Kristen and Brayden Need Our Help

Hello, my name is Michaeleah Yarger and I’m making this GoFundMe for my friend Kristen McKinniss. Kristen's son Brayden, aged 5 years old, has recently been placed on hospice after a long, hard fight with childhood cancer. Brayden was once a happy, thriving boy, but life turned quickly, and he’s gone through a lot in the short life he’s lived. From the cancer spreading to his spinal cord and being unable to continue walking or talking to now being placed on hospice and told doctors are unable to treat or help him any further. When they should be talking about kindergarten, they are talking about burial services.

Brayden’s mother has not asked for help and only asked for support and prayers throughout this entire process, but now she’s reaching out to ask anyone who can donate to help. We all know life doesn’t slow down when these things happen. Kristen has not worked and has suffered great financial battles due to Brayden’s hospitalizations and hefty amounts of doctor visits. Kristen has graciously sacrificed to be home with Brayden at this time because she wants to spend every minute she can with him, and rightfully so. She has tossed the idea of going back to work so that she can support her family as they struggle daily with bills, but she wants to reach out to the community as a last effort to try to make do and be able to stay with him while he needs her. Kristen has had help through children’s programs and applied for financial relief programs but is awaiting approval, which can be a long process.

Please, if you’ve been touched by Kristen and Brayden’s story, or have never heard of them and just want to help a momma of 4 boys get through the hardest thing she will go through in her life, donate. As a mom to boys myself, or as a mom in general, Kristen truly is living our worst nightmare. The only way that we can help her right now in this time is to donate, support, and pray. We can’t make her son better, and we cannot heal the pain she’s felt, but we can relieve the financial burden she’s enduring and continue offering support and helping where we see her needs.

Thank you so much for reading this. If you have any ideas on other ways you can help Kristen, please reach out. If you’d like to donate another way, I can send you Kristen’s Cash App and Venmo can also be used. Please continue keeping Brayden in your prayers, as his time here on this earth may be closing in. Pray for comfort and peace for his family and his brothers as they’ve already watched him suffer and will continue to until the Lord takes him home or an answer is brought forward. Your help and time is forever appreciated.