Long Beach father Rhett Pascual isn’t losing hope despite waiting for weeks to be put on the waiting list to receive a life-saving heart transplant.
“The hospital said, well, your insurance isn’t going to cover this, the heart transplant, and we were just like, what do you mean?” Rhett’s wife, Julia Pascual, said.
Julia Pascual said her family immediately started raising funds to cover the cost. Her husband has cardiomyopathy, a rare heart condition. When they finally got approval from insurance and had the money, doctors told Rhett Pascual that he wasn’t healthy enough to qualify for a transplant…