Philanthropy

The Ricky Palmer Fund

At the end of November 2019, Ricky began to have an onset of unusual symptoms that left him feeling not himself. After an obscene amount of doctors visits, opinions, MRIs, scans, specialists, bloodwork, and tests, he suffered a seizure on February 4th. He was taken to Palos hospital and then transferred to his team at Northwestern Hospital that evening. On February 6th, he underwent a craniotomy that confirmed there was a tumor on the right frontal lobe of Ricky’s brain. He was diagnosed with brain cancer on February 20, 2020. Our world was flipped upside down and our heads haven’t stopped spinning since. Following his week stay at Northwestern Hospital, he moved over to the Shirley Ryan Rehabilitation Facility where he completed 18 days of therapy around the clock before being discharged.