Jeremy Damron, frontman of Kentucky hardcore band Volcano (that includes members of Sanguisugabogg), has been coping with a shitty situation referred to as degenerative disc illness (DDD). The poor dude has been coping with this for over 10 years, and he’s now set to have an emergency spinal surgical procedure for one thing referred to as a post-lumbar implant fusion (PILF). Not solely does that sound excessive nevertheless it additionally sounds fuckin costly. Each are true.
I’m no physician, however an outline of his situation was included within the GoFundMe began to assist help his surgical procedure and restoration prices. The process has a minimal of a yr restoration time, so lots of help will certainly be wanted.
The GoFundMe describes Damron’s well being struggles as such:
Resulting from excessive nerve ache, drop foot, and extreme inflammatory arthritis within the joints and discs in his decrease lumbar backbone, Jeremy is unable to work persistently. After years of bearing by it, it’s the worst it’s ever been, and he can barely operate.
With these points, he has not been in a position to sleep for extra that 2-3 hours with out interruption. He can not bodily play with, nor choose up, his son, which has been taking a big toll on Jeremy’s emotional well being, as he’s an lively, playful father. He isn’t in a position to coach his college students and 14-year-old daughter in kickboxing. He has missed his college students’ fights. Additionally, after enjoying one present, his physician recommended that he chorus from performing along with his band Volcano till they’ll discover higher ache administration or provide you with a repair. He can not tattoo or be current to handle the fully-staffed tattoo enterprise that he owns. He can not work for greater than an hour at a time, and most of his current work is giant scale and requires a number of hour classes. The cash is simply not there for the prevailing medical prices, nor for the invoice that’s anticipated to return in regards to the subsequent route of restoration.
To this point, he has had a microdiscectomy in 2013 for a herniated disc, three years earlier than the problems turned insufferable once more. He has been prescribed NSAIDs solely, which is sort of a Band-Help for this painful subject.
He has had quite a few spinal injections of not solely nerve block anesthetic, but in addition steroid injections. These brought about little to no aid and have been extraordinarily painful. He has tried each bodily remedy and chiropractic changes with no aid, typically the procedures and trials making the problems worse.
The subsequent step in restoration is to go to the CPI INSTITUTE for stemcell injections. This is likely one of the solely comfortable tissue regenerative choices we now have on this planet. About 90% of individuals with the identical actual accidents and points expertise super aid and normally repair these points inside six months.
Allow us to assist our massive canine get by this and heal from this terrible illness.
Shortly after the fundraising web page was created, Damron met with a neurosurgeon and was in a position to provide this replace:
Jeremy met with a neurosurgeon this morning at tristate neurosurgical associates & is being admitted this afternoon for emergent care to the Gateway complicated. He’ll get a spherical to contemporary scans and bloodwork tonight earlier than touchdown himself in an OR early tomorrow morning for a PLIF (posterior lumbar implant fusion). Sadly after this emergency process, Jeremy will now not be eligible for stem cell remedy. The shifted severity of his situation and general danger of irreparable injury and paralysis has made this the one possibility. Let’s shift the help to assist Jeremy and his household get better from invasive backbone surgical procedure. It would almost definitely take about 1 years for a full restoration.
We are going to maintain everybody up to date as issues progress & thanks once more to anybody and everybody that’s been checking in, serving to out & shifting us alongside this course of. We’re so grateful for everybody’s help!
On the time of this publication, the GoFundMe has raised $16,612 of its meant $25,000 purpose.
