Hyperbaric Oxygen for Wes Stelzer
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Wes Stelzer needs hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT). It is going to take a minimum of $148,000 in medical equipment, supplies and alternative services to help Wes come back fully from sudden onset seizures, and insurance will not pay for most of the caregiving support that he needs now.
Deja-Diana Mitchell Stelzer, his wife, is taking Wes home from the hospital in a couple of weeks after the most recent of three, hospital-acquired infections is cleared so that he can start HBOT, which has been proven to help heal brain injuries, wounds, and infections.
In our research, we have found numerous nerve damage and stroke survivors who have had dramatically positive responses after HBOT…if they can afford to pay for it themselves.
Wes is going to need more Liquid Hope ($1,000 per month), a motorized Hospital Bed, a portable Lift-Assist, a High Back Shower Wheelchair, a Lay Flat Lifting Recliner, a Flat Exercise table, a Hand Exercise Table, various other smaller exercise equipment, a Walking Assist Support Machine, a Tennant Bio-modulator and Transducer, a stand-by Respirator, access to a wheel-chair accessible HBOT chamber, a tight turning Electric Wheelchair, other medical supplies and Private Nursing and Therapy for many more weeks before he will be well enough and strong enough to access typical “out-patient” physical, occupational and speech therapy facilities….again, with substantial transportation costs to get to an “out-patient” therapy facility.
Please help as much as you can and forward this plea to your friends and family who might be able to help with prayers or money. Deja is having to spend $1,000s every day in preparation for the move to get Wes home. Every little bit will help to get this beautiful, generous soul get back onto his feet.
$25 from 5,900 people will get us to the goal.
What Happened to Wes?
On October 13, 2016, Deja came home from walking the dogs to find Wes lying in a recliner having multiple seizures. She had seconds to call 911.
The doctors have found no explainable medical cause for these seizure events; however, Wes was bitten/struck on his calf a week earlier (maybe by an asp, which is a toxic fuzzy caterpillar) while walking in the woods in North Central Texas, had a fever and swelling, but “was recovered.” We may never know what attacked Wes.
What is shocking is that Wes was a very healthy, slender, vibrant man, who never drank or smoked, took extreme care with his diet (ate no GMO, gluten or other toxins and was almost a raw foods vegan, but on the paleo side), practiced meditation daily and tried to always be in the Zen moment.
Wes has always given of himself unselfishly to family, friends and strangers…whether with his handyman skills or the energetic healing arts. For the seven years that Deja has been married to Wes, he literally woke every day to review his written list of what he could do to help others who crossed his path…never asking for or accepting payment in return.
Deja, her Dad and Wes’s family have been taking turns watching out for him 24 hours per day in two different Intensive Care Units (ICU) for over 100 days.
With fierce determination, Deja has helped the medical staff to learn about “Liquid Hope” rather than the GMO soy, GMO high fructose corn syrup, and synthetic additives that Wes first received as food. Wes got better immediately. Deja worked to encourage the medical team to reduce the many toxic drugs as fast as possible, to hold a positive energy environment around him and to reduce the incessant noise and alarms inherent with a medical facility. Wes got better.
Even now, the doctors say that Wes’s internal organs are that of a 30 years younger man, and his heart is strong. Wes is aware of his surroundings and is starting to communicate his wishes and needs more clearly every day.
Our group’s canioscaral doctor says that there are four to seven nerves for each muscle function and knows from experience that nerves can heal. Wes just needs to get a few more nerves reconnected and sparking. We believe HBOT will help him do that.
Wes’s lead critical care doctor agrees with this next step, because he has witnessed the daily and skilled support that Wes has received from his family.
Deja is very grateful for the lifesaving medical interventions that Wes needed… a respirator to assist his breathing, antibiotics and fungicides to fight the infections that he contracted in the first hospital (caused by a misapplied catheter) and several other hospital-acquired infections since then in the second ICU unit and dialysis to eliminate the many toxins resulting from drug treatments to mitigate initial seizures and then infections.
Wes has been tended by numerous caring and skilled doctors, nurses and therapists; however, Wes now needs a different environment that is not offered in standard medical facilities in order to make further progress.
The “skilled nursing facilities" or “in-patient therapy hospitals", which might be the next “standard allopathic medicine” step for Wes’s care, rarely have HBOT equipment.
Out-patient HBOT is needed several times per week at a charge of $175 per treatment with an additional $200 per trip transportation fee for a mobility van with a personal assistant. Wes needs at least 120 hours of HBOT treatments.
Several years ago Wes’s brother bought their deceased parents’ small house from the Estate, and he and Wes’s sisters have remodeled their family home for handicap accessibility, the costs of which are NOT included in this plea. They have offered the house to Wes and Deja to use for as long as they need it.
Deja’s son (who is a 10-year home health care nurse and stay-at-home Dad of 18-month old twins), Deja’s Dad, Wes’s sisters, and Deja (while she also works as a massage therapist with little sleep lately to earn their livelihood), babysitters for the boys, as well as home health nurses (as long as the insurance lasts) will take care of Wes as he receives this next stage of HBOT treatments.
At the private home location, Wes will be cared for in a calm, quiet and less-infectious environment surrounded and cared for by people who only have one patient to monitor and assist.
Deja has already moved the fortified, almost room-sized “twin pen” into the house and has had the boys over several times so that they can get used to Grandma’s new home. And, Wes and Deja’s dogs and cat can now come home from being cared for by pet sitting friends.
We have faith that this next step in Wes’s care will allow Wes to heal and improve exponentially. With GOD’s grace, lots of hard work and your help, the team plans for Wes to be walking by his birthday in August.
Deja and Wes have always lived simply and frugally using their resources to help many people.
Both Wes and Deja have been caregivers to several people over the years, including Deja raising the children of a close friend who passed after Deja provided live-in care and financial support for her for many years. Deja also took care of her diabetic Mother for years as a teenager and young woman.
Now, Wes and Deja need help.
Why Insurance Does Not Cover HBOT in Texas.
The medical system will order and some insurance plans will pay for HBOT for acute trauma, wound care, thermal burns, radiation necrosis, carbon monoxide poisoning, infections in skin and bones, and skin grafts.
Only a few specialized, knowledgeable doctors will order and almost NO insurance plans will pay for HBOT for nerve damage; eventhough, nerve damage and brain injuries are typically caused by a lack of oxygen in the blood supply.
The State of Texas even passed a law in 2001 (HB 1676, now 2015 TDI Code, Chapter1352) requiring insurance companies to pay for alternative therapies for survivors of acquired brain and nervous system injuries; however, self-insured private company, Medicare, Medicare Supplemental, workmen's compensation, motor vehicle and other insurance plans are exempted from covering these therapies for neurological injuries.
So, we have a Texas law that requires alternative treatments, but which exempts most of the insurance plans under which many people with acquired brain injuries would be covered.
And, there are very few specialized, knowledgeable doctors who prescribe HBOT, and almost no licensed facilities which will take what few insurance plans include HBOT coverage.
This HBOT availability situation makes many of us want to cry.
Deja-Diana Mitchell Stelzer, his wife, is taking Wes home from the hospital in a couple of weeks after the most recent of three, hospital-acquired infections is cleared so that he can start HBOT, which has been proven to help heal brain injuries, wounds, and infections.
In our research, we have found numerous nerve damage and stroke survivors who have had dramatically positive responses after HBOT…if they can afford to pay for it themselves.
Wes is going to need more Liquid Hope ($1,000 per month), a motorized Hospital Bed, a portable Lift-Assist, a High Back Shower Wheelchair, a Lay Flat Lifting Recliner, a Flat Exercise table, a Hand Exercise Table, various other smaller exercise equipment, a Walking Assist Support Machine, a Tennant Bio-modulator and Transducer, a stand-by Respirator, access to a wheel-chair accessible HBOT chamber, a tight turning Electric Wheelchair, other medical supplies and Private Nursing and Therapy for many more weeks before he will be well enough and strong enough to access typical “out-patient” physical, occupational and speech therapy facilities….again, with substantial transportation costs to get to an “out-patient” therapy facility.
Please help as much as you can and forward this plea to your friends and family who might be able to help with prayers or money. Deja is having to spend $1,000s every day in preparation for the move to get Wes home. Every little bit will help to get this beautiful, generous soul get back onto his feet.
$25 from 5,900 people will get us to the goal.
What Happened to Wes?
On October 13, 2016, Deja came home from walking the dogs to find Wes lying in a recliner having multiple seizures. She had seconds to call 911.
The doctors have found no explainable medical cause for these seizure events; however, Wes was bitten/struck on his calf a week earlier (maybe by an asp, which is a toxic fuzzy caterpillar) while walking in the woods in North Central Texas, had a fever and swelling, but “was recovered.” We may never know what attacked Wes.
What is shocking is that Wes was a very healthy, slender, vibrant man, who never drank or smoked, took extreme care with his diet (ate no GMO, gluten or other toxins and was almost a raw foods vegan, but on the paleo side), practiced meditation daily and tried to always be in the Zen moment.
Wes has always given of himself unselfishly to family, friends and strangers…whether with his handyman skills or the energetic healing arts. For the seven years that Deja has been married to Wes, he literally woke every day to review his written list of what he could do to help others who crossed his path…never asking for or accepting payment in return.
Deja, her Dad and Wes’s family have been taking turns watching out for him 24 hours per day in two different Intensive Care Units (ICU) for over 100 days.
With fierce determination, Deja has helped the medical staff to learn about “Liquid Hope” rather than the GMO soy, GMO high fructose corn syrup, and synthetic additives that Wes first received as food. Wes got better immediately. Deja worked to encourage the medical team to reduce the many toxic drugs as fast as possible, to hold a positive energy environment around him and to reduce the incessant noise and alarms inherent with a medical facility. Wes got better.
Even now, the doctors say that Wes’s internal organs are that of a 30 years younger man, and his heart is strong. Wes is aware of his surroundings and is starting to communicate his wishes and needs more clearly every day.
Our group’s canioscaral doctor says that there are four to seven nerves for each muscle function and knows from experience that nerves can heal. Wes just needs to get a few more nerves reconnected and sparking. We believe HBOT will help him do that.
Wes’s lead critical care doctor agrees with this next step, because he has witnessed the daily and skilled support that Wes has received from his family.
Deja is very grateful for the lifesaving medical interventions that Wes needed… a respirator to assist his breathing, antibiotics and fungicides to fight the infections that he contracted in the first hospital (caused by a misapplied catheter) and several other hospital-acquired infections since then in the second ICU unit and dialysis to eliminate the many toxins resulting from drug treatments to mitigate initial seizures and then infections.
Wes has been tended by numerous caring and skilled doctors, nurses and therapists; however, Wes now needs a different environment that is not offered in standard medical facilities in order to make further progress.
The “skilled nursing facilities" or “in-patient therapy hospitals", which might be the next “standard allopathic medicine” step for Wes’s care, rarely have HBOT equipment.
Out-patient HBOT is needed several times per week at a charge of $175 per treatment with an additional $200 per trip transportation fee for a mobility van with a personal assistant. Wes needs at least 120 hours of HBOT treatments.
Several years ago Wes’s brother bought their deceased parents’ small house from the Estate, and he and Wes’s sisters have remodeled their family home for handicap accessibility, the costs of which are NOT included in this plea. They have offered the house to Wes and Deja to use for as long as they need it.
Deja’s son (who is a 10-year home health care nurse and stay-at-home Dad of 18-month old twins), Deja’s Dad, Wes’s sisters, and Deja (while she also works as a massage therapist with little sleep lately to earn their livelihood), babysitters for the boys, as well as home health nurses (as long as the insurance lasts) will take care of Wes as he receives this next stage of HBOT treatments.
At the private home location, Wes will be cared for in a calm, quiet and less-infectious environment surrounded and cared for by people who only have one patient to monitor and assist.
Deja has already moved the fortified, almost room-sized “twin pen” into the house and has had the boys over several times so that they can get used to Grandma’s new home. And, Wes and Deja’s dogs and cat can now come home from being cared for by pet sitting friends.
We have faith that this next step in Wes’s care will allow Wes to heal and improve exponentially. With GOD’s grace, lots of hard work and your help, the team plans for Wes to be walking by his birthday in August.
Deja and Wes have always lived simply and frugally using their resources to help many people.
Both Wes and Deja have been caregivers to several people over the years, including Deja raising the children of a close friend who passed after Deja provided live-in care and financial support for her for many years. Deja also took care of her diabetic Mother for years as a teenager and young woman.
Now, Wes and Deja need help.
Why Insurance Does Not Cover HBOT in Texas.
The medical system will order and some insurance plans will pay for HBOT for acute trauma, wound care, thermal burns, radiation necrosis, carbon monoxide poisoning, infections in skin and bones, and skin grafts.
Only a few specialized, knowledgeable doctors will order and almost NO insurance plans will pay for HBOT for nerve damage; eventhough, nerve damage and brain injuries are typically caused by a lack of oxygen in the blood supply.
The State of Texas even passed a law in 2001 (HB 1676, now 2015 TDI Code, Chapter1352) requiring insurance companies to pay for alternative therapies for survivors of acquired brain and nervous system injuries; however, self-insured private company, Medicare, Medicare Supplemental, workmen's compensation, motor vehicle and other insurance plans are exempted from covering these therapies for neurological injuries.
So, we have a Texas law that requires alternative treatments, but which exempts most of the insurance plans under which many people with acquired brain injuries would be covered.
And, there are very few specialized, knowledgeable doctors who prescribe HBOT, and almost no licensed facilities which will take what few insurance plans include HBOT coverage.
This HBOT availability situation makes many of us want to cry.
Organizer and beneficiary
Claire Palmer
Organizer
Colleyville, TX
Deja-Diana Mitchell Stelzer
Beneficiary