DALY CITY — The 30-year-old Daly City man who was mauled earlier this month by a neighbor’s large dog remains hospitalized with severe injuries and is facing a long road to recovery, according to his family.

Wednesday, the family of Gil Galang created a Go Fund Me page to raise money for his medical costs, including “his initial hospital fees and his ambulance fees.”

Gil Galang’s sister, Gina, said her brother still does not have the use of his arms, which were seriously injured during the attack on April 8 in the backyard of his family’s Daly City home. Galang’s left arm was severely damaged and required multiple surgeries, his sister said.

“He almost lost his left arm,” Gina Galang said.

The injuries to both arms are still “causing him a lot of pain,” she added.

On the morning of the attack, Galang was picking up his own dog’s droppings in the family’s backyard before leaving for his job as a certified nursing assistant for a convalescent home in San Francisco, his sister said. The neighbor’s dog, which was believed to be a Rottweiler, got into the yard through a hole in the fence, Gina Galang said.

Neighbors heard Galang’s screams and tried to help, according to a report from ABC7, this news organization’s media partner. One neighbor threw a knife over the fence, but at that point Galang’s arms had been seriously injured. Another neighbor tried to stop the attack by spraying water on the dog.

Gil Galang will likely remain hospitalized “for a while,” his sister said Friday.

]”We’re all scared because we don’t know what’s going to happen in the future, if he’s going to be able to recover 100 percent,” Gina Galang said. “It’s a really stressful situation. A lot of us wish we could help more.”

Donations to help Gil Galang can be made at gofundme.com/help-gil039s-road-to-recovery.