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This is Roel Martinez,He was born October 5 1974,.he passed may 2024.his passing has had such an impact in the lives of his family and friends,he was just a happy outstanding person ,helped anyone he could and then some he was a friend magnet ,people just enjoyed being in his company.he had a 3 almost 4 year battle with cancer,he was such a good soul that if someone asked how he felt or if he was ok he would smile and say yeah I'm good I'm fine,and he would be so sick.he had so many hospital stays ,some were direct admittance,so scary for him and for myself,but the bills started adding up like crazy ,sure had insurance,but everything added up so fast that our funds depleted quickly so the premiums didn't get paid ,so then we're bouncing around trying to get insurance straight ,finally insurance kicks in again we'll it paid most of every bill from 1 hospital stay,the Dr.presribes him intravenous medication to be administered at home so I had to take a class at the hospital to learn how to use the infusion pump how to hook everything up an the medication,that were TPNs which is total nutrients,his intestines stopped absorbing the nutrients from what we eat and drink,so that sent him home he had a pic line but he had 2 one for draw blood and the other one for the medication and the infusion one bag was 20 hours then he went to 16 then to finally 12 hours .he fell a bout a month ago and hurt his tailbone pretty bad,he had gotten so thin he had no cushion back there so he damaged his backside so bad,and that is when the cancer and everything ran rapid,since the bone in his backside was hurt the cancer spread to his spine rapid ally,and his intestines got perforated and was leaking out toxic poise into his blood and he became septic,and it started to shut all organs down.this is so ungodly hard for me to talk about ,it is just I was with him for 22 years and to see him so sick and the pain he felt would take down an elephant the pain ..he was my everything my protector my provider,friend,I mean a lifetime of everything imaginable.now I need to lay him to rest he doesn't feel anymore pain.so this is why I tried to get you to know and understand Roel.i am needing financial assistance with funeral expenses,a traditional burial can run anywhere from 7 to 12 thousand dollars....WOW..there is just no way I would ever scrape that kind of money together,I love Roel so intense that I would move mountains if I had to,and all things are possible in God,I pray and I was sent here to tell roel story.please find it in your hearts to donate to helping me raise the funds to go towards the funeral expenses.my name is Angela Crandall and I want to thankyou for taking the time to read alittle bit about Roel.god bless ...services have not been set ,due to lack of expeses
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