She just got diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer.
She started chemotherapy on Tuesday, 12 May 2015.
She currently has only (U.S.) Medicare for insurance, and there are a lot of things that Medicare won’t cover, or only partially covers. She is 67 years old and on a fixed income. I am a student and work part time at my university, for which I am paid a base $1000/month USD plus my tuition. Between the two of us we make it by on about $2000/month USD, but that was before her diagnosis.
We need your help.
I am raising money to help cover her medical bills and living expenses and any extra costs that we might incur due to her cancer. These extra costs include gas for the hour-plus that we will have to drive for her treatments twice a week, any special dietary needs she may have while on chemo, and that kind of thing.
I am offering to write fic as “thank you gifts” in return for donations to my mom’s cancer fund.
For every $10 that you donate, I will write you 1000 words of fic. (See fandom list under the cut.) Please consider helping us out if you are able to. Even if you are not able to donate, please reblog this post.
Thank you.
If the donate button doesn’t show up (on mobile, etc), please use the email chanceofrainne@charter.net to donate.
I want to begun by thanking everyone who’s donated. The current balance in our donation account stands at about $2000 USD.
Unfortunately we just received the oncologist’s bill for May and June, and our part after Medicare is nearly $3000. This is for 4 chemo cycles. She has to have at least 8 more, plus the surgery and then god knows what else after that.
Please, I am begging everyone, please reblog this again, and if you can spare anything at all to help us out, please do. Mom is really upset about the bill and she’s talking about not taking any more treatments until January when she can get more insurance, but if she does that I’m honestly afraid it’ll kill her.
Holding the Bowl 