Help Peter Baldassari and Penny Heal Together

I really don’t like doing this but I’ve reached my breaking point. My dad Peter Baldassari is a very proud man but I don’t know what else I can do. I’m trying so hard to hold my little family together but it seems almost impossible. Medical emergencies and misfortune just seem to keep coming. They say God doesn’t give you more than you can handle and I’ve begged God to lessen the weight of my cross, begged Him to take me instead and just protect my little family but things just get worse every day. My dad and now his beloved cat are in both the hospital. She needs surgery to remove a mass from her abdomen. He asks for his cats everyday and they’re the only thing that puts a smile on his face. This is breaking my heart, I need to make Penny better so hopefully when he comes home they can be together again. The Medical bills are piling up and I’m being stretched beyond my limit. Seeing my always active, hard working vital dad, now unable to move half his body following a post-surgical stroke, has been heartbreaking for me. I’m being triggered daily with traumatic memories of being in the hospital with my mom before she passed. I am no longer able to work enough to support my family, my dad can no longer work and will likely be disabled. He is going to need me to care for him constantly. Insurance hasn’t been very helpful, as he was missing part of his Medicare plan which he can’t get until January. Government assistance programs haven’t been helpful and I can’t sell down his small savings because it’s how he pays his rent and bills. He was always a proud, hardworking man who valued his independence and ability to support himself. He is a very popular and prominent member of our North End, Boston community, he is the curator of All Saints Way, friendly to everyone and he has lost the ability to do almost everything he once loved. All he wants to do now is come home and be with his 2 kitties whom he loves and I just want him to have everything he needs to give him the best possible quality of life. I’m am asking anyone who has known my dad Peter Baldassari and thinks of him and I fondly to please give us any help possible during this extremely difficult time. Anything to help us out with medical and veterinary bills and to make it easier for me to get him the much needed therapy, DME and medical supplies he needs, so I can care for him properly each day and to help me do all I can to make him and his little cat Penny get better. Having him come home to find her not there will absolutely break his heart. It’s the Holiday season and if you’re looking for something kind to do that would brighten someone’s day, this would mean absolutely everything to me and my dad Peter. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.