Pete Hummel med and living expenses

I never could've imagined, that it 43 years old I would be in the hospital with the doctors told me that my heart was only pumping 25% of what it should be.   Up until now, I have always been able to work and pay my bills. But unfortunately Life has different plans.  About Four months ago I started getting short of breath, I could've sworn that I was just overweight and that if I could just lose a few pounds,It would take care of it.  One day I couldn't breathe when we were moving into our new duplex, and my son had to drive me to the emergency room.  They told me that I had pneumonia in my right lung, and treated me for it. After another few months my breathing problems came back.  This time I  went to my primary doctor,  Who I had avoided going to, because I didn't have insurance.  I was told that I had developed  diabetes, I got in trouble for gaining so much weight and I was also told that I had lost all of my testosterone.  I continued having breathing problems through all of this, so I tried a different doctor in the same clinic. She immediately did a EKG and a chest x-ray, discovering that the upper two chambers of my heart were enlarged.  She did some blood test, and made appointments for me to have an echo cardio gram, and a nuclear stress test, in the meantime my breathing problems continued to get worse.  A day or two after my stress test, my new physician called me and told me to get to the hospital immediately, at this point I had not been able to work for over two months and I was already just barely getting by. I was already a month behind on rent and having to make arrangements to pay the utilities.  When I got to the hospital they told me that my heart was only pumping 20% of what it should be, and that I was lucky to be standing there,  they admitted me immediately. I stayed in the hospital for five days, and had a  heart Cath done, I only had one artery that was blocked 40%. They discovered that  I wasn't breathing, and my sleep apnea was worse than we thought it was.  My blood oxygen level was dropping to 70% at night when I would stop breathing. That combined with my weight, and the water weight that I had put on, Took it's toll.   They put me on Lasix, and I have lost over 30 pounds in water weight,  but at this point my heart is so weak, that they're making me wear a defibrillator vest for the next three months,  and I cannot work until my heart gets back to at least 50%. I've never been in a position where I can't work,  and I've never had to ask for help, but now I have to in order to keep me and my son from  being evicted.  Hopefully this will give me a chance to get better and I can go back to work and function normally and maybe even recover 100%, but without assistance, it's just not going to be possible. The amount that I posted,  $2500, probably won't cover everything but I still want to try and do part of this myself. I want to thank everybody in advance  that will help and has already helped, God bless.....