Bravo's (Dean Seramone)Medical Bills

Dean Seramone has been fighting brain cancer since March 2014. At the time of his diagnosis, Dean was an avid sports fan, business owner, and softball player. Most importantly, he was the proud father of two children, Nicholas (then 22-years-old) and Gianna (then six-years-old), and husband to his beautiful wife, Angela. A vicious, cruel, death-sentence of a disease – Glioblastoma Multiforme (Grade IV) – faced a fierce challenger in Dean. He was determined not to leave his family and, deep in his heart, he believed he wouldn’t until immersed in the comforts of old age.

Almost three years later, it appears brain cancer was too big a rival. Despite Dean’s unyielding fight through several seizures, a handful of clinical trials, multiple surgeries, chemotherapy, and intense radiation, Dean’s time with his family and many friends is limited. He is in hospice care, no longer receiving treatments, and facing his final days fighting the pain that cancer has laid on his body. He can no longer speak. He is paralyzed on one side of his body. He is blind in one eye.

Dean never believed he was going to die due to this disease, especially at his young age. He wasn’t prepared emotionally or financially. Emotionally, Dean was not prepared because his son, Nicholas, died from a heroin overdose just six months after his cancer diagnosis. Dean’s constant support and best efforts couldn’t save his son from his drug addiction. Dean was forced to fight cancer and grieve the loss of his son simultaneously.

Financially, the burden proved too much for Dean’s once prosperous landscaping business. He began to sell his company’s assets to pay his family’s bills, while continuing to work as much as he could physically handle. It would never be enough, as Dean’s cancer has carried with it insurmountable medical expenses.

Additional work hours for Angela will never cover those expenses, pay the mortgage, and support nine-year-old Gianna. Especially, as Dean had no life insurance.

Again, he never believed he was going to die.

Despite being told that the average survival time for a Glioblastoma patient is only 12 to 18 months and that only 20 percent of Glioblastoma patients survive more than one year, Dean believed he would defeat the odds. He has fought incredibly hard to do so. In fact, he is soon to become one of only three percent of Glioblastoma patients who survive more than three years.

The years of dealing with Dean’s diagnosis and treatment have been painful for his wife and young daughter. While emotional support has come – and will continue to come – in a multitude of amazing ways, financial support is greatly needed and is never requested by them.

Dean’s family needs financial help today and in the future. Dean will leave his family much love and treasured memories. Cancer will leave them significant medical expenses and a future without Dean’s income.

This is your venue, your opportunity, to help Dean’s family. Any amount that you can offer will be helpful and most certainly, greatly appreciated.