MUSKOGEE, Okla. — A Muskogee County deputy is in want of a lung transplant after spending months within the hospital battling COVID-19.
Lt. Skylar Inexperienced was identified with COVID-19 in August. He is spent months within the hospital recovering, and now the Muskogee County Sheriff’s Workplace says he’ll must exit of state for a lung transplant.
“He is considered one of us. We’re all a household right here. He would’ve achieved the identical factor. It might’ve been any considered one of us,” mentioned Deputy Bridgette Jackson.
Jackson has been spearheading the hassle to assist Inexperienced’s household.
Again in August, the sheriff’s workplace began promoting blue bracelets to supply cash for Inexperienced’s household. Jackson says they’ve raised 1000’s of {dollars} with that effort.
“We simply needed him and his household to know that we had been right here and we’re not going anyplace and all through this entire course of we’re attempting to assist his spouse and his youngsters and his mother,” Jackson mentioned.
Now, the sheriff’s workplace is promoting $20 t-shirts to lift cash for medical bills, journey bills, and meals.
They are saying it will be a months-long journey to restoration for Inexperienced, however they’re feeling constructive about his progress and might’t wait to welcome him again to the division as soon as once more.
“We have at all times been fairly optimistic or at the least we attempt to be optimistic. So we’re feeling actually good about it proper now to assist his household in any approach that we will,” Jackson mentioned.
Anybody who’d prefer to buy a t-shirt can head to the Muskogee County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page. Jackson says in addition they nonetheless have bracelets out there to assist the household.
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