Support David's Caregiving Journey

Hello Everyone

Please help us through the Hardest Chapter of our Lives

This is incredibly difficult for me to do. But I’ve reached a point in my life where I need to ask for help. This November we will celebrate 50 years of our life together—a milestone filled with Love, Challenges and unwavering commitment. But the last 5 1/2 years have brought unimaginable hardship. All my life I worked very hard. I been working since I’m 17 years old, never depending on anyone in my family to help me with money problems. We were doing pretty good. My wife is very creative and could sell her stuff when needed. We lived very happy together and aren’t the kind of people to stay home and watch TV. We loved having company, having get togethers with our friends because we had a lot of things in common. We are very creative and loved doing special things for ourselves and people who need help.

In 2020 my wife (Rosemary) was rushed to the hospital with 103.5 fever. Just before that we were shopping. Everything seemed find, she looked good, but within a few minutes she told me she must be coming down with a cold and felt very tired. Usually she could shop for hours and never get tired. She always had so much energy all the time. We left and went home. When we got home she went to bed. After about 10 minutes I went to check her and she was burning up and had black stuff coming out of her mouth. This happened so fast. She was never sick like this and I was scared because that’s when the Pandemic started, never thinking she would have it because she always took very good care of herself and her health, with doctors and alternative medicine. I called the ambulance and they were here in 5 minutes. She was still burning up. They said she had to go to the hospital to be checked out because Covid 19 was an its worse. They

Wouldn’t let me go with her because at that time no one was allowed in any of the hospitals. I was scared to death because she never caught colds, coughs or was never really sick. I was very worried because I wasn’t allowed to go to be with her in the hospital. I felt lost because the two of us do not have any family to support us. She spent two weeks in the hospital in ICU with a feeding tube in her nose and a ventilator in her throat. Every time I called about her condition, was told to pray, which I did, but very scared because she is my life. She spent 2 weeks in a coma and died once. She was told to get machines when you gets home and other modalities to keep her alive. They cost plenty of money and was running out already. She now has Long Covid 19 since 2020.

Her case is very hard because now she suffers with Cirrhosis of the Liver (never drank or drugs) and other immune diseases that came back when she got Covid 19. She has Thyroid Disease that requires constant care and now we are told after a few years that she has Smoldering Multiple Myeloma, which is Cancer. She has been in the house for 5 1/2 years , except for going to doctors, tests and more tests. Covid 19 made her lose her sense of smell and taste, I am now her full-caregiver. December, 2022 I lost my job, with no pension and lost my insurance. I have other insurance which does not pay for any of my wife’s infusions, drips, etc. She cannot take pills or supplements because she vomits them. They do not melt in in stomach anymore. By the way I now have Parkinson’s Disease. Which makes everyday more difficult both physically and emotionally. The medical expenses have drained us. We are at a breaking point. All our savings are gone. We had some saving to buy a house. With all the machines, etc. we need in the house takes up room and that room has to be sterile. Forget about bills, etc. Thank you so much...We are very appreciative just for reading this. This has been the hardest reality I ever had to write...

IF YOU ARE ABLE TO CONTRIBUTE, ANY AMOUNT WILL HELP US TO CONTINUE HER CARE (WHICH IS VERY EXPENSIVE) AND GET THROUGH THESE HARD TIMES!! EVEN JUST SHARING OUR STORY WOULD BE A HELP TO US. Be careful and stay healthy!!!!!!

WITH MUCH GRATITUDE

David