Friends of Franco Living Cancer Fund

I'm 61 years old and living with incurable cancer. I've been fighting this rare cancer sarcoma, about 300-400 cases a year in the United States, since 2004. I only have Medicare and unable to qualify for supplementary but still trying. Had to quit my job. My expenses limit my treatment and care. I am disabled but only receive $999./month from social security.

This cancer has spread to many areas over the years: my right arm (which I have been blessed not to lose to amputation), my anus, forehead, tongue, lips, back of head and neck, lower spine, fingers, face, lungs, and ribs...lol, and places I probably don't know about yet. In 2008, I lost the tricep of my right arm and adjacent tissue but grateful I still have an arm. Somehow, with very little pain.

Because I have reached an incurable stage I'm trying to get myself back to my hometown of Kenosha, Wisconsin so I can have my friends and family near me -- the best medicine of all. Of course your donations have been helping to cover monthly expenses, making it possible to get me home, and once there I can begin my chemo treatment.

My cancer journey has allowed me to meet such inspiring, generous, loving, thoughtful and a shed of prayers. Thank you for your gifts. As my couple of Canuck Angels have taught me "keep hoping, keep searching, keep believing."