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THE STORY:
This is my father John Patrick May. He is 65 years old and from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He served 4 years in the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam war along with his father. Together, they would meet up in Thailand , the country my Father learned to love. After his 4 year duty, he returned to Wisconsin, attended UWM for a degree in geography and entered the natural gas and oil exploration field with a company in Houston. When he learned they owned wells in Thailand he requested a transfer and was already fluent in the Thai language. After settling in Chiang Mai, he married and had two sons (myself Sonny, and Jeffy), while working 28 days on and 28 days off on dangerous offshore drilling wells throughout the world over the next 30 plus years.
My Father's work took him to the 'hot spots' of the world, war torn countries, civil unrest, dangerous conditions. In one incident he lost his eye. His duties included responsibility for the rig's helicopter landings and takeoffs. He endured the loss of both upper front teeth quadrants when a pressure valve below the rig blew off. He saved his crew members in the process of it's replacement, then remained unconscious and frozen under the rig's platform before another crew member realized something was wrong with my Father when he did not return. Then, worst of all, he endured but survived an offshore rig explosion worse than the Deep Water Horizon, with flames over 200' in the air. As many abandoned the rig, he grabbed a team of other heros to look for the dead, get them into body bags and ensured they were placed on helicopters to get them to their families. This also included 3 fishermen who had tied their small boats to the rig platform to fish. My Father was then able to board a last helicopter to leave the rig before it fully exploded. To his fellow workers, he was always their hero. To the Large Corporation of Seadrill International, he was a force to be reckoned with. They transferred our father to a China office to keep quiet as the CFO and CEO of the company cooked the books to make their stockholders unaware, and then made them temporarily happy over shady profit numbers. The loss of my Father's eye was insured at $800,000, but his company played a run-around game for four years keeping the claim quiet, and hiding themselves in multiple Corporate shell names and offices. Our Father spent years trying to collect, only to receive more piles of paperwork to complete with no results while he stressed and worried of a layoff from them over the blindness they had caused to him.
Eventually my Father returned to the states where our family connected him with one of the best consultants, only to find out $10,000 later, that the CEO and CFO had stolen our Father's identity and changed all his medical and life beneficiary information to that of a co-worker in the China office, who was a U.S. citizen, and there is no medical insurance policy paid for on our Father's behalf.
Shortly after this, Seadrill's CEO and CFO issued letters of redundancy to the majority of all their employees in 2015 when oil prices dropped, cheated their stockholders of their investments, then left the country with millions of dollars sent to offshore accounts. Warrants remain outstanding for their arrests with hundreds of people ahead of our Father for bad faith claims. Yet, he never gave up supporting our family.
In his travels throughout the world he collected seeds, and 2 months ago he opened a tree nursery with his first crop of 250 beautiful healthy Teddy Bear Palm Trees with 3 more batches following in size stages for market. A whole new venture for him. Last week he made his first YouTube video for what was to be a marketing tool for a channel, but after filming it, he suffered a massive heart attack. Our Mother drove him to the closest hospital near Sakhon Nakhon Thailand, where he was stablized and intubated.
My Father survived the 6 hour ambulance transport to a higher skilled hospital for a 7 hour open heart operation for a bi-pass to the left ventrical of the heart where the heart's pump is located. Because there was not enough blood flow, a balloon was then installed as a pathway to get more blood to the pump.
Yesterday there were more complications, as our Father developed serious internal bleeding. An urgent team was assembled to locate the bleed and it's cause. Because of the heavy amounts of meds required, the blood pressure surged and affected the balloon's job. All has now been surgically repaired, but a new complication has developed, in that, now the blood pressure has drastically dropped and urinary output is not sufficient. In the middle of the night, he was placed on hemodialysis which will continue non-stop for days, possibly a week, all blood will be type matched and cleansed through this machine. His color is jaundice, but the liver is functioning. It was that the high BP and heavy meds had affected his kidneys to the point that they were close to shutting down. Since the introduction of the dialysis machine, his urinary output is now functioning again and his BP is remaining stable so far.
His team of Physicians are the best of the best and have so far treated every complication successfully, but they have also said this is the worst case they've seen or treated thus far and my Father remains in extremely critical condition.
After being made redundant, laid off by Seadrill, it means he has no medical insurance and we have used most of his money to pay the medical expenses, still mounting.
My father is worried about his family and we are worried about him.
WHY GOFUND ME?
I am his son. I live in Madison, Wisconsin U.S.A. I transferred all my money into my saving account for my Father's medical expenses. I still keep my part time job at the restaurant to make extra money for my Father in addition to my full time job with a computer startup company. Also, I have asked my managers for more shifts. However, it is still not enough for the medical expenses. Please help my Father. I have no other option but to plead for any financial support that can help in the saving of my Father's life. You can help by donating any amount. Even $5.- will make a difference and can change my Father's life. I assure you all donations will be used only for medical expenses.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
-Share our story on social media with a personal message
-Donate what you can to this GoFundMe page
-Send positive thoughts, vibes, and prayers for a speedy recovery
Please do what you can , and if you cannot help financially, then sharing this campaign to your Facebook or Twitter for others to read can help him.
This is my father John Patrick May. He is 65 years old and from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He served 4 years in the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam war along with his father. Together, they would meet up in Thailand , the country my Father learned to love. After his 4 year duty, he returned to Wisconsin, attended UWM for a degree in geography and entered the natural gas and oil exploration field with a company in Houston. When he learned they owned wells in Thailand he requested a transfer and was already fluent in the Thai language. After settling in Chiang Mai, he married and had two sons (myself Sonny, and Jeffy), while working 28 days on and 28 days off on dangerous offshore drilling wells throughout the world over the next 30 plus years.
My Father's work took him to the 'hot spots' of the world, war torn countries, civil unrest, dangerous conditions. In one incident he lost his eye. His duties included responsibility for the rig's helicopter landings and takeoffs. He endured the loss of both upper front teeth quadrants when a pressure valve below the rig blew off. He saved his crew members in the process of it's replacement, then remained unconscious and frozen under the rig's platform before another crew member realized something was wrong with my Father when he did not return. Then, worst of all, he endured but survived an offshore rig explosion worse than the Deep Water Horizon, with flames over 200' in the air. As many abandoned the rig, he grabbed a team of other heros to look for the dead, get them into body bags and ensured they were placed on helicopters to get them to their families. This also included 3 fishermen who had tied their small boats to the rig platform to fish. My Father was then able to board a last helicopter to leave the rig before it fully exploded. To his fellow workers, he was always their hero. To the Large Corporation of Seadrill International, he was a force to be reckoned with. They transferred our father to a China office to keep quiet as the CFO and CEO of the company cooked the books to make their stockholders unaware, and then made them temporarily happy over shady profit numbers. The loss of my Father's eye was insured at $800,000, but his company played a run-around game for four years keeping the claim quiet, and hiding themselves in multiple Corporate shell names and offices. Our Father spent years trying to collect, only to receive more piles of paperwork to complete with no results while he stressed and worried of a layoff from them over the blindness they had caused to him.
Eventually my Father returned to the states where our family connected him with one of the best consultants, only to find out $10,000 later, that the CEO and CFO had stolen our Father's identity and changed all his medical and life beneficiary information to that of a co-worker in the China office, who was a U.S. citizen, and there is no medical insurance policy paid for on our Father's behalf.
Shortly after this, Seadrill's CEO and CFO issued letters of redundancy to the majority of all their employees in 2015 when oil prices dropped, cheated their stockholders of their investments, then left the country with millions of dollars sent to offshore accounts. Warrants remain outstanding for their arrests with hundreds of people ahead of our Father for bad faith claims. Yet, he never gave up supporting our family.
In his travels throughout the world he collected seeds, and 2 months ago he opened a tree nursery with his first crop of 250 beautiful healthy Teddy Bear Palm Trees with 3 more batches following in size stages for market. A whole new venture for him. Last week he made his first YouTube video for what was to be a marketing tool for a channel, but after filming it, he suffered a massive heart attack. Our Mother drove him to the closest hospital near Sakhon Nakhon Thailand, where he was stablized and intubated.
My Father survived the 6 hour ambulance transport to a higher skilled hospital for a 7 hour open heart operation for a bi-pass to the left ventrical of the heart where the heart's pump is located. Because there was not enough blood flow, a balloon was then installed as a pathway to get more blood to the pump.
Yesterday there were more complications, as our Father developed serious internal bleeding. An urgent team was assembled to locate the bleed and it's cause. Because of the heavy amounts of meds required, the blood pressure surged and affected the balloon's job. All has now been surgically repaired, but a new complication has developed, in that, now the blood pressure has drastically dropped and urinary output is not sufficient. In the middle of the night, he was placed on hemodialysis which will continue non-stop for days, possibly a week, all blood will be type matched and cleansed through this machine. His color is jaundice, but the liver is functioning. It was that the high BP and heavy meds had affected his kidneys to the point that they were close to shutting down. Since the introduction of the dialysis machine, his urinary output is now functioning again and his BP is remaining stable so far.
His team of Physicians are the best of the best and have so far treated every complication successfully, but they have also said this is the worst case they've seen or treated thus far and my Father remains in extremely critical condition.
After being made redundant, laid off by Seadrill, it means he has no medical insurance and we have used most of his money to pay the medical expenses, still mounting.
My father is worried about his family and we are worried about him.
WHY GOFUND ME?
I am his son. I live in Madison, Wisconsin U.S.A. I transferred all my money into my saving account for my Father's medical expenses. I still keep my part time job at the restaurant to make extra money for my Father in addition to my full time job with a computer startup company. Also, I have asked my managers for more shifts. However, it is still not enough for the medical expenses. Please help my Father. I have no other option but to plead for any financial support that can help in the saving of my Father's life. You can help by donating any amount. Even $5.- will make a difference and can change my Father's life. I assure you all donations will be used only for medical expenses.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
-Share our story on social media with a personal message
-Donate what you can to this GoFundMe page
-Send positive thoughts, vibes, and prayers for a speedy recovery
Please do what you can , and if you cannot help financially, then sharing this campaign to your Facebook or Twitter for others to read can help him.