Please take the time to read this.
Everyone, please take the time to read what Angelo has written below. We need all the help and prayers we can get during this time. Thank you.
(A letter from Angelo to all of our friends and family...)
Times have been an all around whirlwind of chaos and suffering in my personal life for quite some time now. What I am about to tell you all is something I have only told few. So please do not judge or pass gossip. This is my life and you are all my 2nd family. I lost a numerous amount of close friends due to accidents, drug related problems, and also because of the times. I also lost one of my favorite uncles in late 1997 due to Hodgkin's in Puerto Rico. In the year 2000 my father was diagnosed with pneumonia and fluid in his lungs. Another thing he was diagnosed with was AIDS. He used to work for the Melbourne Health Department. He was a maintenance manager and was doing his routine chores when he was poked on his hand by an infected needle which should had been thrown away in one of the hazard boxes but was thrown in the trash bins. He was checked but was told he was ok. 7 years later and now it ended up with a lot more than expected. On September 19th 2000, Angelo Pete Manzano passed away in the ICU center of Palm Bay Community Hospital. He was accompanied by my mother, his sister, nephew, my sister, his son in law and myself. It has been a rough time for my family and myself. Now to bring you to the most recent sadness to have come into my life. September 29th Maria Victoria Cabral Manzano (my mother) was sent to the emergency room at Palm Bay Community Hospital for swollen lymph nodes all over her body. With return notification by the doctors that she was diagnosed with Lymphoma Non-Hodgkin's Cancer. there are 30 Types of Lymphoma. The lowest form only has a rate of 40-50% of patients making it through therapy and living. So in other words, she lives or she dies is our outcome. My life has hit an all time low and life is just not feeling so shiny like it did before. I will have lost great friends, family members that were more than part of my soul and my ever so wonderful father in which I will forever remember in my soul, dreams and in my blood. I can not lose my mother for I will crumble into nothing more than a mass of sadness, hurt, confusion and at most, alone again inside. I have my sister and her family to be by my side, I have my wonderful loving other half Jessica to rid me of these feelings & support me with every ounce to pound of greatness. But all in all I will have to face every single one of you sooner or later. So I ask you all now to please pray, please help me figure out a way to better my mothers health and understand my families sadness.
I have discussed starting a fund raiser and a charity fund for my mothers health with this cancer. But will be needing help from others to figure out where we can do this at besides my mothers bank and work. Please send me any information that can help. I also ask you to take just a mere 5 minutes to put those aside you love and care for and tell them how much they mean to you. Why? Because tomorrow they might not ever know what you did or meant for them to be a part of your life. If you know my mother and remember how great she is, feel free to call her and give your regards. She needs all the support she can get. Thank you.
Love, CHILE
(A letter from Angelo to all of our friends and family...)
Times have been an all around whirlwind of chaos and suffering in my personal life for quite some time now. What I am about to tell you all is something I have only told few. So please do not judge or pass gossip. This is my life and you are all my 2nd family. I lost a numerous amount of close friends due to accidents, drug related problems, and also because of the times. I also lost one of my favorite uncles in late 1997 due to Hodgkin's in Puerto Rico. In the year 2000 my father was diagnosed with pneumonia and fluid in his lungs. Another thing he was diagnosed with was AIDS. He used to work for the Melbourne Health Department. He was a maintenance manager and was doing his routine chores when he was poked on his hand by an infected needle which should had been thrown away in one of the hazard boxes but was thrown in the trash bins. He was checked but was told he was ok. 7 years later and now it ended up with a lot more than expected. On September 19th 2000, Angelo Pete Manzano passed away in the ICU center of Palm Bay Community Hospital. He was accompanied by my mother, his sister, nephew, my sister, his son in law and myself. It has been a rough time for my family and myself. Now to bring you to the most recent sadness to have come into my life. September 29th Maria Victoria Cabral Manzano (my mother) was sent to the emergency room at Palm Bay Community Hospital for swollen lymph nodes all over her body. With return notification by the doctors that she was diagnosed with Lymphoma Non-Hodgkin's Cancer. there are 30 Types of Lymphoma. The lowest form only has a rate of 40-50% of patients making it through therapy and living. So in other words, she lives or she dies is our outcome. My life has hit an all time low and life is just not feeling so shiny like it did before. I will have lost great friends, family members that were more than part of my soul and my ever so wonderful father in which I will forever remember in my soul, dreams and in my blood. I can not lose my mother for I will crumble into nothing more than a mass of sadness, hurt, confusion and at most, alone again inside. I have my sister and her family to be by my side, I have my wonderful loving other half Jessica to rid me of these feelings & support me with every ounce to pound of greatness. But all in all I will have to face every single one of you sooner or later. So I ask you all now to please pray, please help me figure out a way to better my mothers health and understand my families sadness.
I have discussed starting a fund raiser and a charity fund for my mothers health with this cancer. But will be needing help from others to figure out where we can do this at besides my mothers bank and work. Please send me any information that can help. I also ask you to take just a mere 5 minutes to put those aside you love and care for and tell them how much they mean to you. Why? Because tomorrow they might not ever know what you did or meant for them to be a part of your life. If you know my mother and remember how great she is, feel free to call her and give your regards. She needs all the support she can get. Thank you.
Love, CHILE