Please Help Us My Father Deserves More

Hi, My name is Samantha Pinkoff (Gallardo). My father has been a single dad toward my brother and I for the past 22 years. My mom passed away with cancer when i was 4 in 2001. He didn’t plan to raise two kids alone but my mother couldn’t make it. He was always there supporting and making sure we had everything in life. He recently moved away to spain with his fiancé and his health declined. Sunday morning he called me and told me his organs were failing and he also had an infection from a bite. Due to his infection they couldn’t treat his failing organs. It was one or the other so the infection needed to be treated first. He told me he would be fine and out by the end of the weekend. I was planning to visit with my husband in december because he told

me he was fine and would be out by the weekend. He loved my husband and even had a nickname for him. They would talk about the lottery so often and how when one of them wins they would share the cut. He was a good father in law to him. He asked to speak to my husband after he gave me the news that he is in the hospital and my husband put him on speaker and i heard him, he told my husband sunday when he gave us the news “take care of samantha” and then is when i knew something is more serious than he’s letting out. I spoke to him tuesday morning briefly and that was the last time i heard his voice. He called me and i called him back but we played phone tag for a few hours but i was working and unfortunately i missed my last shot at speaking with him aside from that morning. I received a call wednesday morning that he passed away…. i had a breakdown realizing my only parent was gone and i could never hug or see him again or hear his voice. His insurance has stopped the cremation process in spain because of qualifications he didn’t meet and not having right insurance in another country. we can’t afford to cremate him (the insurance he had was only travel insurance and they stopped the entire cremation process on us) and ship him to the US… and i can’t fathom leaving him to be disposed of and not having a part of my father and his funeral ceremony. The hospital in spain is refusing to send us documents of his health and claiming they don’t have a death certificate so without one we can’t get his records. We believe malpractice was involved. They didn’t have him hooked up to anything but oxygen for this infection and organ failure and when he passed they didn’t check how he passed and refused to send me documents. Everytime i call they hangup on me and say file a complaint via email which doesn’t help. They refuse to do an autopsy and won’t let me speak to anyone higher up. This is harder than it needs to be… He’s currently waiting at a funeral home and we are on a time limit to cremate him before the body can no longer be cremated. PLEASE help so we can cremate him in spain and get him shipped home to have a funeral and laid with my mom at the same funeral home.. I beg you… he was my only parent. I have a brother with disabilities and my dad took care of us as a single parent forever after moms passing. His fiancé and her daughter are also being impacted by this in spain and can’t get any answers as well and he was beyond helpful to everyone. He was the one we all went to to get documents done and answers to questions and we feel so lost without him. We are all distraught and just in need of help.