Help Chad Pay for Chemotherapy

Hi, my name is Chad Argabright and I'm raising money to pay for my chemotherapy. Back in June after some mild back pain and mild pain in my testicle, I was diagnosed with testicular cancer and within 4 days I had surgery to remove the cancerous testicle. With doctors visits, this cost me around $1,900 (Without insurance it would've been over $13,500). If you catch things early enough, this is usually the end of a testicular cancer diagnosis. A month or so after the surgery my mild back pain had progressed to severe pain that required me taking some serious pain pills all the time and was hampering my ability to sleep at night. The doctors gave me a CT scan which showed I had a large growth on a lymph node in my back, which was causing the pain. This required a 15 day regimen of chemotherapy (5 days on, 2 weeks off), which the doctors assured me with this type of cancer would be 95% effective. About 11 days in I'm tending to agree with them, as my pain disappeared after day 1 of treatment. However, even with insurance it costs me at least $160 (which the doctors are just guessing is the final cost) every time I walk into the treatment room for chemotherapy.

 

In theory I did everything right by having pretty great insurance where my deductible is only $550 and my insurer is paying 80% of my costs up until around $3,000, then they pay 100%. Even with all this, $3,000 is years worth of savings for me at my income level from working in the wildlife biology field. I knew I didn't get into this field for the money, but I was hoping that after years of frugality I would be able to buy a new vehicle and still have a solid head start towards a down payment on a house when I wanted to settle down. Unfortunately I already bought the vehicle long before my diagnosis, expecting to still have a solid cushion while making car payments. Now with $3,000 removed, that is no longer there. With me still working in the wildlife biology field, it will take me years to save that type of money up again, and I'll have to live a bare bones lifestyle.

 

My Midwestern nature really hates to ask for help of any kind. I wanted to be strong and take care of all of this stuff by myself. Fortunately I was blessed to have lots of people reach out to me with lots of love and support through this whole experience. I've been very lucky to have grown up with a great family along with making lots of amazing friends all over the country over these wonderful years in high school, college, and in my technician years. I hate to ask for anything, but I could definitely use the help and it seems like a lot of people in my life would love to help in one way or another. Even if all you can give right now is an amount like $5 or $10, that's totally fine by me, any amount helps. I'm very fortunate to be making my way out of this with my health mostly intact, if y'all could help me come out of this with a little more financial stability that would make my life 1000% better. I love you all so much for the love and support.

 

Thank you and I wish y'all all the best,

 

Chad