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Wednesday, May 12, 2021
GoFundMe campaign started for Leamington man
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LEAMINGTON — Leamington resident Victoria Mouck, is reaching out to the public to help a friend. Victoria recently started a GoFundMe campaign for her son’s friend, Craig Symons, who has recently been diagnosed with throat cancer, on top of having ongoing issues with a botched eye surgery. The trouble for Symons started in 2019 when he had eye surgery in Windsor. In a four-week span, he had both eyes done, waking from the second surgery to excruciating pain. The pain was so
bad that he returned to the Windsor hospital the next day, hoping for some answers. They performed another surgery at that point and sent him on his way. “He was told that he had dry eyes and that it would correct itself within 12 months,” said Victoria. Symons saw several eye specialists in Windsor and they all told him the same thing, while the original surgeon refused to see him again. Due to that condition he’s been unable to work since the surgeries. An attempt to reach out
to personal injury lawyers who advertise on television brought extra frustration because they want $10,000 up front. “It’s now been 26 months with no improvement,’ said Victoria. Symons recently got a diagnosis of throat cancer
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she set up the GoFundMe page, hoping that the community would help him out. His page can be found at www.gofundme.com. Just search for Helping Craig To Heal. “I feel it’s about time that Craig gets a break in life,” said Victoria.
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