Fundraiser to Celebrate the life of Mor Xiong

Hello friends, family, colleagues, and those of you willing to show your compassion and empathy towards the loss of a matriarch.

My name is Khai. I am humbly asking for donations to help me and my family perform funeral services for my mother and her final resting place. Any amount is greatly appreciated and would contribute greatly.

My Mothers Story:

My mom did not grow up with a simple life that some of us had the privilege of experiencing. When she was young her parents passed and left her as an orphan that was adopted into a family. Since then she was never given the freedom to make her own decisions to live the life she wanted. Some of her youth was spent migrating through Laos until they finally crossed the borders of Thailand. Then on she was forced into cultural marriages with abusive partners that shared a large age gap and beyond that she was thrown into more complex challenges a decade after immigrating to the US.

At the age of 49 my father passed and she was left to be a single mother to raise 5 kids from 10-18 years old on her own as a single immigrant mother who did not have the education to guide her way through a foreign country. Through persistence and perseverance she was able to gain government assistance to allow her to provide the basic needs to raise her children as best she could until they reached adulthood in the hopes they would lead happier lives than she did.

The last two years from 2023-2025 I (Khai, her son) had stepped in to help her after a gallbladder removal revealed that she had a rare cancer that had reached stage 3. Fortunately the mass was only located at the gallbladder and we were lucky to be in remission. Throughout the year I did my best to help her obtain stability and repair her body from years of uneducated dietary habits. I was able to help her restore her vision by scheduling the removal of cataracts while maintaining her vision through injections to treat her retinal edema. I and my siblings all played a part in balancing her blood sugar to manage her diabetes, lowering her blood pressure and cholesterol, and even continually monitoring her cancer to provide her a quality of life that I knew existed beyond her understanding. I wished to have the chance to show her the beautiful world that she herself never truly experienced once she was better.

Unfortunately, when things seemed their most hopeful she suddenly fell ill and a trip to the ER to treat her septicemia revealed that her Cancer had reached Stage IV and had imbedded a large mass in her liver which left her terminal. God had decided it was time to free her from her pain and suffering and took her to Heaven within two weeks of being admitted.

The loss of our mother has brought my family anguish and joy. We have lost our last (and really only) parent and the most loving and stubborn person we love, but we are happy to see that she is no longer suffering and has moved on to a better place.

I know that no matter how much I may suffer and struggled it could never match what she has been through. The life that I was able to have was one that she sacrificed so much for, and for that I am eternally grateful and saddened that I will never be able to show a life better than one she has known.

We are now left with the task that all children must face, and prepare their parents for the next life. My family has been one that has only known poverty living life paycheck to paycheck in government assisted living with a lack of guidance to prepare us for this tragedy. I saw this coming but believed that I had earned her another decade to prepare, however the unknown certainty of life came in and now I must do my best to celebrate her life and to ensure that her next life is one that is better than the one she had.

Please help these children do their best to treat their mother the way every mother should be treated in their final moments for all the sacrifices they have endured.

Thank you so much for taking the time to read our story.

-Khai