Hello everyone, my name is Nicole and I am friends with the Mumma family.

Brad Mumma has been my son's baseball coach for the last 4 years as well as a coach to many other boys and girls under his utility travel organization.

Recently, Brad fell upon some medical issues that has made it to where he is unable to work. In July, he was forced to fold his 10-year-long travel organization due to the medical conditions.

For the past year, Brad has been dealing with a neuropathy disease, which we now know is Paraneoplastic Syndrome, making it difficult for him to walk or stand for long periods of time and even sit for long periods of time. Through the process of trying to determine what was the cause of this neurological situation, it was found that there was a tumor located on Brad's kidney which was determined to be cancer, (clear cell type)renal cell carcinoma. At the end of July, Brad underwent a surgery to remove the tumor from his kidney. He is not out of the woods for cancer as there are still some concerns in different areas of his body and the surgery to remove the tumor did not help the neurological issues

Brad along with his wife and 4 children are currently struggling mostly due to the cost of medication and therapy!

Over the years I have witnessed Brad's willingness to help baseball players who can't afford to play or their equipment all the way to multiple families who need a Thanksgiving dinner.

If you have a little bit to give it would be greatly appreciated! This is definitely a family that deserves support!

EDIT FROM BRAD

Thank you all from our entire family. We have been so blessed with love and provisions. I wanted to update everyone on my health. I’m great! I’ve taken over control of my healing as I’m losing faith in traditional medicine. Cancer is believed to be out of my body for now, as we’re going to monitor the situation. So I’m turning my attention to natural health. My body can heal itself—I know it. My medicine will be food. My medicine will be taking in knowledge. My medicine will be caring for my soul. I’m a firm believer, recently, of the power of healing that we already have in us. I’m currently working to change my environment in every healthy way I possibly can. Part of those changes is where we are applying the wonderful generosity and love shown to help in making those changes. Right now, we are adding a water filtration system. We have depleted our refrigerator and are refilling it with whole foods, non-GMO, and organic foods—locally sourced meats and dairy. We are investing in a home garden and plan on growing our own produce. We might even take that a step further and get chickens for eggs. I have very little wardrobe, and your generous gifts will allow me to add to that. I am slowly doing that because my body is still getting much more healthy, and I’m still losing a little weight. I’m getting close to my goals of 200-205, as I’m 219 this morning. I was 339 pounds in mid-2022. The benefits that I’ve already received from losing weight are tremendous. My back pain, in general, is much lower than it ever was. I have no need to take cholesterol medicine or high blood pressure medicine. I was on pre-diabetic medication, and that is gone. I had sleep apnea so bad I was at risk of not breathing in the middle of the night. I was stopping breathing over 100 times an hour. I don’t even need a CPAP anymore, and my sleep has been solid. I’ve been able to use your generosity to buy solid shoes, as I’m gaining my walking back to where I was before, and everyone better watch out—I’m determined to start playing basketball and golf again. That timeline is a slow process, but after all, I was unhealthy for over 20 years, and my body is slowly getting better one day at a time. My day is broken up into many days as I don’t have much energy. Pain seems to be in the background at times, but I’m very quick to get tired. So I’m breaking my day up into a bunch of little days: wake, eat, move, rest, educate, eat, move, rest. Some days I’m able to do that a few times. Some days I’m able to do it 6 or 7 times. When I was doing that before my nerves took a dive, that’s when I was crushing the weight loss. So I’ve got my maladies down to fatigue and the nerve issue. Nerves grow slow, and if they are repairing themselves due to my healthy state, I might be on the basketball court or golf course sooner than later. The kids have started school, and this is going to help in the fact that my healing environment just got quieter. In fact, I’m healing so much I’m writing a book in the process of healing. I think a lot of people wait until their miracle is complete. I’m writing this book fast (almost half done) so people can witness my health miracle and be inspired to make small changes that lead to huge things! Let me show you a little example of the things I’m writing about. I have focused my healing on mind, body, and spirit. The book dives into slow changes I made in each area. Here’s an example of my understanding of this dynamic health triangle. I don’t know enough about the importance of which part of the triangle you start at or what map to follow, yet! Ultimately, my problems boiled down to mental illness. Don’t be scared of that term. Illness is just the opposite of health, and I believe we all have little areas in our mind we can work on. The stigma is that even talking about mental health is a weakness. Folks, that couldn’t be further from the truth. It is indeed the opposite. Pain can absolutely leave your body out of your mouth in the form of words. This isn’t a new concept—I’m sure all the counselors of the world just stood up and cheered. But like the common theme of getting healthy to heal your body by taking little steps, the mind is the same way. By talking through your conflicts and problems, a great counselor will listen to you and let you talk yourself into a solution. You just need to start listening to that honest voice. Also, if I may, learn and practice skills to turn it off when out loud. Again, not breakthrough science. My go-to is music, but singing it, and loud. Talking, dancing, walking, exercising, and many more options—certainly, there are enough that you can find a few that you enjoy. That’s a fancy way of saying stress relievers. Mind, body, spirit healing can cross over, and eventually, it becomes one. As your habits improve, you need to move. Exercise, even if it’s just a little, is healing your brain because it’s not working; your physical body is. I believe once the mind is beginning to calm, you can think more clearly on a plan. You can organize your day better and be more productive. That’s when the soul starts to heal. It can be hurt, and it can be scarred. My soul began to heal when I gave all the love I had to others. Some days I could hardly move, and my mind was saying just curl up in the fetal position, eat ice cream, drink alcohol—do all the things culture has told us to do to ease our pain. And trust me, DQ will make you feel better. And by no means, in moderation, is anything wrong with those other spiritual and mental band-aids. Hey folks, I’m only telling you this stuff from personal experience. I’m lucky to be alive with the amount of self-destructive behavior I took part in for over 20 years. Back to giving all my love to others as an example: I had nothing in the tank and could hardly walk, and I made a conscious decision to just do one thing for the kids or the family each day. Probably in the form of cooking a meal or trying to help Rosie. They were small and maybe even unnoticeable. But I started to see the rewards in my heart and my soul because I knew I always wanted to serve others before me. Well, this was all I had, and I gave it to someone else—my effort, my love. And the love I’ve received in return from my family, friends, and all people has been that love returned tenfold. I love you all! And now I’m going to get a master’s in the healing field, and I’m going to give my love to as many people as I can for the rest of my life! This is a general update to everyone. Please be on the lookout for a personalized thank you soon!

-Brad Mumma