Please help me help my friend.

We are still praying for more time with Gus, and as many experiences as we can have together.

Possibly even get Bryan’s first tattoo to match Gus’s. We’ve wanted a matching supernatural tattoo... maybe find a place we can get them done together!

But I am here to ask for financial help; just to be clear some is to feed the body and some will be to feed the soul.

If this raises more than is needed to support him through however much time he has left, the remainder would go to the family member who has already paid for his cremation.

Most of you know, he has been battling pancreatic cancer for the last year and a half or so. Gus has fought hard, he has had some victories and hard-earned remission. Some respite, some time to rest and enjoy Ren.

But it came at a steep price. Now— that cancer has returned and spread from his pancreas to his liver, and surgery is no longer an option. He has chosen hospice rather than further treatment, because the time gained would be measured in weeks and the quality of that time would not compare. As strange as it may sound, he wants to die healthier, not on more chemo.

While we are relatively comfortable and don’t really NEED anything exactly at this moment, we are also living check to check and by each payday the balance is usually zeroed out again.

As for Gus’s own personal finances he has only spent money on himself once each major necessity along the way has been taken care of. He took care of the big picture stuff.

He bought himself some comfy pajamas and some top-shelf weed but only after he took Ren, Archie, and Lily to their vet appointment. He just doesn’t buy nice things for himself, until he has paid for absolutely everything else first and triple checked no one needs anything first.

He VERY rarely tells us when he wants something out of the rest of the family budget besides groceries - he is incredibly independent. It is only recently, he has expressed an interest in going to a chiropractor and getting massages for pain relief.

I just wanted to put this out there so that we have money to pull from without having to worry about how we are going to make it through this time.

I want our weekly shopping trips to just be whatever he wants to eat, whatever food sounds good. All the fresh fruits and veggies we can get…

If I didn’t have to worry about money, he would have all of that all the time. Cut fruit bowls and veggie trays or the gourmet salads he likes, but feels too guilty to buy if he can’t finish it all instead of canned fruit salad and romaine.

Actually, I would love to just be able to find out what he wants to eat that day and go get it. Especially since his appetite comes and goes.

There’s a lot of other stuff going on in our family right now, and I don’t want him to have to worry about how to pay for any of the things he actually enjoys. I just want him to enjoy what he can, while he can.