When Jessica and Robert Reboredo got married, it seemed like they would have the perfect lives together. The young couple soon started a family, with Robert doing carpentry and Jessica serving at a restaurant in Las Vegas.
While Jessica was pregnant with their fourth child, the pair received devastating news — 25-year-old Robert was diagnosed with testicular cancer, and it had spread to his stomach and lungs.
It wasn’t long before Robert began to lose his battle with the progressive disease. Eventually, he was checked into a Los Angeles hospital, where he was given palliative care.
Sadly, the hospital was nearly 300 miles from his home. With bills piling up, the couple couldn’t afford for Jessica to take off work.
Refusing to let Robert go through the battle alone, Jessica would often work a late-night shift before driving over four hours to see her husband. Unable to pay for a hotel, she resorted to sleeping in her car before heading back and doing it all over again.
“This week I had to just do it on a drop of a dime, and I couldn’t afford it, so I slept in my car for a day,” Jessica Reboredo recalled. “But I’m trying to smile through it still. I have to. That’s what everyone knows me for.”
