Please Help Children’s Musician & Story Teller, Mr. Richard In This Time of Need!

by Jeff Sweat • June 10, 2015

Chances are, Mr. Richard has performed for your kids if they grew up, or are growing up, in Orlando. It’s also possible that his wife, Danielle taught your kids in elementary school at Rosemont Elementary in Pine Hills. They’ve both touched so many lives in such a positive way, and now it’s time to help two of the best people in orlando in their time of desperation.

Mr. Richard’s wife, Danielle, was diagnosed with breast cancer a few years back. Now, after many treatments, the cancer has spread into her spine. Her doctors have given her three months to live. Below is the the statement from Mr. Richard.

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Dear friends of Richard and Danielle, please share this page and get the word out. Here is update from Richard this morning. Share this page, spread the love. Let’s raise lots of money so that Richard can be home with Danielle:

Wish I weren’t having to share this, but Danielle’s MRI was not good news. She has cancerous meningitis cells in her spinal fluid and there is excess spinal fluid in her brain. This is what caused the initial swallowing problem which allowed the yeast bacteria to establish the thrush infection in her throat and tongue. Meds are clearing up the thrush so she’s got some relief from that, but this is just the first of oncoming neurological problems that will begin to appear, and there is nothing more they can do for her. On both her doctors’ advice, I have opted to discontinue any further chemotherapy treatments; they would only be annoying at this point. Her oncologist, Dr Grow, estimates she has two to three months left. She might go home tomorrow, and hospice will get involved at some point, but I want her home with me and Molly.

So my job now is to make sure she feels only love and safety and comfort from here forward. Her mother and I agreed that all crying should be done outside her presence, and believe me, plenty was done yesterday with lots more to come. I would like friends to visit her and touch her and smile and kiss her, but I will let you know when that can happen, and you will have to be stout of heart. “Thank you” is so inadequate to say to all of you for these past three years of love and prayer and favors and everything else, but if she could, Danielle would say the same. We have been blessed with something far more valuable than material riches, and that is the wealth of your love and friendship–we couldn’t have soldiered this long without you.

Last night I crawled into Danielle’s hospital bed and she fished her good hand out from the blankets and grabbed mine in a tight grip. Then she let go and reached over to stroke my cheek. My heart was too full to do more than whisper, “Thank you” in her ear.

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