Jayce Lodgepole Pizza Hut fundraiser to be held Thursday

Havre Daily News staff

Another fundraiser is set for a young boy who is back in Havre after several months of emergency room visits and out-of-town care.

The Pizza Hut fundraiser for Jayce Lodgepole will run Thursday. If people tell the Pizza Hut employee ringing up the purchase they are donating to the benefit, 20 percent of the purchase will be donated.

Lodgepole has gastroenteropathy, a stomach and intestines disorder, and has developed adrenal suppression due to steroid use to fight that disorder, his mother, Elizabeth Lodgepole said.

Complications led to an emergency room visit Jan. 9 due to rapid breathing and again Jan. 20, for the same reason. Jayce had pneumonia that didn’t respond to antibiotic treatment and his platelet count was dropping. He was flown to Kalispell and a feeding tube was put in Jan. 23.

Jayce was taken to Denver Jan. 26 because he needed blood that has been treated with radiation to prevent transfusion-related diseases. He had three blood transfusions, two IVIG infusions and numerous platelet transfusions within 10 days and a bone marrow biopsy to figure out why his platelet count continued to drop

A benefit also was held at the Havre Eagles Club in February.