09/11/2022
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Let me tell you about Rhettman, a disabled US Navy veteran who served during the cold war period, who is a double, below-the-knee amputee (both legs), has chronic kidney disease and is on dialysis. After losing his first leg, his wife abandoned him in the hospital seven years ago. She moved to Oregon to live on a farm her father bought for her forcing him to live in a car for a year after his first amputation while also on dialysis and during a severe gall bladder attack. The VA did step up to help him get into place outside of his car, and the landlord promised to make American with Disabilities improvements to the small unit but refuses to do so even after six years. Rhett is forced to live in a small substandard non-ADA compliant apartment. The landlord was to widen doorways so he could get into the bathroom and bedroom, use the tub, and install a walk-in shower and bars, and this was never done. Rhett has, over the last seven years, lost both legs below the knees, no longer has working kidneys, lost a gall bladder, and has had more growing medical issues to where most of his time is spent in hospitals and various clinics and is forced to sleep in the living room on a bed and cannot use the bathroom but uses a bedside commode, can't cook for himself anymore. His quality of life is inferior and hardly acceptable for a man who honorably served his country and sacrificed so much for us. Rhett is a clean and responsible man, so it is killing him that he cannot do something as simple as enjoy soaking in a hot bath and risks his life just to take a shower we all take for granted; he has not had a hot bath in years and only manages to shower once every month or two because his place is not ADA compliant. We seek to build him a custom home designed for a disabled person, as well as replace his electric wheelchair that was destroyed on June 4th of this year when he was sitting on a sidewalk in his little town of Oak Harbor, Washington, a car jumped the curb and slammed into him in his chair pinning him between the car and a fire hydrant. He was ambulanced to two hospitals where it was determined that the accident caused him to have a stroke and he spent almost the entire late spring and this summer in hospitals had 7 separate surgeries, yes, 7 surgeries and is still trying to recover, and his prognosis is not good. The least we can do is help this honorable veteran by building him an ADA compliant home, replace his destroyed electric wheelchair, and provide an ADA compliant van/vehicle to transport him to doctor and clinic appointments every week, and help him to do simple things like bathing regularly, sleeping in a real bedroom, again, things we all just take for granted. After Rhett left the navy back in the 1980s, he spent his life serving and helping others, children, and families, always thinking and doing for others over himself, a truly selfless man. Now it is time for us to help and serve him. Please pass this story along and let’s make this happen for Rhett, he deserves our help. Give all you can and make a difference. Thank you, all funds are held and distributed by a Washington state non-profit for the purpose stated. Give directly to help Rhett, https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/my/profile or through GoFundme: https://gofund.me/e449e79d
