Timothy Westeen

Tim Had A Lung Transplant And Needs Your Help

Tim is a wonderful loving husband and father of 3 young children. Nine weeks ago, Tim was diagnosed with Usual Interstitial Pneumonia (UIP), an incurable and untreatable lung disease characterized by progressive scaring of both lungs. Five weeks after being diagnosed, Tim was admitted to the hospital with a massive flare up of the disease and was told that he would not be leaving the hospital until he received a lung transplant. Nine days later, on February 18th, Tim was blessed with his transplant. If it had not been for the love of a donor, Tim truly would not be here with us today. His condition was critical and he was on life support with the possibility of only one more week to hang on. We cannot thank than the donor’s family enough for this amazing gift to Tim and our whole family.

Since the transplant, it has been a rough road to recovery; Tim had blood clotting issues, needed temporary dialysis and additional surgeries, and had scares with blood pressure. Tim is finally stable and doing very well. Having been bed ridden for a month, his muscles are weak and he is pretty frail, but he is working hard with physical therapy has a very positive outlook on his recovery.

Tim is self-employed and the sole provider for his family. As you can imagine, this is an extreme burden on our family. Even with insurance, there are many out-of-pocket transplant related expenses, not the least of which is the very costly medications he will need to take for the rest of his life.

To help with this financial burden, a fundraising campaign in Tim’s honor has been established with HelpHOPELive, a nonprofit organization that has been assisting the transplant community for 30 years. All donations are tax-deductible, are held by HelpHOPELive in the North-Central Lung Transplant Fund, and are administered by HelpHOPELive for transplant-related expenses only. Your contribution is greatly appreciated.

We are very thankful for the generous people who are helping Tim and his family with these unimaginable costs. Thank you all for helping and caring so much about our fun loving Tim!

Kim Westeen, Tim’s wife
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