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Dan Martin recently suffered a life-changing catastrophic heart attack. After many resuscitation efforts, Dan was left with brain injury from being without oxygen for at least ten minutes. Initially given a 1% chance of survival, miraculously, he is alive. Dan has regained his speech and ability to walk and his sense of humor is intact. He is experiencing challenges with his memory and it is uncertain if or when all of his memory will return. Currently, Dan is rehabilitating at a friend’s home. As you can imagine, the care he needs is very expensive, which is why we need your help.
Dan was raised in Yarmouth, MA – Cape Cod where his many passions flourished. He is father to Ryan Pagano and Elizabeth Martin, brother of David Martin, Dennis Martin, Douglas Martin, and Trish Martin. He has been a life-long salesman beginning as a waiter and valet for The Roadhouse Café; owner Dave Colombo has treated him like a brother since their friendship began in grammar school. Dan coached Brockton High School Football alongside his great friend, Bob O’Neill for many years. Vern Gibson has been a mentor and employer to Dan in financial services. His cousin Karen and her husband Rick Russell lived and worked with Dan. With the help of his brother Douglas and numerous supporters, most recently, Dan owned Shoreline House Washing. Although not a wealthy man monetarily, Dan is rich with love from friends and family. So many, we regret not being able to mention all of them.
Dan is motivated and ready for intensive therapy so he can recover from this catastrophic illness and return to doing the activities he loves, and most of all, being able to be involved with his children. In addition to help with therapy costs, when Dan is able to return home, he will need private nursing care for an undetermined amount of time.
To help with the financial burden of Dan’s uninsured expenses, a fundraising campaign in his honor has been established with HelpHOPELive, a trusted nonprofit organization that has been providing community-based fundraising guidance to patients and their families for more than 30 years. All donations are tax-deductible, are held by HelpHOPELive in the Northeast Catastrophic Illness Fund, and are administered by HelpHOPELive for illness-related expenses only. Please consider a contribution, by clicking donate now.
Dan was extremely instrumental with raising funds for his sister Trish, who needs a double lung transplant and now he needs our help. Thank you for your support for Dan.
The family of Dan Martin, martintrish@hotmail.com
Dan would like to thank everyone for your support. Actually he wants phone numbers to call because writing thank you notes is a challenge. We can keep explaining it is part of his therapy.
Amazingly, he is recovering more quickly than anyone could have predicted.
We pray Dan regains all of his long term and short term memory within a year. One thing is for sure, his sense of humor is intact. He is more serene and at peace than he has ever been ("dying 6 times will do that to you"). God Bless.
We had an amazing night at the Roadhouse Café. Our family can't thank everyone enough for your generosity. God Bless, The Martin Family.
Hi Dan, all your friends in Everett are hoping you get well soon.
Freddy Merchant
Make checks payable to:
Help Hope Live
Note in memo:
In honor of Dan Martin
Mail to:
Help Hope Live
2 Radnor Corporate Center
Suite 100
100 Matsonford Road
Radnor, PA 19087
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