Helping Us Support Our Dad During His Road to Recovery

Our dad has been through an incredibly challenging medical journey. After 2.5 months of intensive hospital care, the doctors believe he is strong enough to be transferred to a long-term acute care and rehabilitation facility. This is an important and hopeful step forward in his recovery. (Full story below )

The facility that can best meet his medical and rehabilitation needs is almost four hours away from home. While we are grateful for this opportunity for him to heal, the distance creates a new challenge for our family.

Our dad draws so much strength from having his family nearby. We want to be there for him — to encourage him through therapy, help him communicate, advocate for his care, and simply sit with him so he knows he is not alone during this long recovery process.

The funds raised through this GoFundMe will help cover:

• Temporary lodging near the facility

• Travel expenses (gas, transportation)

• Meals while we are away from home

• Other basic necessities so we can remain close and present

This time with him is not just emotional support — it’s part of his healing. Being there allows us to help motivate him, notice changes, and provide comfort during what can be a frustrating and exhausting rehabilitation process.

Any donation, no matter the size, helps bring us closer to our goal of staying by our dad’s side while he works toward recovery. If you’re unable to donate, sharing this page or keeping our family in your thoughts and prayers means more than we can say.

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your kindness, support, and love during this time. ❤️

Our Dad, Randy Parish, was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in April of last year. It was a small spot of cancer found with a routine endoscopy from Gerd but Dr. Hayashi said he would need a trans hiatal Esophagectomy. He had the surgery Dec. 2nd and 77 days later, he’s still in the hospital, currently in the ICU the last few weeks. He has a leak somewhere that can’t be found that will eventually heal on its own. He had a chest tube put in and he started physical therapy. His entire journey has been one step forward, three steps back. He ended up with Pink eye, sepsis, pneumonia and CDIFF. Dr Hayashi thought he had dead bowel while he had sepsis, had to do an emergency surgery, had us say our goodbyes because he wasn’t confident he would make it through. He didn’t think he would last an hour after surgery. They didn’t find dead bowel but added 4 more drain tubes for the infection. They almost lost him later that night. We begged for prayers, for a miracle. Dad made it through. ♥️ Since then, he’s had 3 blood transfusions, a tracheostomy, intolerable tube feedings, etc. just a week ago Dr. Hayashi was talking to us about end of life care. He is the strongest man I’ve ever known and not given up. His will to live is amazing! The Doctors believe it’s time for him to go to a Long Term Acute Care facility for rehabilitation.