Help Give Our Mom More Time
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Dear family, friends, and kind strangers:
This is our mom. Her name is Su Chu Teng and she is 65 years old. She left her home country of Taiwan as a young mother in search for a better life for her children. She is an amazingly resilient woman, who has overcome many hardships, personally and in business but she always fought her way through with so much hope. Yet, life continues to be so unkind to her. A year ago, she decided to trust a new business partner, who ultimately scammed her, out of business assets as well as a lifetime of hard-earned personal savings. Still, she always remained hopeful, never giving up. She continued to work hard, finding opportunities and finally once again began to save for her retirement. She thought this year would be her lucky year.
On December 16, 2020 she was admitted to the ICU after months of battling what she thought was typical back pain coupled with sciatica. A CT scan revealed every person’s greatest fear: CANCER. She has metastatic breast cancer that has spread to her lungs, bones, and brain. What she thought was just back pain turned out to be cancer in the bones, turning them so brittle her vertebra was crushed from simply gardening. Right now, she is incoherent as the tumor in the brain has taken its toll. She is confused and nonverbal.
Our mother deserves better. She has no insurance and is currently in the ICU. We hope to stall the progression and buy her a little more time. We are not ready to give up on our mom. We just cannot.
She lives in Nicaragua with my brother, Cheng Pin Hu. My brother and I are paying what we can. We never imagined this: asking our family, friends, and strangers to open their hearts and help us. The hospital requires us to pay the balance of incurring charges every two days averaging $3,000. As of December 21, 2020, the balance is $8,300. We are now picking which procedures or tests we can afford until the biopsy results determines IF THERE ARE ANY POSSIBLE treatment plans.
My brother and I thank all of you for the time you take to read about our mom, for your kindness and generosity that will give her the chance to live a little longer.
Our father passed away suddenly from complications due to COPD last year, and we just cannot lose our mother now. Only a year later.
Cheng Pin and Hsiao-Ping
*Any unused funds will be donated to Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Research.
This is our mom. Her name is Su Chu Teng and she is 65 years old. She left her home country of Taiwan as a young mother in search for a better life for her children. She is an amazingly resilient woman, who has overcome many hardships, personally and in business but she always fought her way through with so much hope. Yet, life continues to be so unkind to her. A year ago, she decided to trust a new business partner, who ultimately scammed her, out of business assets as well as a lifetime of hard-earned personal savings. Still, she always remained hopeful, never giving up. She continued to work hard, finding opportunities and finally once again began to save for her retirement. She thought this year would be her lucky year.
On December 16, 2020 she was admitted to the ICU after months of battling what she thought was typical back pain coupled with sciatica. A CT scan revealed every person’s greatest fear: CANCER. She has metastatic breast cancer that has spread to her lungs, bones, and brain. What she thought was just back pain turned out to be cancer in the bones, turning them so brittle her vertebra was crushed from simply gardening. Right now, she is incoherent as the tumor in the brain has taken its toll. She is confused and nonverbal.
Our mother deserves better. She has no insurance and is currently in the ICU. We hope to stall the progression and buy her a little more time. We are not ready to give up on our mom. We just cannot.
She lives in Nicaragua with my brother, Cheng Pin Hu. My brother and I are paying what we can. We never imagined this: asking our family, friends, and strangers to open their hearts and help us. The hospital requires us to pay the balance of incurring charges every two days averaging $3,000. As of December 21, 2020, the balance is $8,300. We are now picking which procedures or tests we can afford until the biopsy results determines IF THERE ARE ANY POSSIBLE treatment plans.
My brother and I thank all of you for the time you take to read about our mom, for your kindness and generosity that will give her the chance to live a little longer.
Our father passed away suddenly from complications due to COPD last year, and we just cannot lose our mother now. Only a year later.
Cheng Pin and Hsiao-Ping
*Any unused funds will be donated to Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Research.
Organizer
Hsiao-Ping Hu Biehl
Organizer
Pennsauken, NJ