Update: 05/15/2023
after 36 days in the hospital my husbands bills were overwhelming please help if you can
Thank you
Todd & Julie Black
I went on a mission trip to Bulgaria and
Todd went on a mission trip to Russia. Shortly after we both ended up in Uganda, Africa on the same mission trip. Glory to God we married, April 5, 2003 and Todd was working in the medical field. In 2020 when the Covid pandemic hit Todd was working at a hospital where they were moving all the Covid patients where he ended up having Covid multiple times. The last time he ended up in a life threatening position which included having the flu, Covid, pneumonia and strep throat. He was in bed for about two months. It was actually pretty scary at one point I wasn’t sure if he was going to make it.
After all this the next hurdle came, Friday, May 13th as he headed to a case in the pitch black of 3:30 in the morning on Highway 80, unfortunately awaiting was a black Angus bull right in the middle of the highway and he had no way of seeing it until it was too late. He told me it was like hitting a brick wall going 70 miles per hour.
He was taken to the emergency room, where they did chest x-rays and he was released because they basically thought everything was ok. But the next day he woke up with some kind of blister that popped up on his right foot, later it also opened up a spot where it started draining on the bottom of the foot this happened about a month later. He wasn’t able to hold anything in his hands. He was shaking, running a very high fever, and completely drenched every night by night sweats.
Todd started doing research and found out he had been poisoned by the sodium azide in the airbags. He put it together because when he was in the wreck the bull hit the driver’s side window and the airbag didn’t just release, but exploded releasing all the toxic stuff it holds inside it into the air. Then a company like OnStar came on and started asking questions when Todd replied he couldn’t find his cell phone. They said don’t worry we’re getting ready to call 911 then they dialed 911 for him and it went to a busy signal. He was finally able to kick the door open. Get off the highway, being afraid some diesel would come along and hit him from behind not seeing him as they come over the hill. When he found his phone, he called 911.
What he found out after doing some research, was most people who had a wreck and their airbag exploded would end up going to the ER about two months after the wreck and the hospital would treat them for pneumonia, but they would die. Overseas he found multiple cases where the same thing happened but the husband or wife would question how could they die of pneumonia and would have an autopsy done. It turned out they died from sodium azide poisoning.
It had gotten so bad Todd couldn’t work anymore. Had a problem standing and
ended up spending three months in bed basically sweating poison out of his body.
The company he worked for kept telling him that he needed to go back to work. He finally had to tell them to come pick up the van and equipment.
He couldn’t even walk anymore. So basically, after 30 years of working in the medical field, he no longer had a job no longer had insurance, and unfortunately, the company didn’t bother to file Workmen’s Comp. So they went back and got the car insurance to push the Workmen’s Comp. through.
And if you didn’t know, your health insurance does not cover car accidents the car insurance covers that.
Finally, after a couple of months, he was sent to see a Workmen’s Comp doctor. Unfortunately, they started doing treatments checking to see if this chemical had damaged, his heart and his lungs, but they really weren’t treating the foot. Finally, they gave him some antibiotics because his foot has swollen up so bad.
After all this time, Workmen’s Comp. finally paid us a little bit, but that stopped pretty fast.
They had set him up to do rehab because he had lost so much muscle mass that he couldn’t even do some of the basic things and then one day the doctor walked that he never had met before or seen and said OK you’re free to go back to work, Todd asked him “what about my foot”. No, it’s all better. You can go back at this time. His foot was swollen up so large it wouldn’t even fit in the shoe correctly, and they had just started the rehab treatment, and that doctor canceled all those.
Needless to say, Todd did whatever he could to at least start working we had got so far behind on bills so he started delivering pizzas, he was too weak to go back into the medical field.
About two months later, his foot started swelling up again, and he was back in bed for another week, then he finally said to me you’ve got to take me to the ER. I’m feeling like I’ve become septic. Unfortunately, it turned out that Todd had a staff infection running through all his veins. And spent 31 days, 19 at one hospital and the rest of the stay at another hospital running IV antibiotics 3 to 5 times a day.
Besides all the MRI and other tests they had to do the total bill came to about $300,000.
Also, Todd would like to start a new protocol, for first responders, and for the hospitals. That’s a whole Other story, but we would like to make people more aware of sodium azide poisoning, and if the hospitals don’t learn how to deal with this more people are going to die.
First responders don’t realize why they’re getting sick that night. It’s usually not enough to kill them but from what I’ve learned a lot of them are very nauseated and throwing up later that evening, not realizing what they’ve been exposed to.
While at the hospital, we applied for financial assistance, but the immediate bills are already coming, and they’re up to about $10,000
I believe because of his military record in the army national guard. A lot of this will be taken care of, but there’s still so many bills, and he’s still unable to go back to work.
And unfortunately, he still has to go back for a bunch more test
Thank you
Please pray for us, and our children