GoFundMe helping #9 Brock Klosterman, Linfield Football Linebacker
The gofundme posting which follows concerns Linfield football
player/linebacker #9 Brock Klosterman of Tigard.
See Brock Klosterman’s Linfield football biography at this
URL:
https://golinfieldwildcats.com/sports/football/roster/brock-klosterman/15865
URL source of the GoFundMe posting:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/brocks-medical-therapy-travel-expense-fund
If you would like to support the fundraiser, go to the GoFundMe URL. If you have questions, please contact organizer Mindi Person via
the contact box at the GoFundMe page. Click on the rectangular box to the right
of her name.
Brock's Medical,
Therapy & Travel Expense Fund
Hi, my name is Mindi Person and I am the mom of a Linfield University Football player and would like to share a fundraiser to help cover medical needs, travel expenses and future therapy/recovery expenses for Brock Klosterman.
On Saturday, during
the D3 quarterfinal game in Texas, Brock, who is a Linebacker, was injured on a
play late in the game. At first, to those of us in the stands, it appeared he
might have a concussion and he remained on the sidelines while in obvious discomfort.
After the game, the team doctor told his parents, dad Fritz and stepmom Erin,
that they should decide if he could travel home on the flight with the team or
go to the ER - in his words he could go either way. As parents often know
better, and Brock seemed to be deteriorating, they quickly drove him to the
nearest ER in Temple, TX.
Upon admitting Brock
to the ER, they determined he had multiple internal injuries including
contusions to his heart, lungs and kidneys as well as a hemorrhaging adrenal gland.
His stats were low, he was not getting enough oxygen with his lungs filling
with fluid and his heart rate and blood pressure were extremely low as well.
Within a short time, Brock was intubated and headed to the ICU.
In the three days he
has been in the ICU, there have been highs and lows. His blood pressure and
heart rate have been worrisome, but are finally beginning to improve. However,
he has now developed an infection in his lungs and the fluid that had been
draining returned. Brock is a fighter and the cardio doctors are pleased with
the improvement in his heart and his fever from the infection appears to have
broken today. Hopefully, they will move him out of ICU to a regular bed in the
hospital in the next day or so.
As any of us can imagine,
this has been so stressful for his family and they have incurred so many extra
costs already in a hotel room, rental car and then having to rebook flights
home when Brock is ready to travel and to bring Brock home as he was supposed
to return with the team. It is unknown how expensive medical bills will be,
while he does have insurance, we all know how much the things insurance doesn't
cover can add up- especially after days in the ICU and considering he will need
some therapy when he returns home as well.
I recognize this time
of the year is often hard on the household budgets, and if donating to this
fund is any strain at all for you - please just send up prayers or thoughts for
positive healing for Brock and love to his family. This could have been any one
of our kids all the years they have played football and we just want to show
that we take care of our own!!
Roll Cats Forever!!!
Mindi
- Today by
Mindi Person, Organizer
We can't possibly thank all of you enough for your generosity!!
Not only have you shown you care with your donations, but with your messages
which Brock, Fritz and Erin are reading and with your hearts and prayers!!
We have already had a handful of people in the Temple area reach
out, including the sports department at UMHB, to offer up help and offers of
meals, coffee, blankets, laundry and places to sleep! You all are wonderful and
again, saying "Thank You" doesn't seem nearly enough!!!
- Today by
Mindi Person, Organizer
Today
has been mostly positive news and meant that Brock has moved from the ICU to a
general hospital bed. This means he has been able to get better rest, albeit in
a sitting position to help keep his heart rate and blood pressure up.
Brock's
kidney function has now returned to normal and all his other numbers are still
improving. There are still a number of milestones he needs to pass in order to
be released from the hospital including being off the steroids that he is
taking for the adrenal gland, more positive heart function and being off the
oxygen tank entirely. His blood pressure is still really low, but the dr says
that is also due to his youth. His overall breathing is still lower than needed
as well, but that has to due with the bruising on his lungs in addition to the
infection.
Today
he also had another heart echocardiogram and it shows progress but one area of
his heart is healing slower than the rest, an indication of his viral
infection/myocarditis.
He
has a heart MRI scheduled for tomorrow morning, this afternoon they are
modifying his medications. If he continues to improve, optimistically, they
could release him from the hospital with a mobile heart monitor for a few weeks
as a precaution.
To
pass time, Erin and Fritz are treating him to movies of the 90's, as he is a
captive audience for now!! Your messages have meant the world to them all and
the donations will help make the financial burden much less a worry! Thank you
from all of us!!
