1ST ANNUAL CAR CRUSIN, RAFFLES and BENEFIT Jonah Allgeier Family, AND FOOD.
Food is available for a donation and Paul Holtz club is called Rakers Crusin Club.
JOIN THE FUN AND OPEN HOUSE AT THE FISHING CLUB. BRING YOUR CLASSICS TO SHOW OFF! HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE.
All monies will be going to Jonah Allgeier. He is eight years old and received his new heart on Easter Sunday of 2024.
He is scheduled for a heart catheterization at the Cleveland clinic on July 21, so it would be good if we could get this done well before then, so we have some time to fish!
Proceeds will go to Jonah Allgeier Family!
Special thank you to Paul Holtz for hosting this first annual car crusin in with his birthday car.
Here’s the summary about Jonah:
In the Fall of 2022, our daughter Lindsey’s then 5-year-old son, Jonah Allgeier was walking up a hill to attend a Taekwondo tournament at Penn State Behrend. He clutched his chest, turned red and everyone froze—WHAT JUST HAPPENED!?! Lindsey immediately contacted her own Pediatric Cardiologist, Dr. David Freeman and arranged for Jonah to be seen. (Lindsey received a heart transplant in July of 2001 as a 17-year-old).
After several tests, the doctor uttered the same words he told my wife and I 25 years ago: Jonah has rare/incurable heart disease called Idiopathic Restrictive Cardiomyopathy!
Our lives truly turned upside down on the Sunday after Thanksgiving of 2023. It was 5:00 in the morning and we received a frantic phone call from our daughter, Lindsey, saying that Jonah was in cardiac arrest and had stopped breathing. Jonah was rushed to Hamot Hospital and was then life-flighted to the Cleveland Clinic.
It was there that we discovered that Jonah would not be able to go back home until he received a heart transplant. Although we were told otherwise back in 2001, Lindsey’s disease turned out to be genetic after all. Jonah had the same, rare and incurable heart disease as his mom, only Jonah’s was worse due to a severe arrhythmia.
Lindsey and her husband, Adam packed up and moved to an apartment in Cleveland that was a block from the hospital. There they waited with their 2-year-old son, Isaiah, for 5 months—praying and hoping that a miracle would come soon! Jonah’s hospital room was right next to the room his mom waited back in 2001! Some of the same nurses were there as well!
On March 31 of 2024, on Easter Sunday, no less—Jonah received his second chance with a life-saving heart transplant. He spent several weeks at the Cleveland Clinic and then on May 7, 2024, Jonah came back home to a hero’s welcome!
Post transplant medical care is an ongoing reality for Jonah. In the last year alone, he’s had (6) heart catheterizations and is scheduled for a 7th in two weeks. Jonah will be always on anti-rejection medication. He will require support and care for the rest of his life.
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