A Fight For Scott Adsit's Life

GoFundMe requires, by law and with full disclosure, the owner of the bank account where the money will be deposited must be listed as a beneficiary. All funds will go to Scott Adsit’s for medical and personal expenses. Philip Watts is Rachel's son. He has generously agreed to account for all monies received and pay all bills. Thank you Philip, that is a big job.

Scott Adsit’s Gofundme account was set up by myself, Laurie Weaver & Jim Peterson, with the help of Scott's family and friends, to assist with his medical and living expenses during his 2nd fight with cancer.

Previous Cancer: In 2019, Scott had Esophageal cancer on his jaw and neck. He won that fight, but he spent all his and Rachel's (Scott’s significant other) savings in the process.

Recovery and Back to Work: He had gone back to work and had almost paid off all of his medical expenses when in, June 2022, he started experiencing severe abdominal pain with vomiting, diarrhea and a very high temperature. He was tested and found to have covid. After being off work for a month, he returned to work, and the same symptoms hit him again within two weeks. At this point, his employer informed him that he could not be at work with those symptoms, even if he didn't have covid, and that he would have to take an extended leave of absence or be fired. He took a leave of absence.

Numerous Doctors and Medical Tests:

Scott was referred to a doctor at “The Woodlands, Texas Oncology Hospital,” which is an hour and a half away from their home. Rachel had to take a whole day off from work, and the van is eating up the gas.

Rachel retrieved the digital copy and written report of the Ultrasound and CT Scan, from the other Hospital & ER. While reading through the CT Scan report, Rachel noticed a written note, about a 10.2 cm mass, on the right lower lobe of the lung. This mass was never revealed to Scott or Rachel during the 4 times they were told the ER, Hospital or Office Visits results.

Not only was this mass not shown to Scott or Rachel, but no one suggested doing a Chest CT Scan. For the past five weeks, they were doing tests in the wrong area of the body while the mass was visible on the CT. And it continued to grow. Now it was up to 11.4 cm. That is 4.4”. Apparently, even though the mass was present on the CT scans, because the work order said abdominal and intestinal tract area, nobody bothered to mention the mass that appeared above that area.

Oncologist. Dr. Andrew Jackson: Scott now has an Oncologist at The Woodlands, Texas Oncology. As soon as he saw the size of the tumor, he immediately ordered a PET scan, which is a scan that scans the entire body from head to toe. More tests, but at least these tests had information as to what the problem was. Scott's medical insurance took care of many of these procedures, but there were very large co-pays that came out of pocket.

The doctor worked very quickly and started Scott's Chemotherapy immediately.

Dr. Jackson told Scott and Rachel verbally that Scott’s mass was inoperable and uncurable. The purpose of invasive Chemotherapy is to shrink the tumor so Scott does not have as much pain.

First Chemo Treatment: On November 9th, 2022, Scott received his first chemo treatment. He was told that 3 days after his treatments, he would be nauseous and vomiting. His hemoglobin count was 7.2; normal is 13.8. The next day, he received two units of blood. If he can't keep his blood count higher, he will not be able to receive his next treatment in 3 weeks.

Friday, November 17th MRI of Brain: Scott is experiencing numbness around the area where the tumor is.

Saturday, November 18th Surgical implant: Scott had a port surgically implanted in his chest for Chemotherapy treatments.

Thanksgiving Evening, November 24th: Scott noticed his hair falling out in clumps, so Rachel gave him a really short haircut. Scott has received one treatment, and his hair is already falling out.

FINANCES / MEDICAL BILLS: Scott continues to vomit, have diarrhea, and run a fever. The medicine he receives is not relieving the pain.

Rachel is the only working member of the family, and the medical bills continue accumulating. Poor Rachel is working, transporting Scott to all his medical appointments, arranging for Medical Financing, attempting to understand the results of all the tests and looking for solutions.

The family was becoming desperate. They were not able to pay their November rent.

They are short of money for food and utilities. And now they are told they need to drive for 1 ½ hours for the Chemotherapy.

We have to Move:

Because of the 1 ½ hour drive for the Chemotherapy, the couple has decided to move their trailer home to a trailer park close to the new hospital. Now Rachel has more things on her plate to deal with. She now needs to pack up their home, arrange for moving the trailer home, find a new trailer park, see if she can get her work to transfer her to a store closer to the new hospital, continue caring for Scott, get him to his appointments, and work her full-time job.

The next problem is coming up with December rent and a damage deposit.

If you are able to help Scott reach his fundraising goal, I would be sincerely thankful. Every little bit helps. No amount is too small. To donate, just click the link to my fundraiser below:

If you can't help financially, no worries.

It would mean so much to me if you could share my fundraiser link with your family and friends and on social media. The more exposure we get, the faster they will reach their fundraising goal.