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Urgent Help for Bill Martell's Family

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Hi my name is Jennel Martell. Bill Martell aka Smoke! He is a loving husband father of 7 & grandfather of 5. A productive & citizen of Jacksonville Florida. A business owner of a very fast passed busy Auto Body & Repair Shop. October 7th of 2023 my husband got serious ill. Lost his balance coordination feeling in arms hands . He was not even able to feed himself / nor goto barheoom. He had emergency surgery. His 3rd & 4th vertebrae was serving his spinal cord . They had to take out his voicebox & larnex to do the surgery. He soon came home to recover & lost all feeling in his legs & lower extremists. He was stuck in bed for months & months not able to walk shower nor use the bathroom. He fought through the pain & made himself go back to work. Because we were losing everything we fought so hard to build. We went back to work at Auto Body shop were my husband my self & my 2 sons work. Our Landlord of 15 years of the property informed us he sold the property & we had 3 mths to pack 15 years of stuff up. Lifts paintbooths toolboxs etc... during that time my husband hernia strangluated around his intestines. Rushed him to ER & they did another emergency surgery. Two days later he chest swelled up like a balloon & he was in excursiting pain in the hospital. They rushed him downstairs to 2nd surgery again & there were 2 holes in his intestines again. They fixed that & had to take out the mesh it was contaminated & do a skin graft. He became deathly ill again swelling in his whole body he had numerous bloodclots & numerous abcess that kept reoccurring. They were surgery #3 and surgery #4 then his left testicle swelled the size of a cantaloupe they had tried draining it numerous times he was in horrific pain. Surgery #5 had him on. His whiteblood count was extremely low 1 # away from a blood transfusion for a week. At 4am his blood pressure fell out & he wouldnt wake up it was like he was in coma. Very scary. They said he needed a blood transfusion now... so we did it he slowly came back. Mind you he still hasnt eating anything since we got there. since he got there & he became antibiotics resistant he had a cut on his finger they had to amputate his left pointer finger said infection went to the bone. Surgery #6 . After all those surgeries and 28 days in the hospital he is 100 pounds...

We are 3 years behind in our house taxes . Our DEADLINE TO PAY PROPERTY TAXES IS JUNE 30 2025. We r 2 mths behind in our mortgage. Which he is working with us thankfully. We are NOT ones to ask for HELP, We are usually the ones that give help to everyone! If there is anyone out there that can HELP us please do. Some people have contacted me & felt more comfortable ZELLE the funds that is fine too !!! It is under my phone # ! We will give back when we can. We r in time of need ❤️ Thank you & God bless

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