My name is Aundrea Marroquin and am writing this alongside my sister Jennie Marroquin, as we are both asking for help in supporting my father and family. Our father Juan Marroquin is fighting for his life, battling Covid-19 at the young age of 59 years, where he contracted this virus in the month of July. Juan was admitted to Jupiter Medical Hospital on July 13th, where our mother Cynthia Marroquin was shortly admitted to the same hospital a couple of days later. As my mother was discharged on July 31st, 2021, my father, on the other hand, is still in critical condition. As July seems such a short time ago, we have many details to share with you that may be heart-wrenching or shocking, but we must pull back the curtain to reveal our reality: our father's current state of health is very bad and as his family we need your help.

My father, age 59, having been admitted to Jupiter Medical Center on July 13th, was immediately placed in the PCU based on the fragility of his breathing. Prior to being admitted at the hospital, my father's symptoms at first were minor then became severe over just 2 days time. Once he was admitted, he was told that he was Covid positive and had pneumonia and was given oxygen immediately to help his shallow breathing. His oxygen fluctuated over the next couple weeks, deteriorating each day., and was transferred to the ICU. On July 28, Daddy was placed on a ventilator due to his damaged lungs and was put on life support.  Not only were his lungs quickly failing him, but soon after his kidneys and liver suddenly jumped into the abyss and began their failure in a triad. The doctor told us that Daddy would need dialysis to prevent organ failure and so Daddy received dialysis 3-5 times a week whenever his body could tolerate each treatment session.  Each day thereafter we received various updates from the doctors/nurses from 5am, 8 am, 1pm, 9pm,  stating  that his oxygen levels were fluctuating dramatically back and forth on the amount of liters and percentages he needed to be alive and breathe on his own. Now, the doctors have said they have have exhausted all medical options and that unless God can work a miracle, we can only make Daddy more comfortable as his health deteriorates leaving us with some difficult decisions to be made in the next week or so.

My father is a humble man and is a giver and if he was able to speak he wouldn't ask for this fundraiser, rather, he would tell us to keep our faith in God. My sister and I ask for your support because although as the children of Marroquin parents married 34 years, we wish we could meet all the needs with just us two, yet any pride we could possess is not of importance in such a dire time for our family. Instead,  we are putting our family first. In fact, there have been so many people who have reached out asking how they can donate funds for our family, which is indicative of the great impact our Daddy had on so many people's lives. So, to honor our Daddy and the Christian example he exemplified daily, we ask for any support from those who have had the opportunity to know such a great noble man and received my father's loving generosity. My Daddy is the "go-to" man who is always willing to come lend a hand at any given time of the day without hesitation whether it was an A/C problem, a task, an errand or a favor. He willingly helped others out of his free time doing side-jobs at a reduced fee, or simply told people they didn't owe him anything and to only pay him what they felt compelled to pay. That's just how he is which demonstrates his true character. I know that my Daddy has impacted so many lives across the USA simply based on the outpour of texts, messages, or emails sent to us saying that Daddy is such a great man and that he had such an impact in each person's life, whether he impacted their life 1 month ago, 2 years ago or even 20 years ago. It's been amazing to hear of the many lives that one man touched, which is my father. Till this day, my sister and I will speak with someone who knows our father and they will say, "You're Juan Marroquin's daughter? Oh, he's such a wonderful man!".  My sister and I are blessed to have such a great Daddy who loved us greatly! #Juaninamillion2021

My father is the sole breadwinner of the family and has been for the last 3 years as my Mother's health deteriorated unexpectedly after a surgery.  My sister and I are asking for your help and support for our family, and Mother when we need it the most especially with all of the incoming medical and family related expenses without a consistent source of income to help with those expenses. Although we are tough sisters, we cannot do this alone.

You can show your support my donating at any of the following platforms:
gofundme: @Juaninamillion2021
zelle: [email redacted]
venmo: @ Juaninamillion2021

Daddy is a precious soul, with a contagious smile from ear to ear, a jokester, a man of God, always helping without complaint, a hard worker, our rock, always guiding us in our faith, always telling us God is in control, our shoulder to lean on, the most loving father and grandfather to Lincoln, Jennie's son- the list literally goes on and on.  Daddy is known for always having a smile on his face despite any circumstances. Daddy has also been a pastor for over 20 years and has been a great Christian example for us as well as those in our community.

The woman beside our Daddy is our Mother, Cynthia. Mom and Dad have been married for 34 years, just recently celebrated in June- a longlasting and loving marriage record. Mom and Dad are two peas in a pod, always laughing, pulling pranks on each other, each other's yin and yang, with Dad being the calm one. Mom and Dad's lovestory began 35 years ago meeting each other at church. At the time, Dad only spoke Spanish and Mom only spoke English. Their lovestory quickly blossomed over a pair of Spanish-English and English-Spanish dictionaries.- something that would not happen in this century! Our parents provided us with a loving upbringing, and showcased what a true loving and respectful marriage looks like in this world- finding a mate who is your best friend. My Mother is especially taking my Daddy's current state of health very hard since her best friend and life partner of 34 years may not be with us for much longer.

This past weekend my mom, sister and I got to see Daddy and be in his room since he is no longer Covid positive. We knew that what we were about to see was Daddy in a state of health we'd never seen before: not just sick, but essentially on his deathbed. We cannot explain in words, the physical pain we felt when our eyes saw Daddy for the first time on life support mouth open with tubes down his throat, sedated eyes closed and watching Daddy’s chest move mechanically different as the ventilator provided his every breath.

 Daddy has always been super active literally every single day. He’s just like a horse and never gets sick. So, our hearts felt like they were literally tearing in half to see Daddy who has been so active and healthy, simply lie in that bed, lifeless while machines are hooked up to his body. He didn’t look like himself and his face, arms and hands were super puffy from all the steroids. We were able to stay with him for a few hours at his bedside praying with him, talking with him, telling him stories, telling him jokes, and singing some of our favorite Spanish coritos. We each took turns caressing his face, running our fingers thru his hair, caressing his arms, and holding his puffy hands. Oh poor Daddy…. All we wanted to do was switch places with him, relieve him of pain or discomfort, provide him with any piece of my organs, but the reality that we couldn’t do anything to help him made us feel so helpless. When we were there, a couple times Daddy opened his eye when we spoke to him. It wasn’t constant and it wasn’t on demand but it brought us some comfort that maybe Daddy heard us, medical opinion to the contrary. Daddy also squeezed our hands sparingly. Again, not on command, not constant, and not immediately after squeezing his hand, but he did squeeze at precise moments when we were talking to him which gave us great comfort again.

As of today, Daddy has been on life support, sedated and on the ventilator since July 28th. He has also had dialysis many times due to his kidney and liver failure. Over the last 3 weeks, Daddy has had good and bad reports depending on which nurse we speak to, always fluctuating, and but inevitably slowly trending downwards. So, every day for the past 3 weeks, it has been an up and down emotional roller coaster- like the big ones at Six Flags or Islands of Adventure for me, mom and Dray. Per the nurse and doctor, his lungs are 3/4 damaged, and he is not a candidate for a lung transplant given his age and current state of health. His kidneys and liver are also damaged as well. The doctor says he is uncertain if his heart or brain have been effected.

Daddy is a fighter and he's been fighting this Covid strain, but we all know that Daddy's body must be so tired.

Based on the doctor's report, all medical assistance has been done for Daddy and only thru the power of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit can a miracle be performed to heal my sweet precious Daddy. Unless God performs a miracle and heals Daddy soon, my sweet Daddy will be joining Jesus. 

We know that God is a great physician and that God in His divine intervention could perform a miracle and heal Daddy if it is God’s will to do so. We also know that God is all-knowing and a loving, merciful God.

Many people across the USA and other countries have been calling, sending messages asking how Daddy is doing over the last few weeks. Undoubtedly, Daddy touched so many lives and is loved by many people which is readily apparent by the number of people who have reached out. Thank you.

So, we ask everyone to pray for Daddy.

Pray that either God will give us an undeniable sign that God will perform a miracle soon and heal my Daddy his lungs, kidneys, liver, heart and brain. We still have faith. Pray that should God decide not to perform a miracle, that God take Daddy soon from this Earth peacefully, without anymore pain or suffering straight into the loving arms of Jesus. We also have faith in this as well.

Even though we make this post, we are all still in shock, utter denial, and haven’t really started the grieving process because we still have faith that God can perform a miracle on Daddy. But we do know that once our brains accept this reality, we are going to need mountains of prayer to get us through day to day perhaps minute to minute, hour by hour.

We’ve been completely thrown off guard with Daddy’s health. In 1 month Daddy has gone from a healthy active man to a man on his deathbed. Now, we’ve not known anyone close to us who has been down the cancer route so we are naive in that regard, and don’t know all the facts or details and we don’t assume to know either. But for us in this experience, we can imagine that’s its completely different than Daddy getting cancer cuz if he had cancer with a set term of expected life we could have spoken with him whenever we wanted, heard his voice, or visited whenever we wanted over the course of months. Instead, for the last month, we haven’t been able to hear my Dads voice since he’s been on a ventilator this entire time and we haven’t been able to visit him as much as we wanted due to Covid restrictions. All of which makes this situation even more painful and given literally 1 month to try to grasp the reality of our lives. God has shown us that He is in control and helped us work everything out or placed just the right people into our lives at the precise moment so that the burdens could turn into blessings. What’s even more crazy is that when Jen was feeling overwhelmed with these burdens, she could hear Daddy in her head saying, “Sweetheart, don’t worry. Everything will be okay because God is in control. Just wait, the Lord will provide.”
Daddy was 100% right!!!

We are resting in our faith that Daddy is in God’s hands now and that God’s will be done whether thru a miracle or that my Daddy passes peacefully without any more pain or suffering. Please keep our mother, Cynthia, us girls, and Lincoln in your prayers as we continue to get thru this unfathomably detrimental time for our family. We know that if Daddy could talk, he would say, “Don’t worry sweetheart. God is in control. Just have faith.” We rest in our faith of Daddy’s words.

For everyone: please continue to visit your loved ones whenever safely possible, call them over the phone instead of text to hear their voice, and go out of your way to make time for your loved ones. You just never know what tomorrow will bring or if when you wake up tomorrow, you will get bad news about a loved one.

This new Delta strain of Covid is no joke so please if you’re not vaccinated, get vaccinated. Get the booster. Take precautions. Don’t gather even if vaccinated... Guys: it’s just NOT worth the risk of being in our current situation.

You can show your support my donating at any of the following platforms: 
gofundme: @Juaninamillion2021
zelle: [email redacted]
venmo: @ Juaninamillion2021