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Richards funeral, bills& family help

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I never in a million years thought at 29 years old I'd be doing this. With a long history of brain cancer since 2014, Richard was only given a few weeks to live on Jan 13th 2022. Yesterday on Jan 25th his brain declined quickly and his midline shift got worse and he is unresponsive. He is currently intubated in icu and We are not giving up on him. He is a fighter! I'm at loss for words. While he may or may not wake up from this I have to prepare for the worst for our family. He never wanted me to go this route because he did not want to believe his prognosis but Richard has been our provider financially since we had kids. And if you know Richard and myself, we have never asked anyone for help in any way. He was so generous with everything he had. If he had it he'd give it with no questions! Now more than ever, we really need it. Please share, donate anything you can. Every dollar is so appreciated during this difficult tragic time and I will keep everyone updated on his status. I want to give him the funeral he wants no matter the cost! All donations will go towards funeral arrangements, our 3 kids, past bills, future bills, medical bills until i eventually get back to work. Please keep him and our family in your prayers !

Most people don't know or remember but he's had brain cancer since we found out in 2014 from doing an MRI after his bike accident. He then got a tumor removed in 2015. He was diagnosed with stage 3 anaplastic astrocytoma brain cancer& was told to do chemo& radiation 6 days a week if he wanted to live past 5 years. He obviously refused because we wanted to have kids. Fast forward to 29 years old(6 years later) we have 3 boys. His tumor came back. He had a second surgery Oct 22nd 2021 which he did not want to do AT ALL but he didn't really have a choice his vision was in & out & his headaches were very severe. After this second resection he is now graded stage 4 glioblastoma. Survival rate is only 3/4 MONTHS. For the first few weeks he was ok after surgery but the headaches started coming back quickly. He lost vision in his left eye and his hand eyed coordination got worse. While we look like we're living life normally with our kids on social media he has been in the hospital about 3 times a week for his headache pain for the last 2 months. He has spent over $300 in Ubers in these last 2 weeks going back &forth to hospitals &home. These last few times he was calling ambulances instead of Ubers. 2 days ago at 5am he woke me up and he couldn't take the pain anymore again and called an ambulance. Morphine wasn't working at this point & he threw it all up and told me at 12:45pm he would call me later. That's the last time I spoke to him. His mom was trying to be with him but they would not let her in because of covid. Around 1 they found him unresponsive in his room. The ct scan showed his midline shift went from 9mm to 14mm so his brain declined quickly. It has been the hardest months of our lives mentally emotionally and physically. But he is the strongest human being i know and he is a fighter! Please keep him in your prayers!
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    Rosa Berrocal
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    Orlando, FL

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