Hello everyone my name is Dale Miles. I am in need for money to purchase my prosthetic leg. When the whole Covid thing came about I really wasn’t worried. I had a job where you weren’t in the same place everyday and it was outside. I poured concrete. We had a small crew only seven of us we weren’t around people that often. So I was really worried about contracting this virus. Well I never got the Covid virus, but I did get the Covid vaccine. I really didn’t want to get it because they just came up with it and I’m sure there weren’t very many trials before the started giving them out. So one weekend me and my wife were going to the Seattle Seahawks vs. the San Francisco 49ers game. We got in line to get in and found out that they weren’t letting people in unless they could show that you have gotten the COVID vaccine. Literally they were giving them out rite in front of the stadium.So we sat there pondering if we should do it and we decided to go aged and get them. IT WAS THE BIGGEST MISTAKE OF MY LIFE. So a month or so later me and my wife were at a friend of mine’s wedding and my right leg from the knee down swoll up like you wouldn’t believe. It got so swollen that it started to hurt really bad, to the point where we had to leave and go to the emergency room. Come to find out that I had a blood clot in my leg. They did surgery going in through my growing artery and they were able to fish it out. All was good up until about a month later Cand it did it again. Same surgery same result. This time it lasted about two months before it did it again. This time the couldn’t fish it out so they had to do major surgery take and artery out of my left leg and put it in my rite leg so that it got blood flow. Was in the hospital for three weeks. Came home was good for about a month and it did it again this time the blood clot was going up towards my lungs. They told me that they were going to be able to do the surgery to remove it. The day of the surgery my doctor came in and told me that he wasn’t able to do the surgery not because he wasn’t capable but because do to the Covid virus the help he needed were nurses and doctors that had just started and he was sure if they could handle something like this and for that reason he chose not to do it, but he knew the doctor up in Portland medical center that could do it but there was a waiting list for clients to get admitted. So I sat in the river bend hospital for almost four weeks before they helicoptered me up to Portland medical center. Did the surgery and everything went according to plan was there for 3 weeks recovering. We went home got settled but a few weeks later I got that same thing with my leg swollen up. So we went to the emergency room again to tell me this time that the we’re going to amputate my right leg from the knee down. I was devastated, but I went through with the surgery and they amputated my leg, which didn’t even last a month. I got the same feeling in my leg just higher. So the had to amputate my leg again from the knee up. It was fun. Not really. Now this whole time they were trying to figure out what was causing this but they couldn’t figure it out. They tried everything to stop the blood clots. Even dialysis where they took the plasma out of my blood. Well at the end thank the lord my body stopped producing blood clots I have to take two blood thinners and go once a month to have the plasma taken out of my blood. I deal with pain in my leg every day. Where I fall asleep if I’m not dang near sitting up it hurts so bad that it wakes me up and I have to get out of bed and stand up. So i started to get used to walking around with my walker and going up and down the stairs to my room but I need a leg. It took forever for them to refer me to hanger clinic and then it took them even longer for the insurance to approve my leg. I took them four and a half months to approve it, just for them to tell me that it’s going to cost me 8500$ dollars to purchase my leg. I asked them how it is going to cost 8500 dollars when my insurance covers it. They told me that the 8500 dollars was just a third of the price of the leg and that was what I had to pay to get my leg. You know I’ve had many of things happen to me in my life I’m 45 I had a stroke in 2017 where I had to learn how to walk and talk again. I had an aneurysm behind my rite eye where they had to drill a hole in my skull go around my brain and put a clip on it. And I found out that I had wolf Parkinson’s disease where it make my heart beat 200 times a minute which the were able to care of. They all hurt but nothing like this. I’ve used up all my savings dealing with this stuff and even took money out of my retirement just to make sure that my family got by. But now I’m completely broke and could use some money to be able to purchase my leg and be able to walk again and get back to work I don’t know about pouring concrete but at least getting back to work. If anyone could help me out with a donation to the 8500 dollar bill I would greatly appreciate it like you would believe. Here is my PayPal me link again anything you can donate would be greatly appreciated, here is my link
PayPal.me/DaleM38
I thank everyone greatly.
Dale Miles