My name is Kyle, and I’m raising funds to help cover my mom’s final expenses and give her the respectful goodbye she deserves.

My mom was a single mother my entire life and I am an only child. Life was never easy for her. In her 20’s, she was involved in a terrible motorcycle accident that left her with severe, lifelong injuries and pain.

She lived with those injuries for decades, but she still did everything she could to take care of me.

She didn’t have much financially and spent most of her life living on disability, but she gave everything she had as a mother.

She never owned a car, a house or anything fancy. She lived in the same one bedroom section-8 apartment for 25 years.

Two years ago I moved back to the area after living two hours away for five years so I could be her caregiver because her leg became worse, requiring me to get all her medications and groceries.

Just a week and a half ago our world changed overnight when she called me to take her to the hospital because of the pain in her right arm (we later found out it was bone marrow cancer). She was always in pain from the motorcycle acccident. So for her to ask to go to the hospital, was serious.

I couldn't get her out of bed so I had to call an ambulance. She was taken to the hospital on February 27th, just two days before her birthday.

After two days in the ER getting a dozen tests, they moved her up to the palliative care unit. The hospital oncologist informed me she had stage 4 lung cancer and it had already metastasized to her bone marrow and liver.

I tried to pull myself together as I asked the oncologist how long she has, expecting him to say a couple years. He said three months without treatment. I was crushed.

After more tests to see if she was a candidate for chemotherapy or immunotherapy they found she has late stage liver cirrhosis. My mother never drank alcohol so I assume it was from decades of harsh pain medication for her severe injuries.

So they said due to the liver cirrhosis, she would not survive cancer treatment. So that was it, three months they said. It was the worst day of my life times 1000.

Things progressed much faster than anyone expected.

On March 8th she suddenly took a turn for the worse and was placed on morphine and Ativan for comfort care in the hospital. My wife and I stayed by her side day and night.

She began having trouble breathing, slipped into a coma, and peacefully passed away on March 10th 2026, only one week after she was diagnosed and given a three month prognosis.

We were holding her hand when she took her final breath and read Psalm 23:4 from her bible.

Because everything happened so quickly, we were completely unprepared for the financial burden of funeral and end-of-life expenses, we were shocked when the nearby funeral home told us the prices of a basic funeral and burrial, $24,000.

I never got the chance to ask my mom her final wishes because I thought I had three months but I never wanted cremation. I will never know what she wanted.

My next best choice would be for her to cremated and her ashes burried on top of my grandmothers resting place in Santa Rosa with a headstone below grandma's. I already spoke with the funeral home director there and she said that is an option.

My wife and I live paycheck to paycheck and we both missed a week of work to be with her during her final week but we want to give my mom the best we can.

Any funds raised will go toward her funeral or cremation costs, ash burial of my mother with her mother, emptying and cleaning of her apartment and any other final unforseen expenses.

My mom spent her life fighting through pain and hardship but always did her best to be there for me. I just want to give her a respectful goodbye and honor the life she lived.

Any support, no matter how small, would mean the world to us. If you’re not able to donate, sharing this page would help more than you know.

Thank you for helping us honor my mom.