All about our Community Partner
As a newer nonprofit in our community we have found that finding local business’ ready to partner with can be challenging. Our community has so many great causes that it can be rather competitive. We started seeing a patient who had survived pancreatic cancer and learned that through his cancer and finding ways to help him his daughter had opened Apex Cannabis.
As we started building a relationship with Apex we saw that this was more than just an event sponsor. To speak to the level of support Apex has provided us is challenging because they are ever present for us. From sponsoring events, to donating hundreds of N-95’s in the middle of the pandemic when we as healthcare providers could not find any, providing graphic design support and so much more. They are truly our partner in the community and we are so grateful.
Here is a note from Apex about our relationship:
All Heart Infusion and Apex Cannabis will be eternally connected.
Our Apex Cannabis founders, Troy and Stacey Peterson, both have fathers who were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Sadly, Troy’s father Michael passed after just 9 months in 2003 at age 56.
In 2012 Stacey’s father John was diagnosed. Following his surgery, he pursued treatment with a desire to maximize the quality of his life. The trio factors of family support, cannabis and his determination helped John endure the western medicine of surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy that saved his life. However during the later chemotherapy treatments and chronically thereafter, John experienced dehydration that caused other significant health issues and risks including low blood pressure, dizziness and frequent bowel blockages.
All Heart Infusion arrived with the solution. The simple IV fluids and the complex trust that develops between a nurse and a patient in his home, improved John’s health. As those health issues subsided, his spirits improved too. The infusion nursing visits were what was missing and they helped provide the best quality of life.
When John was diagnosed the doctors said he had a 6% chance of living 5 years. Today he is 9.5 years into that journey. That time period has included seeing his daughters get married, a 50th wedding anniversary, grandchildren’s graduations and the arrival of his newest grandchild. His days have slowed but he is enjoying Google Earth and all his maps. And he gets to share his latest geology lessons on YouTube with his nurses during his infusions.
Our goal is to help support All Heart Infusion and the many other patients who need their care. All Heart Infusion serves expectant mothers, tiny babies, the elderly and all those in between. They accept payment from those who can afford their services and they take care of many who can only pay partially or cannot pay at all. Rightly, heart - not revenue - is at the core of All Heart Infusion. We are grateful for their care for our family and for all the families who have been served. Renae and her team represent the best of humankind. Their work is the most important and the most comforting gift any family could receive in their time of need. We are honored to partner with All Heart Infusion to support their mission to serve our community.
