The Situation: My husband is at the end of his life after battling a rare baso-squamous cancer secondary to skin cancer removal. He has been sick for over 13 years and Mayo Clinic has run out of options to help him. A little over 4 years ago my husband was diagnosed with terminal metastatic bone cancer "in innumerable bones throughout the body" secondary to a rare baso-squamous cell skin cancer. They did extensive surgery in an attempt to cure him and it spread. They’ve been fighting like crazy to keep him alive for as long as they can between Mayo Clinic in MN and two oncology teams in SD. They've thrown everything at this cancer, but it's very aggressive and won't stop for anything. We are blessed to have had this time together, yet cursed that for as aggressive as it is, it's slow and incredibly painful for him. Even sitting upright is a chore most days. He is the bravest person I know to face the levels of pain he's in every day. After being on constant chemo/immunotherapies, having numerous procedures and surgeries along the way, radiation treatments combined with nonstop pain management, they are now recommending he stop treatment and allow hospice care to take over as of last week. We are a family of 3 living on one income. We don't have family financial assistance as I no longer have my parents and his are states away with limited ability to help. Our savings is gone and we still pay monthly out of pocket costs in addition to extra things he needs for comfort that aren't covered by insurance or home health. The Ask: I am humbly asking for any contributions to my husband's death comfort care and his final expenses. We were told last week that he MIGHT have 6 months left with us on Earth. We are determined to stay positive through this, to love each other as well as possible and spend as much quality time together as we can. That said, I need help. We need help. Life insurance has been impossible to find within our budget the last 5 years, our savings has dwindled to nothing and I am staring down the road by myself with nothing to take care of his final expenses or help as a single mother of a young child after this. In all this, we've been stuck in a home in serious need of repair that we can't afford and no local programs to help folks in this situation. He's over the cut-off age for help with national grants for young folks with cancers and despite our best efforts, we haven't been able to save anything for things like final costs, death care and beyond that, a place to live that I can manage once it's just me. The house we are in is in such need of repair that I know we won't be able to keep afloat by ourselves and little know-how. He worries about what we'll do without him all the time. Thankfully, his insurance pays for most of his care or we'd be millions of dollars in debt and he'd never have made it this long, but the out of pocket costs build up to take anything extra I’ve got I've set our goal to cover all of this and everything beyond his end of life care will hopefully go into a new home for our daughter and myself. We’ve been blessed to receive help in some desperate times before, but this goes right to travel costs to get him between SD to MN for Mayo Clinic treatments and out of pocket payments immediately. We have spent the last few years making it paycheck to paycheck in hopes that he'll stay stable and we can get ourselves more financially able to tackle things through the economy being this difficult, as we know so many families are. We are out of options and now I’m coming here to put it out to the world in hopes for some grace. On that one chance that enough people can see this and we reach our goal while I continue working my hardest to pull us out of this difficult time in the ways I can. If you can find it in your heart to donate to our little family, thank you from the bottom of our hearts and blessings on each one of you.
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