Wellness by Choice Founder’s Son's Liver Suffers from Delayed ER Visit Due to COVID-19 Fear of Dying
Angelina Musik
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(Houston, Texas) Chris Parish saw his mom for first time New Year's Eve 2020 in the ICU after being there since December 11, 2020. Three weeks earlier, 31-year-old Chris struggled into the ER at Katy Hospital anemic and septic. Soon after, he was transferred across town to the ICU at HCA Houston Healthcare Clear Lake in Webster, Texas.
Two months earlier Chris had sent pictures to his mom of his swollen legs and complained about not being able to keep food down and throwing up almost daily. His mom, Angelina Musik, and founder of Wellness by Choice pleaded for him to go to the ER from Arizona.
Chris, like many, expressed his fear of catching COVID-19 and dying at the hospital. Right now, he lies jaundice and almost motionless in the ICU. His liver is failing him, and he is fully aware.
The team at HCA is working hard to stabilize him and keep him safe from incoming COVID-19 patients by moving him to different rooms numerous times.
They successfully brought down his ammonia level from his failing liver and struggling kidneys while boosting his hemoglobin count.
A week ago, Saturday, as his brain fog started to clear, he called a friend on his cell phone. Slow progress was underway until this past Monday when things took a turn for the worst.
Due to COVID restrictions his mom Angelina was not allowed to see him until New Year's Eve after receiving a call to make some decisions she never could have predicted.
A year ago, Chris was finally started to shift his philosophy about his own wellness. After struggling with depression and alcohol for the last twelve years he weaned himself off liquor to help his body to heal and cut back on smoking. An answer to prayer for his mom.
Fall 2020 he was to join his mom in Oregon at the new Wellness by Choice house and property to continue this journey of healing. The COVID shutdown disrupted and delayed the monies to buy it.
Like many, the COVID shutdown increased his depression and he started to drink again while trying to reduce the pain from a new knee injury.
It's New Year's Eve 2020, his cheek leans into mom's hand as Angelina sings his favorite childhood song asking him to open his eyes. He's weary. He won't eat or take medicines orally anymore. It's become too painful. The staff are unsure if he's given up.
Angelina dips a sponge on the end of a stick into his favorite blue sports drink to put on his lips he grimaces to communicate 'no'. The nurse gives him a shot and he cries. No tears fall.
Angelina positions his eye glasses and recruits friends to talk to him through her mobile speaker phone to help wake him up. Micro expressions show. As he barely open his eyes he's listening to their words of encouragement, prayers and pleas to not give up.
The doctor comes in and Angelina leaves the room to discuss options. As an advocate for the marriage of western and integrative medicine hospice would not be the only or final answer for her. She needs to reach out to the medical experts and community for help.
Returning to Chris she lowers her mask to reveal more of her face and his eyes widen. As she talks about next steps forward, he forces his eye lids to keep reopening and opens his mouth to speak but no words come out.
He nods his head that he wants to live and again when she asks if he's ready to leave the hospital to go with her. This was the certainty mom Angelina needed to know going forward that he's choosing life and their journey to heal through this together!
Right now mom Angelina is searching for a transplant hospital which is willing to accept Chris as a transplant patient or allow his mom to be a live transplant donor.
"The 'Heal Chris!' campaign is about raising awareness of the best treatments and technologies which help the body heal itself and applying them to Chris as a patient who is suffering from liver failure and challenged kidneys which is slowly rebounding.
I believe we can help heal Chris and duplicate that recipe for others while creating awareness to the hell individuals are inviting as they medicate themselves through alcohol overuse mixed with over the counter pain killers which Chris took to fight migraines from the alcohol. This combination over time led to gastrointestinal bleeding and liver failure.
My goal is to help him get a liver transplant or share my liver to help heal Chris!”
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4 年Oh my goodness, my best friend went through this. She suffered from liver failure for years. She was told she was a candidate for a liver transplant IF she could stay clean for six months. She lived her life jaundice, and alcoholism took her beauty. I do know Chris will need a liver from someone who's liver is much the size of his own. Unfortunately my friend could not receive a partial liver transplant as her entire liver was basically dead, however she continued to live taking medication that would serve as her "liver," for about two years. I will keep Chris and you in my prayers. I pray his liver is still alive and fighting for a chance at a miracle. Prayers to you my friend.