Please Help us to meet our MOM'S FUNERAL EXPENSES

I am JEROM JERALD living in East Ham, London. My wife died fighting cancer a few weeks ago. We had migrated just recently from Kerala,India. I honestly have never asked for help but now I am helpless. Beyond my personal loss, I have my children to take care of. I am waiting for them to arrive from India for their mother’s funeral.

I am taking this opportunity to say a sincere thanks to Dr.Karen Tipples for her dedication to revive and recoup my wife during the last few months. My appreciation to all other Doctors and Nursing staff for their unconditional care they showed during my wife's stay at St. Bartholomew's hospital London.

Let me introduce my beloved wife, Late. Sherlin Jerald, (this is the first time I am writing or addressing her as "Late"). because I cannot imagine she is gone. Sherlin was a very calm, caring, loving wife and a mother of three who could not fulfill her dream to see her children before she bid bye to this world at a young age of 46.

She was an unbelievably strong woman and battled her chemo and surgery with all she had, fought cancer without complaining even in her painful moments, I was hoping against hope about recovery and re-built our life.

We were a happy family of five, now my wife is gone and I am waiting for my 3 minor children to join me here for the funeral tentatively in a fortnight from India. The flight expenses and other legal fees and funeral expenses are beyond my wallet.

The gruelling challenge is overcoming the financial strains and the fear about the future. Why are we doing it.... well, firstly because we have no choice, We came here to UK with a dream to have wonderful family and now my partner of 25 years has left me heart broken as well confused about future. I don’t know what to do and where to begin…. because she was the only support system I had. Our children were facing legal paper work since five years to be with us from India, and now its too late as their mother is gone. It was her last wish to see them.

For the last 2 years I was running from work to hospital, with routine scans, check-ups and that cycle of not knowing after each one whether the dreaded disease had returned. For 2 years, our life was in a limbo, until she was called to her heavenly abode.

We are left with nothing now, as I am daily wager . I appeal to all who shall see this message to help us sustain until we can survive this tragedy.

As most of you know, the bills and cost of life don't stop when you are ill and unlike some others in this situation. Sherlin does not have the benefit of years of any savings to fall back on -Because she never worked and we have been in UK barely 5 years. We rent a place as of now in East Ham.

I know my challenge is pale and fade in comparison to the hardships that my children are going to face and the uncertainty around what our future holds for us in this land . However, we want to reach out to you to seek your support to us even in the little ways you can. Any amount ( $10 or $20 )you will contribute to Sherlin’s funeral and my kids Travel expenses from India and their future education here in UK shall be accounted for with due diligence.

I owe a lot to people. I dont know how I am going to face them.

Please support us by donating to the Sherlin's funeral funds and help make the best memories she possibly envisaged.

As we are preparing to celebrate her life with your help, you could also help us to build a foundation for our children’s future.

Very gratefully in advance for your thoughtful contribution.

PETER JEROM JERALD.

(Husband of Sherlin)