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Need help with travel to get my father to Dr. apps

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Story time:  I was working as an EMT in 2013 when I was injured on the Job just six months after saying I do to my amazing husband Steve. We started a home based business in 2014 so that Steve could be home with me to take me to DR appointment's as needed, as I was in a bad way emotionally and broken physically because the start of a new chapter in our lives was turned upside down by my work related accident.  As the years moved forward and WC nightmare was over at the end of 2017.. We thought we were finally going to have that new start.. We purchased a travel trailer and had set out to be as independent as we could be by running our own business. Things were finally starting to look up..  Fast forward to July of 2018 and my grandmother was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer! Being self employed afforded me the ability to spend time with her during the last 2 1/2 months of her life, along with being a support to my mother who flew out to help my aunt and uncle care for their dying mother.  In October of 2019 the law's changed so much in California that we either had to relocate our business and family out if state come the first of the year. Or possibly shut our doors of our business due to strict regulations of home based business.  We started looking out of State for something that still keep us within a decent distance from my father, grandson and my other 2 daughter's.. The youngest daughter of 3 moved with us.  Steve and I were excited to start a new adventure in our lives that would be prosperous for our small family business because the time was right. We found a house and started the process of making the move. Steve's elderly parents also decided to move with us to AZ so that they were close in they event they needed our help. Steve'sparents decided on a house location in Kingman that was in the process of being built, and within a day of listing their house in California it sold for full asking price with a 30 day closing. Well their new house wouldn't be ready until mid January so we moved them into our house in AZ and brought out our life's dream of a toy hauler that was paid off due to my WC settlement for Steve and I to have a place to stay while making trips back and forth from CA to AZ so that his parents would have their own space.  We finally got our business moved over to AZ middle of January 2020 and Steve's parents house was now ready for them to move into, so we helped them move into their new home as much as we could along with trying to reset up a business and our house. Steve & I had a friend come out who wanted to be business partners and work together on projects and after a trial run of 6 weeks it wasn't working out, and we had already put out  a great expenses of money  with the move of two families and a business and a trial partnership that didn't work out, so our hands were forced to pay out the business partner so that they could go home and in turn the only thing we had to sell was our brand new paid off 2019 toy hauler that we had only used once in the desert and that we lived in while we were transitioning to move. To add insultt injury of the huge loss of our dream trailer, we also got stuck having to buy and register the partners fifth wheel and sell it to recover what we had to pay to dissolve the relationship. Let me also add that Both Steve and I had just gotten over COVID 19.  Then 2 days after the sell and loss of our life long dream and our security.  On March 19. Steve and I were sitting down at lunch game planning everything that still needed to get done forafor our business and I  got the call that my daughter couldn't get a hold of my father, so I had my other daughter go check on him and he was burning up so I called an ambulance from AZ. Steve  & I went back to the house and were on standby for a call back. When we got the call that my father was really badly Ill we were in the truck on our way back to CA not knowing that the hospital had started the COVID lock down and that I wouldn't even be able to see him unless I took my daughter off as his only visitor and put myself on, but was told that no one else would be allowed to be put back on so once we left to go home he would be all alone. So Friday came and at 10am I got the call that no visiting would be allowed at 12 and I asked to be able to see him and was denied because he wasn't giving birth/underage/on his death bed. So we stayed through the weekend and went back with the grandson on Monday since he was out of school. During that week we got everything settled up with the partner and they left on Tuesday. So I was finally able to enjoy the new house Wed/Thursday but got the emergency Skype call on Friday March 27th that they wanted to intubated my father and put him on a ventilator, so from a video call 6hrs away I had to make a medical decision to make my father comfortable and let him die. But the Dr said we could be by his side. We being my oldest daughter and myself. So Steve and I were on our way. Madi stayed and keep the grandson. We made it to Porterville in 4 hrs so that I could say goodbye to my father. When I got to his side, he was given adivan to help him relax so he wouldn't try to pull his IVs and bipap off. I talked with the nurse and we went over his medical chart and labs. All his labs said he was fighting the asperated phemounia, so I waited until the morning to change his orders from full DNR to medical management and keep him alive. Then because he wasn't dying, the hospital wouldn't let me stay by his side. So on Monday I dropped my phone from a sitting position and destroyed it and had to replace it before Steve left to go back to AZ. When Steve got back to AZ he found that we had a bee infestation and the rental agency said we were responsible for the removal ugh. Then that Wed I locked my dad's keys in his truck I was driving, then Thursday the check engine light came on because the gas cap wasn't tight, then I went and washed his truck and cleaned it up and the surf through ripped off his antania. If I could have screamed I would have, but I had to much to get done in Porterville. I started cleaning my fathers house and that was several weeks to keep me going and I threw away everything that belonged to his supposed roommate that was supposed to be caring for him but was elderly abusing him and stealing his money. So fast forward and my dad is 3 weeks hospatalised he's finally moved to a facility where he's supposed to start physical therapy and speach therapy and 4 days in he's hit with a COVID outbreak and all therapy stopped. I can finally see him and visit through the window but can't hug him. He tested negative in the hospital 3 weeks prior, and tested negative in the care facility when tThe outbreak occurred, and 7 day later after being exposed in the facility he was retested and was then positive. So his first 24 days if supposed therapy he was on quarinteen with out any of the much needed therapy. So they finally moved him out to another room that someone else had occupied prior to him, and they left all of the other person's personal belongings on the night stand along with the man's medical face sheet and HIPPA information. They also left all of his clothes in the closet, so they have dressed my father in someone else's clothes because they didn't transfer his clothes that we brought by the family into his room. There's also pictures of the other man's family on the night stand. But my dad seems ok and is thriving in the facility. However the facility slacked on getting my dad's VA to pay for his care and tried to get us to pay the $179 dollars a day bill. I was also told that his first 20 days didn't start over because he was exposed to COVID in their facility and that they didn't get paid anymore for the COVID and that if I didn't like it to take it up with President Trump and ask him about it. That's a laughable answer if expect out if a 5 yo, not a billing clerk who slacked at their job and is trying to collect $$ because they were unaware that he had full veterans coverage.. Not that my father wasn't all over the newspaper. So he's doing better and were hoping to bring him home soon. Fast forward to me being gone almost 7 weeks. I come home to these fn bee's that are still here. I get an expert out to remove them, and it takes 2 different days and a few more Sting's for Steve but finally they're gone. Then after the bee's are gone, we went and helped Steve's parents as his mother has a few sever medical conditions that without her medication she can't hardly walk or talk. She's doing better now. While I was gone, Steve applied for the PPP and was denied. We also can't get a stimulus and we're waiting to see if we're actually approved for EDD fingers crossed. So what doesn't kill us really makes us stronger. Last but not least, we had our first SNAKE in the yard yesterday evening and our emotional support dogs amazing they alerted us, and stayed back.. but we couldn't find it ugh.. I was ready.. I had my rubber boots and pants with a 10" poll..  It takes all the pride I have to ask you for help during this difficult time. But our business hasn't been up and running, we don't qualify for much help, and we have exhausted our securitys. I just want to be able to have enough money to go back to CA in an emergency and pay some of our bills so that we can ensure my father has a place to come home to. Thank you from the bottom of ours heart's. Steve and Loraine Franks

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Loraine Franks
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Golden Valley, AZ

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