On December 24th, 2025, my mother Suzie Cohen Erenberg suffered a stroke. She was then diagnosed with expressive aphasia which means she is fully conscious and knows what she wants to say, but she struggles getting the words out. At this time she could still walk, she could still talk, but for our family, everything began crumbling around us.

Four years prior, her own father, my grandfather, had a stroke around the exact same time and he passed away a month later.

My mom was discharged from the hospital on December 27th, just three days later, and then on January 1st, she suffered another stroke. This one was much more severe. She can no longer walk or talk and the entire right side of her body is immobile. After weeks in critical condition, and a long, difficult battle in the hospital, she was finally transferred to an acute care center to begin rehabilitation. We hoped this would be the start of her climb back to us, but our health insurance only approved two weeks in the care center.

Now my mom is home again. She was supposed to receive occupational therapy, physical therapy, and, according to a Kaiser evaluator, speech therapy once a week. But the occupational therapist has missed multiple appointments and Kaiser denied her speech therapy entirely, despite knowing she cannot speak at all. Physical therapy has been coming, but because we are limited to in-home care, she is receiving far less support than what she was able to get at the care center. Most devastating of all, it is clear my mom has begun to regress, just as the hospital bills, rehabilitation bills, and every other imaginable expense continue to pile up.

My mom is genuinely the hardest working person I have ever known. She was a national top food salesperson who supplied Disneyland with their famous churros and pretzels for 25 years. She is vibrant, hilarious, and the best mom a kid could ask for. She needs our help now more than ever.

The goal of this GoFundMe is to help pay off her overwhelming medical bills and raise enough money to return her to a rehabilitation center, where she can safely and consistently continue the intensive therapy she desperately needs to begin finding her way back to us. Any donation, prayer, or share means more than we can express. Thank you so much for taking the time to read our story and for any support you are able to give.

With an insane amount of gratitude,

Josh Erenberg

& Jacob Erenberg