Keeping Vigil for Cody: A Mother’s Fight to Save Her Autistic Son in Medical Crisis

The Onset and the Journey: From 4.0 GPA College Student to Peer-Reviewed Case- In 2021, Cody Hudson was a 21 year old, vibrant Florida college student with his whole life ahead of him. He had high functioning autism that he worked hard to conquer and navigate as he skyrocketed to meet his goals.

That life was permanently altered after he suffered a severe, well documented, debilitating and terminal COVID-19 vaccine autoimmune blood clotting injury/disease called antiphospholipid syndrome- Cody’s case is the worst manifestation- triple positive and treatment resistant.

Today, Cody’s case is peer-reviewed and published in medical literature—a stark, documented testament to the reality of vaccine injuries.

For five years now, Cody has battled this insidious, treatment-resistant autoimmune blood clotting disorder.

Even while fully anticoagulated on standard blood thinners, Cody continues to suffer debilitating STROKES (six so far), deep vein thrombosis (DVT), pulmonary embolisms, and relentless, life-threatening microclotting. [1]

Note: In the U.S. the Covid-19 vaccine injured are abandoned by government programs without medical provisions or valid compensation programs- Our family is financially destroyed as we help at his bedside for Cody’s 60+ days of hospitalizations this year-

2026 fight for life-

March 2026: Strokes, Clots, and B-Cell Destruction

The battle escalated fiercely in March 2026. Cody was hospitalized after suffering two strokes (his fifth and sixth strokes) and two dangerous blood clots directly inside his heart, due to Libman-Sacks endocarditis (seen in the most severe APS cases) and severe cardiac damage.

To stop the immune system driver behind these relentless clots, doctors treated Cody with Rituxan (Rituximab). This treatment caused complete B-cell destruction. While it suppressed the rogue antibodies driving his clotting, it left him profoundly immunocompromised.

Today, Cody has zero B-cells, leaving his T-cells to do the heavy lifting for his immune system as he fights to stabilize.

June 2026: The Massive Flare and a Fight for Survival

About 10 weeks after returning home from

the hospital from the strokes and the heart blood clots, Cody experienced a massive, terrifying flare of his autoimmune blood clotting disorder on June 16, 2026.

Over the span of just three days, an insidious buildup of 30 to 40 pounds of localized lymphatic edema filled both of his legs.

Soon after, crushing chest pain set in, and he was rushed to a local emergency room.

What followed in the ER was a nightmare. Right before our eyes, Cody’s blood pressure plummeted, and he went into Atrial Fibrillation (A-fib). Simultaneously, severe microclotting cut off circulation to his lower left limb, creating a massive, catastrophic wound that destroyed his skin and tissue from below the knee down to his foot, resembling a severe third-degree chemical burn. [1]

Cody’s heart ejection fraction also dropped to a devastating 15% and to save his life, doctors had to perform cardioversion twice—once chemically and once electrically. Believing the situation was unsurmountable, the hospital recommended amputating Cody's leg and transitioning him to end-of-life comfort care.

The Father’s Day Medevac and the Power of Vigilant Care

Refusing to give up on Cody, we as parents reached out to the Florida State Surgeon General, who has followed Cody’s case closely. Working alongside Senator Ron Johnson, an emergency Medevac helicopter flight was arranged on Father’s Day to transfer Cody to a Level-1 Trauma Center. He was flown to a more robust care center that same day.

Cody has now been hospitalized for over a month in this new hospital. The road has been incredibly rocky; skin graft surgeries have been delayed due to internal bowel bleeding, and he has developed new myocarditis (heart inflammation) even while being managed on the high-dose steroids and IV heparin to keep his immune system from attacking itself and

prevent further clots.

Yet, Cody is tough as nails, and a mother's vigilance has defied the medical odds:

Saving His Leg: When new skin failed to grow for 24 days over Cody’s severely damaged left leg, I began aggressively applying silver gel products to the massive leg wound.

Though initially reprimanded by hospital staff, the plastic surgery team noticed rapid tissue growth, reviewed my comparison photos, and officially changed his orders to silver sulfadiazine for his leg wound care.

I will not leave Cody’s side and staying to care for his leg meticulously and to make sure his pain is managed and that I help advocate for needed immune treatments.

Cody has received immune therapy targeting his B cells to stop the runaway blood clotting but because Cody’s B-cells are completely destroyed, infection is a constant, life-or-death threat.

His large wounds can become necrotic or boggy in an instant, and with his blood clotting disorder, amputation remains a catastrophic risk.

At the End of Our Rope: An Urgent Plea for Help

Cody is fighting with everything he has, but our family has hit a financial breaking point. Cody’s dad has been out of work for 90 days on FMLA to help me provide round-the-clock care for Cody.

Navigating 5 years of Cody’s terminal and catastrophic injury, this has financially destroyed us and right now, we cannot cover basic living costs and mounting medical bills that must be paid to continue Cody’s care.

The financial strain is about to worsen dramatically: on August 1st, as Cody’s dad, Gary begins a new contract with his employer, with a completely new health insurance plan, resetting our medical deductibles and leaving us with new immediate co-pays for Cody’s upcoming surgeries, complex compounding prescriptions, and intensive immune treatment hospital care.

With a new medical insurance plan, this will be the second time this year we have to meet deductibles. We are beyond what we can handle and pay on our own.

From the last weeks of July, for about 5 weeks, as we navigate the new employment contract and insurance while Cody remains in critical care in the hospital, we are solely relying on humanitarians and the generosity of the donations of others to pay any medical co-pay bills for his immune modulation and to survive as a family through the last week of August, when Cody’s dad will have his first full paycheck with his new contract.

How You Can Help

Cody cannot fight this alone, and we as his parents cannot fight it alone.

Please consider donating to help cover basic monthly bills, upcoming insurance deductibles, and medical co-pays and help so that I can stay at his side while dad returns back to work.

Above all, please continue to pray that Cody avoids infection, and that his heart and legs continue to heal.

Your prayers, donations, shares, and encouragement are the lifeline keeping this family standing. Thank you.

Donations are much needed, but sending his story to news stations, emailing it to your state representatives, local representatives, and senators, and giving it to your pastor will all help just as much!

His story can save the lives of countless others suffering like him!

God Bless you and thank you for caring for others.❤️

Heather Hudson- Cody’s mom