Helping Corey live, while he Fights for his life

 As many of you know, almost a year ago my
brother Corey, was diagnosed with Chronic
Myeloid Leukemia. https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/199425-treatment#d1 

As shocking and devastating as that news was to
get, turns out, after learning more about CML, it is one of the more manageable cancers to have. In
the early stage, if the patient responds well, the
survival rate is quite high.
Fast forward one very long stressful year. Coreys Drs have determined he is not responding as they had hoped, and they have started the process for a bone marrow transplant.
A donor has been found ( praise God ) and the
transplant has been scheduled for mid January.
I am writing this because, as much as he’s going
through, he can’t bring himself to ask for help...
The process for a transplant is extensive and
terrifying.
Starting with a super intense week of chemo
leading up to the transplant, to kill his immune
system. Followed by a month long hospitalization. Finally ending with months of basic quarantine,
when so much as a fever is life threatening.
The after care has been the biggest challenge to
figure out. With Corey living in Kansas, it’s
impossible for any of his Maine family to do the
whole 100+ days. Hiring a caregiver costs
hundreds per day and insurance doesn’t cover
once he leaves the hospital...
Enter Denise, my brothers longtime friend ( and
my hero ) who, when finding out they wouldn’t
schedule the transplant  until aftercare was in
place, volunteered herself.
All of this aftercare is to take place in my brothers home. The rent will still be due, the heat and lights will run, groceries will be bought. All while they
will both be out of work, trying to focus on his
recovery.
I know there are GoFundMe pages for everything
these days, and I understand his reservations
about starting this again.
However I know he is meeting with people daily,
searching for programs and grants to help offset
the astronomical cost of this process.
I just don’t want him to feel defeated in ANY way
right now. Especially over the financial aspect of
his situation.
Every donation helps, in so many ways...it also tells him, while he is so far away from home,
that we care ❤️