Hospice for Kris Abt

Shari Spain is organizing this fundraiser on behalf of Annette Meyer.

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Kris Abt is a generous loving mother who has suffered with Glioblastoma Brain Cancer since December of 2018. After two brain surgeries and chemo, she will now need Hospice care. Hospice will care for Kris for at least three days a week (possibly five days a week at some point) because she cannot stay at home by herself. She suffers seizures, minimal use of her legs, speech impairment, confusion and difficulty thinking, fatigue, and swelling. The cost for this will range from $2,000 to $2,500 a month. This cost is in addition to household family bills and her medical bills. Since we anticipate she will need this help for several months, we are asking for donations to mitigate family's financial costs. Also, funds are needed immediately because all donated funds are running out.

Kris has a wonderful caring wife and a fourteen-year-old son who is the “light” of her life. They need your help facing the final stage of Glioblastoma Brain Cancer. 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's history:
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 aging 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 was ineligible for short-term disability and had limited leave, which has made her need for funds even greater. Her hospital stay, two brain surgeries, and physical therapy, and cancer treatment have financially burdened her family, but generous donations early on in this process really helped keep them from financial ruin.

Kris is the funniest person I know and has always made 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.

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.