08/05/2024
Hello we are the family of Juan Herbert (YAYO), we live in Guatemala our family in the US is helping us to collect funds for Juan Herberth Aguirre, all the money will go directly to cover the hospital bill here in Guatemala, Hospital Herrera LLerandi.
Let me tell you a little bit about our wonderful ¨Yayo¨, he is a strong, hardworking, and, loving Grandfather, always caring for all his family. He is an awesome dad husband, brother, grandfather and friend.
Our ¨Yayo¨ had a Hip Replacement Surgery back in June 13th, 2024… everything was going well so he went back home for recovery, he had a nurse helping him all the time, cleaning the wound, standing up; he also had had physical therapies to help him recover his strength in order to start walking again. He was feeling better, and he started walking, but in July 1st he started feeling sick, my sister in law took him to the doctor to check if everything was fine, doctor removed the stiches and said everything was normal. He got a fever so blood test were taken right away and the results showed that he was infected with 4 different bacterias.
In July 13th they re-opened so they could clean inside the previous surgery and confirm if the hip prosthesis was contaminated or not. Since the bacterial infection was running in his blood, everything started getting worse, he got a gastrointestinal perforation causing him a bloat stomach with too much pain, he started having difficulties when breathing since his lungs had absorbed water due to inflammatory process; he’s oxygen levels started dropping so he stared using an oxygen mask, he was weak and tired. His oxygen level kept dropping so doctors decided to take him to the ICU (Intensive Care Unit) and now he is Intubated. Since all his organs started to collapse, his kidneys stopped working along with his stomach, he is going through hemodialysis every two days.
We are praying and hoping for a miracle so we can have him with us again. Having our Grandpa Yayo in the hospital here in Guatemala is super expensive, the bill is getting higher every day, we cannot move him somewhere else because is too risky. We've paid a lot of money so far, the first surgery was $20,000, and the bill right now is aprox $125,000 and it keeps going higher every day. We already paid of the current hospital bill but unfortunetely we were not prepared fot his complicated scenario; this is why I kindly ask for you help!
All of us will be forever greatful! Thank you in advanced!
