Gone Too Soon - David Mosqueda Sr.
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Family and friends – On April 9th, 2017, at 7:15pm, a son, brother, cousin, uncle, husband, father, father-in-law, and grandfather, David Daniel Mosqueda Sr. was called back home to heaven. Born on February 28th, 1960, David was only 57 years young, and suffered from a rare autoimmune disease that unfortunately, attacked his lungs too rapidly and went undiagnosed for too long because of its rarity.
David’s illness began in late November of 2016, and after multiple blood tests, X-rays, and visits to the hospital, emergency room and ICU for chronic fatigue, muscular/body aches, difficulty breathing, rashes, lack of appetite, and chills (to name a few), Kaiser Permanente still had no clear diagnosis for David’s illness, aside from identifying “some inflammation on his right lung” and stating that he potentially had an unknown autoimmune disease that would inevitably run its’ course. So, he continued to be sent home visit after visit with oxygen and steroids to help with his breathing and the inflammation, but nothing helped.
By mid-March, David was rushed by ambulance back to Kaiser Emergency for his severe inability to breathe. The damage to his lungs had quickly spread to both lungs. With that in mind, Kaiser had informed our family that the best option left for him to recover would be to intubate him, place him on life support and in a medically induced coma to save what was left of his lungs, and get him to UCSF or Stanford where he would need to be placed on a more advanced form of life support called ECMO, in hopes for a double lung transplant. Although David did end up making it to Stanford, after two weeks of continued tests and meetings with the ICU and Lung Transplant Doctors at Stanford, David was unfortunately declined as a candidate for transplant.
The family struggles with so many questions about the cause and progression of this disease, coupled with the fact that doctors at both Stanford and Kaiser were unable to provide a definitive diagnosis early on, let alone in David’s final days. Rather, we were told through process of elimination, common symptoms, severity of damage to the lungs, and the rapid rate at which his lungs were failing, they presumed David’s disease was called Dermatomyositis. And, not only is the disease rare, but David allegedly had a rare version of the disease that in normal cases of Dermatomyositis, a patients lungs would take 4-5 years to get to the condition David’s lungs were at in only 3 months’ time.
As a last chance "hail mary", the doctors said they were going to give David a chemotherapy type drug called cytoxan. Doctors were hoping to see the cytoxan stop the progression of the disease to the last 5% of healthy lungs David had left. They informed the family there was only a 10% chance of the drug actually being effective, and any progress would show over the next ten days. Holding on to hope and faith David's family was waiting for a miracle over the next ten days. Unfortunately, the day came when the doctors informed our family that his lungs did not respond to the cytoxan, that they had exhausted all possible treatments, and that the family would need to start discussing a date to take David off of life support.
As hard as it was to make that decision and accept that there were no other options, David’s family did not want to see him suffering anymore. David passed away, not aware of the severity of his illness, never being able to say goodbye, and surrounded by his loving family on April 9th 2017 at 7:15pm after being taken off life support. David leaves behind his mother and father, 4 sisters, 7 brothers, wife, 3 sons, 1 daughter, 1 granddaughter, 1 grandson, 1 daughter-in-law, cousins, nieces and nephews and many, many friends, all who loved, cherished and adored David for the loving, caring, warmhearted, joking, smiling man he always was.
The Mosqueda family has set up this memorial fund that will go to Davids wife who has been out of work for the past several years due to health issues of her own. The funds will help her raise their 15 year old grandson who they had been raising together for the past 6 years. We thank you for your continued support and prayers as we all continue to mourn David's sudden passing. ANYTHING given will be greatly appreciated. On behalf of David and all of his family we love you and thank you, again.
David’s illness began in late November of 2016, and after multiple blood tests, X-rays, and visits to the hospital, emergency room and ICU for chronic fatigue, muscular/body aches, difficulty breathing, rashes, lack of appetite, and chills (to name a few), Kaiser Permanente still had no clear diagnosis for David’s illness, aside from identifying “some inflammation on his right lung” and stating that he potentially had an unknown autoimmune disease that would inevitably run its’ course. So, he continued to be sent home visit after visit with oxygen and steroids to help with his breathing and the inflammation, but nothing helped.
By mid-March, David was rushed by ambulance back to Kaiser Emergency for his severe inability to breathe. The damage to his lungs had quickly spread to both lungs. With that in mind, Kaiser had informed our family that the best option left for him to recover would be to intubate him, place him on life support and in a medically induced coma to save what was left of his lungs, and get him to UCSF or Stanford where he would need to be placed on a more advanced form of life support called ECMO, in hopes for a double lung transplant. Although David did end up making it to Stanford, after two weeks of continued tests and meetings with the ICU and Lung Transplant Doctors at Stanford, David was unfortunately declined as a candidate for transplant.
The family struggles with so many questions about the cause and progression of this disease, coupled with the fact that doctors at both Stanford and Kaiser were unable to provide a definitive diagnosis early on, let alone in David’s final days. Rather, we were told through process of elimination, common symptoms, severity of damage to the lungs, and the rapid rate at which his lungs were failing, they presumed David’s disease was called Dermatomyositis. And, not only is the disease rare, but David allegedly had a rare version of the disease that in normal cases of Dermatomyositis, a patients lungs would take 4-5 years to get to the condition David’s lungs were at in only 3 months’ time.
As a last chance "hail mary", the doctors said they were going to give David a chemotherapy type drug called cytoxan. Doctors were hoping to see the cytoxan stop the progression of the disease to the last 5% of healthy lungs David had left. They informed the family there was only a 10% chance of the drug actually being effective, and any progress would show over the next ten days. Holding on to hope and faith David's family was waiting for a miracle over the next ten days. Unfortunately, the day came when the doctors informed our family that his lungs did not respond to the cytoxan, that they had exhausted all possible treatments, and that the family would need to start discussing a date to take David off of life support.
As hard as it was to make that decision and accept that there were no other options, David’s family did not want to see him suffering anymore. David passed away, not aware of the severity of his illness, never being able to say goodbye, and surrounded by his loving family on April 9th 2017 at 7:15pm after being taken off life support. David leaves behind his mother and father, 4 sisters, 7 brothers, wife, 3 sons, 1 daughter, 1 granddaughter, 1 grandson, 1 daughter-in-law, cousins, nieces and nephews and many, many friends, all who loved, cherished and adored David for the loving, caring, warmhearted, joking, smiling man he always was.
The Mosqueda family has set up this memorial fund that will go to Davids wife who has been out of work for the past several years due to health issues of her own. The funds will help her raise their 15 year old grandson who they had been raising together for the past 6 years. We thank you for your continued support and prayers as we all continue to mourn David's sudden passing. ANYTHING given will be greatly appreciated. On behalf of David and all of his family we love you and thank you, again.
Organizer
Daniel Mosqueda
Organizer
Fremont, CA