Saving Our Family
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Dear all,
On the night of April 24th, suddenly during a brutally painful and unexpected hour, our dearest mother suffered from a major stroke caused by cancer's metastasis in her brain.
We were not prepared for this. A few days earlier, she had seen her doctor and no one could suspect that the battle we thought she had already won would so quickly attack her again. For the first time in our lives we don't have any contact with her.
The most painful part is that she was certain of her full recovery. The whole family was. After the chemo and mastectomy, she was doing extremely well. She was glowing and each day she was more and more excited to start her life anew this summer.
A thing only few poeple know, is that throughout this year she struggled almost every day to support our family, her children. I suspended my studies to be with her and help as much as I could. I was working when I wasn't with her in a hospital.
When she had a stroke, caused by a cancer we had considered gone, the last words she said to me were: "I'm sorry". And I know that she was scared. Terrified of leaving me with troubles she could not overcome as our mother when things were better and she wasn't sick.
Although she is paralyzed and in a coma, she is still there. I can still hold her hand and tell her how much I love her and how desperately we need her.
I cannot afford to think of loosing her. I know she can still somehow feel us. And when I see her tears involuntarily streaming down her face, something in me is breaking, crashing my strength and faith.
I am asking you today for your support, as I cannot stand a thought that she is still there thinking that she somehow let us down. Because she felt guilty every day that she could not afford basic things for us, not to mention medications that could possibly help her and support her system during the chemo.
She had us, but she had to worry every day if there would be enough money to buy healthy food and to once and for all pull our life together. It was a battle against life itself. And still is.
As her daughter, I am seeking any help I can possibly get, to ease her inner sufferings. Right now, I have to be there for her and support her. We need to stand on our own feet.
Please help. As much as you can. Because of the treatment, we have no savings. Members of our family support us in every possible way, but there will be more and they will not be able to provide us with the amount of money and help needed.
The cancer in her brain has spread in just a few months. She went to sleep and after an hour she was lying in her bed unable to move or speak. Doctors left us no hope. They take care of her but they do not think she will wake up. They say that it is the end. We, her children, defy that. We still have hope.
We believe that she is strong enough to survive. That miracles happen and she will become one of them. To us, she already is. Nevertheless, maybe with your help, if we solve the problems that overcame her, she will know that we are safe and secure and she will wake up soon.
For now, we sit beside her bed and wait. Hoping to get a chance to tell her that she does not need to worry about us anymore. That she is safe.
If you can, please help us. You will be saving the loving family brought back together under those dreadful circumstances. Because we are not giving up on her. To us, it is not yet the end.
Basia & Janek
Her loving children
On the night of April 24th, suddenly during a brutally painful and unexpected hour, our dearest mother suffered from a major stroke caused by cancer's metastasis in her brain.
We were not prepared for this. A few days earlier, she had seen her doctor and no one could suspect that the battle we thought she had already won would so quickly attack her again. For the first time in our lives we don't have any contact with her.
The most painful part is that she was certain of her full recovery. The whole family was. After the chemo and mastectomy, she was doing extremely well. She was glowing and each day she was more and more excited to start her life anew this summer.
A thing only few poeple know, is that throughout this year she struggled almost every day to support our family, her children. I suspended my studies to be with her and help as much as I could. I was working when I wasn't with her in a hospital.
When she had a stroke, caused by a cancer we had considered gone, the last words she said to me were: "I'm sorry". And I know that she was scared. Terrified of leaving me with troubles she could not overcome as our mother when things were better and she wasn't sick.
Although she is paralyzed and in a coma, she is still there. I can still hold her hand and tell her how much I love her and how desperately we need her.
I cannot afford to think of loosing her. I know she can still somehow feel us. And when I see her tears involuntarily streaming down her face, something in me is breaking, crashing my strength and faith.
I am asking you today for your support, as I cannot stand a thought that she is still there thinking that she somehow let us down. Because she felt guilty every day that she could not afford basic things for us, not to mention medications that could possibly help her and support her system during the chemo.
She had us, but she had to worry every day if there would be enough money to buy healthy food and to once and for all pull our life together. It was a battle against life itself. And still is.
As her daughter, I am seeking any help I can possibly get, to ease her inner sufferings. Right now, I have to be there for her and support her. We need to stand on our own feet.
Please help. As much as you can. Because of the treatment, we have no savings. Members of our family support us in every possible way, but there will be more and they will not be able to provide us with the amount of money and help needed.
The cancer in her brain has spread in just a few months. She went to sleep and after an hour she was lying in her bed unable to move or speak. Doctors left us no hope. They take care of her but they do not think she will wake up. They say that it is the end. We, her children, defy that. We still have hope.
We believe that she is strong enough to survive. That miracles happen and she will become one of them. To us, she already is. Nevertheless, maybe with your help, if we solve the problems that overcame her, she will know that we are safe and secure and she will wake up soon.
For now, we sit beside her bed and wait. Hoping to get a chance to tell her that she does not need to worry about us anymore. That she is safe.
If you can, please help us. You will be saving the loving family brought back together under those dreadful circumstances. Because we are not giving up on her. To us, it is not yet the end.
Basia & Janek
Her loving children
Organizer
Barbara Staszczyk
Organizer
Eyragues
