A Home for Dan & Laura
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My parents, Dan & Laura, are two of the best people you will ever have the pleasure of knowing. They are kind, compassionate, funny, generous, loving people. They raised my brother and me to know that acting from love, with love, and for love to always be the best choice, and they practiced what they preached. If you are lucky enough to know them, you know that is true.
In April of this year, my parents decided to sell their home of 19 years in Bend, Oregon, buy a fixer-upper on the coast, and move there to work on the house after my Mom retired in June. Dad retired a few years ago and has been waiting for the day that mom could retire, too, and they could dedicate their time to photography, gardening, travel, and spoiling their two grand-daughters. They sold, their house, bought their place on the coast, finished out the 2018 school year, and on June 22nd Mom submitted her retirement paperwork!
Five days later my Dad was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma. He received the diagnosis while in the hospital recovering from a routine procedure that was supposed to alleviate the fatigue and anemia that had plagued him for the past two months.
Now, rather than spend the summer building their new home, my Mom and Dad are living with her parents, one block away from their unfinished house. Now they are facing months of pills, injections, and a bone marrow ablation and stem-cell transplant while living in a house that is not their own. They are facing this on two retirement incomes.
Dad begins his treatments on Monday, July 16th, but there is a long road ahead to remission. This whole process would be so much easier for them both if they could have their own home in which to process, care for and recover. But the house is gutted, and right now any progress that gets made is done by my grandpa, uncle, and brother when they have time.
There are about 200 man hours worth of work on their coast property before it is move-in ready. We have received a quote from a reliable contractor on the coast and are hoping to raise the money to pay a crew of professionals to finish Mom & Dad's house. Any and all funds raised here will go directly towards building their home and giving them a space of their own in which to get through this immensely difficult journey and, we have to believe, to enjoy for many years after.
If you can't give, please share this campaign. We would love to have the house ready by mid-October.
In Love and Gratitude,
Sarah
In April of this year, my parents decided to sell their home of 19 years in Bend, Oregon, buy a fixer-upper on the coast, and move there to work on the house after my Mom retired in June. Dad retired a few years ago and has been waiting for the day that mom could retire, too, and they could dedicate their time to photography, gardening, travel, and spoiling their two grand-daughters. They sold, their house, bought their place on the coast, finished out the 2018 school year, and on June 22nd Mom submitted her retirement paperwork!
Five days later my Dad was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma. He received the diagnosis while in the hospital recovering from a routine procedure that was supposed to alleviate the fatigue and anemia that had plagued him for the past two months.
Now, rather than spend the summer building their new home, my Mom and Dad are living with her parents, one block away from their unfinished house. Now they are facing months of pills, injections, and a bone marrow ablation and stem-cell transplant while living in a house that is not their own. They are facing this on two retirement incomes.
Dad begins his treatments on Monday, July 16th, but there is a long road ahead to remission. This whole process would be so much easier for them both if they could have their own home in which to process, care for and recover. But the house is gutted, and right now any progress that gets made is done by my grandpa, uncle, and brother when they have time.
There are about 200 man hours worth of work on their coast property before it is move-in ready. We have received a quote from a reliable contractor on the coast and are hoping to raise the money to pay a crew of professionals to finish Mom & Dad's house. Any and all funds raised here will go directly towards building their home and giving them a space of their own in which to get through this immensely difficult journey and, we have to believe, to enjoy for many years after.
If you can't give, please share this campaign. We would love to have the house ready by mid-October.
In Love and Gratitude,
Sarah
Co-organizzatori (3)
Sarah Mauney
Organizzatore
Lincoln Beach, OR
Daniel and Laura Goldberg
Beneficiario
Nathan Goldberg
Co-organizzatore
Todd Brown
Co-organizzatore