A Las Lo­mas man is plead­ing with the pub­lic, for a sec­ond time, to raise the mon­ey he needs for a liv­er trans­plant.

Andy Re­sal, 32, first at­tempt­ed to raise funds af­ter his di­ag­no­sis in 2023 by work­ing with a pop­u­lar ac­tivist to ral­ly for as­sis­tance.

Guardian Me­dia pub­lished his sto­ry but his ef­fort failed af­ter the ac­tivist re­port­ed­ly la­belled Re­sal a fraud­ster. Al­le­ga­tions he de­nied.

“Is noth­ing about ly­ing, he just didn’t run through the pa­per­work prop­er­ly, but every­thing I say­ing is true and I not call­ing any sick­ness on my­self. I reach too far in life to call sick­ness on my­self and just go down,” he stat­ed.

The fa­ther of four, who worked as a fruit ven­dor, was di­ag­nosed with liv­er cir­rho­sis or late-stage liv­er dis­ease at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex when he was 29 years old. He im­me­di­ate­ly joined the clin­ic.

“Back in 2022 dur­ing the Christ­mas time I wasn’t feel­ing well and af­ter the Christ­mas, when it reached to about Feb­ru­ary, I went and do a lil test­ing and they tell me I have to check up on my liv­er,” he ex­plained.

Af­ter his plight was high­light­ed, Re­sal and the ac­tivist were able to raise ap­prox­i­mate­ly $300,000 for his surgery set to be per­formed in In­dia. How­ev­er, Re­sal claimed the ac­tivist de­mand­ed a blood test but when he did not com­plete it in time, he was asked back for the mon­ey. The pro­ce­dure would have cost ap­prox­i­mate­ly US$80,000.

“He just sent out a state­ment with­out no­ti­fy­ing me and then tell every­body I didn’t want to go for the blood test...he was re­al­ly mix­ing me up,” he ex­plained.

Still de­ter­mined to get help, Re­sal said his rel­a­tives held a bar­beque but that on­ly raised four per cent of the mon­ey need­ed.

An at­tempt to host a boat ride was al­so un­suc­cess­ful he said, es­pe­cial­ly af­ter he was la­belled a fraud­ster.

“All that mon­ey was go­ing and spend on one surgery, it wasn’t go­ing and spend on some­thing else, we was miss­ing the tick­et mon­ey,” he said.

The fruit ven­dor said his wife and chil­dren were al­so bul­lied due to the claims.

“It af­fects me, at night when I in bed watch­ing my chil­dren...every­body be­ing like ‘go and work’. Watch, I look­ing healthy? From the time I chop down one fig tree to get leaf my heart beat­ing fast, fast, fast, from the time I taste so blood in my mouth, when I spit so blood,” he ex­plained.

He said some­times he would faint.

Re­sal is de­ter­mined to get as­sis­tance since his cur­rent con­di­tion is af­fect­ing how he pro­vides for his fam­i­ly.

“I know every­thing truth­ful, I strug­gling, I fac­ing every­thing,” he said.

Any­one will­ing to as­sist Re­sal can call 469-3684 or 752-8108 or do­nate to his RBC ac­count 110000004914517.