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Help my Mom get a proper funeral

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I'm Magan Driver the only daughter of Montine Childress. For all of my child and adult life my mom has been very sick. She had a course of 8 surgeries on blockages in her intestines that they just kept cutting out leaving her work 18 inches of intestines and a tube sewn into the lining of her stomach that she was to use to basically pass bowel and eat(drink Ensure, Boost, and Gatorade) thru. She really hasn't eaten real food in almost 10 years and if she ever did, it was almost so painful for her u could hardly stand to watch it. She blocked up yet again when I was 17, the doctors at Hugh Chatham Hospital that have done all the surgeries before refused to do another, they said she had developed Adhesion Disorder where scar tissue had began to take over her whole body and they couldn't see her organs on an X-ray if they wanted to and if they opened her up they didn't know what they might clip and what they might not. So basically they left her there to die. All together I left her on life support for 138 days but after about 90 days at Elkin I had her taken to Baptist and eventho Elkin had allowed my moms left lung to collapse while on life support and she would never b able to regain to use of it back the rest of the days she was there on support they saved her life!!! It was amazing. No her quality of life was never the same but she loved her family and her grandbabies more than anything and there isn't anything she wouldn't do to make sure that we all were OK... And it just wasn't us. She had a heart of gold. Took in anyone that needed help and tried her best to do anything she could to make their life better. She is an amazing woman. March 28 we thought she had a stroke, the entire left side of body she just couldn't use, I had to carry her for two days until she finally agreed to go to the ER. 6 hours later the doctor comes there and tells us that my moms lungs and brain are completely covered in cancer, that it has metasticized and it is passed any stage. She has 3-6 months with, or without treatment. She stayed at Forsyth and took 5 radiation treatments regaining the use of the left side of her body. At that point she moved to the Hospice House in Winston for 3 days has been home with me since 4/14/16. I have 3 boys at home, a 10yr old named Kyler, a 7yr old named Kayden, & my most rambunctious, my 2yr old Kolby. It's so hard doing all this on my own. My oldest boys play baseball, have school, camps... I have to miss all these things bc I need to make sure my mom gets the best care. Hospice was coming in an hour 3 days a week till I uped it to an hour a day Mon-Fri this week. She had no life insurance and I needless to say do not have any money saved up like that! I'm a hairstylist but have almost had to come to a complete stop except for a few here and there that I work in very quickly but that not even paying our bills much less hers that I have had to get caught up and paid off before she passes and it goes to collectors. I know that everyone is going thru such hard times right now and asking for $5 is like asking for a $1000 but from the bottom of my heart anything is appreciated and will help! I'm the girl that always gives to every homeless man/women I see, even if it's my last, donate to every veteran organization when they are out and put money in the Salvation Army bucket in front of Walmart at Christmas when I walk in and on my way back out. I believe in karma and I believe there are still good ppl in this world. Please please help me give my mom a proper burial!
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  • Kristi Hemrick
    • $20 
    • 8 yrs
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Magan Driver
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Boonville, NC

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