Saving Bobby's Brain......BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE

Hi my name is Leann Lucia Carlson-Bulmer and I am Robert Bulmer’s (Bobby’s) wife, we were married in April 2020 at the beginning of the “Pandemic”. I married Bobby because he is my best friend, I love him like I have never loved anyone before and my life would be incomplete without him, guess you would say we are soulmates. When I met Bobby, I had just gone through the most devastating events of my life that literally left me homeless on the streets of Las Vegas. After about a year, undenounced to Bobby, our mutual friend Jerry who was staying with him invited me to come stay there too and with no other options I figured I would stay a couple days and move on. From the moment we became a “couple” we were inseparable and that was about ten years ago. Bobby opened his home and heart to me and he patiently waited for me to find myself in those first couple months and he supported me unconditionally every step of the way. When I married Bobby I knew we would be together “til death do us part”….. Of course in the back of my mind I knew something was wrong but I was not ready to admit it or to deal with it as I knew it would forever change the course of our lives and end our plans of growing old together.

Bobby was diagnosed with Dementia a few years ago and it has progressed to the point that he can no longer work, but it is much more than that. He went to Henderson one day and it took him 7 hours to get home, a drive that should have taken an hour. We live off of Dessert Inn near Arville on the Westside of Las Vegas and coming back from the Eastside, he did not remember there being a tunnel on Dessert Inn, the same one we had driven through about an hour earlier. The same tunnel he drove through every day to and from work for a couple years. Now, when you see Bobby, you would never know there is a problem until you spend some time with him and he starts telling the same story over for the second or third time or asks you the same question five or six times in a five minute time-frame. Bobby gets very confused, wants to know what time dinner is when we just ate an hour ago. I could go on and on about how this disease is little by little changing Bobby forever, robbing him of the future he deserves to live and the dignity to do so. Bobby was a Union worker with Teamster Local 631 for about 33 years, he paid his debt to society so to speak, and he should be just kicking it, enjoying his retirement and it really breaks my heart that he is not going to experience his “golden years”. How do I tell him that he can’t have another motorcycle because his brain is broken…. I know life's not fair but you know what, LIFE’S REALLY NOT FAIR! Even though he is still with me, I miss him so much and can only hope and have faith that God will answer my prayers and fix him.

For the past couple years I have been researching non stop, looking for something that would help Bobby other than pharmaceuticals and the other day, I think, no, I know, I found it. I had to stop and give thanks to God for hearing my prayers because what I found is amazing. ….. wait for it…..

A team of researchers at Tel Aviv University were able to use Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) to restore brain trauma. This is notable and promising because it is the first time that a non-drug therapy has effectively prevented the core biological processes that are believed to be responsible for the development of the Alzheimer’s and Dementia diseases. After a series of 60 Hyperbaric treatments over a 3 month period, elderly patients who were already suffering from memory loss showed an improvement of blood flow to the brain, as well as a real improvement in cognitive performance. After I read the first article I scoured the internet and found article after article saying the same thing. I believe with all my heart this will help Bobby and after speaking to the clinic they say he is a good candidate for the treatments. I am not stupid, I know that there are no guarantees in life but this is so promising he has to try it, RIGHT?

Doesn’t Bobby deserve the chance to live a normal life. If you know Bobby personally, you will agree that Bobby is a good, honest and decent man. He is kind and caring and has done a lot for other people even if it was simply offering a safe place to sleep for the night. Bobby would literally give you the shirt off his back.

Here is where you hopefully can help Bobby out and give him back the ability to live a normal life and today I am asking you to help me help him. The Hyperbaric treatments are $220.00 each and at 60 sessions it adds up to over $13,000 of which his insurance will only cover 12 sessions leaving a balance of $10,560. I am not asking for that amount today because I realize how unobtainable that would be. What I am hoping for today is to raise one third of that amount plus processing fees. I realize that $3,670.00 is still a lot of money and that everyone is still trying to recover from the financial devastation the pandemic caused and now with a recession looming over us, this is possible the worst time for me to be reaching out for help.

Gosh darn it, I am not ready to give up on Bobby, and I will fight for him til the day I die, I just can not do it by myself. All I am asking for is a little help from a lot of people, friends, family and anyone that has a big heart and the desire to give someone a second chance. Actually, you would be giving two people a second chance. 

Please don’t let Bobby die to the disease of dementia. His body will be here yes but it is just a matter of time that his mind will be lost forever and the sooner a patient begins receiving treatment, the more likely they are to experience positive results.

I want to thank you for taking the time to reading my plea. I understand if you can not help Bobby today, but keep him in mind, maybe you will find some spare change in a drawer that you can donate to the cause. I am serious, every little bit adds up and if you can’t do an online donation, contact me and I can come by and pick up anything you can spare. With that said, I will say goodbye and God Bless You All. Stay safe and remember never give up hope because miracles happen every day! PEACE

 So here goes….