Support Joe Mancuso through his Journey of healing!

This is my long-time friend, coworker, and hockey brother. We worked together for at least 15 years. Great guy! Will give you the shirt off his back. He was in my first wedding & I went to his wedding. We've just been the greatest friends for a long time. Joe and I lost touch for some years. I tried to get in touch with Joe for some years and just didn’t have any luck. One day, I ran into a coworker of Joe's. I asked him where Joe was now. He told me that Joe moved back to Long Island, New York. I got Joe’s number from his coworker. I called Joe to catch up. Joe sadly told me that he was not doing all that great mentally and physically. As we continued to talk, Joe said that he had some stressful events happen to him all at once. He had lost his brother due to Crohn’s disease. Soon after, he lost his mother to cancer. Joe and his mother were very close, as he and his brother were too. Then Joe went through a divorce with his wife, whom he thought was his soulmate. Alot happened in a short time for him. Then Joe battled a severe case of food poisoning that would change his gut forever. Joe moved to Florida for a short time to find out that the healthcare there was not helping him. Joe moved to Long Island, New York, to hopefully get answers from doctors there and be around family. After going through a lot of procedures, blood work, testing, and seeing many specialists, Joe found no answers after 4 years, with the last two years being the worst. After reevaluating his healthcare needs, Joe has come back to North Carolina and is staying in a camper on the farm here with my wife and myself. We are trying to do everything we can to make it easy on Joe so he can find treatment and sanity. You can only imagine it’s been hard on him being unable to find the source that causes him to live in pain every day. Joe has always been a healthy guy, 5’10” 165 lbs, a fit person that played high-level hockey most of his life. Now Joe weighs 119 lbs, has trouble walking, and no energy to do much at all. If you can help! No amount is too small. If you can’t help financially, please share with your Facebook friends and followers. Also, more than anything, Pray, Pray, Pray. Joe is a very faithful person and will appreciate any help that he gets. The funds that Joe receives will help him with gas, medical bills, and hotels after his appointments. Joe can’t drive too far. We are in Middlesex, and his appointments are in Raleigh, it’s been costing him a lot of money having to stay at hotels a few nights a week. Joe is on disability, but it’s not enough with all the doctor's appointments and driving into Raleigh every other day. I would love to see my friend healthy and back on the ice one day soon!