DAVE RACHUY'S CANCER RELIEF FUND

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DAVE RACHUY'S CANCER RELIEF FUND

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We need as much help as you can give, as soon as you can. PLEASE!
                  My name is Cathyrn Rachuy and my sweet loving, unselfish, willing to go out of his way to help a friend.  Husband and father of or beautiful children- Dave has just recently been diagnosed with Stage 4 Renal Cell Carcinoma also known as Kidney Cancer, that has spread in to his bones and lymphnodes. Specifically in the top of both his femors. Due to the extreme amout of disease that has infected his right femor; just under the ball joint that goes into his hip.  They  put a titanium Rod in his right femor and 2 screws into his hip to save the intergity of the hip.  With out this surgery he was as risk of breaking his hip just by stepping down wrong or bumping into something. 
 Dave has been on leave from work since the middle of may with NO-sick, pto or vacation time to use.  

At this time the doctors are not able to give us a time frame for when Dave will be able to return to work.

 We have to have faith and hope that the Chemo  and Radition they have planned will shrink it so he will be able to live on for may years.
See his son and daughter graduate from  high school. Walk his daughter down the isle at her wedding and someday we can be grandparents, and  grow old together.  
I have started this page to attempt to raise some funds to help us pay his upcoming medical bills. Also to help with everyday funds, like paying the house payment, electricity, by groceries and put gas in the car so that I can make it to work.
We have 2 teenage childen that are helpful but neither one can work enough to  make up for what there dad was making.
I am so scared that we are going to lose our home. 
Our whole world has been turned upside down.
David was a very healthy active man. He used to play mens rec softball (Spring Summer and Fall).  At the end of last year he began to loose weight. At first it seemed like a good thing but as the months passed he began to loose more and more and it is not just the fat he lost, he  lost almost all his muscle mass and is very weak and in an extreme amount of pain physically and mentally.  He has lost a total of around 60 pounds since Thanksgiving of 2015.( this is without any effort of trying to loose weight.)
This has really taken  toll on every aspect of out lives.  We have no idea what the futre holds for us. It is not looking like he will be feeling himself anytime soon.  The pain has caused lose of appetite, energy, motivation to even get up and do even the smallest tasks, a long with deppresion and other stuff. 

Any help you can give is very much appreciated. I am hoping we can raise enough money to us keep our home and keep the lights on and food on the table. 
In 2017, I am praying that Dave will still be here with us and be Healthy. I have been trying to plan a special Birthday for both of us. I turn 40 in March 2017 and he will turn 50. This will also be our 20th Anniversary together.  When we go married we never took a honeymoon.  So we both have on our bucket list to take  a nice relaxing, romantic trip somewhere like Cancun, Jamaica, bahamas.  I pray that we will be able to takae a trip like this together before God decides that it is time for Dave to come home.

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Cathyrn Rachuy
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West Des Moines, IA
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