My 18 year old son, Gabe, was diagnosed with ALS in October of last year, shortly after his birthday.

If you don't know, ALS is a terrible and terminal disease. It strips you piece by piece of your ability to live. In a little over a year and a half since Gabe started showing signs of something being wrong, he has lost the ability to walk, motor skills in his hands, eating has become a chore that has led to choking many time, and now he is having a harder and harder time talking.

Gabe is a "new" but massive One Piece fan. When Gabe started falling down at school, and before we knew exactly what was going on, we had him start doing remote learning. During that time he started watching One Piece. Since then, he has watched every episode and every movie we could get, and is completely caught up with the anime.

When taking Gabe to his doctors appointments or just hanging out, he would talk to me endlessly about lore, have me guess about story/characters, or ask me to quiz him on trivia for it, he loves talking about One Piece.

Gabe, when he falls in love with something, he immerses himself in it completely.

We have many many figures, models of the Thousand Sunny and Going Merry, and most of the Lego kits as well. The above pictures doesn’t show all them.  

I started a GoFundMe recently, because Gabe deserves to live the rest of his life with dignity and hopefully nothing but smiles and laughter, enjoying the things he loves, and maybe have some new experiences as well. Also, Gabe has 2 brothers, Sam and Torin- 14 and 22 respectively, and want them to make and have as many wonderful memories of their brother as possible.

Gabe is unlikely to live to see the end of some of his favorite series of all time, this and Berserk, so I do lurk in this thread and relay as best I can any information from untranslated chapters that are shared here, so please keep up the amazing work.

Thank you for taking time to read all this, and while I never expect a donation, I do really appreciate sharing this if possible.

https://gofund.me/5ede56763

Fundraising for a young straw hat with ALS