Our father’s long battle with heart problems started about 12 years ago and has come to a critical point. Our father is now in heart failure and needs a heart transplant to survive. Due to the cost of a heart transplant and the insurance he has does not cover all of the treatments expenses, my father was treated instead with the (LVAD) a mechanical heart pump that is used in patients who have reached end-stage heart failure on October 12, 2021. We’re asking the community, family, and friends to join us in fundraising for the nonprofit Help Hope Live to help with critical expenses my father will face immediately after surgery, including the cost of his life long medications.
My father has always lived a positive and productive life despite his heart condition. My father has always been a great loving husband, father, grandfather, uncle and a role model for his family. He is a strong person in faith who has always believed in God, it is really difficult to see him in these conditions and the only way we can help him is by asking the community, family, and friends to fundraise this cause and helps us pay for his (LVAD) surgical procedures, medical bills, and medications because his heart rate was so weak at 10% and without a heart transplant or an (LVAD) my father will not be alive.
While my father’s health insurance only covered 80% of the LVAD procedure cost, my father will be responsible on paying the other 20%. My father has been told to anticipate upwards of $4,000 per month for surgical procedures, hospital bills and medications.
Donations to Help Hope Live can help ease the financial burden of a heart transplant/LVAD and allow my father to focus on a healthy recovery and a long life ahead with his wife, children, grandchildren, family and friends who love him so very much.
To help my father, Juan Rivera we are raising money for the nonprofit Help Hope Live to fund uninsured medical expenses associated with transplantation.
Juan has chosen to fundraise for Help Hope Live in part because Help Hope Live assures fiscal accountability of funds raised and tax deductibility for contributors. Contributors can be sure donations will be used to pay or reimburse medical and related expenses. To make a tax-deductible donation to this fundraising campaign, click on the GIVE button. And please share Juan’s page on your social media.
For more information, please contact Help Hope Live at 800.642.8399.
Thank you for your support! The Family!
