Community Rallying to Help 25-Year-Old Father With Cancer
Brett Hall in the hospital. [Photo from GoFundMe]
Supervisor Michelle Bushnell organized this fundraiser for the man and his family. She wrote, ” He’s currently being treated for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) thought to be due to Bleomycin toxicity and for a possible secondary infection. Bleomycin is one of the main chemotherapy treatments he was receiving to treat his cancer. Brett is not improving as quickly as doctors would like and is being transferred to UCSF overnight as his condition is very serious and he needs to be at a hospital with ECMO capabilities.”
Bushnell said, “His mom, Brenda needs to accompany him to UCSF. She will miss work and need funds to help cover the costs of staying in San Francisco. The family has been managing to get by financially the last 9 months with Brett being off work, but they have utilized all their funds during that time. Please help if you can.”
In just the six hours between when the fundraiser was posted and this article came out, community members poured over a $1000 into a fundraiser to help him. If you would like to help, or would like to see the current amount raised, click the link to go to Brent Hall’s GoFundMe.
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Praying for you Brett!
UCSF has a family house that they can stay in to be close to Brett.
That is available to the families of children being treated. Brett is an adult 😕
They also can get you vouchers for area motels !!
One way everyone can help is by supporting candidates and sitting congresspeople who will work for MEDICARE4ALL and get rid of the current cruel and sntiquated health “insurance” industry that makes it difficult to get proper care and causes more bankruptsies in America. In no other civilized country are people bankrupted by medical costs
Except for, arguably, use of the word “civilized” I agree! It’s a crime (of community, love, fairness and family) that the financial burden of (unavoidable) illness / injury is placed upon people! Especially when there are excellent and proven models in less wealthy countries to use.
Our system favors insurance companies and the medical monopoly in ways that hurt our citizens. Shame!!
If unaware of the issues, bad choices will be made out of lack of knowledge. We live in a changing world and the old solutions of political agendas turn out to be no solution at all. In free health care Canada, this story will sound very familiar: “The cancer treatments and surgeries were hard enough — she’d leave the hospital with drainage tubes, or exhausted from chemotherapy.
But the breaking point for Sabrina Payne was the six-hour round trip from Fogo Island, N.L., to Gander that she’d take every two weeks to get them.” https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/fogo-island-doctor-shortage-1.6435314
Yes! Exactly!!! Actually, we need MEDICAID for all. Medicare still charges a 20% deductible to the patient, which can be enormous. It is unethical to charge people for health care. For Profit health care is immoral.
Nothing in the story indicates a problem with paying for health care. Just getting access to it when it is concentrated in urban areas. And any time there’s an issue, the urban votes get the solution. Humboldt Co had better resources before ACA. You need to spend time reading about health care, national or not, in places where the land is vast- not like in most of Europe or Asia, where the population is almost always an hour away from a big city. The health care in San Francisco is great for poor and rich. For immigrant and citizen. It is not all a matter of the socialist’s favorite hobby horse- just make government pay for it.
So Medicaid for all will pay for family travel? Hotels? Meals? Taxis? Child care? Which is what this story is about. So far, the more government insurance, the worse rural health care has become. In “free health care” Canada it is a worse problem than here. “Rural” populations in Canada are generally older, less affluent, and sicker. Almost one-fifth of Canadians (18%) live in rural communities, but they are served by only 8% of the physicians practising in Canada. These communities face ongoing challenges in recruiting and retaining family physicians and other health care professionals. ” “Policy decisions are too often guided by urban health care models without understanding the potential negative effects in rural communities.” https://www.cfp.ca/content/66/1/31
“Patients going abroad reflects how B.C.’s medical system is ‘failing,’ says surgeon”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/long-wait-times-bc-surgery-abroad-1.6445382
Here’s a link to Canada’s national public news, https://www.cbc.ca/news/health of you are interested in the real issues rather than political spin.
Single parent? Yes. Only parent? No!
How do you know??? Do you know him & his family, personally??? Do you know something not stated here about the Mother of the child??? Enquiring minds, or in my case what little is left of my mind, want to know!!!
I do know him personally. We were actually married. And had two kids together.
Only parent? Possibly. Perhaps he adopted the kids. Perhaps the mother is no longer alive. Don’t assume, if you don’t have the facts.
Hun I am the kids mom.
😅😂😁
🤔🧐 I assumed, too, Anj …
But, what I assumed was , that you must be the other parent.😉
Such was the wording of the comment, that my initial interpretation was that it must have come from the kids’ mom…
Blessings to your family, and best wishes to your children’s father for a speedy recovery…
Oh, and,
Happy Mother’s Day, Anj .
Best wishes to you as well…
Thank you! He’s strong he just needs some rest right now.
So yes take your own advice and don’t assume. Someone had a huge miscommunication when they published he’s the only parent.
I don’t think it was a miscommunication but more based on who actually helps raise the children.
Well I’m very much in their life helping raise them…not sure what your point is there. But to say he’s their only parent is completely wrong!
Nailed it! 👆👆
“The only parent to two young children”…
Go to the go-fund me… and send some money.
Sounds like this family needs it. (BTW: Yes, I did.)
Glad to see the community come through and donate. All the best to him and his family.