Help Grandin’s battle against MRSA & Dementia

"My name is Grandin Thompson. I grew up an outstanding athlete, excelling at all things that were outdoors. I loved to go on walks with the family. I love coaching more than anything. I coached my son and other athletes. all throughout high school. Then I proceeded to go to University Of Utah, which I majored in biochemistry and exercise sports science and join Sigma chi fraternity. It was my dream to continue coaching my son and others at college. Unfortunately, two years ago my dream was cut short when I was fishing with my son and something attacked my legs. To this day they don’t know what it was, but it has taken my life away and handicapped me. My ability to walk was stolen from me after the attack which infected me with over 10 different bacteria and viruses, including MRSA, staph, and strep. These infections are now eating away at my flesh on both legs around my ankles. Unfortunately, after many different attempts at rigorous treatment, the outlook doesn’t look good. As daunting as facing the prospect my legs is, what hurts more is the fact that this infection has cost me my family. Especially my son. Because these infections are highly contagious I can’t be in close contact with people leaving me to face this past year alone. I can no longer do my favorite things. I can no longer go outside. I can no longer coach my son. I can’t even watch him play. It’s caused a divorce. I lost the woman I love because of this infection and the isolation it’s caused. I can’t see any of my friends. I’m at the point where I don’t know what to do with my life. I used to have perfect credit. But I no longer have a bank account. I used to have a beautiful life,a beautiful family , I can’t even go see my mom.and wasn’t able to go to my dad’s funeral. I’ve ran out of money completely. And I don’t have any way to work. My legs constantly feel like they’re on fire so I don’t get to sleep yet maybe one hour a day. Every antibiotic that they have given me doesn’t work now because my legs have become immune so the doctors now have never seen anything like this. I don’t even have the money to wrap my legs every day, which I’m supposed to, which can cause the infection to spread. I don’t have any way to pay for rent anymore. I can’t walk at all and I have nowhere to go. I don’t wanna lose my legs. I wanna learn to walk again. I want to able to try stem cell research, and I need help affording MRIs. I want to be able to go out in public again. Most importantly of all I want to be able to hug my son and my mom more than anything. And I just don’t want to be in pain anymore. It’s really scary to go from having what you love and having everything that you need just taken from you with the blink of an eye. I no longer can afford rent, which really worries me because I can’t be on the street with these major viruses and diseases. It will just spread like wildfire. If there’s anyone out there, that can help with surgeries and rent I would be deeply grateful. Help me with anything so that I can get back with my family and I can get back with my job so that I can walk again. I would love you. That’s all I could say that’s all I could do at the moment. Say that I love you. And then there’s my Dementia. For those that don’t know what Dementia it is a syndrome associated with many neurodegenerative diseases, characterized by a general decline in cognitive abilities that affects a person's ability to perform everyday activities. This typically involves problems with memory, thinking, behavior, and motor control. Aside from memory impairment and a disruption in thought patterns, the most common symptoms of dementia include emotional problems, difficulties with language, and decreased motivation.Which is just getting worse daily I just want a normal life again. They have found a lump on my right side behind my ear. My father died of stage four brain cancer I just don’t want this to spread because if it starts to spread, I’m in big trouble, I need help getting MRI done of my brain along with a surgery to remove the lump which I hope is just a cyst. But it’s growing way too fast and for me to be forgetting everything now is not a good sign.I’m too young to have life be over soon. There’s so much I still wanna see and do. Not being able to work for the past year and a half has drained all my funds. So I’m asking for help which is so hard for me to do. I need help with all of my medical issues ,medication, MRIs, ultrasounds, and all of my appointments at the University Of Utah Cancer institution. don’t want to miss my sons graduation. I don’t want to miss anymore of his games. I miss my ex-wife more than anything, it all happens

so fast and not be able to fix anything by yourself or make any money for yourself. Still waiting on Disability. It’s been over a year. But I guessbut something decided to take everything from me and it did so quickly. Please if you’re able to help at all, I would be deeply grateful."