Rich Langendoerfer

Richard Needs Your Support!

Richard Langendoerfer is a father, a husband, and a friend to those around him. He was a hard-working man who loved his job as a maintenance manager for student housing at a prominent college. But, in July 2011, Richard was injured while on the job. He was helping a co-worker bring a water heater down from the back of a truck. Unknown to Richard, the water heater was not completely empty. His legs buckled underneath him and he crashed to the ground. Richard suffered a spinal cord injury to his lower back leaving him with pain down both legs caused by polyneuropathy and pain and weakness in his arms and hands. He is restricted to a motorized wheelchair now.

Richard has been through so much medically- prostate cancer in November of 2008 (currently in remission) and bladder implant surgery in June of 2009. Yet, with his indomitable spirit, he has pushed on trying to keep his family fed and safe and to hold onto their home. His family is the most important part of his life. He is not able to do as many things with the family, even something simple like a car ride, since sitting up for extended periods of time becomes too painful for him.

Richard is the kind of person that was always willing to help others in whatever they may need. Now, he needs your help to make each day a little better for him. A tub with easy access and circulation to help move the warm water around his painful body parts would ease some of the pain. He is unable to drive to his doctor’s appointments and counts on me to take him. With a wheelchair accessible vehicle, Richard would be able to regain some of that independence. There are much needed modifications necessary to our single story home to make it more accessible. The financial burden is overwhelming and cannot be faced alone.

To help with the financial burden of Richard’s 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 New York Spinal Cord Injury Fund, and are administered by HelpHOPELive for injury-related expenses only. Please consider an end-of-year tax deductible contribution.

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Thanks you for any help you can offer. Please know that your contribution counts.

Sincerely,
Lori Langendoerfer (Richard’s wife) [email protected]