Bellmore JFK Alumni Inc

05/12/2024

Happy Mother‘s Day!

04/29/2024

UPDATE RONALD STEIGERS STROKE
April 29 2024
Next week will be about 2 months since my stroke. I am still not allowed on the phone because they want my brain to continue to rest and heal. Drs have changed some of my meds and I have improvement.
I have also started physical and occupational therapy. I am no longer sleeping 20 hours a day I’m down to about 12. My walking and dizziness are both improving but other than Dr apts haven’t been out of the house. I have lost about a total of 40lbs but my appetite is now returning.
Please send prayers, share and contribute if you would like.
Ronald Steiger
Rachel Brody and Mark Meyerowitz is organizing this fundraiser on behalf of Ronald Steiger.
Hello! If you're on this gofundme page, it's because you know our dear friend, Ron Steiger. Whether in person or through one of his many Facebook groups or selfless endeavors, you've likely heard about or seen Ron going out of his way to make everyone's day brighter. We've all seen him delivering girl scout cookies for Valentine's Day, dressing up as Santa Claus and and other holiday characters to cheer people up, delivering gifts to sick/needy children, dropping off soup to a sick friend... You name it, he's done it! You know he is THE guy, the guy who is ALWAYS there to help everyone. Unfortunately, now Ron needs YOUR help. We are starting a gofundme because due to some recent health setbacks, Ron is expected to be out of work for 4‐6 months.
If you haven't heard, over the last few weeks Ron was rushed to the hospital on 3 separate occasions. The first time it was determined that he had a stroke from AFib which caused his left side to be paralyzed. This kept him in the ICU for 5 days. A few days later he was rushed back to the hospital because he thought he was having another stroke. Instead, it was determined that it was a TIA (transient ischemic attack- a brief blockage of blood to the brain) and he was released 4 days later. On his third emergency trip to the hospital last week, doctors determined that he had a hemiplegic migraine.

Ron is now home and his doctors have put him on full bedrest and advised him not to drive. He cannot work and has been told to limit any screen time he is exposed to so he can rest his body and mind.

In the last few weeks he has seen the cardiologist, neurologist, stroke neurologist, his GP, with a gastro, pulmonary doctor, and a neuro optometrist. Even after all of the appointments he's had already, doctors are still puzzled. He has very little balance, is dizzy, nauseated, suffering from very bad head aches, can’t eat, has lost weight and is sleeping for most of the day/night.

Due to Ron's extended absence from work, please consider making a donation to help him get through the next few months as he recovers.

https://gofund.me/b439f227

Thank you!!

Hello! If you're on this gofundme page, it's because you know our dea… Rachel Brody and Mark Meyerowitz needs your support for Ron Steiger- Medical Fundraiser

04/22/2024

Please send prayers, contribute and share!

Rachel Brody and Mark Meyerowitz is organizing this fundraiser on behalf of Ronald Steiger.
Hello! If you're on this gofundme page, it's because you know our dear friend, Ron Steiger. Whether in person or through one of his many Facebook groups or selfless endeavors, you've likely heard about or seen Ron going out of his way to make everyone's day brighter. We've all seen him delivering girl scout cookies for Valentine's Day, dressing up as Santa Claus and and other holiday characters to cheer people up, delivering gifts to sick/needy children, dropping off soup to a sick friend... You name it, he's done it! You know he is THE guy, the guy who is ALWAYS there to help everyone. Unfortunately, now Ron needs YOUR help. We are starting a gofundme because due to some recent health setbacks, Ron is expected to be out of work for 4‐6 months.
If you haven't heard, over the last few weeks Ron was rushed to the hospital on 3 separate occasions. The first time it was determined that he had a stroke from AFib which caused his left side to be paralyzed. This kept him in the ICU for 5 days. A few days later he was rushed back to the hospital because he thought he was having another stroke. Instead, it was determined that it was a TIA (transient ischemic attack- a brief blockage of blood to the brain) and he was released 4 days later. On his third emergency trip to the hospital last week, doctors determined that he had a hemiplegic migraine.

Ron is now home and his doctors have put him on full bedrest and advised him not to drive. He cannot work and has been told to limit any screen time he is exposed to so he can rest his body and mind.

In the last few weeks he has seen the cardiologist, neurologist, stroke neurologist and his GP, and has upcoming appointments with a gastro, pulmonary doctor, and a neuro optometrist. Even after all of the appointments he's had already, doctors are still puzzled. He has very little balance, is dizzy, nauseated, suffering from very bad head aches, can’t eat, has lost weight and is sleeping for most of the day/night.

Due to Ron's extended absence from work, please consider making a donation to help him get through the next few months as he recovers.
Thank you!!

Hello! If you're on this gofundme page, it's because you know our dea… Rachel Brody and Mark Meyerowitz needs your support for Ron Steiger- Medical Fundraiser

04/21/2024

I am not supposed to be on the phone using my eyes but this is one of my favorite post I do every year.

PASSOVER
To All My Friends That Celebrate. HAPPY PASSOVER
Ronald Steiger 🐴

Emoji Haggada 📖:🐴
A long time ago the ✡were ⛓ in 🇪🇬and had to 🛠⛏all day. Moses went to Pharoah, turned his 🎋 into a 🐍 and 🗯: Let my 👫👬👭🚸🆓❗Pharoah 🗯: 🚫‼️ So God sent 🔟 plagues: 💉, 🐸,🕷, 🦁🐅🐊, ☠,💥,☄,🌬🐛, 🗣🌑, 😱🛌. Finally Pharoah 🗯: get outta here 🔜❗ Go by 🚙🚜🚲✈️🚌🛳 or 🐴 or 🐪 just go and don't come 🔙❗ The ✡ took all the 💰💰 in 🇪🇬 and tried to bake some 🍞 but they had to leave 🆘 by 🕛 so the 🍞 didn't rise and ended up looking like🍘. So the ✡👫👬👭 ran to the 🏜 , but oh no! The 🇪🇬 changed their minds and came ⚔🔫 and the ✡ got stuck by the 🌊 of 🌾. So Nachshon🏃🏻into the 💦 and the sea 🌊☀🌊. Yay! Miriam 💃🏻🎶 and everyone 🎤🎼 and everyone 🍾🎉 and was 😄😃. Then they wandered in the desert ⛺🗺 until they came to a 🗻 and got the 🔟 📜 . And now we 🍽 lots of 🍜🍗 🍰 (but not 🍞) and drink🍷🍷🍷🍷! We invite all 👫👫 to the table: the 🤓 , the 😈, the 😇, and the 🤐. We 🎤 about one 🐐 that 👱🏼 bought for two 💲, but then came a 😼 and a 🐶 and a 🎋 and a 🔥 and 💦 and a 🐮 and a 👻🔪 and finally🗿. Everyone is about to 💤💤 because it is 🕑 so now we 🔚. Next year in 🇮🇱!!! 🐴
Enjoy the holidays

04/12/2024

Update April 12
Over the last few weeks Ronald was rushed to the hospital 3 different times. The first time Ronald had a stroke from Afib and his left side was paralyzed and they gave him a clot buster and that allowed the paralysis to go back to normal and he was released from ICU, 5 days later. A few days later he was again rushed to Plainview with what seemed like a stoke as once again his left side and face and voice were paralyzed. This time they thought it was a TIA and he was released 4 days later. This past Sunday he was brought to Manhasset North Shore and they felt it was hemi plegic migrane. Ron is now home and his doctors have told him to stay off the phone, no social media, he can not drive.
He has seen Cardiologist, Neurologist, Stroke Neurologist, his GP, has seen the Gastro and pulmonary Dr and will ba seeing a special Neuro Optometrist and although they have him on meds to prevent another emergency run to the hospital they are all puzzled. They have him some new meds on THIRSDAY HOPING THATS HELPS HIM
He has very little balance, is dizzy, nauseated, very bad head aches, can’t eat, has lost a about 20lbs, sleeping about 19-20 hours a day and is frightened and scared. Marion with her own liver transplant issues is taking care of Ron the best way she can.
Starts physical therapy next week

03/27/2024

If you have a family member, if you know a police officer or support police officers, please share on your wall...
Almighty God we pray to you
In heaven up above
Watch over our dear police officers
And protect them with your love.
Please guide them as they keep us
safe both day and night
And hold them firmly in your care
should danger come their way.
Give them true strength and courage
As they serve til duty's end
And one more thing to ask dear Lord
Protect their family and their friends.

03/18/2024

SU***DE
I write this post after the news of the past several weeks that the su***de rate is increasing.
No ones, I repeat NO ONES life is as perfect as it appears to be on Facebook.
We all at one time in our lives have had our ups and downs, our happy and sad moments and our pain of fighting health issues, financial struggles and the loss of our loved ones.
It’s not weakness nor despair that cause us to doubt and wonder and feel down at different points in our life, but it is life itself.
While I can not speak for others I can say that life has its joys. Life has its times of feeling that all is bad and life can never be good, but this is a mistake.
I myself have lived thru a childhood without the true sense of a normal family.
My mother and father had been divorced my mother remarried and divorced again, never seeing my father until I was 12 and then only seeing him a half dozen times in my whole life, and finally living with my grandparents at the age of 11 or 12 on, after a school official discovered that I was in fact a battered child, as I was beaten regularly by my mother with a stick ball bat.
I worked a 40 hour a week job since I was 14, yes 14, and had many jobs to put myself thru college. ( pumped gas, Ice Cream Trucks, Drove a Cab, SIMONIZ Business, etc ) Had some major success in business employing over 100 people for about 20 years.
I lived thru a head on collision with a drunk driver, fought a fire in a NYC high rise office building, slid down a shoot of a commercial airliner with an engine on fire and lived thru an explosion where I was blown up.
I went thru a horrific divorce from my first marriage of 21 years that did take a toll on both my boys from that marriage. I also went thru some 40 plus major surgeries from 2002-2016 being hospitalized as many as 15-25 days each time. The pain I lived with and live with now would kill most people!!
I write this post not for any one to say wow or to have anyone feel badly, no sad faces please... but rather to encourage those that are out there thinking their life is hard. Thinking their life is over, ITS NOT !
I am no stronger mentally or physically than anyone of you, but, I have a strength of drive and moral fiber that my grandparents gave me along with all the love that any teenage boy could want.
So today, I live a life that many can only dream of. I love my careers as a Financial Advisor and as a Realtor.
I can not tell you how blessed I am, and how crazy in love I am with my wife Marion whom I have been with for the last 26 years.
I have 2 boys and 2 step sons along with daughter in laws and grandchildren.
I am lucky enough to have a few real friends.
I get up everyday to live my life as a good person and to make a difference in other people lives. I live by my philosophy of life by my 3 Commandments.
“ I get up everyday and do something good for myself, I get up everyday to do something good for someone I love and I get up everyday and do something good for a stranger.....I don’t always succeed but I try real hard.”
I’m not perfect and I am no saint.
I do have my priorities in life in the right place and I know right from wrong.
The point is, I have a marvelous life and I am truly content and happy with life in spite of all the challenges I have had.
If I had ever given up and committed the act of SU***DE I wouldn’t be here now to make a difference and love and be loved.

DON’T give in to yourself in a moment or a day or a week of weakness and feeling sorry for yourself.
If your feeling that you are at your wits end and have no hope ... If you are a neighbor, friend, JFK Alumni or someone that knows me, call me and I’ll be happy to talk to you or meet with you. 9178073394.
If your someone I don’t know, here is a number that can help you.
Su***de Hotline 800273TALK.
Feel free to share this post with others.
Sending my love to all.
Ronald Steiger
PS
If you think you know someone going thru something, they might not be able to ask you for help, so you should ask them if your suspicious about them being in a bad place.... let them know your care, are there for them, and want to help.
Xoxo
Ronald Steiger