
Help my family please
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I’m Mark Berg a 60 year old recently diagnosed with terminal pancreatic and liver cancer. I have been ill and losing weight for the last 12-18 months. Despite colonoscopies, ultrasounds, CT scans, blood tests, fecal test and repeated exams, nothing was found. Just before Thanksgiving I started getting extremely jaundiced on top of the inability to eat normally. I went to the ER and the doc there found cancer in my pancreas which has metastasized to my liver as well and the mass is squeezing my esophagus causing difficulty swallowing. I had had another colonoscopy and endoscopy just three weeks prior and the doctor found nothing and told me my weight loss and non stop nausea was all in my head. He was very wrong. I have been planning on completing MANY necessary home repairs as soon as whatever my issue was had cleared up. I have been unable to do much due to extreme fatigue and weakness because of my inability to eat very much. I’m down to 140lbs from over 250 lbs. Now it is clear that I won’t be getting better. I would like to leave my wife and child as much money towards the house repairs as possible and to help my child with college expenses. Tuition is covered but the other expenses are not and he will start college either this spring or summer. My wife is a teacher but they don’t get paid very well here and a brand new just hired teacher earns more than my wife with years of experience. Teacher pay has not risen at all for years here so I would like to help in the only way I can now. My wife is EXTREMELY hard working but she will never leave teaching. She absolutely loves teaching and all of her students.
I would VERY much appreciate any amount you are able to donate. It is not my habit to ask for help and I find this extremely difficult and humiliating, but I have no other option. I would MUCH rather stick around and help them myself obviously, but that is no longer possible. Thank you in advance for any help you can give.
Organizer and beneficiary
Mark Berg
Organizer
Tallahassee, FL
Angela Berg
Beneficiary