<div><strong>Right now my wife is on a rollercoaster trying to survive. Megan has cancer.</strong>
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<div>My name is Nathan, Megan’s husband and best friend. Together we are riding the intense ups and downs of her sudden and unexpected diagnosis of two agressive primary stage IV cancers. She has stomach and liver cancer that has metastasized to her lungs and lymph nodes. The experience has been a nightmare filled with fear, confusion, physical pain, nausea, heavy emotions and living grief.
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<div>At only 39, Megan has a lot more life to live. Those who have met her know she’s deserving of many more years. Megan has lived her life based on love. Her focus, attention, and goals can all be traced to having a real connection with nature, animals, and people. She knows the true meaning of life and sacrifice. In the sight of even the smallest suffering of a living thing she shows compassion without thinking twice. She has always been a hard worker, a creative thinker, a true adventurer, and of course a hilarious joker. She has a devotion to enjoying life and having fun. Even her mere presence brings comfort to people that meet her for the first time. Megan is genuinely a good person.
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<div>Megan and I have been together for 22 years. We started our adventures from the first day we met working together at Blockbuster Video, to being married in Rome, traveling all over the world to create our movies and television, and now through thick and thin, sickness and health.
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<div><strong><em>I’m creating this fundraiser for several reasons.</em></strong>
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<div><strong>One</strong>, because so many great people have asked how they can help us. Megan and I are not the type of people to make our private business known to the world or to ask for handouts. We believe there is always someone else more in need. This terrible experience is humbling but now we must take new avenues to find the best care options and quality of life for Megan in an attempt to return the compassion she’s always given to others.
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<div><strong>Two</strong>, because this ride is happening so fast. It’s only been weeks since we found out her diagnosis and already she has gone through two nine hour chemo treatments, multiple biopsies, invasive esophagus scans, emergency rooms visits, sleepless nights, excruciating physical pain, inability to eat and drink, constant nausea and vomiting, stress, sadness and tears, tons of phone calls, and an endless list of prescriptions. Every sort of responsibility and bill are adding up quickly and we’re just getting started. Our current insurance company has denied multiple referral attempts from Megan’s oncologist to get her into a specialist considering her unique and rare double primary cancer diagnosis. Her family is trying everything we can to find a way to get her into specialized cancer centers but it’s a challenging and costly road to navigate. Statistically she may be the only person under 65 in the entire midwest region with this type of cancer situation. Stomach cancer effects less then 11,000 American women annually and liver cancer 13,000. Megan has both.
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<div><strong>Three</strong>, because Megan needs full-time care and loving attention. Although she is the strongest and most brilliant person I know, currently the cancer in her body isn’t allowing her to be at the top of her game. She’s in a lot of pain, neuropathy, exhaustion, and general fogginess. At times even the simple tasks we take for granted can be chores for her to get through. I want to scream for her and sometimes I do. Somehow she is still finding ways to be positive through her sense of humor and enjoying our precious time together. As her husband I consider it an honor and my duty to be her caretaker. I am forever committed to her. I truly love being able to care for Megan in every way possible. In order to take on the full-time care and household duties I have had to mostly stop working. Those of you that know me know that I’m constantly busy with filming something somewhere but right now I’m limiting work to only very select close to home gigs on days that still allow me to manage Megan’s care while trying to bring home just enough money to get by. It’s not easy and I’m not too proud to admit I need help but being with my wife and making her happy is more important than anything else right now.
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<div><strong>The money that this GoFundMe raises will be used for these specific needs:</strong>
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<div>•Medical treatment for Megan that is not covered by insurance.
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<div>•Supplemental and regular insurance premiums and associated costs.
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<div>•Travel expenses such as hotel, flight, and/or gas costs to get to and from medical care.
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<div>•Out-of-pocket expenses for prescriptions.
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<div>•Attorney fees for insurance company appeals.
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<div>•Necessity of life costs such as mortgage, utilities, and groceries to supplement the money I try to earn.
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<div><strong><em>With your help we can give Megan a better quality of life and stop this cancer rollercoaster!</em></strong>
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<div>In the event that there are any unused funds Megan has chosen to donate remaining funds to CancerCare.org
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<div>If you personally know us and would like to help directly or in some other way please contact me via text or email to find out any immediate or specific needs. At this time Megan is focusing on healing so please direct any communications or questions to me directly. Thank you for respecting her need to manage that stress.
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<div><em>Please note that we are not a charity and money given to us cannot be tax deducted. Your money will be considered a gift and we are very thankful for your contributions.</em>
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<div>Sincerely,
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<div>Nathan &amp; Megan Maulorico
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<div>THANK YOU!
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