I would like her to be able to make as many more precious memories as possible while not constantly worrying about the incoming bills or what the future holds. Any support that anyone can offer will be appreciated by my family more than you will ever know. She will not accept the help from me and she will not ask for it from anyone. This is my attempt to help ease a big stress on her that she does not need with all the treatments she is undergoing. I know her bills are piling up considering insurance never pays as much as they should for people in desperate need. She is extremely stubborn in the fact that she doesn’t want to burden anyone with the financial aspect of her fight. She says that she will fight this to be able to make more precious memories with me, my sister Jaden, her grandsons, boyfriend, friends and the rest of the family. Not even when she lost all of her platinum blonde hair which, everyone who knows and loves her knows is her prized possession. But my mom being the intense fighter that she has always been doesn’t blink an eye. Watching my Mom get so sick and weak so quickly makes me question if this is the route we should have taken. We have been told by her cancer team that while this cancer cannot be cured and will be terminal, they may be able to buy her significant time with her family with this very aggressive treatment. Cheryl has currently 10+ tumors in her brain that are constantly multiplying because of the nature of small cell cancer.Ĭheryl is now undergoing chemotherapy,immunotherapy, as well as the most aggressive radiation available. This cancer progressed so quickly in the time that they were trying to figure out what it was that it has already metastasized to her brain. After SEVERAL biopsies, a gallbladder infection that almost killed her, a collapsed lung, and heart surgery that had to be done.they discovered that she has stage 4 small cell lung cancer. They canceled the surgery right away to do biopsies to figure out what the mass was. Before the surgery they did CT scans and found a large mass between her lung and heart. My mom initially was supposed to be having heart surgery for AFib that had progressively gotten worse. Sometimes her stays were short and sometimes they extended over a couple weeks. My Mom, Cheryl Draggoo, has spent the last 3 months in and out of the hospital. But we have now reached a point where I need to ask for love, prayers, and help for the woman who raised my sister and I through so many other battles throughout her life. Maybe it’s because I didn’t want another reason to constantly think about it or maybe because it’s almost physically draining to share the details over and over again. I have not shared with many what has been going on with my Mom for the last few months. Never in a million years did I think I would be creating one on my own but life has a funny way of throwing wrenches. While I have donated to several, there are a couple off the top of my head that ruined it for me (cough cough Gorilla glue hair girl). Anyone that knows me really well knows that I am not always the biggest fan of GoFundMe pages.
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