Bob Rippeon Stroke Recovery Fund
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Hello, everyone, and thank you for taking some time to read more about our story. My name is Becca Rippeon and I am making this gofundme for my father, Bob Rippeon. My dad is a very hard-working, active, independent, loving person and a father of three who has recently fallen upon difficult medical and financial times.
On June 4th, 2015, my dad was filming my brother's Damascus High football game when he had a hemorrhagic stroke, which is a sudden onset of neurological symptoms as a result of bleeding inside the brain. At the young age 54, nobody expected something to this effect to ever occur.
After a quick response by the Damascus High community, he was transported by ambulance to Shady Grove Hospital where he remained for hours in excruciating pain. After medical diagnosis and a CT scan, it was suggested that he suffered symptoms of an aneurysm.
In an attempt to provide my father with the best possible medical treatment, he was transported to MedStar Washington Hospital Center where he spent two weeks in the ICU because of his condition. During those two long weeks of awaiting answers to medical questions and prayers, he had two angiogram procedures and a draining tube surgically inserted into his head to drain the blood and fluid from his brain. Thankfully, the angiograms did not show any aneurysms, but did demonstrate a hemorrhage-like injury. After two weeks of making progress towards recovery, the doctors released him to come home on June 17th, only to return to MedStar the very next night for pain and fluid leaking out of the stitches in his head. Bob was kept to observe for two days until he was later released once more. On June 22nd, fluid starting leaking out of the stitches once again. The next morning, my younger brother and I took him back to the hospital for a third time, and hopefully for the last. This visit to MedStar lasted an additional two weeks where he endured three lumbar taps, aseptic meningitis, and a drain tube in his lower spine.. After more than a month of pain, problems, and prayers, he was released to come home on July 6th! While home in Damascus, MD, Bob will have in-home treatment, including IV antibiotics for a couple weeks to assure that no further emergency medical visits are necessary.
The past month has been a tremendously difficult time for my father and our family. Bob has been through so much in the last month—being laid up in a hospital bed, good days and bad days, severe headaches and major pressure in his head, stiff neck, many procedures, multiple draining tubes, 3 lumbar taps, and not to mention the impatience with remaining idle for so long. We all know how my father so desires to do what he needs to in order to support himself and his family.
Unfortunately, being without any income and not being able to return to work has caused him to not be able to afford his most basic living expenses. Bob lives a modest life, and works hard for all that he has. These events have made maintaining a mortgage, utilities, and child support expenses almost impossible to keep up-to-date with So please, from the bottom of my heart for anyone reading this, find it in your heart to give anything that you can spare to help Bob Rippeon get by in these difficult times. No amount is too small to help us to get him back on his feet!
Don't forget to share!
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!
-Becca Rippeon
On June 4th, 2015, my dad was filming my brother's Damascus High football game when he had a hemorrhagic stroke, which is a sudden onset of neurological symptoms as a result of bleeding inside the brain. At the young age 54, nobody expected something to this effect to ever occur.
After a quick response by the Damascus High community, he was transported by ambulance to Shady Grove Hospital where he remained for hours in excruciating pain. After medical diagnosis and a CT scan, it was suggested that he suffered symptoms of an aneurysm.
In an attempt to provide my father with the best possible medical treatment, he was transported to MedStar Washington Hospital Center where he spent two weeks in the ICU because of his condition. During those two long weeks of awaiting answers to medical questions and prayers, he had two angiogram procedures and a draining tube surgically inserted into his head to drain the blood and fluid from his brain. Thankfully, the angiograms did not show any aneurysms, but did demonstrate a hemorrhage-like injury. After two weeks of making progress towards recovery, the doctors released him to come home on June 17th, only to return to MedStar the very next night for pain and fluid leaking out of the stitches in his head. Bob was kept to observe for two days until he was later released once more. On June 22nd, fluid starting leaking out of the stitches once again. The next morning, my younger brother and I took him back to the hospital for a third time, and hopefully for the last. This visit to MedStar lasted an additional two weeks where he endured three lumbar taps, aseptic meningitis, and a drain tube in his lower spine.. After more than a month of pain, problems, and prayers, he was released to come home on July 6th! While home in Damascus, MD, Bob will have in-home treatment, including IV antibiotics for a couple weeks to assure that no further emergency medical visits are necessary.
The past month has been a tremendously difficult time for my father and our family. Bob has been through so much in the last month—being laid up in a hospital bed, good days and bad days, severe headaches and major pressure in his head, stiff neck, many procedures, multiple draining tubes, 3 lumbar taps, and not to mention the impatience with remaining idle for so long. We all know how my father so desires to do what he needs to in order to support himself and his family.
Unfortunately, being without any income and not being able to return to work has caused him to not be able to afford his most basic living expenses. Bob lives a modest life, and works hard for all that he has. These events have made maintaining a mortgage, utilities, and child support expenses almost impossible to keep up-to-date with So please, from the bottom of my heart for anyone reading this, find it in your heart to give anything that you can spare to help Bob Rippeon get by in these difficult times. No amount is too small to help us to get him back on his feet!
Don't forget to share!
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!
-Becca Rippeon
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Becca Rippeon
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Damascus, MD