Ryan Doolittle- Medical Bill Help

My name is Meghan Doolittle, and my brother’s name is Ryan Doolittle.

Ryan is the husband of Sheri Doolittle, and Dad to 10-year-old Brody. He is an avid hunter and fisherman; he is also a good friend, and neighbor to all.

I am asking for you to help with defraying extensive medical bills for Ryan.

On June 30th, Ryan had both of his knees replaced. We were so glad he had decided to finally have knee surgery, after several years of debilitating, and tremendous knee pain.

Over the next several weeks he started recovering and doing Physical Therapy, but recovery was slower than expected. His knees were much better, but he had a lot of pain, tightness, and swelling in his back, hips, legs and feet. He finally graduated from a walker to a cane, but still was not able to move much. The second week in September, he finally returned to work. At the end of the second week back at work, he was on his way to work. He called my parents. He was dizzy, had blurred vision, and was vomiting. My parents went and picked him up. We had all thought maybe he just had the flu. He was sick for a couple of days, but was not getting better. That Saturday Ryan’s wife, Sheri had called my parents. Ryan had fallen several times; he couldn’t walk or even feel his legs and was vomiting. They took him to Sioux Falls to the emergency room. Ryan spent all night having CT Scans, MRIs, and blood tests. These revealed that Ryan had acute sepsis. The MRIs revealed a suspicious enlarged blood vessel in his lower back. An appointment with his Sioux Falls knee doctor couldn’t tell him why his knees were healing and better, but he couldn’t pinpoint why he was having other pain, and swelling in his back, hips, legs, and feet. An Orthopedic Spine Specialist was recommended and more tests were done. Ryan was sent to a Neurosurgeon and neurologist for even more MRIs. The next day the neurologist performed a 7 ½ hour angiogram on Ryan’s entire spine. The Neurologist found an enlarged vessel that was pumping massive amounts of blood into an artery that ran up the spine next to the spinal cord. This is causing pressure, and swelling on the spinal cord. The enlarged vessel is also causing the pain, swelling and numbness to Ryan’s back, legs, and feet.

The Neurosurgeon and neurologist are meeting with Ryan this Monday 11/29 to tell Ryan what they will do in surgery on Tuesday 11/30. The Doctors have also found another mass of vessels next to the enlarged vessel that could potentially become enlarged and do the same. There is also concern about the surgery causing paralysis.

Ryan has only been able to work 3 weeks since June.

Your kindness and help through donations will help defray extensive and mounting medical bills.

I am asking for your financial help for him to ease the stress and burden of accumulating medical bills.

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