Alyssa Woods Cancer Recovery

Hi, my name is Chantala, I am Alyssa's daughter. We were not planning on doing a fundraiser, but bills are piling up and have quickly gotten out of control. My mom was diagnosed with a glioblastoma stage 4 in April. We were told that it was an inoperable tumor. A amazing brain surgeon told us he thought he could get it, but made no promises. He said she could go on hospice and would probably loose her life in three months, or he could operate and give her 1-2 years of quality life or loose her during surgery. She was unable to speak, mixed up her words when she could speak and was in unbearable pain. She could not eat and was having a hard time remembering people. We knew she would not want to live this way and opted to allow him to do the surgery. She has been recovering at home and has only a few deficits from the surgery and tumor. Our God is so good! Between me, my sister and my dad, she is under constant supervision and me and my sister have taken over my poor parents lives trying to take care of bills, medical, groceries, cooking and cleaning. While we do not mind doing any of these things, we have gotten in a bind. We have been successful at taking care of everything, but now we have unexpected medical and house hold bills that have started rolling in. After two months people want there money. Mine and my sister's whole goal was to get them out of debt using our money and theirs so that they would be set up financially to have extra money to enjoy the last part of her life together. All they really want is to go fishing together and take a family trip with my mom's family in November. It was planned before the tumor and almost paid off, but now I feel it is even more important that she gets to go. She still has some issues with mobility, speech and memory, but is trying to stay positive and heal before the trip. She has went through chemo and radiation for the last 6 weeks and has had to go to Albuquerque everyday five days a week. My dad, my sister and myself have taken her and split up the weeks. We know how blessed we are and were willing to go into debt 100% to keep her around as long as we can, but we have no more debt to use. She has been a bus driver in our community for 25 years and we know she will never drive a bus again, but she is hoping to be a bus aid if she starts doing better. At the moment she is unable to work and it drives her crazy. She is an amazing person who has taken care of the kids, people in the community and her family. She is always the first to adopt families at the holidays and tries to help anywhere she can. She has 4 grandkids that she would love to stick around for. Now I know how amazing our God is, but I also know how serious her diagnosis is. The cancer she has can not be cured right now and the doctors have given her 1-2 years. We do not want my dad to be left with an outrageous amount of debt. She will have to undergo chemo for 5 days every 28 days for the foreseeable future. The money I am hoping to raise will cover some medical bills and get her through the rest of the year and hopefully me and my sister can regroup and come up with a plan to help from that point. Her medications alone are costing us about $500 a month and we are constantly fighting with the insurance companies to cover the bare minimum. We hate asking for help when so many people need help, but she is an amazing person, wife, grandmother and mom. She is stubborn and I know she will stay around as long as she possibly can. Anything will help and we from the bottom of our hearts appreciate anything to help alleviate a little of the stress. I know that was long and there is so much more to say, but I will leave it at that. Our community, family and friends are and always have been so amazing. Thank you all ahead of time!