Long story short: The goal of this GoFundMe is to cover the mounting medical bills that my dad (known among the helpful folks at Miner's Ace Hardware and to the local community as Jack-of-all-Jankovich) and to realize his wish to bring his daughters, grandsons and mom together with us here in San Luis Obispo, during this unbearable crisis; as he is the sole provider for my mom and he. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your help in funding our family’s crisis as he undergoes Dialysis and fights Cancer. Thank you to the friends who have supplied emotional support and prayers because he needs that too. Long story not-so-short: Love for my dad, Jack Jankovich, has moved me to write these words. If you don’t know my dad, you should, he is a wonderful human being. My name is Janaca, I am third in the line of Jack’s five kids, ranging in age from 42 to 27. Our family is going through a major health crisis. We could use your kind financial assistance in helping my father who, at 63 years of age, has been diagnosed with Stage 4 Cancer on September 28th 2018 at French Hospital in San Luis Obispo, California, after being admitted to Sierra Vista’s Emergency Room on Sunday September 16th 2018 with an immediate diagnosis of Renal Failure in BOTH the left and the right Kidney. We (my sisters, my brother, my mom (62), my aunt (59), my dad’s mom (88), and my dad himself) were in complete shock upon hearing the news. My mom says, "we are living a nightmare and can't wake up! Jack was a picture of health and strength". Seeing my mom’s mouth shape the sentence, “his kidneys have failed”, and hearing the words was like trying to understand a foreign language. Typing this out feels like a bad dream. News like that makes the whole world seem like it’s disappearing and makes your heart slow to an agonizing crawl. My amazing dad, the coolest dad ever - his body breaking down right in front of us. The fear in my family’s faces and hearts as we saw our dad in the ER bed with tubes sticking out, shaky, cold, weak, and gray looking… the terror is unprecedented. It is simultaneously hard to think, hard to not think, and hard to sleep. The Doctors said that if one more day had passed, he would have had a heart attack, on top of kidney failure, on top of cancer because of the elevated levels of potassium in his blood which happens when the kidneys aren’t functioning. The thankfulness I feel for him getting to the ER just in time and for the Doctors to get him on Dialysis so quickly is immeasurable. I can only imagine what it’s like for him... to be such a non-stop, hard-working dad and husband for decades only to be knocked to your knees right in your tracks like this. Within hours of entering those emergency room doors, the Doctors were installing drainage tubes into each of his kidneys, a port directly into the artery in his neck, iv’s, cycling his blood through a filtering machine, performing scans… all on a man who has never suffered anything more serious than a broken foot when he was a little kid. My dad has been Self-Employed for over 35 years in Home Service and Repair. Since September 16th 2018, he is no longer able to financially support himself and my mom, Sandy, to whom he’s been married for 43 years. His job now is to get better in the face of these monstrous diagnoses. He says “my faith [in the Creator] is my foundation”. It has been said, “faith without works is dead,” meaning there is a lot of work to do, and a long, hard road ahead. You may have seen him at Miner’s Ace Hardware (his natural habitat besides the job-site, of course). Many know my dad for his sense of humor, his kind smile, and how he is astoundingly and uncannily knowledgeable on just about any random topic you can think of. He is the hardest-working man I know. He can rebuild a motor, restore a car, cook you the best dinner you’ve ever had, dazzle you with his storytelling skills, and crack an epic joke (few know he can sing too). He is animated when he speaks which makes him fun to talk to. He is compassionate. He has a mind of genius proportions and has an enormous heart and zest for learning to boot. My dad has worked in the community of Morro Bay, California, and the surrounding cities over 20 years. He is known by friends and family as Jack-of-all Jankovich because he is so telented. He is the kind of man who takes pride in his work, finds satisfaction in it, and pours his heart and soul into anything he does. He has turned clients into friends and some into family. Since he was about 24 years old, he could build you a beautiful house from the foundation all the way up to the last roof shingle, including the electrical and plumbing, tile, drywall, flooring, and paint in between. He is passing all of this precious knowledge on to my brother -his protege and only boy- who also shows true talent in the field. He's also passed a lot of knowledge and know-how on to his daughters. He would frequently bring us girls to job-sites too, to do demolition and clean-up, help hang drywall, mud, and paint. That's where we learned first-hand from the pro what it means to take pride in your creations, and not be afraid to work with your hands. My dad always looks at the positive side of life and has stayed positive even through all the recent turmoil these diagnoses have brought to us. He said to me yesterday, with full conviction in his eyes and face, “I’m going to fight it.” Your support in the form of donation, prayer, and friendship is tremendously appreciated. Please help us fight it. With Sincerity, Love and Gratitude, -Jack's daughter, Janaca, and the whole Jankovich fam

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