I have a client with some very special circumstances. She is looking for a home to rent in Huntington Beach. It has to be at least 2 bedrooms with a garage. My client has two son’s, one attends Huntington Beach High School and the other is recovering from brain cancer.
For those of you that know Mike Fisher, you know the brain cancer hasn’t slowed him down from his love of surfing. Because he is unable to drive, he rides his bike daily to go surf. So finding a home that is beach-close is a must.
The Fisher family NEEDS a beach-close two bedroom home that will rent for around $1,500. This is a property that doesn’t exist in the MLS system. We need someone that owns property in the downtown Huntington Beach area to help out. If you or someone you know has a vacant property, please CONTACT US TODAY.
Links to learn more or to donate to Mike’s cause: www.caringbridge.org/visit/mikeefisher , Video , Save Mike’s Head
Please read on to hear about Mike’s story as written in the OC Register: By Layllen Connelly
Mike Fisher points out to the wind-whipped waters, where no surfers are in sight.
“I’ll go out on days like this, because you can find little peaks and leave the water feeling better than when you went out,” he says.
I’m sitting on the steps near the grassy knoll north of the Huntington Pier, getting into a deep conversation with Mike about life – how things can change so fast, and how to react when life throws you a curve ball.
Mike’s take on it: “Learn how to hit a curve ball.”
The surfer, a member of the Huntington Beach High School Surf Team, knows more than any 17-year-old should about how to handle difficult times.
If you pass Fisher on the street, he looks like any other HB surf kid – athletic and sinewy body, tanned skin, sporting a Hurley shirt. He’s got a Zen-like demure, like he can take on the world, no sweat. His humor comes out sporadically, laughing lightly even during the most serious of discussions — like brain cancer.
For those who know Fisher – or have seen the posters plastered around town reading “Save Mike’s Head” – you know the fight he’s enduring against a tumor found on his brain last September.
It started with intense headaches. The next thing he knew, he woke up in a hospital bed. His 14-year-old brother had found him after he suffered a seizure.
It sat on the left side of his skull, right above his forehead.
“They cut me up and took it out in one big swoop,” he says.
It was stage 3 cancer, to which he responds, “Hey, it’s not stage 4,” which is the worst-case scenario.
Now, he’s in treatment, fighting so the tumor doesn’t return.
They had the predictions the doctors threw around, giving a time limit on his chances of survival.
“I haven’t heard them,” he says. “I don’t think kids should know that. The less you know, the better.”
Instead of opting for intense chemo, Fisher and his family decided on alternative medicine – not covered by insurance — clinical trials from Texas that has him taking 42 pills a day for about a year.
He stops as he’s explaining.
“I hate to talk about the negative. It’s not too bad,” he says.
“Look at that guy, he’s riding a bike with one arm and he’s smiling,” he says of a man riding by on the boardwalk.
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