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Cancer has taken enough.

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Cancer has been devastating to our family. Sheila's sister Lila was diagnosed with cancer and passed away 3 days later from Cancer. Last year 2017 Sheila's mother came to live with us and was diagnosed with cancer shortly after. She passed away December 5th 2017 at our house after fighting it for about 6 months. 3 days after she passed I took my wife Sheila to the ER and she was admitted with pneumonia in both lungs. While in the hospital they found abnormalities in her lungs  and had a biopsy done and found she had stage 4 colon cancer. That was the start of our closest battle with cancer that we are currently fighting. Sheila has been in and out of the hospital all this year as well as having Chemo treatments every 2 weeks with a couple of breaks where she was so sick they skipped a couple of weeks. She has had the right side of her colon removed to remove a large tumor. She had a procedure on her spine where they injected a cement like material where some tumors had fractured a couple of her vertebrae. Most recently an MRI showed 4 cancerous spots in her brain. They did a cyber knife radiation treatment on those spots. Her original prognosis on January 5th we were told that without treatment she might have 3 months. We of course started treatment and we are approaching 10 months now. I have filed FMLA which is great but I have exhausted my vacation time so all the rest of the time I take off will be unpaid except if I'm personally sick. I've been having to takefunds from my 401k to try and keep up with the bills. I'm not sure where to go from here. I'm sure I won't lose my job but we can't make it with no income. Sheila has had a very rough life and deserves the best I can give her these final days. Please help if you can.

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Clarence Nickelson
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Wichita, KS

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