Ravers Clavers dancer still needs money for surgery - Awaiting medical attention in New York City

Ding Dong and his Ravers Clavers crew. - File

 

Popular dancer Ricardo 'Mundo Ravers' Gordon, from the Nannyville-based Ravers Clavers, is still well short of the funds to do a much-needed kidney transplant.


Speaking with  the weekend star weeks ago, Mundo explained that his kidney problems started three years ago, and now he has two almost defunct kidneys. He previously said, "Mi discover it in 2007, but mi neva know exactly what it was at the time and mi neva think it that serious. Mi even go a doctor one time because mi ankle dem did swell up and him tell mi seh a bone infection. How mi find out a when mi guh one a my long-time doctor weh come from Nannyville an him do some tests and tell mi seh a kidney failure and sugar problem."
He continued, "Them gi mi a medication weh people call 'steroids' fi about a year, but it cause mi fi all lose mi vision, sometime is like mi half-blind. So it mek mi worse when I thought I was getting better."
After quitting the 'steroids', he said his next treatment method was dialysis. "A doctor at the Medical Associates did a small operation on mi. A him really mek mi deh yah right now. Him set up something weh mi can do dialysis. Mi a do it for six weeks now, but a $16,000 a week suh it very expensive," he said.
When contacted yesterday, Mundo's brother Gevon 'Strength' Gordon, also a dancer with the Ravers Clavers squad, explained that his brother has been in New York for some time waiting to get medical attention.

He told the weekend star that the surgery to replace both kidneys and the medication treatment will cost US$250,000, (J$21million).

trying to raise money
According to Strength, he recently returned from New York and he says despite trying to raise the money, they are nowhere near the amount.
Strength said, "He (Mundo) hasn't done the surgery yet, you have to have the money before he can do it and we don't even reach half the money. Right now, we're trying to get him on a dialysis programme up there, before he left Jamaica he was on one ..."
He added, "While I was up there, we had to carry him to a hospital room, he started swelling up like him belly, ankles, thighs."

Since finding out about the surgery, Mundo, his family and the Ravers crew have been trying to raise the money. The Ravers Crew has been spotted at various events appealing for persons to donate to Mundo. Before leaving for New York, Mundo had told the weekend star that he was very thankful to members of the entertainment industry, as he said they have been very helpful, assisting him a lot. He mentioned Sharon Burke, Bounty Killer, Serani, Beenie Man, Mavado, Timberlee and the Ravers Clavers among those who have come to his aid. "Sharon and Solid Agency kept a fish fry for mi in Nannyville the other day, Bounty ago donate the proceeds a one a di Bounty Sundays to mi and yuh dun know Ravers Clavers family deh deh fi mi from morning," he said.

In his absence, his family is still attempting to raise funds, as Strength said, "We really a work hard for the money. We sent letters about a month ago to companies and waiting to see if anybody a call we. We tried a fund-raising ting in Nannyville, a fish fry. We're planning a concert for him both down here and up there. Right now, we're trying to get a venue cause the artistes is not a problem, we done talk to dem already, a di venue a di problem. Everybody a try do wha we can do."





source: The weekend star