PLEASE HELP ME. I need your help for my son to survive. -Baby John’s Father
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The blister wound on his leg is the worst without any skin from his ribs all the way down to the tips of his toes.
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The father’s depressed plea rang out. His son Baby John, not yet three days old, lay suffering in a bed with severely painful blisters and gaping wounds that threatened his very life. These were bloody blisters and wounds the father could neither heal nor stop from emerging on his son’s tiny face and body time and time again. Time was running out.
When Baby John was born, his parents learned he had rare EB Blistering Skin Disease. They had never heard of the disease. Now immersed in their own daily struggle and nightmare, they are all too familiar with the heartbreak that accompanies it: constant cries of pain, emerging blisters on the baby’s face, head, chest, arms, hands, fingers, legs, feet, and toes, a lack of weight gain due to bloody mouth, tongue and gum sores, and, reopened and bleeding wounds at every painful bandage change. And, for Baby John, the disease is getting worse every day.
It’s so painful to see as parents. I have to hold Baby John down so my weeping wife can change his bandages while we watch him bleed, hurt and cry. We feel helpless and numb.
The infant had been in the hospital three weeks in excruciating pain when the father’s desperate cry came to No Baby Blisters. Of critical concern was the huge wound on the child’s right leg that had no skin from the infant’s lower ribs to his toes. With no access to the type of ointments and advanced bandages that could temporarily help, the father was concerned for his son’s life. Every bandage changed tore more skin away enlarging the wound increasing the risk of death from infection and dehydration. The distraught father knew the danger this wound posed. He prayed for help.
That help came. Thanks to the generous support of our donors, No Baby Blisters was able to immediately send Baby John’s father the much-needed funds for ointments and advanced bandages that saved his son’s leg, which saved his very life!
But Baby John’s battle for life is far from over. He lives trapped in special bandages in severe pain with the constant threat of infection, sepsis and death.
