Cody's APS blood clotting case is now terminal, and he has one chance of using a cancer treatment off-label that shows promise for his condition. We need help by sharing his story with politicians and news outlets. Just like myocarditis, for decades, APS has been known to take place after vaccines. Prayers, well wishes, and any donation, no matter how small, will help with his healing and extensive medical expenses. He gets no government help, but we are fighting for it.

He has been battling the most severe form of autoimmune APS blood clotting disorder since 2021, when he was hospitalized with a catastrophic auto-immune blood clotting event that left him with a pulmonary embolism, leaky heart valve, left ventricular hypertrophy, pulmonary hypertension, and what is now a known stroke (missed by the hospital in 2021) which left him with right side weakness and unable to walk without assistance at age 21 after his COVID mRNA vaccine.

He has recently had an additional stroke and more APS brain injury. He also has APS-related thrombocytopenia, which is an insidious aspect of APS that brings about bleeding of internal tissues and open sores on his skin along with the clotting of veins and arteries.

He did not have COVID infection, as shown in all of his hospital tests and the nucleocapsid blood testing - all negative.

In 2023, his case became acute again, and in 2024, it is now a terminal disorder after he had blood clotting in all four limbs and five brain events, including a large frontal lobe stroke this past March. His prognosis has moved to the point that his only chance is to try the off-label drug rituximab, which is hoped to lessen the antibodies that cause his triple positive, treatment-resistant antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) blood clotting disorder that is attempting to take his life. Cody's case was published and peer-reviewed early on in his disease progression. We now know more. And this information can also help others.

Our hope is that rituximab will allow him to live through this aggressive blood clotting disorder. This is an IV drug that is infused over the course of hours. According to medical studies, it is shown to be helpful to lessen blood clotting events for those with severe APS, and in some rare cases, the patients have gone into remission.

We have been pushing for over six months for this treatment for him. He now has a rheumatologist who is willing to let Cody try it to save his life. Cody will have to have infusions once a week for an unknown period of time. We are awaiting a response from insurance to see if they will cover it. Still, the co-payments will be more than we can afford. Cody needs your help.

Cody has other extensive medical bills and has many specialist and therapy appointments several times a month. The details of his courageous journey can be found on my (Cody's mom's) substack, including the full journal of his plight since early October 2023, when his case became acute and now is terminal unless the off-label drug is able to give us the miracle we are praying for. Cody needs your help and prayers.

To be clear, donations and sharing his story will have just as much impact as a donation if you cannot give. His story is important as it can save lives. Every doctor that he saw of about 15 doctors in three hospitals and several specialties did not know that APS can take place after vaccines and that severe form has shown promise in some patients when they are treated with Rituximab (according to several studies dating back many years).

Also, know that your donation, any donation, no matter how small, will help Cody to see specialists and have the gas money to get to the specialists, as well as to ensure he can obtain his life-saving blood thinner, which is expensive and not easy to obtain. Our family is financially devastated by these medical bills.

Donating will also help Cody to have a future instead of medical debt, so if he can go into remission, he can focus on his education and advocacy and be free to accept invitations from other states to speak out without being limited by the financial devastation of his medical treatments, hospitalizations, and ongoing treatment and prescriptions. Donations are much needed, but spreading his story, sending it via email to news stations, emailing it to your state representatives, local representatives, and senators, and giving it to your pastor will all help just as much! His story can save the lives of countless others suffering like him!

Here is an excerpt from the Substack journal I wrote about his plight: A raw, pointed, emotional journal documenting the slow decline of my son, left with terminal illness after his COVID-19 vaccine -and his abandonment by our government. He is one of countless others. A mother's Anthem Substack: Cody's plight -

https://amothersanthem.substack.com/p/congress-the-cdc-the-fda-and-the

January 2024…

The pressure in your brain from the narrowing of your veins is giving you migraines, your eyes hurt, and you have pressure in your head. Who will help, the hospital wasn’t able to. I am watching you die? Am I watching you die? How do I know? I have to think fast! God help us…I call your independent doctor and tell him there are no more options and that the warfarin left you with clotting in the brain despite treatment. Immediately, your doctor and Dr. Vaughn put a different treatment plan together. The 2023 blood clots began the first week of October 2023, and it wasn’t until days before January 2024 that the last brain CT was read, showing the vein narrowing from clots. Together, these honorable men who are doctors and dad and I have a plan. God help us to help you.

Each day, journaling and logging your treatment and symptoms. Dad and I ask, are you are in pain? How much pain? We inspect the lower portion whites of your eyes to see the amount and coloration of the vessels visible in your eyes. Look up son, hold your lower lid down. If the vessels are heavily impregnated with blood or more vessels are reddened, we know you are likely to bleed. Your nose will bleed, and your skin can bleed. You can also have blood in your sputum. Did your nose bleed? Did you cough up blood? How is the pressure in your head?

We have to assess the pressure in your brain. You are weak; you fell today. How many times today? You come up the steps and fall. I want to protect you from this, but you are clinging on to your independence. “No, Mom, I will do it myself,” you say. Son, I feel like a , I don’t know what to do. Sometimes, I have to talk to you and explain that we have to step in and protect you. We make compromises… sometimes they are unspoken, sometimes they come with tears, and every time, I am in awe of your strength. On days we know you are weaker, Dad is behind you, and I am in front of you to catch you. You are 24 years old; you lean on your dad or your mom to walk. I know, we know this crushes you. We walk together and vow to find a way to help you feel empowered.

You are slowly transitioned from warfarin to the new medication, and in about five days, I see your eyes brighten. In about six days, I see you getting up from your chair a little stronger. In a week, I see you getting up to make your own hot tea again. After two weeks you are walking outside to read your book and take in some sunshine.

I am proud of you for the small steps. Still, I know that on most days, you feel as if your body is a prison. I know that it is very difficult to help with some things that would make your life better. We are financially ruined. So, how do we find a way to improve your setting and your mindset?

Since the pulmonary embolism (PE), something that you have struggled with has been the damage to your pulmonary system. When you turn to the side or bend down, sometimes the pain is so great in your lungs/ribs that your vision fades to black. When you ride in the car, a speed bump is agony; a pothole is agony as your lungs had so much pressure from the PE that it damaged your sternum and it damaged your lung lining. Not many people understand or know this pain. When you fall asleep in the car, these pains wake you; sleeping doesn’t help. I think out of all of your pain, this pain, I pray, will ease for you more than any other. I want you to have your freedom.

I can’t take you out for a drive. I can’t whisk you away for a change of scenery. What do I do? You are pent-up, frustrated, and broken down, and it's my job to find a way to help keep your spirit up. Music… if I play music, hot tea… if I make you a hot tea, maybe a fuzzy, sweet soul? If I get your kitten and place him on your chest, will your heartache ease now? If I send you a funny kitten meme or a picture of a muscle car?

[We need help spreading the word of his story to news stations, politicians, pastors, and parent groups. Cody also needs prayers and/or any donation, no matter how small, so that he can have life-saving medical treatment. Please help in any way you can. Any donation or story share helps; even one social media share, one email to a news station, and one email to a politician helps. APS has been known to take place with vaccines for decades. This is not a conspiracy; this is a fact of this life-threatening disorder.]