Donate for a Pilot's Fight for Life and Health

Hi everyone,

In August 2021, I was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer. I was told at the time I was incurable. Well, I won that battle within a year. No Evidence of Disease for close to almost a year and a half.

After another year and five months of battle with FAA, I finally was able to have a pathway back to flying jets once again. Then a last-minute MRI changed everything. Scans and blood tests from my body came back 100% fine. The MRI, which wasn’t due for another 8 months, was a requirement by the feds to make this pathway a reality.

We were already celebrating and getting my flight bag tuned up for another go, then the call came. There was so much cancer in my brain, the smaller sub-centimeter ones were labeled “innumerable” and “uncountable”. One large 2cm one on the left side was growing so fast inducing swelling, that the doctor was concerned if I was having seizures and such. I felt fine, and until very recently I have always felt great.

At the four-month mark to my first follow scans, only six spots remained! Fast forward four more months, August 20 of this year, while again fully expecting to be healed or close to it, that isn’t the reality. Some are shrinking, some staying the same, some growing and still yet new activity they are concerned of as well.

Another recent event, beginning just a few weeks ago, my hearing loss is accelerating. As of today, one ear is totally deaf, the other ear is just as bad now and seems to be accelerating. In addition to physical declines. The worst part, severe tinnitus,, I can’t hear anyone speak, but instead I have what sounds like 1000 fingers on a chalk board at all times. When I try and talk, it only gets worse, like putting my head in a crystal bowl or something, it’s maddening.

This is why I am making this request. After three years of this battle and living on disability, unfortunately, my resources are not what they used to be. There is a Doctor in Mexico who has tremendous success treating cancer with stem cells and various other methods which are impossible to get here in the U.S. In speaking with him, I understand the cost to go is $15k-$20k. I know this is asking a lot and I am very uncomfortable asking, like I said, this is a Hail Mary. The Mayo has written me off as incurable. The only thing they offer is a nasty chemo pill with horrendous side effects which is not effective for very long and it only works half the time in the brain. Those who know me know I have a passion for life and I’m very active, so this is a whole new level of personal hell I need to navigate for a while.

Thank you for any consideration and help you can offer. I’ve given this fight everything I have. It seems this trip to Mexico may be my last chance at recovery and life here on this earth. If it is the Fathers Will I go Home early, then so be it, but this opportunity has presented itself and while we are here we need to fight for every breath. God Bless everyone.