Son’s Surgery to Remove a Brain Tumor Please Help

I’m a mother desperately trying to figure out how to get the funds for taking care of an impossible situation so I can be there for my son which is about to undergo brain surgery to remove a tumor at the end of the month.

Let me tell you a little about my family. My name is Angie I have two kids, my son Connor age 19 and my daughter Caitlyn age 18 and my fiancé Nick. 

Years ago we lived in Virginia which is where this all started. In 2009 my son was in a bad car accident which he suffered a traumatic head injury and underwent 3 plastic surgeries to fix the scar on his head above his eye. He suffered headaches from this accident which after moving to Wisconsin we had to take him to see a neurologist. He underwent an MRI which showed that he had a small tumor that they wanted to keep an eye on to make sure it didn’t grow. Every 3 months then 6 months they did another MRI to ensure the tumor wasn’t growing which it wasn’t so they stopped giving him MRIs because they said it wasn’t growing he would be okay.

Years later he noticed a lump under his chin this was a concern so we took my son to the doctor after graduation to see what it was.  

The doctor wanted to do a cat scan which during this scan is where they noticed the large tumor in my son’s brain that had become considerably larger than before. My son had recently went through surgery removing this mass under his chin and was doing well after surgery. He had to go on a leave of absence from work because his vision was blurry and he was getting bad headaches worse than before.

UW Madison Hospital finally reached out to us after waiting months to be seen by a neurosurgeon because he was turned down by other neurologists that didn’t have the tools to treat him. The neurosurgeon told us that he would need to have this tumor removed soon because it would eventually cause serious problems if it remained in his brain because it is actively growing. His procedure is at the end of this month and I am told that he will be in the hospital a minimum of three to five days if everything goes smoothly. Depending on how he does during and after surgery he could be in there longer. We are too far away to be driving back and forth from home so I have to get a hotel room in Madison the day before surgery until he is released from the hospital. I am truly struggling at this time and need help financially so I can be there for my son during this difficult time in his life. I really am having a hard time asking for help but this isn’t about me it’s for my son. My son has been through so much in his life but he puts on a brave face and deals with it head on I am so proud of him and so grateful to have such an amazing young man. He doesn’t deserve to be going through such a scary ordeal and more than anything I wish I could take this away but I can’t all I can do is be there for him every step of the way and pray to god that he will get through this. 

Since creating the GoFundMe:

I just want to say thank you to anyone who has taken the time to donate, share and pray for my son in this difficult time he has been going through. This has been hell on earth not being able to take this from my son. No mother or father wants to watch their child suffer and have to go through something so very scary in their life. I really don’t like putting myself out there for everyone to know my family’s situation but we are having a really hard time going through this I wouldn’t wish this on any parent let alone on anyone’s child but this is what god decided we could handle and I have to believe everything is going to be okay. If your in a position that you can help us I have the GoFundMe setup to help get the hotel room for me to be close to the hospital in Madison and for gas for his dad to go back and forth because he has to also take care of all our animals but also anything my son might need during recovery. I am very limited on vacation time through my job because I used most of it up recently during my sons last surgery so if I have to stay longer than expected I won’t be able to afford our day to day expenses. I am between a rock and a hard place and want all my time and energy used being there for my son so he can get better. He is amazed at all the support coming in so far and thanks everyone for their prayers and support.