LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — Amanda Riley is proudly a police officer’s wife.
“My husband is a patrol officer for the Clark County School District Police Department. He’s been an officer for 11 years, and I have been married to him for almost eight,” she told FOX5. “We’ve had a wonderful marriage. Just welcomed triplets two years ago.”
Amanda’s husband Connor has spent his decade-plus in law enforcement caring for kids across the valley, but recently, his life completely changed.
“About two years ago, my husband started showing this open ulcer on his foot,” Amanda recalled. “We had no idea what it was.”
Amanda says it eventually got worse.
“It rapidly deteriorated within two and a half months,” Amanda recalled.“ He got recently diagnosed with livedoid vasculopathy, which is small blood clots in the vessels. It has predominantly affected his feet.”
This disease is rare and extremely aggressive.
“At this point, he has infections rampant throughout the open ulcers,” Amanda explained. “It’s gotten so bad that his tendon is now sticking out of the back of his foot.”
So now, after years of making time for countless local kids, Connor not only can’t do the job he loves anymore — he’s not even able to care for his own triplets.
“It is extremely hard,” Amanda said, through tears. “I can tell that it affects him, especially with our children. He hasn’t really been able to be present for them. I miss my husband. I miss the light he used to have. And this has taken so much from him.”
Until recently, Connor was able to be at home, but now, he’s at a care facility getting full-time treatment. Amanda aches for him, knowing how much he wants to be with his family.
“They keep asking where he is,” she said, referencing their two-year-old triplets. “Our son will want to walk with daddy. And daddy can’t. And you can see just that he feels absolutely defeated. He has almost become a shell of the person he used to be. He’s just not really there right now. He’s in so much pain.”
Amanda is hopeful they can finally get the right treatment, with a hyperbaric chamber being their last-ditch effort to get Connor on the mend, but there are no guarantees at this point.
“Because it is so rare, insurance really doesn’t know what to do with it,” she explained. “Doctors are trying to scramble to figure out how to get it under control.”
Insurance is not covering most of the bills.
“We’re a single income family, so it’s not even like I could go to work, because who watches our kids? We can’t afford daycare,” Amanda lamented.
There is some help, though, in the form of non-profit Behind the Blue which is holding a fundraiser for the Riley family.
“We’re still awaiting things to find out how we’re going to stay afloat, and so the fundraiser is helping us do that until we can get to the next step that we need, whatever that looks like,” Amanda said.
You can donate to the fundraiser here.
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