Help Lillian Baltezore Battle Brain Cancer

My mother, Lillian Baltezore, has been dealing with migraines and mind-excruciating headaches for most of her adult life. We never thought it was anything serious. After visiting the ER last week, she was admitted to the hospital after the medical staff found an abnormality in her CAT scan.

After days of waiting in a hospital bed, she was given an MRI. The MRI revealed 2 brain tumors that are located in her frontal lobe. After waiting for what felt like an eternity, we were given the worst possible news a son/family member could hear.

My mother has been diagnosed with GBM (Glioblastoma). It's an incredibly rare & aggressive form of cancer that starts in the brain. It's an incredibly fast-growing tumor that can spread to nearby normal brain tissue.

Lillian was given 12-18 months to live by the doctors. As her son, I refuse to accept this. I refuse to believe that someone who has only shown unyielding love & understanding to the world will be leaving this Earth sooner than they're supposed to.

Lillian is the most caring, understanding & loving human being I have ever met. I'm not ready to lose my mother and my best friend. I'm not ready to say goodbye to her. I want her to meet my future wife, her future grandchildren. I want to see her retire, travel the world & grow old with my father.

She is a diligent & industrious coworker to many as well. Her tenacity and ability to get the job done has earned her the respect and admiration from every colleague she has worked with. My mother is so driven & carries the weight of the world on her shoulders, that she would leave the house every day at 5am and arrive back home at 5pm. She has done this for as long as I have been alive. While I would have loved to have my mom home with me so I wasn't alone after school growing up, she knew that to provide for us & that the work had to be done & there would be sacrifices. That's the way it had to be so we could survive.

We are going to try everything humanly possible to ensure her a long and happy life. We are prepared to do anything & everything possible to ensure Lillian gets the best possible care & medical treatment. Flying her across the country to promising clinical trials, visiting as many doctors & cancer centers as possible. We will be doing WHATEVER we can to ensure that she is not in pain and has a fighting chance.

It is not her time yet. I still need my mother. I'm not ready to say goodbye.

I thank God every day that I have her in my life and we want MANY MANY more with her. Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers.

I love you, Mom.

"It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt."