A Texas restaurant owner is going to extraordinary lengths to help an employee facing a serious health crisis.
According to the New York Daily News, Michael De Beyer, owner of Kaiserhof Restaurant in Montgomery, Tex., put his family's restaurant of 17 years up for sale to help one of his waitresses pay for medical bills after she was diagnosed with a brain tumor.
Brittany Mathis reportedly went to the hospital to have a rash on her leg checked out. After performing a few test doctors discovered a tumor.
"I went to the hospital and found out it was my blood clotting," Mathis told KHOU-TV. "So, they wanted to keep me and do CAT scans and MRIs and the next day they came in and told me I had a tumor."
Doctors reportedly told the 19-year-old that they found a ping pong ball-sized mass in her brain. Mathis and her mother, who also works at the German restaurant and bar, can't afford her medical cost. Mathis reportedly does not have healthcare and has not yet signed up for the Affordable Healthcare Act. Her treatments have been place on hold.
"I just can't be standing by and doing nothing," De Beyer told KHOU-TV. "I have to try something, because it's not right."
Mathis said her father died in 2000 after a tumor erupted unexpectedly and the family said that he did not even know that he was sick.
"Here's a family, they really work hard they have a lot of stuff against them in the past and they are not holding their hand open they didn't even ask anybody for help," De Beyer said.
According to the Huffington Post, De Beyer has listed his restaurant in the past, but turned down a $1.3 million offer. This time around De Beyer is looking for $2 million for the 6,000-square-foot restaurant and hopefully in time for Mathis to get her treatment.
"I'm not able to just sit by and let it happen," he said. "I couldn't live with myself; I would never be happy just earning money from my restaurant knowing that she needs help."
De Beyer told KHOU-TV is looking forward to spending more time with his wife and kids.
"I really think it's an amazing blessing and can't thank him enough and his family," the teenage girl told KHOU. "Never thought that anybody would do that and he did and it makes me feel really good."
