Evelyn Otto’s Family Fundraiser Follow-Up
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Josh Liljenquist returns to Evelyn’s family to share a fundraiser update and hear what more time together would mean to them.
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just for you and your family. So, last time I met you, you said that you've been in the hospital for 300 days with Evelyn. Yeah. Where are we at now?
Uh, over a year. Over a year. To give you that to Josh from Evelyn. Did you make me some?
Oh my goodness. Thank you. It was very sweet. When was the last time all four of you guys were together?
It's only once a week. So, you have one day a week where you can all be together. Yeah. It's really therapeutic to have mommy and daddy and my daddy and grandma and grandma.
You can't forget grandma and grandma. Especially after a year. It's hard for me to even remember like sitting together as a family. No.
Really? Yeah. I miss my room. You miss your room?
Yeah. And my toys there. And your toys. So work and bills was the barrier that was kind of keeping you guys from being all together.
Yeah. So, if you guys weren't worried about bills, what would change in your day right now? I for sure wouldn't be leaving here at 2:30 in the morning to go to work and get an extra hours in. On top of Evelyn's heart failure, if we didn't have to worry about missing a day of work and paying a car payment or all the medical bills that pop up, our stress would be a lot less and we can just focus our positive energy on that one.
Yeah. Is there an estimate of the time that you guys have left away? It's like closer to 18 months now. At this point, we're just living for the moment.
We're going to put her back in the car and take her home. So, should we get to the reason why we're here? We did a fundraiser for you and your family. And there's over 5,000 people that donated to you, you and your family.
There was over $180,000 for you and your family. Oh my god. You won't have to make that decision anymore. No, you're crying.
Hey, give me a hug. Yeah. Yeah, of course. Yeah.
I can have my husband more than once a week and my son and he can have his doctor more than Thank you doesn't cut it. They changed our lives. Yeah. Changed everyone's life.