Twenty-seven-year-old Richard Fresco’s Christmas wish last year was to be able to walk again but he died three months ago without it being fulfilled.
The Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam man remained bedridden after a fall from a truck in April last year. He had damaged his spine during the fall but had hoped he would “come back” [recover], his mother, Virginia Beatrice Giddings, 66, told this newspaper.
However, Fresco contracted pneumonia and died at the New Amsterdam Hospital (NAH) on September 6 a few days after being admitted.
Although she was burdened with the task of “doing everything
