Help Kris Fight Glioblastoma - GBM Cancer
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Please make a donation! Whatever we raise will help, not only financially, but by letting Kris and her family know that there are so many people who care about and love them.
Kris Abt is a generous loving mother who is in trouble. She has a wonderful caring wife and a twelve-year-old son who is the “light” of her life. They need your help facing life’s most horrific battle – Glioblastoma brain cancer.
Kris is the funniest person I know and makes everyone feel like they matter. She is my lifelong best friend, and I am not the only person who feels this way about her. Like many of her closest friends, I met her working at a music store. She worked in the music business for many years at Sound Warehouse, Record Bar, and Randy’s M&M’s. To say Kris is an avid music and movies fan understates her passion for artists who connect all of us. She loves all kinds of music from Sheryl Crow, Trisha Yearwood, Olivia Newton John to Shelby Lynne, Alison Moorer, Elizabeth Cooke, The Bangles, Amy Grant, Big Star, R&B, and classic country. She and her son love to listen to music together on the way to school and share time watching the kids show Gravity Falls. She loves Turner Classics and all Hitchcock movies. She is known to quote Grease, Clue, Bob’s Burgers, and Laverne and Shirley. Before her surgery she quoted Planet of the Apes “You cut up his brain!” Even facing brain surgery, she made us all laugh.
On December 10, 2018, Kris could not move her right arm consistently, then not at all. She went to the emergency room at her community hospital and was immediately routed to Integris in Oklahoma City for emergency brain surgery to remove a tumor from the upper left side of her brain. The doctor was able to remove it, but remnants of the tumor remain, which doctors have diagnosed as Glioblastoma – a rapidly growing and spreading form of brain cancer. Brain surgery alone can run as high as $100, 000. She will have to undergo immediate aggressive cancer treatment and funding to help with this process is of utmost importance.
Additionally, by the beginning of 2019 Kris was told she had to have a 2nd surgery to get more of the tumor out. She survived the pain and additional symptoms created by the first surgery, only to turn around and endure another surgery. She said, "I will do anything if it gives me six more months with my son." She made it through this surgery having to be awake for most of it. She now has two surgeries to pay for. She and her wife are facing lost time and wages with mounting hospital bills, as well as, the costs of her upcoming treatment.
American Brain Tumor Association - Glioblastoma
Kris worked as a social worker as an advocate for the elderly at Oklahoma’s Adult Protective Services for four years. She left this job for another outside of social work to make more money. After a year, her new job left her feeling like she was not doing enough for her community, and she decided to go back to help Oklahoma’s ageing indigent population. She was only back in this job for a few months when this cancerous brain tumor forced her into this horrible financial crisis. Because Kris has only been back at Adult Protective Services for a few months, she is ineligible for short-term disability and has limited leave, which makes her need for funds immediate. Her hospital stay, surgery, and physical therapy were all at the end of 2018, so her deductible and out of pocket costs begin again immediately in January when she starts her much-needed cancer treatment. She now has another brain surgery, physical therapy, and her upcoming treatment to pay for. Without working she will not be able to meet her mortgage and utilities, not to mention, pay for the insurance she will need for her treatment. Kris’ wife and son depend on her income to live.
Please make a donation! Whatever we raise will help, not only financially, but by letting Kris know that there are so many people who care about and love her.
Kris Abt is a generous loving mother who is in trouble. She has a wonderful caring wife and a twelve-year-old son who is the “light” of her life. They need your help facing life’s most horrific battle – Glioblastoma brain cancer.Kris is the funniest person I know and makes everyone feel like they matter. She is my lifelong best friend, and I am not the only person who feels this way about her. Like many of her closest friends, I met her working at a music store. She worked in the music business for many years at Sound Warehouse, Record Bar, and Randy’s M&M’s. To say Kris is an avid music and movies fan understates her passion for artists who connect all of us. She loves all kinds of music from Sheryl Crow, Trisha Yearwood, Olivia Newton John to Shelby Lynne, Alison Moorer, Elizabeth Cooke, The Bangles, Amy Grant, Big Star, R&B, and classic country. She and her son love to listen to music together on the way to school and share time watching the kids show Gravity Falls. She loves Turner Classics and all Hitchcock movies. She is known to quote Grease, Clue, Bob’s Burgers, and Laverne and Shirley. Before her surgery she quoted Planet of the Apes “You cut up his brain!” Even facing brain surgery, she made us all laugh.
On December 10, 2018, Kris could not move her right arm consistently, then not at all. She went to the emergency room at her community hospital and was immediately routed to Integris in Oklahoma City for emergency brain surgery to remove a tumor from the upper left side of her brain. The doctor was able to remove it, but remnants of the tumor remain, which doctors have diagnosed as Glioblastoma – a rapidly growing and spreading form of brain cancer. Brain surgery alone can run as high as $100, 000. She will have to undergo immediate aggressive cancer treatment and funding to help with this process is of utmost importance.
Additionally, by the beginning of 2019 Kris was told she had to have a 2nd surgery to get more of the tumor out. She survived the pain and additional symptoms created by the first surgery, only to turn around and endure another surgery. She said, "I will do anything if it gives me six more months with my son." She made it through this surgery having to be awake for most of it. She now has two surgeries to pay for. She and her wife are facing lost time and wages with mounting hospital bills, as well as, the costs of her upcoming treatment.
American Brain Tumor Association - Glioblastoma
Kris worked as a social worker as an advocate for the elderly at Oklahoma’s Adult Protective Services for four years. She left this job for another outside of social work to make more money. After a year, her new job left her feeling like she was not doing enough for her community, and she decided to go back to help Oklahoma’s ageing indigent population. She was only back in this job for a few months when this cancerous brain tumor forced her into this horrible financial crisis. Because Kris has only been back at Adult Protective Services for a few months, she is ineligible for short-term disability and has limited leave, which makes her need for funds immediate. Her hospital stay, surgery, and physical therapy were all at the end of 2018, so her deductible and out of pocket costs begin again immediately in January when she starts her much-needed cancer treatment. She now has another brain surgery, physical therapy, and her upcoming treatment to pay for. Without working she will not be able to meet her mortgage and utilities, not to mention, pay for the insurance she will need for her treatment. Kris’ wife and son depend on her income to live.
Please make a donation! Whatever we raise will help, not only financially, but by letting Kris know that there are so many people who care about and love her.
Organizer and beneficiary
Shari Spain
Organizer
Yukon, OK
Laura Brennan
Beneficiary