A longtime employee of the Phoenix Suns and his family could use your help
Jun 2, 2017, 7:08 AM | Updated: 11:27 am
Noah Headley
The Phoenix Suns have a 20-year employee that most of their fan base hasn’t heard of.
DC Headley has been with the organization for 20 years, working alongside Julie Fie in Media Relations.
Fie has started a GoFundMe page to help out Headley’s family. Noah Headley is the 13-year-old son of DC. and has been at Phoenix Children’s Hospital since early May after being rushed by medevac to the facility. Noah has been diagnosed with myasthenia gravis, a chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disease that causes weakness in the skeletal muscles responsible for breathing and the moving parts of the body, which includes arms and legs.
Fie shared furher information on Noah’s condition on GoFundMe.
Since receiving his diagnosis, Noah has battled through multiple hospitalizations, experienced respiratory failure three times, and has been poked and prodded more than a herd of cattle.
Most recently, on May 4, Noah contracted the RSV virus and, as a result, experienced his most recent myasthenia crisis (respiratory failure). He was medevaced to Phoenix Children’s Hospital again and remains in their intensive care unit. With a severely diminished immune system, he also contracted staph pneumonia and a urinary tract infection.
Following a battery of X-rays, treatments, CT scans, blood tests and culture samples, the neurology team responsible for his primary care has decided to keep a PICC line in his chest cavity for future treatments with Rituxan, an antibody therapy that is generally used for cancer patients. This is in addition to a breathing machine he will need to use indefinitely when sleeping and the immunosuppressant drugs and steroids he is currently taking.
In an effort to ease the financial strain, the goal is set at $25,000. If you can find a way, please donate.
