Support For The Matheson’s

10/09/2020 With a very heavy heart we said good-bye to Lyle early this morning. My world seems like it is unraveling. He was and will forever be the love of my life, my best friend and an amazing father. I have asked God, "why?" many times today and I am sure I will for many days to come. I find comfort in knowing he is at peace and no longer in pain. You have fought a good fight. "Well done, well done My good and faithful one Welcome to the place where you belong Well done, well done My beloved child You have run the race and now you're home Welcome to the place where you belong" Never in my life have I ever experience this type of pain, but like Pastor Jeff said, "there will be grace." As you can imagine there will be hardships and I am overwhelmed by all your love and support. Many are asking what they can do. For the immediate time being, prayers for "Peace beyond all understanding," are greatly welcomed. 10/6/2020 Things have progressed and not for the best. The cancer in his lungs is advancing. There is fluid in his chest cavity that needs to be drained bi-weekly. And there are blood clots that have formed in his lungs. This is causing him great difficulty breathing. The level of oxygen he is needing to help him breathe is too much to sustain him at home. Hopefully the medication he will receive will reduce the blood clots to allow portable oxygen machine to work so he can be home with his wife and children. We appreciate and financial support for medical expenses as these costs are greatly increasing. 5/12/2020 It has been 2 years since Lyle's Metastatic Colorectal Cancer diagnosis. To this day he has endured over 1100 hours of chemotherapy. All so far with no success and in one case tumor growth until recently. Lyle began weekly IVC (intravenous vitamin C) in conjunction with Chemotherapy November 2019. After 12 weeks of this treatment we saw about 40% reduction in his cancer. At that point Lyle needed a break from the harshness of Chemo, but he continued with oral chemotherapy and IVC. Over the next couple of months his cancer pain increased drastically. He was hospitalized with a partially collapsed lung and underwent numerous Thoracentesis' to remove fluid from this chest cavity. It was time to take action or let his cancer take him, it had begun to grow again. He needed to go back to what was working. Friday, May 29th, he and his family received a letter from their insurance no cancer patient wants to receive. They have been denied for some of the medications used in his chemotherapy regimen to treat his cancer. Prior to the denial of this treatment he had undergone 7 months of this medication totaling approximately $1,200 per month. This is a tremendous hardship on his family as he will also need to continue this treatment going forward. Lyle is a father of 6 children, 3 of whom who are still living at home, one in middle school and two in their early years of high school. His wife works full time all while looking after the children and Lyle. She has little to no sick leave or vacation left from missing work to take care of Lyle and shuttling him to and from doctors appointments and weekly chemotherapy treatments. Lyle puts in hours for work from home when he can, but due to the severity of side effects from his chemotherapy treatments this is becoming more and more difficult. Your financial help for mounting medical bills would be greatly appreciated as well as your thoughts and prayers. God bless.