A struggling family through their time of grief

Hi, my name is Lisa and I’d like to tell you about my amazing friends, Chris and Jenna Chesser. They are two of the most hardworking, generous and all around amazing people I’ve ever met. Over the last few months, they’ve had a horrible series of events occur. Just one crappy thing after another kept happening. While Jenna was a few months pregnant, and a stay at home mother to their 1 year old daughter, Allison, Chris was injured at work, and had to take extended time off due to that injury. Jenna wasn’t really able to work herself, at the time, as she needed to stay home and take care of her husband and toddler. Unfortunately, Chris had just recently started his new job and hadn’t accumulated hours needed through this current employer, so he wasn’t able to collect the same benefits most are able to when they hurt themselves on the job. But they were too proud to accept any handouts. 

Then, Chris and his mother, Pat, made the very hard decision to put his father, John, in a facility, as it was becoming far too much for his mother to handle on her own, as Chris and Jenna were unable to assist them. Almost immediately after placing John in a care facility, Pat started having her own health issues. Chris and Jenna began taking Pat to her many appointments, only to find out she had stage 4 metastatic cancer and had a very short time to live. They spent every spare moment they could at her side in the hospital, watching her become a shell of the person she had been only a short while ago. 

Then, on December 23, jenna went to the hospital, and was induced, but there were complications during labor. The umbilical cord had wrapped around poor baby Brayden’s neck. Fortunately, THIS part of the story has a happy ending, and they delivered a healthy, though 3 weeks premature, baby boy on Christmas Eve. Chris spent his time running back and forth, between labor and delivery, and the floor his mother was on. On Christmas Day, Pat took her last breaths. I, personally, think she held on just long enough to know her precious grand baby had been born. 

As if all of that wasn’t hard enough, on December 29th, Chris received a call that John had also passed away. There’s something super romantic, though also heartbreaking, about the fact that he followed his loving wife only 4 days later. 

All of this leaves Chris and Jenna, both unable to work for the time being, with 2 young children (3 if you count Chris’s son from his first marriage) to care for, and also various expenses related to the deaths of his parents. Despite their protests against it, I am creating this go fund me in hopes that people will be as touched by this story as I was, and maybe donate a little to help at the very least ease their financial burdens, which are many, so at least while their hearts are breaking, they don’t also have to stress about paying their bills, feeding and clothing their children, and also covering any funeral expenses. 

So please, whether it be $1 or $1000, if you are at all touched by this story, and able to donate, any amount will help. And if you can’t donate, at least share this so others you know may be able to see it and donate. Thank you all in advance, I know we can come together and help this young family through their time of heartbreak and struggle.