My name is Sheena Beland.  I am the daughter of 56 year old Sherry Beland.  My Mother has been fighting Brain Cancer since September 2015.  She had a full craniotomy done where it was discovered she has Glioblastoma Multiforme. This type of Brain Tumor is a very deadly incurable brain cancer.  

My Dad is her only full time caregiver and is unable to work because of the fulltime care my Mother requires.  My Mother only receives a very small monthly disability check and things are getting terrible financially as her medical expenses have exceeded catastrophic levels.

We as a family need to raise this money to provide care, pay medical expenses, and to cover therapy and various equipment that will help my Mother walk again.  Once she is walking, she would then qualify for further clinical trials, i.e. immunotherapies.  

Please take it in your heart to help my Mother.  She had spent the last 21 years working very hard in the service of our country as a Federal Civilian (military budget analyst), and is now fighting just as hard to continue her own life.  We would be so grateful for any donations sent her way.  Thank you for your time.  God Bless!

My Dad's thoughts below...
"Almost immediately after relocating from Stuttgart, Germany to Ridgecrest, California at the end of Feb 2015, my wife Sherry started to experience some very terrible mental and physical problems and by September 2015, at her 54th year on this planet, she was diagnosed with having a large golf ball size tumor on the right front lobe of her brain. 

Sherry’s brain tumor surgery and all of the follow-on cancer treatments, (chemo & radiation), have reduced her physical and mental capabilities in what seems like a horrible daily death.

While I write this, Sherry is still somehow hanging on, yet I find myself praying every day that she passes peacefully in the night while in the safety of my arms.

May 5, 2017 will be our 33rd year of marriage, and with every minute that passes I am unsure if she will see that day come to light.  Through all of these years, we promised each other that we would not allow either one to be put into a nursing facility and that we would do whatever we could to allow whoever had gotten terminally ill, the dignity of passing in our own loving home.  We know there will never be a love as strong as ours and my love for Sherry grows with every breath I take.  It has been that way ever since we first met.

Sherry’s mental capabilities have changed daily due to ongoing seizures and these deficits over time have added up to almost daily re-training of the simplest things in life like toileting, eating etc.  Sherry still somehow remembers who I am and she still insists on not wanting to go to a nursing facility, so I continue to try and let her hold on to our promise – “till death do us part.”

Words are unable to accurately describe the pain in my heart as I have watched my beautiful wife's body trying to free her spirit from the gravity of this earth.  Back in May 2016, Sherry woke from a 6.5-day coma, and she spoke of seeing a light and said there were many people with open arms that were waiting for her, but she wanted to stay with me longer.   I had witnessed a miracle, and anyone who exercises freedom of thought and has a spiritual belief, knows that reason and logic will allow an open mind to believe.

We have never been so unsure of what is to come, and I know we have been in complete denial of accepting that we would not have any more time together.  However, reality quickly sets in and it’s the cold hard facts that long term survival from the devastating brain cancer and the various treatment’s, have taken a terrible toll on Sherry's beautiful mind and body.   At this point, only time would tell what roads may still lie ahead for us.

These past 16 months have taken most of our savings, left me with daily full body pains from having to lift Sherry’s body all day long and I am not certain how much longer I can physically do it but I pray every day for strength."