Hinkey
Organizer
Brewster, NY
Anna Van Der Hurd
Team member
Beata Gola
Team member
Millie Ker
Team member
Maude Prezeau
Team member