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Please bare with me while I try my best to explain. Please keep in mind even a share helps or a prayer! We need all the help we can get! Patricia Huffman, My mom gave me everything, she adopted me, took care of me, only to find out that it would be a lot more work than she thought. she did such a good job in taking care of me, I'm terrified. Shes 65 years old and im trying to do all I can to help her. its always been just me and her.  she did all she could to raise me. and for seven years we lived in an apartment building where I couldn't go outside alone because it was that bad of a place, but it was all we could afford. I could tell it nearly killed her, she wanted out so bad.  In 2017 while living in that apartment, my mom for months kept telling me it was just a goiter. that she would be fine. but my mom wasn't, and one day when we came home from grocery shopping she couldn't breathe. I was terrified I was so scared to do anything so I ran next door and got my neighbor, she was an amazing lady. we called an ambulance and they hurried to save her. it turns out that goiter was actually her thyroid. it wasn't till later we would be told it was lymphoma. my mom was incubated and flown to barns, where she was kept for 21 days. When she got home, I was so happy, it still Haddent occurred to me that I could still loose her, you see  I have BPD, and as a baby was diagnosed with FAS so my brain doesn't work properly. I physically cant bend down, or carry certain things because my sophomore year I tripped and shattered the entire top of my tibia, so I have metal. and now my mom and me found out I have moderate scoliosis. so im having trouble finding work. but now that you know a little bit about me, you can understand why im so scared. I didn't know that starting chemo would make her get worse. my mom almost died in my arms three more times, the first was a blood infection. I didn't know how scary those can be, or how fast they hit. the second time my mom became septic. I wasn't as scared because I didn't know much about what that meant at the time. and the last time, she started to vomit uncontrollably, and couldn't keep anything down. After a long scary fight my mom got better! she is now in remission, and we were finally put into housing, and we are in love with the place. we have been here for a year now, and I love seeing her smile so much. Only now we have hit a few more snags. moms heart has gotten so weak, they say if the new medicine doesn't work she will have to have open heart surgery. but, they don't think moms heart is strong enough to survive it. Our second problem is she has to pay for her medicines and some of her treatments, she has a medical card but it wont cover it, and me and mom are only living off of what she gets. but, its barley enough. so I want to ask for help, I want to try to give back to my mom.  as much as I can, and even if it is just prayers, we need those too. Because im terrified, I cant sleep at night because im scared ill loose her and I want to try to make her happy before she goes. She hasnt even own a car in over 16 years, and all she talks about is mowing the yard. She still does that. (Even with me telling her constantly to slow down) I'm proud to call her my mom and I'm so thankful every day that I get to sit and talk with her. We sit outside all day with our dog kodabear, because we're able too. After years of not having a place to call home, we can finally!! A fun fact about this picture, this is our first Christmas we could put up decorations, and a tree! So please, can you help me?

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Deva Huffman
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Johnston City, IL

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