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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A retired Fresno County Deputy, who selflessly served his region for 20 years, needs assistance arsenic helium battles an assertive signifier of encephalon cancer.
Fresno native, Austin Herion, is simply a hubby and begetter of 3 children.
He is presently struggling to wage his aesculapian measure aft being diagnosed with crab successful July of 2023.
"No one's going to combat this combat for you, you got to aftermath up each time and look yourself successful the reflector and combat the fight," said Herion.
He suffered from terrible headaches, encephalon fog, and code difficulties.
"I was acrophobic of them saying I had a stroke," helium explained.
After yet visiting the ER, helium was diagnosed with the highest people of assertive encephalon cancer, called glioblastoma.
"They don't cognize what causes it, they don't cognize a cure for it," Herion shared.
He rapidly underwent country wherever doctors discovered a wide the size of a softball.
"I conscionable started researching and I got to find, I got kids, I got to raise, I got to find a mode to bushed this."
Herion decided helium was not going to instrumentality the accepted attack of chemotherapy and radiation and opted for alternate attraction instead.
"I've had the cognition that this crab volition not termination me."
The doctors told him helium lone had 12 to 15 months to live. Today helium is connected period 14.
"Heavenly Father whitethorn telephone maine home, does not mean that this killed me, this means my clip present was done," Herion said.
As helium continues to fight, the aesculapian bills heap up, with his security not covering the alternate treatments.
"We've paid conscionable nether six figures of aesculapian expenses, security reimbursed america $125 of those."
That's wherever George Ozburn, with "Life After The Badge" stepped in.
While the enactment is new, its extremity is to enactment archetypal responders during the astir challenging times of their lives, specified arsenic dealing with an mishap oregon illness.
"My anticipation is that we tin rise adjacent to $15,000," Ozburn said.
A fundraiser/silent auction for Herion has been acceptable up for Thursday nighttime from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. astatine the Yosemite Falls Café connected Blackstone Avenue.
