LABELLE, FL — It’s the phone call no one who loves someone wants to get.
“He’s practically paralyzed and unable to move.”
On September 9th, 2019, five people were traveling home to Labelle from work in Sarasota.
While heading down I-75 South, the driver lost control of the car.
That lead to a rollover crash that forever changed the lives of five people, including Pablo Perez.
He was a passenger in the car and Jazmin Hernandez’s stepfather.
“I don’t have the right words to explain,” she tells FOX 4.
The crash caused severe damage to Perez’s spinal cord, and left him fighting for his life.
He is currently on a ventilator at Lee Memorial Hospital in Fort Myers.
Jazmin says he won’t be able to walk again.
Updates from the doctor become more challenging to hear by the day, she says.
On top of his condition, Perez’s battling pneumonia and his family is battling reality.
“We have to prepare ourselves for the worse.”
That’s why she and her siblings are doing all they can to help their mom, Gabriela Martinez, who is standing by her husband’s side and unable to work.
“We’re trying to do the best to help my mom out in any way we can,” she says.
They’re selling dinners Sunday in Labelle Civic Park from 10am until they sell out.
They hope to raise funds to help pay for medical costs, as Gabriela Martinez stands by her husband’s side in the fight of his life.
“Nobody deserves anything like that.”
