{"id":23428,"date":"2019-12-02T04:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T09:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/?p=23428"},"modified":"2021-03-12T22:05:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T03:05:09","slug":"ems-family-steps-up-for-medic-in-need-of-liver-transplant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/ems-family-steps-up-for-medic-in-need-of-liver-transplant\/","title":{"rendered":"EMS Family Steps Up for Medic in Need of Liver Transplant"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As reported by Kent County News<\/a><\/p>

KENT COUNTY, Del. \u2014 A paramedic with a chronic liver disease has received an outpouring of support while in critical condition awaiting a liver transplant.<\/p>

Paramedic Nick LaBrie has lived with autoimmune hepatitis since childhood, according <\/span>to Kent County News<\/a>, and was on life support last week. After regaining consciousness on Friday, LaBrie discovered that community members had donated more than $25,000 to a GoFundMe fundraiser titled <\/span>\u201cA paramedic\u2019s own emergency,\u201d<\/a> <\/span>set up by his younger sister, Michelle LaBrie Matthews.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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In addition to GoFundMe fundraiser, LaBrie has received support from his colleagues at the Kent County Levy Court Department of Emergency Services in Delaware, who have donated their paid leave time.<\/p>

\u201cAs soon as we knew Nick was in trouble, that\u2019s when the rallying started,\u201d said Mike Clarke, LaBrie\u2019s supervisor. \u201cIt was just a natural reaction from people in the department and in the rest of the county from people in other agencies.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Matthews said on GoFundMe that LaBrie is still on the waitlist for a liver. In her update Friday, she mentioned that her brother had medical staff \u201ccracking up\u201d after correcting a nurse about a high-flow nasal cannula.<\/p>

\u201cHe was, in fact, correct about the high-flow cannula \u2013 he said he didn\u2019t need it, and he didn\u2019t,\u201d she said.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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    DELAWARE – A GoFundMe for Paramedic Nick LaBrie and his family has received more than $25,000 in donations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":23429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[43,51,26,48,39,16],"yst_prominent_words":[2944,2938,2946,2940,2951,2937,2934,2952,2939,2947,2941,2935,2948,2950,2943,2953,2949,2942,2945,2936],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23428"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=23428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}