Dedicated Healthcare Hero now needs Your Help

Since a child, my husband has always known that his passion was to care for and aid others. Following his passion and dreams, he became a registered nurse in 1998. As an ICU nurse, he's taken care of hundreds of patients and their loved ones for over two decades.

When the COVID pandemic hit in 2019, he was one of the Frontline heroes who unconditionally put his life and the life of our two kids at risk every day to care for COVID patients on a daily basis without ever imagining that months later, a devastating diagnosis would put him on the other side of the coin and change his life forever. As of September 2021, he began to feel severe fatigue and body aches. Being a healthy individual, he had originally associated his symptoms with the extra workload and nothing else.

A few weeks later, severe rib pain placed him in need of medical attention. A CT-Scan showed multiple broken ribs and bone lesions throughout his entire body. To his astonishment, he was diagnosed with a form of blood cancer on October 4th, 2021, known as Multiple Myeloma (MM). Myeloma occurs most commonly in people over 60, and only 10% of cases occur in people his age; he’s only 48 years old. This type of blood cancer causes tumors on his bones. His life, and subsequently our lives, changed forever.

Due to the severe bone damage that had occurred because of cancer and his weak immune system caused by weekly chemotherapy, Hector has not been able to return to work since. His future treatment plan involves a Stem Cell Transplant, which is planned to occur around March-April of this year. We must stay less than thirty minutes from the transplant center for at least 4-6 weeks of his treatment. I will be forced to leave work on a family medical leave to take care of him through his treatment. The recovery time after the transplant could be anything between 3 -12 months, and during this time, he must remain isolated at home to recover, unable to go back to work.

Medical bills, treatments, prescriptions drugs, co-pays, hotel stays and travels expenses have put our family under a significant financial burden. The transplant cost is over $300,000, with his health insurance covering some percentage. Genuinely and truthfully, we need as much help as we can get. We’re asking for your support during such trying times. We understand that COVID has impacted everyone and has brought nothing but hardships on all of us, so please know that no amount is too little. If that is not an option, then all we ask is for a share to spread the word!

We greatly appreciate any contributions made to our cause. Sharing across social media and spreading the word can do so much, and we're hoping to get the word out as far as possible. Thank you, and may God bless you all!