UPDATE: My dad passed yesterday morning, January 22nd. We want to give our dad a beautiful memorial service. If you can, please donate and help us cover his funeral expenses. Please keep our family in your prayers as we navigate these next few days.

Hi, my name is Jasmine, I am fundraising for my dad, Esteban Valdovinos, he has terminal cancer and we need help with his end-of-life expenses. He has Stage 4 Glioblastoma, brain cancer. He may only have a few weeks to live and we need to prepare ourselves for what is to come. Please, if you can, help our family during this difficult time.

September 12, 2023, was my dad's birthday. Instead of what we planned to be a day of celebration we were praying for my dad on our way to Spokane, as my dad was being airlifted to Sacred Heart Hospital to receive emergency brain surgery. My dad was involved in a car accident the night of the eleventh and he was taken to a nearby hospital where they assessed his injuries. While scanning his head for a brain bleed, they instead found a baseball-sized tumor pressing on his right frontal lobe. They decided to send him to Sacred Heart Hospital at about three in the morning. Once there, he went into surgery around noon on the twelfth. After his surgery, I got the call that they managed to take out the whole tumor, but what they took out was cancer. My dad was diagnosed with stage 4 glioblastoma, terminal brain cancer. After being hospitalized for a month and going to a rehabilitation center, where he worked so hard to gain back his strength to be able to walk again without assistance, we brought him home. That was the last time I saw my dad at the healthiest point in this journey. Since then, he has gone through intense chemotherapy treatment and radiation therapy. All of the treatment he was receiving was just to prolong his life. The reality was my dad was dying. He declined rapidly and was hospitalized various times due to his disease. In the end, his cancer won. All treatment was stopped this past December and he was put on hospice care where they are treating his symptoms to the best of their ability. At this point, we are just trying to keep my dad comfortable, but my dad is just waiting to pass on and be pain-free. He is suffering at the end of his life and the reality is the end is coming and it's coming very soon. We need as much help as we can get as we try to prepare ourselves for one of the worst times in our lives, losing my dad.