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Make David go h❤️Me

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Who is David?

He is a courageous 65 man who loves to make jokes to keep his spirit high.

Four years ago, his life took a drastic twist after difficulties from surgery for a obstructed bowel. Now has to be hooked-up to medical equipment for 12 hours a day to get his nourishment to stay alive. In his belly he has a hole and through it all his waste comes out. During the last 4 years, he has had countless infections, has lost all the mobility of all his body for approximately 6 months and has been in ICU struggling to keep living.

He recently was moved to George Pearson Centre, a long-term care facility in Vancouver. He was sent there to go to GF strong for rehabilitation  and help him to get stronger to return to his own home to have a better life. However, after a week and a half David was not receiving the proper nutrition needed to keep him alive, there for he was sent to the ER to St. Paul's Hospital. He stayed there for one week more and now is back to GPC where the workers still don't know how to connect the bag to his belly without any leaks. These leaks burn his skin and also can create new infections. 

Help is needed as soon as possible for David . Meanwhile his case is reviewed to receive home support, he can not stay in George Pearson Center, as his immunological system is low, all the people who loved him are worried that he will not overcome, although it was the main purpose of moving him there.

We are asking your support to help David to go back to home and have a quality life plus to gain some freedom back. The collected founds will be used to pay: nurses and caregivers to help him to do his physiotherapies, to help him to get his nourishment and feed his spirit too, to help him to recuperate his strength. All we want is that he returns to be the happy man he used to be and live on his own again.

Thank you so much!

Fundraising team (2)

Lilian Fajardo
Organizer
Vancouver , BC
David Holtum
Beneficiary
Carolyn Von Holtum
Team member

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