Josh Page

Josh Page is married to Brandie Page and together they have 5 beautiful children. Makenzie 17, Kayden 16, Lucas 12, Preslie 7, and Sydnie 7. Beginning in 2012 Josh and his family’s life would never be the same. For the last 10 years Josh has been in a battle for his health and life.

Josh was a healthy 28 year old husband and father of 3 when he first got sick because of a genetic condition.  Josh is now 37 with 5 kids and is having ongoing health problems due to a genetic condition and one hospital’s devastating mistakes.

Josh developed diabetes because of the issues with his pancreas and in October 2012 he had his first hospitalization for pancreatitis. He was hospitalized at Davis Hospital due to a genetic condition called Hypertriglyceridemia. He spent a few days in the ICU and was discharged a week after being admitted.

In January 2013 he was rushed to Davis Hospital with another round of pancreatitis, this time far worse. He was sent to the ICU within a few hours of being admitted and by the next day his kidneys were failing. On day 3 they told his wife, Brandie, the he was in total system failure. After much praying on day 5 he miraculously started waking up. However, upon waking they found he had a bad bed sore on his lower back because the hospital staff had not moved him once during those 5 days. He also found that he woke up with drop foot and had a hard time walking. He was then transferred to Intermountain Medical Center in Murray to continue working on his recovery from pancreatitis. The hospital staff there were dumbfounded to learn that this mostly healthy man of 28 had drop foot and a bed sore. However, they had to remain focused on his pancreas as he had developed pseudo cysts on his pancreas and was going to need major surgery. He was transferred to McKay Dee hospital for his surgery in March of 2013. The surgery was successful and he was allowed to return home to his wife and kids. 

The pain in his lower back continued to bother him and after a month of being home they decided to have it checked out. After some testing they found the L5 disc in his back had completely ruptured because the staff at the hospital had not moved him at all during his stay. The doctors told him that this is an injury that you normally would operate on within 48 hrs so as to have the best chance of avoiding permanent nerve damage.

In October 2013 Josh went in for the disc replacement surgery. They replaced the disc in his back and this relieved much of his back pain. However, the nerve damage and nerve pain that came with the injury was intense and causing a significant limp to his walk. That nerve pain and the damage to his foot  has continued to cause him problems almost 10 yrs later. Because of one hospital’s mistakes he would never walk normal let alone run around with his kids. 

Josh is an industrial maintenance mechanic for a living. Because of his job he has to wear steel toed boots, something we learned that you should never do with nerve damage in your feet. After finally returning to work regularly a year later he started to develop horrible cysts on his feet because of the nerve damage and drop foot. Since 2015 he has been in and out of work every year due to illness brought on by the cysts on his feet because of nonstop infections.

His hospitalization record is staggering:

Oct 2012

Multiple surgeries between Jan and Nov 2013

Feb and Oct 2014

Feb, Mar, Apr, May, and Oct 2015

Feb and Aug 2016

Jun and July 2017

Jul and Oct 2018

Mar and Oct 2019

Jul, Aug, Sep and Oct 2020

Apr, Aug and Oct 2021

Feb 2022

In October 2021 Josh got a random infection that started in his leg and turned into a large blood clot which required emergency surgery. It was at this point they told us that this is what they see in end stage diabetes. In Feb 2022 Josh was again admitted for pancreatitis and remains there at this time. They are telling us that he needs surgery on blood vessels in his stomach and surgery on his spleen. He will be undergoing these surgeries once his pancreatitis has had time to heal. He is also currently seeing wound care weekly treating the ulcers on his feet. His doctors are looking at and advising Josh to go on long term disability. This is a long process and won’t help in in the meantime.

All of these health problems have had a heartbreaking and long lasting impact on his family. They have had 120 hospital, emergency room or insta care bills and thousands of dollars in prescriptions over the last 10 years. Josh has been out of work an average of 4 months out of the year since 2013. Josh’s wife, Brandie has been diagnosed with lupus and has had 8 of her own surgeries since 2015. In 2018 they sold their home in order to pay off most of their medical bills at the time. Through these trials Josh and Brandie are doing everything they can to stay positive for their kids but they and their children are dealing with the depression that this kind of trauma can inflict on families.

This is a family who has put others ahead of themselves many times over the years donating their time to help others in times of crisis. They have been trying to do as much of it as they can alone for so long because they do not like asking for help. At this point they know they can’t go it alone anymore. We are asking everyone who is willing and able to give what they can to help this family.

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