Donate to Help Mike navigate thru this unimaginable loss

My name is Mike Coralles. I’m starting this fundraiser after enduring the hugest tragedy of my life. Those of you who knew my brother Chris can imagine how our mother relied on him and how safe she must have felt having been with him in Washington for at least a decade. And how completely lost she must have been when he died kind of out of nowhere. I saw it when I came to Washington for his celebration of life and never left her. I was blessed to have the last four years with her, taking care of her and never leaving her side. She was lost and had buried two sons in life. No one should ever have to endure that.

In my time here, I never went out, never made friends here. It was during COVID, and if I had gotten sick and brought it home to her, she would not have made it. I got a dog, Kahu, and he was amazing. He loved my mom, and she loved him very much. The very first time I ever left him anywhere, I left him home with her because they were so cuddled up so peacefully I couldn’t bring myself to wake him and pull him away from her. Five minutes from returning home, I get a call from the neighbor and the police telling me there had been an accidental fire in our apartment. And everyone and everything was gone. My mom and both our dogs were dead. I was devastated and walked away with basically what I had on and whatever was in the car.

I have struggled like crazy since to deal with everything as it was presented and somehow navigate through this with very little help anywhere. I have reached out to a few people for help and have been blessed to have the people in my life that were there. I am very thankful and have worked hard to figure things through. There are many obstacles for me that aren’t typical to everyone else. I never let these things slow me or prevent me from where I need to be. I have exhausted every bit of funds I had accumulated and struggled with doing this to ask for help, until one very good friend of Chris’s suggested it and had said he would donate for sure. Others had said that “this is what this is for, Mike.” “You have lost everything, your mother, both your dogs, and have been displaced. It’s ok to ask for help.” So here I am.

I will be using donations to obtain housing and clothing and necessities along the way as well as working myself to achieve these things as well. If you know me, you know this isn’t easy for me. If you knew my brother or my mom, please help me put this back together and continue in a positive direction. I appreciate you all and your prayers as well. Thank you.