Please Help Father’s Cancer and Newborn

Co-organized

MonicaGail MultariZweibel and Gail Zwiebel are organizing this fundraiser on behalf of Bethanie Trometer.

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Dear Friends, Family and Kind-hearted Folks,

We are friends of August and Beth Trometer, and humbly ask your help as they face heartbreaking medical challenges.

This past year, with no family in CA, they bravely faced a rollercoaster from the joy of a miracle pregnancy to a devastating thyroid cancer diagnosis, treatment + surgery, and most recently a debilitating stroke leaving August unable to walk and missing the birth of his beautiful daughter, Lyric.

We have now learned the stroke may be brain cancer due to metastasised thyroid cancer, which also requires further surgery and treatment.

To help paint this picture:

- May 2023, August, Beth and son, Bond (5 years old), learn Beth is pregnant.

- July 15, 2023, August diagnosed thyroid cancer.

- January 26, 2024, August surgery to remove half thyroid.

- Feb 3 2024 August suffers stroke, admitted to hospital.

- Feb 4 2024 August cannot walk or come home, c-section delayed.

- Feb 5 2024 Beth gives birth to daughter, Lyric. August misses birth.

- Feb 9, 2024, August meets his daughter for 10 minutes.

- Feb 12, 2024, August learns remaining thyroid must be removed.

- Feb 15, 2024, Insurance will not keep August in care, Beth will be forced to look after him at home with newborn baby, (Beth cannot lift due to c-section recovery).

- Feb 17, 2024, family learns possibly brain cancer metastasised from thyroid cancer.

What We Are Asking:

August and Beth have no family in California, but are grateful to a local community of friends pitching in with immediate practical needs.

What we need is your monetary support. The road ahead will require at-home nursing, equipment to lift August and help him be mobile, rehabilitation, transportation, further surgeries and treatments. Plus, the realities of caring for a newborn and 5-year-old big brother.

The easiest way for us to ensure we can meet these compound challenges is to raise money to supplement the loss of income and insurance gaps.

We ask you to donate to and spread the word about August and Beth’s GoFundMe campaign.

Every bit of support counts.

Thank you so much.

Some added photos:

August in hospital.