Help W/Medical and Living Expenses
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My name is Charles Thornsbury and this is very difficult for me because through out my life I have always been able to support myself. I worked for everything I had and never ever considered myself as a free loader. However, almost eleven years ago my life changed in an instant when I blacked out behind the wheel and really messed myself up in the accident. It was also during this time of recovery that I was diagnosed with cancer and from that point on my life has been a constant struggle just trying to survive. The medical bills started pileing up, I was unable to work, my credit went south and I found myself depending on others just to survive. Little by little over the past ten plus years I have sold or pawned and lost everything I have held dear to me to where I have nothing left of any value.
This cancer is called Recurring Multiple Myeloma, it is a cancer that begins in the bone marrow and makes the bones really brittle and it is very painful. It does not go into remission and as I was told from the very beginning, unless someone finds a cure for this cancer the only thing that my doctors could do for me is "hopefully" buy me some time. They have been able to do just that by getting the cancer down to a level where it is still there but not growing on three previous occasions, but unfortunately given its name of "Recurring" Multiple Myeloma, it always comes back as is the case now. I had a two year break from the IV Chemo therapy with just taking a pill. Now the cancer is growing again and I will be traveling back and forth to Columbus Ohio to receive my chemo treatments. This is where my problems begin. Even though I draw Social Security it isn't enough to cover my basic costs of just living let alone anything left over for such things as groceries or over the counter meds that I require just to keep my health up. This leaves nothing and in most cases I am broke before the second week of the month and have to depend on my room mate for putting groceries in the house. Now I have to come up with money for the trips to Columbus and I don't have it.
The money I am trying to raise will not only go towards the trips to Columbus but will also give me a hand up to where I can pay some of my medical bills and will also give me a break from all the stress and worry which I certainly don't need while undergoing these treatments. I won't have to worry about the electric or water being shut off due to lack of payment or wonder who I can borrow some money from just to pay the car insurance. In other words it will take a whole lot of pressure off of me so I can deal with fighting this cancer and not wasting what good health I do have away to stress.
I know this is probably a waste of my time doing this but I have to do something. As it is, right this minute I am hateing the fact that I am either going to have to borrow some money just for this trip coming up Thursday the 19th of May or call my doctor there and see if it is possible to reschedule even though the longer I wait to begin the chemo treatments the more it will grow and be harder to beat if I can beat it at all this time around.
This cancer is called Recurring Multiple Myeloma, it is a cancer that begins in the bone marrow and makes the bones really brittle and it is very painful. It does not go into remission and as I was told from the very beginning, unless someone finds a cure for this cancer the only thing that my doctors could do for me is "hopefully" buy me some time. They have been able to do just that by getting the cancer down to a level where it is still there but not growing on three previous occasions, but unfortunately given its name of "Recurring" Multiple Myeloma, it always comes back as is the case now. I had a two year break from the IV Chemo therapy with just taking a pill. Now the cancer is growing again and I will be traveling back and forth to Columbus Ohio to receive my chemo treatments. This is where my problems begin. Even though I draw Social Security it isn't enough to cover my basic costs of just living let alone anything left over for such things as groceries or over the counter meds that I require just to keep my health up. This leaves nothing and in most cases I am broke before the second week of the month and have to depend on my room mate for putting groceries in the house. Now I have to come up with money for the trips to Columbus and I don't have it.
The money I am trying to raise will not only go towards the trips to Columbus but will also give me a hand up to where I can pay some of my medical bills and will also give me a break from all the stress and worry which I certainly don't need while undergoing these treatments. I won't have to worry about the electric or water being shut off due to lack of payment or wonder who I can borrow some money from just to pay the car insurance. In other words it will take a whole lot of pressure off of me so I can deal with fighting this cancer and not wasting what good health I do have away to stress.
I know this is probably a waste of my time doing this but I have to do something. As it is, right this minute I am hateing the fact that I am either going to have to borrow some money just for this trip coming up Thursday the 19th of May or call my doctor there and see if it is possible to reschedule even though the longer I wait to begin the chemo treatments the more it will grow and be harder to beat if I can beat it at all this time around.
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Charles Thornsbury
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Grayson, KY