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I think the hardest part is knowing that my 3 boys are going to go to high-school, go to college, meet the woman of their dreams, walk down the aisle without their mother, start a family, and so many more milestone events, and I am not going to be there for it. I created this website to further explain our purpose behind needed to raise money for surgery. The amount of people that have checked out my website has been nothing short of amazing, and I want to genuinely thank al

By the end of 2025 Dr. Alvear had changed some things with the operation that would eliminate complications that previous patients had been encountering and provide a permanent solution to cure the SMAS going forward in all individuals. (Dr. Alvear lives in the USA but he is licensed medically in the Philipines as well as the USA.) It was just another day laying around in bed, when I heard the messenger ring tone start to play from my phone, but it wasn't just another phon

My phone rang, but it was not just a normal ringtone, it was Facebook messenger, and the only person who calls me on FB messenger is my dad, but it wasn't my dad calling, it was Dr. Alvear calling me....See I had sent him many messages and pleas and questions over the past year and a half since even before I had the procedure. I would occasionally get a "thumbs up" or a "yes" or a "no", but today he was calling me, right after I had prayed for God to lead me in the direction

At this point, I am starting to feel like a move to Virginia would be my smartest move, with how many times we have had to return. In November of 2025, my tube is in, but it hurts and is hard to use consistently, my SMAS pains have returned, my MALS pains have never went away, and things are still hard to swallow. Dr. Fowlkes tells me to come back down, he is going to fix my tube placement run a bunch of tests, and figure out what exactly is wrong with me. We load up the c