Come on folks, if every person on Active Rain sends $3.00 that would be over half a million bucks, Hey my family is tight on money but our circumstances pale into insignificance compared to this poor gal. Send $3.00, send $1 or $5, just count up your pocket change and lend a little love. if not please pray.
Please reblog this post so that we can help get the word out about Denise Shockey's family's tragedies.
Denise Shockey is very near and dear to my heart. She is one of the agents that I have had the privilage to coach. We even have split short sale deals together. Denise is such a hard and smart worker. She works for Re/Max in Cocoa Beach Florida.
She had her whole team up and running. Denise is a go getter and was really going to the top. Right as everything was put into place and her team was in the growth stages- tragedy hit her and her family and hit her hard. They say that bad stuff happens in threes, well, Denise has had more than her share this last few weeks.
Denise's husband and son are near dying.
She needs our help. Denise is very brave and independent and up until now has not wanted me to reach out to Active Rain for help. But the time has come and she is now asking that I speak in her behalf.
John Shockey was the Police Chief in their home town of Rockledge Florida. He served for many years as a very respected Police Chief. He started to feel a lot of stress back in October of 2009. He felt it best if he retired at that time to relieve some of the stress. He was helping Denise in her business and was planning on partnering with her as an agent. It was all mapped out. But then he ended up in the hospital.
The doctors determined that he had a heart attack back when he was still a Police Chief and that is what that stress feeling was all about. This kind of heart attack is called, "the Widow Maker". He is not in operating condition right now, it is that bad. His LAD artery is has 100% blockage. He is at risk of sudden death at any time. The doctors have placed him on a transplant list at Shands Medical Center in Florida. His heart only works at 20% capacity and he can die at any moment.
John was approved for social security benefits but those funds will not start coming in for another five months. In the meantime Denise is trying to hold it all together. There is no way she can do this on her own.
A couple of the agents in her office are helping her with her short sale listings and files. There is no way she can concentrate on new business right now. It is just so heart wrenching to watch someone close to you go through this and feel so helpless. She has hope, she has faith in God, she takes time to pray.
Then as I said, tragedy does not strike once- her son was in a very bad accident and he is only 18 years old. When she arrived at the hospital her son was in a coma and was on life support. What more could be asked of Denise to bear. Dylan is her son's name. Dylan was able to have brain surgery but he is going to have a very long recovery time. Right now, Dylan has severe brain damage and is behaving at an emotional level of a five year old.
Now we all know that when you work in real estate if you are not closing deals you are not making money so needless to say, they are going to lose their home also. They are trying to sell it as a short sale. There is just no way that Denise can keep up the payments plus take care of two men in her life who need her full time help. I am crying as I write this request for us to please start a prayer chain for Denise and her family. Please reblog this and ask everyone you know to please pray for Denise, John and Dylan. Please flag this post to get featured so we can get as many eyes as we can on this post to help Denise.
Some of her friends in Cocoa Beach have set up a medical account at the Community Bank of the South in Rockledge Florida. The phone number to the bank is 321-638-8939 and the address of the bank is 1902 Fiske Blvd. Rockledge Florida 32955
If you could find it in your heart to please send a small payment to help Denise and her family we would so appreciate it. If you could go without one meal once a week for one month and send the equavilent to the medical account- you would be really helping a family that really needs our help and does do everything in their own control to take care of themselves.
This is not a scam. If you want to double check you can see that Denise Shockey is a member of Active Rain here. You can also call her broker to make sure this story is true. His name is Ralph Cochran at Re/Max Absolute at 321-255-1423 You can also check up on her at the Space Coast Association of Realtors at 321-452-9490 and ask for Brenda Warner.
Corinne Guest
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Royal Advocate Realty, Barrington
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This is so very sad! I will certainly say a prayer for this family.
Corinne: Thank you for bringing this situation to light. I will definitely take action and help as much as possible.
Gene
Thanks Kim and Gene.
I have just mailed a small donation. Every little helps.
Hi Everyone, First, I want to thank you Katerina, so much for your help. I told Mari that you would jump on it, and you did. I also what to thank everyone for your prayers, thoughts and everything else.
My day is pretty much driving my husband John or my son Dylan to doctor or therapy appointments. John just got out of the hospital again, where they tried surgery to unblocked his totally blocked LAD artery. It was not successful, and he is bummed that all that is left is an implanted IED device and to stay on the transplant list. Dylan is home, and has a long recovery, much therapy for the brain injury. I am going to try and start working some next week, hopefully.
I am so thankful to God, my family, and all my friends for your love and support. Mere words cannot express what I feel for you.
May our little donations help Denise and her family pull through.