My Terminally Ill Friend Cannot Eat Solid Food And Needs Help

My terminally ill friend cannot eat solid food and needs help

My friend @nonbinarydyke, aka Moth, is terminally ill. Moth’s diagnoses includes dysautonomia, autoimmune conditions such as Lupus and Lyme disease, Vascular Ehler’s Danlos Syndrome, and more. These will eventually kill them.

Dysautonomia, also known as autonomic dysfunction, basically means that automatic functions like blood flow and organs do not work correctly. Autoimmune means their immune system is trying to destroy their own body. Vascular Ehler’s Danlos is a connective tissue disorder that physically affects joints, blood vessels, and organs. These conditions can have a huge number of consequences, which most recently includes not being able to keep down any solid food. Endoscopy and colonoscopies of their gut have shown no blockage, and biopsy results are on the way. Basically, their digestive organs are not functioning the way they should.

Gut issues like this can be survived, and they can be treated. Moth currently has to blend their food in a blender, and is struggling with nutrition, water, medicine, and more. This type of stuff is not rare by any means among people with these types of diagnoses. Massive improvement is possible, and there are so many new autonomic and autoimmune treatments over just these past few years that can help Moth live much more comfortably. But right now is pollen season, and inflammation makes everything worse.

Whether this winds up being a case of needing a feeding tube, regular IVs, specialized medicine, or anything else, it will take time. It can take weeks, months, or years under normal worldly circumstances to plan for specialists, tests, and potentially surgery. But because of the pandemic, doctors are quitting in huge numbers, more and more people are becoming chronically ill, and medical scheduling is extremely delayed in the United States.

There is no knowing how long it may take for them to get adequate care. And they need to survive until they can get that care. With your help, they absolutely can.

Moth has been forced to quit their job because they are too weak to even dress themselves. They need help with medical costs, getting specialized electrolyte tablets, powdered food, vitamins, soft food, medicine, mobility aids, and more.

If you have money to spare and want to take direct action to help someone survive the pandemic, please help my friend.

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