Salt Lake City, Utah. Congestive heart failure isn’t something that you think about happening to a young woman, especially considering that it’s the leading cause of hospitalization for adults over the age of 65.
Unfortunately, a 21-year-old young woman named Alyssa is currently in congestive heart failure, and it’s left her needing a complete heart transplant.
“On July 6, 2021, I found my 21-year-old daughter Alyssa unresponsive, cold to the touch, clammy, and barely breathing,” Alyssa’s mom Taneasha wrote on a GoFundMe page.
“I called 911, she was taken to the hospital where I watched as her clothes were cut off of her body, and the doctors said we need to intubate her and put her into a coma due to her not breathing on her own.”
“I watch my daughter lifeless, her blood sugar at over 1050 laying on a table, I’m freaking out.”
“As the days go by and tests are run, we figured out she had a random blood infection, which made her blood sugar skyrocket.”
“The blood infection made its way into her heart (endocarditis) was the diagnosis.”
Although Alyssa was discharged back home, she kept winding up back in the hospital after she experienced swelling and pain in her chest, high blood sugar, and pneumonia.
GoFundMe; pictured above is Alyssa
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Alyssa’s latest trip to the hospital has left her at the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City for 3 entire weeks now.
Her heart is very inflamed and no longer working, so her only option is to undergo a heart transplant.
“Alyssa will need a full heart transplant, she is so sick that they want to place the lvad pump in as a bridge to keep her heart going until we can get her on the list,” Taneasha said.
“She does have insurance but it does not cover the pump. We’re trying different avenues to do all we can to get her help.”
“The charges for this surgery are upwards of $750,000. If we can get her insurance there are still thousands for out of pocket expenses on top of cardiac rehab that are not covered by insurance.”
“Right now we are depending on every single penny we raise.”
If you would like to donate to help Alyssa with the expenses of getting a heart transplant, you can do that here.