John Todd's Medical Expenses & Funeral Arrangement

This is my father, and one of my best friends in life, John Todd. Many of you may might know him and my mom (his wife) as the faces of CompuTec computer store that was located in East Dublin, Georgia, or/and you might know him from working many years at Flexsteel Industries, Inc. A few might remember when John owned Cards and Stuff (baseball card shop) off of Hwy 319.

John is now in a much better place in heaven. He was a big believer in Jesus and studied his bible daily. He's went through a lot in the past few months. You can find the longer story below this paragraph. Any donations will be used to help towards John's medical expenses and wife during this time of need. All donations will be used for medical expenses and bills. We appreciate any donations during this time. Above all the donations and help that anyone can offer, John would be the happiest if you would take the time to learn and accept Jesus Christ as your lord and savior instead.

I've also posted more pictures below for the ones not as familiar with John to get a glimpse into his life. This page was setup under the request of John Todd himself during his last hours of communication. He asked his wife to tell one of the kids to setup the account. He knew that she (his wife) would need the help financially to pay the bills since he wasn't able to work for awhile and didn't have insurance.



John started with pain in his stomach in the first week of September lasting for a total of 3 weeks. During the last 2 weeks, he visited the ER at Fairview Park Hospital and The Medical Center in Dublin 3 to 4 times. During the visits none of the doctors was able to catch the real problem with a lot of misdiagnosis of why he was having the pain in his stomach. He was not able to eat, drink, move around much, or sleep during this 3 week period. On Wednesday September 18th John's colon tore at home and the ambulance had to carry him to Fairview Park Hospital for an emergency surgery.

After the surgery, the doctors performing the surgery told us that he had a lot of toxins go into his abdomen and body. They told us after the surgery that he did fine, but they didn't give him a high chance of survival afterwards due to the amount of toxins they had to flush out. They told us that he would be fighting major infection afterwards. The reason the colon tore was because of a tumor (they said most likely cancer) in his lower large intestine was backing up everything in his colon causing it to over fill and resulting in a major tear.  However, We were all shocked and so happy that John was recovering very well from everything. He was actually getting ready for the physical therapy phase very soon. He was moved out of CCU to 6th floor on September 22nd. 

Everything was looking great, and he was motivated to work towards walking around again so that he could be living life again. Unexpectedly on Sept. 25th, John started to aspirate and went into cardiac arrest. The staff was able to bring him back, and while transporting him back to a CCU room his heart stopped again briefly. Once again they were able to bring him back.

The doctor talked to the family, and he told us that due to the response time from the hospital team to revive him that he thought he would be fine. This changed going into the next morning with the doctor saying that it might be worse than he thought so they ran a CT and EEG Scan. Everything look good in the CT Scan, but when we received the EEG scan results there weren't any sign of brain activity determined by the neurologist. The neurologist ordered another EEG scan with sedatives turned down for the next day. The 2nd EEG scan showed brain activity, and the family couldn't believe what we heard that day. 

Afterwards things improved very slowly, and the result seem to be from an anoxic brain injury. After about a week at Fairview Park Hospital (after he aspirated), We transported him over to Emory Long-Term Acute Care in Decatur, GA on Oct. 2nd. We seen glimpse of things improving, and even proving doctors wrong as well during this time period. We were told at one point that he would not survive off the ventilator past an hour. we took him off the ventilator with the intentions to let him passing peacefully. After waiting with all of his family present with him during this time, He was able to support himself for over 50 hours without any medical support. The decision was made to restore medical support, in hope of him being able to actually live without the ventilator. We all agreed that he was surviving for that long for a reason. We started to request for a more aggressive attention towards weening him off the ventilator. However, we started to run out of time (due to amount of time spent at facility and the policies), and the family needed to decide the next facility to move him towards. The choices was limited to nursing home or hospice care. The decision was Serenity Hospice in Dublin, GA on Nov. 21st. When going to Serenity Hospice the ventilator was removed (they don't support ventilators). We decided at this point we rather see if he could go without a ventilator, because we knew that John would not want to be in a nursing home for care.

Our family would have loved to John back into our family again with interaction. I personally would like to seen him recover so my kids (his 2 grandsons) would of enjoyed him much longer as they grew up into teenagers. If you've had the pleasure of meeting John in the past years, this man totally changed his life by dedicating it to Jesus Christ and studying the bible. I've never seen someone change so much in the snap of a finger before in my life, but I truly enjoyed watch this man turn his life around to God in that quickly. He spent a lot of his time studying the bible, and if he wasn't studying the bible, he was spending time with his family and grandkids. If you were to have a conversation with John in the last 10 years or if he was still present today, one of the questions that you would get, in some shape or form, is "Hey, do you know Jesus?". He would quote some scriptures in reference to the King James Bible. If there is one thing that I would like for you to consider when you move on from looking at this page and the result of John's passing. I would like for you to spend as much time as you can with your family regardless of the situation. I also would like for you to take a moment to imagine if you were to pass away today. Have you accepted Jesus as your savior, told your love ones that you love them, and slow down to enjoy the moments of the people around you? Remember that it is never too late as long as we're breathing. Please take the effort so that you/we (all) can answer yes to all 3.





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Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.                                                                                                     -John 14:1 - 14:6 (KJV)
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Photo from Last Christmas Eve 12/24/2018 of John's Entire Family (Wife, 3 Sons, 2 Daughter-in-laws, and 3 Grandkids)

John, Wife, and 2 grandsons

John, Wife, and all 3 Grandkids



John and Paula (wife)

Last vacation photo/good photo taken of John with Grandsons and Wife at Fort Walton Beach, FL

The last photo taken (that I could find) of him during one of his grandson's birthday party on Sept. 7th (He went to the ER the night before this photo due to his stomach pain as I mention above). He struggled through the pain just to be there for his grandson's party.



Thank you for viewing this page, and as my dad (John) would say, God Bless You.


for any additional information and/or questions you can send an email to the email address listed below.

-Wade (John's Son)
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