
Hi, I am Ana Cortes, Richard Cortes’ oldest sister. On January 3 2021 Richard began to experience flu like Symptoms. At first he went and checked himself for CoViD. When he turned up negative he figured it was the flu. By January 10th, when he woke up he saw his foot swollen with an infection. He then decided to take himself to the hospital. He was shocked to learn he had been diagnosed with Osteomyelitis a bone infection. They gave him 2 options. Amputation or Antibiotics. He is young and never experienced this before so he was told he had a fighting chance with the antibiotics. He would require a nurse to come daily to administer medication. He agreed to this. Unfortunately the cost of this was a high price tag as you can imagine. Richie is a wonderful loving husband, and an amazing father of 3. He is always helping everyone he meets and those who need help. He volunteers as an EMT to help out his community. Anyone who knows him can testify to his character. Please help him and his family with the overwhelming expenses of this unfortunate circumstances that has been brought upon them. We are looking to help raise $7000.