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Helping Rei and his Family on this Journey.

$3,652 donated
Given by 57 generous donors in around 3 months

To help Rei and Family with this medical emergency and expenses.

Waikato

We"ve created this page to help Rei and his family on this journey.

At this stage no-one can say where his journey is heading, but either way we know we need to need help him, whichever road he takes.

On Tuesday the 23rd of February 2021 42 years old Rei's life hung in the balance.

A sore back and stomach landed him into The Sunshine Coast University Hospital in Australia. This then took a drastic turn when it was discovered he had suffered a ruptured aorta, which had lead to a lack of blood and oxygen to his major organs, causing them to start to die.

It's a miracle he was still alive!

He had emergency surgery to repair the rupture and insert a stint into his heart to restore blood supply.

He has undergone 2 surgeries to remove the dead parts of the bowel.

He's on dialysis to give his kidneys a rest as they have taken a beating.

His liver isn't looking great, however we are very hopeful the blood flow will now start to rejuvenate the liver. this is an excruciating wait!

Although we don't know which way this journey is going to go we do know that we need help, Reis family live in New Zealand and he has a long recovery. We need to get Rei's mum Teresa over there, with covid going on this isn't straight forward.

Whichever way his journey takes him it's going to be long and require ongoing costs.

We appreciate all the love and support we have received so far as well as any ongoing help both financially and mentally. we will update this page regularly as we know more. Thank You.

sommer jeffcoat's involvement (page creator)

Im Sommer Jeffcoat, Rei's Sister.

Use of funds

Travel costs

Quarantine expenses

Daily expenses for Teresa over in Aus

Any costs associated with recovery or living as Rei wont have work

Or even though I don't wasn't to say it, the other road would mean we would be looking for funeral costs.

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Looking better  14 March 2021

Rei is up an moving around little bit more an more every day,

still having problems with the stents they put in so at some point have to do surgery to correct it.

He is now in the rehab ward.

He gets very tired qickly from moving about

an getting this moving again.

His voice is still very raspy an quiet,but getting better every day ,still long road ahead

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Kerri
Kerri on 28 Mar 2021
$20
Mary-Anne
Mary-Anne on 04 Mar 2021
$50
Marlene and Emma Cousins
Marlene and Emma Cousins on 03 Mar 2021
Sending our love x
$50
Jacqueline
Jacqueline on 03 Mar 2021
$7
Peter
Peter on 02 Mar 2021
Waimarie whanau
$100

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Created by, and paying to a verified bank account of, sommer jeffcoat on behalf of Rei joseph Jeffcoat {reirei}
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This campaign started on 26 Feb 2021 and ended on 26 May 2021.