Memorial Service of Andrew

This is a public announcement to everyone that new Andrew Yakubovsky at one point in his life, and is unsure as to why he suddenly passed.

On May 27, 2018, my mom found Andrew fallen over on the floor of her house. He appeared to have an altered level of consciousness, and had experienced an episode of vomiting. After being unable to get him up or help him (since he was such a large guy), my mom immediately called 911. Upon arrival to the ER, Andrew was admitted to the ICU unit where he was diagnosed with Rhabdomyolysis. Rhabdomyolysis is a serious syndrome that results from the death of muscle fibers and releases the content into the bloodstream. Unfortunately, he also developed multiple complications that further deteriorated his body. One of the complications that developed was a syndrome known as compartment syndrome to his leg and arm. Which compartment syndrome is the swelling of your muscle within a compartment that leads to a loss of blood supply to nerves and muscles further depleting that area of oxygen and nutrients. The only surgical procedure to help with compartment syndrome is known as a fasciotomy, which in Andrew’s case appeared to be unsuccessful. In addition, Andrew had developed acute renal failure and was placed on dialysis to help his body clean the contents, but the loss of his kidney function put stress on his liver and other organs. Over time, it was suspected that Andrew would be okay, and he would lose part of his arm with a 50% chance of losing his leg. On May 31, 2018, things took a turn for the worst. His other organs were unable to maintain the stress placed on them due to kidney failure, and the doctors suspected that he may also have developed compartment syndrome in his abdomen. As time went by throughout the day, Andrew began to develop liver failure, he was no longer able to breath, and was placed on 100% Oxygen. It was a really hard decision for our family, but after hearing from the medical provider that Andrew’s body was not responding to treatment and that it was further deteriorating, we decided that he had suffered through enough stress over the last 4 days and that every treatment that he could have was done but his body was unwilling to respond. At 12:37 p.m. (west coast time), we decided to take Andrew off of the oxygen supply, and off of the rest of the machines. My mom, dad, and sister were in the room with Andrew at the time of his passing, and my brother vlad was on the phone and I was on Facetime as we watched Andrew open his eyes, shed a tear, and pass away at about 12:45 (West Coast Time). Throughout this entire time, my mom stayed by his side. We all were under the impression that he was going to make it out of the hospital, until the fateful day when his body plummeted. 
No one expected this to occur, and when asked as to why this happened these were the results. For those of you wanting to blame drugs and alcohol, you’ll be satisfied to know he was completely negative. The autopsy has reported that he had been bitten by a snake or spider and developed an internal cyst that led to a blood infection. Andrew did not know he was dying. His family did not know that he was dying. This is sudden and unexpected. Yes we are all mourning. Yes this is a difficult time for us. If you could imagine having your sibling or even your son ripped away from you in the most gruesome and sudden way then you would know what we went through. We as a collective decided to keep his sudden admission to the ICU confidential until we knew the outcome because it was hard enough to watch him lying in the bed sedated.

If you have been asking what happened, I have decided to post it because talking about it with person to person is really difficult and continues to bring up that a week ago we had a healthy son/brother, and today we wake up with one less Yakubovsky in our lives who died before he had a chance to start a career, find love, get married, grow old, and make several mistakes in his life. We will forever have a missing piece in our family at graduations, birthdays, mother’s day’s, father’s day’s, weddings, births, and so on. This is hard on us, but they say that with time the deepest pain eventually heals, but our memory of Andrew will not be lost.

On a final note, for those asking how they can send money for flowers or help with his funeral expenses a link has been provided. We do not expect anyone to help, which is why loans, credit cards, and so on exist. We know funerals are expensive, but we will bury Andrew in the most beautiful way we can think of. The people that are affected by his loss have been reached and invited to his funeral. If you are one who is as heartbroken as we are and feel you need to come say your goodbyes, you are more than welcome. His service will be held where he passed, in South Carolina, on June 7, 2018 and we will all be wearing his favorite color purple.

Thank you for your kind messages and kind prayers. My family appreciates that he was loved. I also appreciate the stories being sent to me about how Andrew reached your heart and how he impacted your life. He was truly an individual who had a different spirit inside of him.