Keeping Vigil for Cody: A Mother’s Fight to Push for Remission Level Treatments for Her Autistic Son in Medical Crisis
The Onset and the Journey: From 4.0 GPA College Student to Peer-Reviewed Case- In 2021, Cody Hudson was a 21 year old, vibrant Florida college student with his whole life ahead of him. He had high functioning autism that he worked hard to conquer and navigate as he skyrocketed to meet his goals.
That life was permanently altered after he suffered a severe, well documented, debilitating and terminal COVID-19 vaccine autoimmune blood clotting injury/disease called antiphospholipid syndrome- Cody’s case is one of the worst manifestations or phenotypes of this disease- it is called triple positive and it is treatment resistant, or refractory.
Even while fully anticoagulated on standard blood thinners, Cody continues to suffer debilitating STROKES (six so far), deep vein thrombosis (DVT), pulmonary embolisms, and systemic, unbearably painful, life-threatening microclotting.
Cody Deserves His Remission Chance NOW - NOT to be stored away in a long term care center! Our U.S. Covid vaccine injured citizens receive no help from the government and now his insurance is fighting to deny his care.
We are NOT taking NO for an answer! Help Cody in any way you are able. Pray- follow his case- help by donating- I am very sure we will need an attorney for the insurance fight- this is all happening when we finally have a chance at a hospital with the remission level treatments he deserves- willing to look at his case.
Please help us keep Cody out of the proposed plan B, long term facility and get his transfer to the United States most renowned University of Michigan APS blood clotting hospital. The director is very interested in helping in his case!
Our family/Cody Needs help now- his hospital insurance is denied almost two weeks now even though he needs hospital level care- so much so, the hospital is appealing the insurance co.
We are fighting a FIVE year battle for his life that now includes to standing up against GOLIATH insurance and standing up for the absolute best care available for his antiphospholipid autoimmune- treatment resistant blood clotting disorder- not second best!
We won’t take NO for an answer and NEVER have for Cody. Please pray for Cody.
He just turned 27- has been in and out of hospitals 5 years, is autistic and due to his insidious blood clotting disorder, has suffered SIX strokes and so much more it is nearly unfathomable.
Cody needs our community to get involved in his case. Please.
We need help- most of his medications are compounded- meaning they are specially made and we have to pay out of pocket. We as his family need resources to help get an attorney if needed for the insurance issue- and I- Cody’s mom needs to stay at the hospital- at his side- I literally live at his hospital bedside- for almost six months this year alone, to fight for Cody at his side.
Cody’s case is a case and story that deserves your fight and efforts- even if you can’t donate- please find a way to stand up for Cody- we want you on Cody’s side! SHARE his story to as many friends and family as you can!
His case is so severe both the state and federal government follow him and now I am going to have to reach further than we ever have- trying to get him the best level care while appealing the insurance giants.
We WON’T take NO for an answer!
Cody deserves remission- not a long term health care center!
Please help Cody with this fight!
Follow me and help me to fight for Cody- he deserves the best chance at life- NOT a second best chance at life!
He has been hospitalized since June 2026 with a particularly volatile year of disease activity- beginning in
March with a near month long hospitalization…
March 2026: Strokes, Clots, and B-Cell Destruction
The battle escalated fiercely in March 2026. Cody was hospitalized after suffering two strokes (his fifth and sixth strokes) and two dangerous blood clots directly inside his heart, due to Libman-Sacks endocarditis (seen in the most severe APS cases) and severe cardiac damage.
To stop the immune system driver behind these relentless clots, doctors treated Cody with Rituxan (Rituximab). This treatment caused complete B-cell destruction. While it suppressed the rogue antibodies driving his clotting, it left him profoundly immunocompromised.
Today (August 2026), Cody has no measurable B-cells, leaving his T-cells to do the heavy lifting for his immune system as he fights to stabilize.
June 2026: The Massive Flare and a Fight for Survival
About 10 weeks after returning home from
the hospital from the strokes and the heart blood clots, Cody experienced a massive, terrifying flare of his autoimmune blood clotting disorder on June 16, 2026.
Over the span of just three days, an insidious buildup of 30 to 40 pounds (maybe more) of lymphatic edema that filled both of his legs, then his torso.
Soon after, crushing chest pain set in, and he was rushed to a local emergency room.
What followed in the ER was a nightmare. Right before our eyes, Cody’s blood pressure plummeted, and he went into Atrial Fibrillation (A-fib). Simultaneously, severe microclotting cut off circulation to his lower left limb, creating a massive, catastrophic (ischemic micro clotting) wound that destroyed his skin and tissue from below the knee down to his foot, resembling a severe third-degree burn. [1]
Cody’s heart ejection fraction also dropped to a devastating 15% and to save his life, doctors had to perform cardioversion twice—once chemically and once electrically. Believing the situation was unsurmountable, the hospital recommended amputating Cody's leg and transitioning him to end-of-life comfort care.
The Father’s Day Medevac and the Power of Vigilant Care
Refusing to give up on Cody, we as parents reached out to the Florida State Surgeon General, who has followed Cody’s case closely. Working alongside Senator Ron Johnson, an emergency Medevac helicopter flight was arranged on Father’s Day to transfer Cody to a Level-1 Trauma Center. He was flown to a more robust care center that same day.
Cody has now been hospitalized for over a month in this new hospital (Now almost 5 months as of November 2026). The road has been incredibly rocky; skin graft surgeries have been delayed due to internal bowel bleeding, and he has developed new myocarditis (heart inflammation) even while being managed on the high-dose steroids and IV heparin to keep his immune system from attacking itself and
prevent further clots.
Yet, Cody is tough as nails, and a mother's vigilance has defied the medical odds:
Saving His Leg: When new skin failed to grow for 24 days over Cody’s severely damaged left leg, I began aggressively applying silver gel products to the massive leg wound.
Though initially reprimanded by hospital staff, the plastic surgery team noticed rapid tissue growth, reviewed my comparison photos, and officially changed his orders to silver sulfadiazine for his leg wound care.
I will not leave Cody’s side and staying to care for his leg meticulously and to make sure his pain is managed and that I help advocate for needed immune treatments.
Cody has received immune therapy targeting his B cells to stop the runaway blood clotting but because Cody’s B-cells are completely destroyed, infection is a constant, life-or-death threat.
His large wounds can become necrotic or boggy in an instant, and with his blood clotting disorder, amputation remains a catastrophic risk.
At the End of Our Rope: An Urgent Plea for Help
Cody is fighting with everything he has, but our family has hit a financial breaking point. Cody’s dad has been out of work for 90 days on FMLA to help me provide round-the-clock care for Cody.
Navigating 5 years of Cody’s terminal and catastrophic injury, this has financially destroyed us and right now, we cannot cover basic living costs and mounting medical bills that must be paid to continue Cody’s care.
The financial strain is about to worsen dramatically: on August 1st, as Cody’s dad, Gary begins a new contract with his employer, with a completely new health insurance plan, resetting our medical deductibles and leaving us with new immediate co-pays for Cody’s upcoming surgeries, complex compounding prescriptions, and intensive immune treatment hospital care.
With a new medical insurance plan, this will be the second time this year we have to meet deductibles. We are beyond what we can handle and pay on our own.
From the last weeks of July, for about 5 weeks, as we navigate the new employment contract and insurance while Cody remains in critical care in the hospital, we are solely relying on humanitarians and the generosity of the donations of others to pay any medical co-pay bills for his immune modulation and to survive as a family through the last week of August, when Cody’s dad will have his first full paycheck with his new contract.
How You Can Help
Cody cannot fight this alone, and we as his parents cannot fight it alone.
Please consider donating to help cover basic monthly bills, upcoming insurance deductibles, and medical co-pays and help so that I can stay at his side while dad returns back to work.
Above all, please continue to pray that Cody avoids infection, and that his heart and legs continue to heal.
Your prayers, donations, shares, and encouragement are the lifeline keeping this family standing. Thank you.
Donations are much needed, but sending his story 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!
God Bless you and thank you for caring for others.❤️
Heather Hudson- Cody’s mom
