Support for Bob Fontana and his Beautiful Family

Hi there,  I'm Jill Ricardo and I'm asking today for financial help for my friend, Bob Fontana, and his beautiful family.  Bob was diagnosed in June of 2018 with cancer in his colon.  After a colostomy and treatment for an unrelated infection, Bob's doctors recommended chemotherapy and he responded beautifully though he was very, very sick as a result of the treatment.  By October though, he was doing very well, chemo treatments were complete and his medical team was recommending reversal of the colostomy in December, before the end of the insurance year.  They were very optimistic that Bob would return to work and his life with just this bump in the road. Unfortunately, life is not always so neat and tidy.  Around Thanksgiving, Bob returned to the hospital with an infection in his lungs, similar to pneumonia, and shortness of breath related to the chemotherapy.  It turns out that the chemo drug given to Bob has a 1% chance of causing a serious lung infection/damage in some patients and Bob is part of that 1%.  To make a long story short, there have been many treatments which have resulted in Bob being placed in a medically induced coma so that a ventilator could be placed and a tracheotomy.  He is now in a third hospital to try an inversion therapy using a pronation bed to try to get different parts of his lungs working.   I know those are not all the correct technical/medical terms (and many other procedures and such have been done) but this is my basic understanding of what is going on.   

So, why am I starting this Go Fund Me?  With the new year upon us, Bob's medical bills are already starting to pile up.  He has been out of work for 7 months and while his beautiful wife, Colleen, has a part-time job, she's also a homeschooling mom and obviously, her days and nights are largely spent caring for Bob and their daughters.  While you may read this and not know Bob and Colleen personally, I want to tell you that they are so deserving of our love and support during this remarkably difficult time.  Bob and Colleen have been close friends for years and, in fact, Bob and I went to Florida Southern College together years ago before we met again through Colleen.  They are the Godparents to my daughter, Ruby, and, in fact, were the people who introduced us to her!  They are kind, generous and fun people.  They are also filled with faith.  While they have resisted reaching out because they didn't want to be a burden on others, the time has come when they really do need help.  If you can help financially in any way, please do.  If not, please share this post and please place Bob, Colleen and their daughters in your daily prayers.