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Online community bands together to help cancer patient found wandering the streets in Loxahatchee

Posted at 7:20 PM, May 09, 2017
and last updated 2017-05-10 04:52:09-04

There's plenty of dirt roads in Loxahatchee.

On Tuesday morning, one of them led a random stranger to Clint Berryhill's front yard.

“I was like ‘Sir, can I help you? Is there something I can help you with?’ He's like ‘Yeah, I'm lost."

Closer inspection revealed that it was a little more serious.

“He's just walking down the street, barefoot, feet bleeding with his little puppy dog” Berryhill says. “He was very disoriented. It was actually heartbreaking.”

After he called 911, Clint turned to the 'Acreage Speaks' Facebook page for help to find out the identity of this man who wandered to his door.

“Now it's blown up 10 times bigger than I thought it would,” Berryhill says.

The page received message after message, hundreds in less than an hour, to help a complete stranger.

Through social media neighbors tracked down the man's niece, who lives in New Jersey.

The woman, Lisa Flagg, told NewsChannel 5 her uncle, Dave Stewart, fell on hard times.

“He thinks he can still do this by himself, and it's obvious that he can't,” she says.

Diagnosed with stage 4 throat cancer,, she says he was going through intense 5-day Chemo sessions once every 3 weeks.

She says he also lost his house and car.

“All he has left is himself and this cancer, and nobody will seem to help him,” Lisa says.

That changed Tuesday.

“You have no idea how much my spirit has been lifted by these people,” she says, choking back tears.

Clint says he loves that the community came together to assist Dave.

He also says he was happy to provide help at the end of that long dirt road.

“If I can, I'm gonna see him and give him a big hug,” he says. “Tell him I love him, because I was the right person that he ran in to.”

For more info on the Go Fund Me for Dave, visit here.

For more info on an upcoming fundraiser for Dave, visit here.