Support for Lev Werdin and family

My sister, Erika Werdin, has been at the hospital with my nephew, Lev, for over a month now with no discharge date planned at the moment. Lev was born with Down syndrome, congenital heart defects, and diagnosed recently with epilepsy. He was scheduled to have open heart surgery on January 24th but was admitted to Children’s Hospital on January 22nd to the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) for sudden respiratory failure. He is being treated right now for his Pulmonary Hypertension alongside many other issues. There is still a lot of different and complex components to figure out and address with Levy’s health before he can safely leave the hospital. Erika and Justin have been focusing all their energy and time on being with Lev and having Justin drive back and forth between the hospital and home to be with their older three children every night. Justin has not been at work for the last month due to the severity and ever changing condition of Lev’s hospital stay. Erika and Justin are incredible parents and genuinely the best people I know. They are so deserving of help even if it’s hard for them to advocate for that for themselves. I know a lot of people have reached out to them asking for ways to help and for a way to contribute financially so I just wanted to create a space for that. As you can imagine they have a lot of medical bills adding up day by day on top of their regular everyday financial responsibilities. All they should have to focus on right now is helping Lev get healthy so they can all be home together as a family again. Please donate if you feel moved to do so or share this link so it can reach others. ❤️

I will continue to post updates from Erika and Justin about how Lev is doing!