Jeremy Damron, frontman of Kentucky hardcore band Volcano (that includes members of Sanguisugabogg), has been coping with a shitty situation known 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 known as a post-lumbar implant fusion (PILF). Not solely does that sound excessive but it surely 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 assist his surgical procedure and restoration prices. The process has a minimal of a yr restoration time, so a whole lot of assist will certainly be wanted.
The GoFundMe describes Damron’s well being struggles as such:
Because of 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 via it, it’s the worst it’s ever been, and he can barely perform.
With these points, he has not been capable of sleep for extra that 2-3 hours with out interruption. He can’t bodily play with, nor decide up, his son, which has been taking a big toll on Jeremy’s emotional well being, as he’s an energetic, playful father. He’s not capable of coach his college students and 14-year-old daughter in kickboxing. He has missed his college students’ fights. Additionally, after taking part in one present, his physician steered 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’t tattoo or be current to handle the fully-staffed tattoo enterprise that he owns. He can’t work for greater than an hour at a time, and most of his latest work is massive scale and requires a number of hour classes. The cash is simply not there for the present medical prices, nor for the invoice that’s anticipated to come back in regards to the subsequent route of restoration.
Up to now, 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 concern.
He has had quite a few spinal injections of not solely nerve block anesthetic, but in addition steroid injections. These precipitated little to no aid and had 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 among the solely mushy tissue regenerative choices we’ve on the earth. About 90% of individuals with the identical precise accidents and points expertise large aid and often repair these points inside six months.
Allow us to assist our huge canine get via this and heal from this terrible illness.
Shortly after the fundraising web page was created, Damron met with a neurosurgeon and was capable of supply 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 not be eligible for stem cell remedy. The shifted severity of his situation and general threat of irreparable harm and paralysis has made this the one possibility. Let’s shift the assist to assist Jeremy and his household get well from invasive backbone surgical procedure. It is going to most probably take about 1 years for a full restoration.
We’ll 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 assist!
On the time of this publication, the GoFundMe has raised $16,612 of its supposed $25,000 objective.