Friends of Franco Living Cancer Fund
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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."
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."
Organizer
Franco Tarsitano
Organizer