My name is Grant Harrod, and I have a friend named Jason Rodriguez from San Antonio.

Jason is an amazing human being, and deserves help just like anyone in a tough situation. He's a dear friend of mine and I don't know how better to honor him than to share this. He's having an incredibly tough time coping with this, but the cost of the operation is over 12 thousand dollars and the prosthesis is also over 12 thousand. I assume there will be some other minor costs associated, so I've asked people to help in raising $25,000. I've decided to try to aid my dear amigo in regaining what all of us deserve, the ability to be mobile.

I'll let Jason tell you in his own words.

Help Jason Rodriguez Walk Again

A little over a year ago, my world turned upside down.

What started as severe pain in my right foot quickly escalated into a medical crisis. After a trip to the ER, multiple imaging tests, and specialist consultations, I was transferred to Methodist Main Hospital at the South Texas Medical Center in San Antonio—home to one of the top vascular teams in the state.

The diagnosis? A deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in my right leg.

I was terrified. I remembered the story of David Bloom, the NBC News correspondent who tragically passed away from a DVT while covering the U.S. military’s advance in Iraq. If something like that could happen to him—with world-class care just minutes away—what did that mean for me?

Still, my doctors were hopeful. They performed a major surgery to replace the main vein in my leg from my thigh down to my foot, hoping to restore blood flow and save it. For a while, there were positive signs—every day, they used a Doppler to listen to the blood flow, telling me it was promising.

But my foot kept turning black.

Eventually, a podiatric surgeon stepped in and confirmed what I already suspected: my foot couldn’t be saved. She performed a transmetatarsal amputation (TMA)—removing the front portion of my right foot. The pain that followed was intense and unrelenting. And now, I face the next chapter of this journey: getting a prosthetic foot and undergoing another surgery to attach it permanently.

This is where I need your help.

Without a prosthetic, I can’t walk. I can’t drive. I can’t work. I’ve been stuck in this limbo for far too long, and the financial and emotional toll has been enormous. Worse, being non-ambulatory increases the risk that something like this could happen again.

I’m reaching out to my community, friends, family, and kind-hearted strangers to ask for your support. Every dollar brings me one step closer to walking again, to living independently, and to reclaiming a sense of normalcy. No amount is too small, and every contribution means the world to me.

Thank you for reading, for caring, and for helping me find my footing—literally.

With heartfelt gratitude,

Jason Rodriguez