¿Cómo Ayudar a Hermelindo Gutierrez?

Hermelindo Gutierrez esta pasando momentos difíciles en Canadá en compañía de su familia. Hace tan solo unos días que pudo ver a su esposa e hijos después de mucho tiempo. sin embargo esta reunión fue opacada por un accidente que tuvo su pequeño hijo, de acuerdo a esta nota que me mandaron mis amigos de J4MW y que fue publicada en el periódico. THE STANDARD.

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HERMELINDO GUTIERREZ
Bank of Montreal
Account Number : 0033 3204 925
St. Catharines BranchTransit #: 0033

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Joyful reunion turns tragicMexican worker seeking refugee status over health woes now dealingwith son critically injured in cycling accidentSergio Gutierrez is shown with his mother, Fanny, at their home inMexico last year.Photo Special to The Standard, St. CatharinesFriday, September 7, 2007Posted By KARENA WALTER,

Hermelindo Gutierrez waited a year and a half for a reunion with hiswife and children, only to have his patience met with tragedy.A seasonal worker from Mexico, Gutierrez has been stuck in St.Catharines since his kidneys failed in spring 2005. He must be hookedup to a dialysis machine three times a week.Visits with his family are rare since it's expensive for his wifeFanny, their 11-month-old baby Sebastian, 13-year-old daughter Sayuriand nine-year-old son Sergio to travel to see their father.So when they arrived Aug. 29 with the financial help of friends, itwas supposed to be a joyful month-long reunion."It was great, the time that I had with all of them," Gutierrez saidWednesday in Spanish, translated by an English-speaking friend. "Wewent to the park. We all played football."On Saturday, three days after his family arrived from Mexico, Sergiowas riding a bicycle when he collided with a minivan on Rykert Street.Now, the family is keeping vigil in the pediatric intensive care unitat Hamilton Health Sciences' McMaster University site."We're all taking turns being with him," Gutierrez said, speaking fromhis room at Ronald McDonald House in Hamilton. "Sometimes me,sometimes my wife, sometimes my daughter."Surgeons have removed bone from Sergio's skull to relieve pressurecaused by the swelling of his brain.A friend said the extent of Sergio's brain injury is unknown becausehe has been kept sedated.While Gutierrez speaks broken English, he and his family have beenassisted by friends in dealing with the language barrier. As well,there's a nurse sometimes on shift who speaks Spanish.The family is focused on Sergio, but Gutierrez still requires dialysistreatment every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.He had to come back to St. Catharines Monday for the four-hourtreatment at Niagara Health System's Ontario Street site, but wastrying to arrange for treatment in Hamilton Wednesday.Gutierrez came to Ontario nine years ago to work through the seasonalagricultural workers program run by the Canadian and Mexicangovernments. He would stay for eight months of the year and then goback home.For the last several years, he worked at Pioneer Flower Farms onSeventh Street in St. Catharines.Leaving his family for long periods wasn't easy, but the higher wagesin Canada meant he could start building their dream home in Mexico.He had the walls up and roof put on by March 2005, when he started toexperience pain in his feet, which turned out to be a symptom ofkidney failure. Since then, he's had to stop working, and now hedepends on dialysis machines.Gutierrez has claimed refugee status in Canada so he can continuetreatment here, afraid he will die if he goes back to Mexico and can'tafford to pay for dialysis.Because he worked in Canada for eight months of the year, paying taxesand employment insurance, he isn't covered by health insurance in Mexico.Gutierrez told The Standard in December his problems would be solvedif he could afford a kidney transplant. Then he could work and travelto Mexico again.He has 10 siblings willing to be tested to donate their kidneys, butthey cannot afford the operation, which would have to be funded privately.His dialysis is covered by the federal government's interim programfor refugee claimants.It's unknown how his son's medical costs will be paid.He's still waiting to find out what will happen with his refugeeclaim, but for now, his priority is his son's recovery.Police said Sergio was riding a BMX bike on the north side of thestreet around 5:15 p.m. when he crossed the road in front of a GMCSafari van. The impact threw him forward and knocked him out of hisshoes. He was taken to hospital in critical condition. His conditionwas unchanged Wednesday."We had planned to go to Marineland and just to spend time togetherafter so long apart," Gutierrez said.Gutierrez said his daughter Sayuri made a painting of her brothers andparents on Tuesday. It shows them playing football together like theydid at the Ontario Street park before Sergio's accident."She wants to hang it up in his hospital room."http://mx.f601.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=kwalter%40stcatharinesstandard.ca