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Can you help Diana since Dave passed away

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Hi I am Diana Groome, Dave's wife. We started the journey with Dave in April 2024 when he was first diagnosed with TMJ. By the time they realized it was cancer it had progressed to Stage 4 tongue and throat cancer with a tumor wrapped around his caroted artery and jugular vein. He was taken to Pittsburgh Hospital for a trach and a feed tube then to Williamsport at the beginning of August 2024 for 35 radiation and 6 chemo treatments. We spent the weekdays in Williamsport and weekends home. Since then he was home 2 weeks first part of November and caught pneumonia and spent 2 weeks at UPMC Cole in Coudersport for treatment, at that time he rolled over on his feed tube and it came out so they had to replace it. It was leaking so they sent him to Williamsport. Then after a few weeks there they discharged to home, but he was too weak to go up our stairs to get into the house so that night was taken to Penn Highlands Elk in St Marys where he stayed for more time and then transferred to Pittsburgh again to check the feed tube. From there he spent time at Sweden Valley Manor for rehab. He was discharged in mid January and last week was taken to the ER again in Coudersport for Pneumonia, severe dehydration, sodium levels 172 sky high and then discovered MRSA in his blood stream, yesterday they put a separate port in to administer another antibiotic for the MRSA for 4 weeks. At present he is being taken to Sweden Valley Manor again for MRSA treatment and rehab. At the moment we owe $5,000 to UPMC and the bills are piling up. Since my last post, David was transferred to Shady Side in Pittsburgh to have his lungs and stomach drained. When doing more tests they found he had an inoperable bleeder in the brain, it started going down hill at that point, he had pneumonia 3 times, MRSA in the blood and spent 4 weeks at the Sweden Valley Manor on 4 weeks of antibiotics but it was not totally gone when he was flown to Pittsburgh, within a few days, his kidneys dropped, no liver function and all his blood readings went either too high or too low. He suffered from Wilson's Disease (too much copper in the liver) for which he had battled to keep under control since in his 40s and that played a big part of what happened. He was on a ventilator and he had a living will, On Tuesday, April 22nd I called his children in England and we had a visual chat with the doctors and nurses and it was agreed to turn off all the machines and medications as he had very little left to fight with. He passed away on Wednesday April 23rd. I think he thought he left me in good financial state, but his British pensions will take a lot away from me plus because my social security is bigger, I will lose that too. We had a few high bills that I need to get paid off with a very limited amount of monthly income and I could lose my house. Im not one to ask for help, but I think its time I swallow my pride and at least ask. I pray that God will take care of me and not let me lose the way I live as the house was my Dad's who I also lost 3/5/2025 with 3 types of cancer. Its been so hard for me.
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