Former Cincinnati meteorologist Rich Apuzzo has been diagnosed with brain cancer.
Apuzzo has set up a fundraising page called the “Rich Apuzzo Sunny Day Fund-To Beat Brain Cancer.” Click here to donate. On the page, he explains his diagnosis and why he’s in need of money.
He says it all started with a headache that started “as a low ‘hum’ in” in his head.
The headaches continued, reaching what might be called Migraine Levels (again, I never had one so I am only guessing) and two weeks later you find out you’ve got a mass in your brain that cannot be operated on and it should be terminal. So I’ve gone from zero problems healthwise to terminal in under two months. Kinda scary stuff… and I look at it like the world of weather.
He has no health insurance and is looking for help paying the bills. Since leaving Cincinnati’s WXIX in 2006, he’s been running his own weather website called W3 Network.
“Quite honestly, even if I had health insurance it wouldn’t have stopped this,” writes Apuzzo. “But it would help pay the bills and that’s an aspect you can understand because if you have known people who have gone through these kinds of treatments, paying the bills is a BIG deal because it can cripple your family when you’re gone and I don’t plan to leave my wife and children in that situation.”