Please Read about Lander and Ryder

Im Diane Schliep, Approximately three years ago, I developed a friend ship with Lander. Since he was at my house every single day for the better part of the year we developed a kinship. He was quiet, focused, concise and extremely helpful. Lander is a 38 single father, who is very devoted to his nine-year-old son Ryder. Often, during breaks, I heard Lander talking to teachers or doctors making sure Ryder was advocated for. As a fatherless daughter, I found this paternal relationship comforting, and it gained my respect; I could see his boy was Lander’s everything, his world.

I was very impressed with another aspect of my friend Lander, he was one of the hardest workers in construction as well as super-skilled wood finisher. He did much of the pounding and cutting to form and frame the home that I live in now.

Lander was originally from telluride, now a local in our Ventura mountains in Oak view. Fast forward a couple years and a few weeks ago, I learned my friend Lander has Ganglio-neuro-blastoma, stage 4 which has spread to his abdomen the size of a grapefruit surrounding his clavicle, heart and lymph nodes. After chemo, he will need a six-figure surgery with two surgeons to remove the tumor because it’s growing around his aorta so he will need a heart bypass as well. He also will need to do weeks of isolation and stem cell which include blood transfusions.

I decided this was a good cause to ask my friends and family and their friends and family to consider donating anything comfortable to be able to help my friend Lander and his son Ryder get through this very challenging time.