Thank you in advance to anyone who is willing to read about and or give funds towards our immediate needs.
On September 27th, 2025, our daddy was rushed to the ER and 3 days later was given a terminal diagnosis.
This date is very significant because it marked a year since hurricane Helene ripped through and devastated our beautiful North Carolina mountains that we call home. The hurricane left many of us without any resources and no monetary help at all. We applied for anything that we could and we are so incredibly grateful to all the organizations that provided food, potable water and supplies during that incredibly hard time. We spent a year scraping by and trying to get back to a somewhat normal and humble life. We live paycheck to paycheck and a disaster of this magnitude had already financially bankrupted us.
Fast forward to this year…Daddy had a very tedious heart surgery in February. He made it through and recovered pretty well. I had to take time off of work to be there for them as they are disabled and momma doesn’t drive. My PTO and vacation days were burned through by March.
Daddy, momma and I were watching tv in the living room on September 27th when he decided to go to the bedroom. He stumbled down the hall and we were concerned about him because of his heart issues. I got up and took him to the room and helped him lay down. However, when he laid down, he was completely deprived of oxygen. I had to help him sit up and told him I was taking him to the hospital.
When we arrived at the ER they immediately took him in and started testing various preliminary things. 3 days later we were told he had terminal lung cancer. 2 days after that the oncologist called us into his office and had a very very hard conversation with us. The lung cancer had spread to his liver, colon and esophagus.
We are completely heartbroken and along with the stress of this terminal diagnosis comes the financial stress of not having any funds to back my time off of work or the work that needs to be done to the car to get us back and forth to the hospital.
We rent a home that we have been in for years and are in jeopardy of losing it in the next couple of weeks due to the inability to pay. We don’t have any other assets to sell, our loan options are exhausted and there is no more savings since it took the little of what we had last year to survive after the hurricane ripped through Asheville. In addition to almost becoming homeless, our car is in great need of getting fixed. The breaks are not good and the transmission is slipping.
We need to be with daddy as much as possible as they say he may only have days to maybe a couple of weeks to live. I have filed for FMLA to keep my position at work but as I stated I have no more paid time off to take since daddy’s heart surgery in February.
As the sole provider of our little family, I am begging with everything I have in me that people will find it in their hearts to help us. I have never been more desperate in my life. We live a very humble life and we don’t require much, but we do need our home and a vehicle.
We are trying to deal with this horrific news of daddy’s terminal diagnosis and I just want momma and myself to be by his side in his last days.
We are grateful for anything you are able or willing to contribute to help ease our time of pain and heartache. The home and car costs will run about 7,000 to get to where we won’t have to worry and can get the car fixed. However, anything at all will be so very much appreciated.
I have tears running down my face as I am typing this, knowing how much my family has gone through. The 3 of us have always been a team and now we are rapidly losing our rock. Nobody should have to go through this and also worry about food, shelter and transportation.
Thank you so much for reading and if you feel led to pray for us, we would appreciate that as well.
I am in North Carolina, United States
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