Helping Cheryl Yudt Dowell

WE ALL KNOW AND LOVE CHERYL YUDT DOWELL. IT IS TIME FOR US TO HELP HER. HER HUSBAND DARRIN WAS NOT FEELING GREAT AND WENT TO THE DOCTOR’S. THEY FOUND OUT IN JULY THAT HE HAD A MASS IN HIS ESOPHAGUS, WHICH EXPLAINED WHY HE WAS HAVING TROUBLE EATING AND DRINKING. THEY ALSO FOUND FIVE LESIONS ON HIS BRAIN. AFTER THEY BIOPSIED THE MASS, THEY FOUND IT WAS ADNO CARCINOMA, AND THE LESIONS WERE FROM THE CANCER AS WELL. THEY WERE TOLD IT WAS AN AGGRESSIVE CANCER, AND THEY STARTED THE RADIATION FOR THE LESIONS ON THE BRAIN. TWO WEEKS, FIVE DAYS A WEEK. ONCE ALL THIS HAPPENED, THEY HAD TO PUT A FEEDING TUBE IN HIS STOMACH SO HE WOULD HAVE NUTRITION. UNFORTUNATELY, THE AREA BECAME INFECTED A COUPLE OF TIMES, WITH TONS OF ANTIBIOTICS, SURGERIES TO DRAIN, ETC. DUE TO THIS INFECTION, THE DOCTOR POSTPONED HIS CHEMO TREATMENT TO TRY TO SHRINK THE MASS IN HIS ESOPHAGUS. LAST WEEK, HE WAS GETTING OUT OF BED AND COULD NOT STAND; HE FELL TO THE FLOOR. CHERYL HAD TO CALL NON-EMERGENCY TO HAVE THE FIRE DEPARTMENT HELP HER TO GET HIM BACK INTO BED. A FEW HOURS LATER, HE STARTED SLURRING HIS WORDS. CHERYL CALLED THE ADVICE NURSE AT KAISER TO LET HER KNOW ALL THE EVENTS OF THAT MORNING AND WAS TOLD TO CALL 9-1-1. HENCE, THIS IS WHY I AM DOING THIS GO FUND ME ACCOUNT. AT THIS TIME, THEY FOUND OUT HE HAS ANOTHER MASS ON HIS BRAIN THAT IS PUSHING THE BRAIN STEM. THERE IS NOTHING LEFT TO DO FOR HIM TO PREVENT THE CANCER FROM SPREADING MORE. HE HAS BEEN GIVEN THREE TO SIX MONTHS TO LIVE. HE IS NOT ABLE TO COME HOME BECAUSE HE NEEDS 24-HOUR CARE UNTIL GOD COMES TO GET HIM. CHERYL AND DARRIN DO NOT HAVE THE MONEY TO PAY FOR HIS OUT-OF-HOME CARE FOR SIX MONTHS. HIS HOME IS $6,500 PER MONTH, AFTER INSURANCE, AND THERE ARE OTHER EXPENDITURES. IF YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE ANYTHING, IT WOULD BE VERY MUCH APPRECIATED. CHERYL IS HAVING TO MANAGE MANY THINGS CURRENTLY. PLEASE KEEP HER, HIS CHILDREN TYLER AND TRAVIS, HIS BROTHERS AND MOTHER IN YOUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS. MANY THANKS FOR CONSIDERING MY REQUEST. MAY GOD BLESS YOU. ALSO, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEND HER A CARD, PLEASE SEND ME A MESSAGE ON MESSENGER.