Bills & expensesMedical & healthCritical
Surgery fund for Zhi: palate reconstruction surgery in Wollongong
After a thyroid nodule that needs removal, Zhi was cleared for palate reconstruction surgery, but the bill is more than we can manage.
Anywhere in the world4,096 views
In September I was diagnosed with a thyroid nodule that needs removal. My surgeon at Wollongong Regional Medical Center recommended palate reconstruction surgery, and I have been placed on the schedule for November. The hospital's financial office gave me a written estimate of $8,500, and after what our health plan will pay, I'm still $6,300 short.
Doctors at Wollongong Regional Medical Center told me a thyroid nodule that needs removal will get worse without palate reconstruction surgery. I work as a security guard, and I have saved what I can, but the estimate of $8,500 is far beyond what I've.
Until the surgery I can't work full days, and my hours as a security guard have already been cut. Every week of waiting means more pain and a bigger risk.
The recovery period is expected to take about 6 weeks. I'll not be able to stand for more than ten minutes during that time, so this has become a financial emergency as well as a medical one.
I'll pay the hospital and pharmacy directly and post every receipt in the updates section.
Where the $6,300 goes:
• Surgeon and anesthesia fees: $2,200
• Hospital stay (5 nights): $2,450
• Pre-operative tests and imaging: $440
• Post-operative medication: $280
• Physiotherapy sessions: $680
• Travel and lodging for the family: $250
Please ask me anything in the questions section. I'll answer honestly and quickly.
- Zhi
- due date
- 2026-01-06
- bill type
- Hospital invoice
Updates from Zhi
No updates yet. Supporters are notified when the owner posts one.
- Mi-young Su-bin Do 🇰🇷 · $20
- Adel Hatem Mourad 🇪🇸 · $30
“Best of luck. Only $30 but hope it helps. - Seville”
- Yusuf Hakan Türk 🇹🇷 · $20
“Wish I could do more. Hope the January deadline works out. - Bornova”
- Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $200
- Nihal Tekin 🇹🇷 · $50
- Mateo M. Carter 🇺🇸 · $50
- Kimberly D. Snyder 🇺🇸 · $6
- Yash H. Awasthi 🇬🇧 · $50
“Praying for you. Shared with friends too. - Aberdeen”
- Stelios Pavlos Nikolaidis 🇬🇷 · $33
- Tanvir Mohammad Siddique 🇧🇩 · $100
“Thought of Zhi all day after reading this. - Khulna”
- Sunil R. Chaudhary 🇮🇳 · $20
“Hope the January deadline works out. - Prayagraj”
- Musa Ibrahim Nwosu 🇳🇬 · $100
- Ezekiel L. Rice 🇺🇸 · $25
- Amira Farah El-Sayed 🇳🇱 · $30
- Anonymous 🇦🇷 · $10
- Maxime Damien Fabre 🇫🇷 · $50
- Nanami Nanami Watanabe 🇯🇵 · $10
“Thinking of you. Shared with friends too. - Nagoya”
- Waylon Morrison 🇺🇸 · $10
- Ayaka Hina Ishii 🇯🇵 · $5
- Addison L. Robertson 🇺🇸 · $20
Reviews
Only people who gave to this need, or whose offer to help was accepted, can review it.
No reviews yet.
Questions & comments
Ask before you give. Email-verified members can comment and ask questions - no donation needed.
Sign in or create a free account to join the conversation.
Stay strong. It takes guts to ask. Well done. I'm in hospitality myself and wanted you to know we're cheering for you. All the best.
Rooting for you. Get well soon. We're a small family in Chandler but we're thinking of you. Blessings.
Hope it all works out, Zhi. This could happen to any of us. Blessings
thinking of you, Zhi. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Thinking of Wollongong.
Hang in there, Zhi. Get well soon.
Praying for you, Zhi. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Take care
Rooting for you, Zhi. Wishing Zhi a smooth procedure and a full recovery. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it. God bless
keep going, Zhi. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Our whole street has been following this since the weekend.