I want to start this GFM off by being completely transparent. This isn’t the first one that I have made. The first GFM I started in April of 2024 around the time my son was initially diagnosed that GFM was accepting donations for over a year and brought in around $6,500 and I’m so beyond thankful because at that time I don’t know how I would’ve made it. Kade was hospitalized during his induction period because he had sepsis, 2 blood clots in his lung and 1 in his spleen. Than he had severe mucusitis that caused a partial rectal prolapse. I’m still so grateful for the people that donated. I was working 2 months prior to Kades diagnosis but I was let go because he was constantly getting sick, hospitalized with RSV, etc.

In March of 2025 I thought Kade was doing so much better everything seemed fine and then Kade ended up having what I learned was a seizure and the ambulance took him to the closest ER. He ended up having a seizure in front of the doctor and his O2 dropped down to 50. I genuinely thought I was gonna lose him this time. But God pulled through for us once again. They found a grey area in his brain we still don’t know what is all we know is it isn’t cancerous and that’s the best news for us. I started working again on two seperate occasions but both times I was let go because of it was based off of a point system and they couldn’t accommodate to the time I needed for sons apts, I also had a dental emergency so with everything as a whole it was just to much for the employers and I get it…a quick example is when my son gets a fever if it’s over a certain temp I have to bring him in.. With Kade being sick and taking meds for the seizures on top of having a rescue med that’s a rectal gel we don’t have to a “big village” we don’t have many people we can rely on day to day. (I grew up in and out of foster care so besides my sisters I don’t feel like I have a bond with my family like they do each other).

Kade has a projected end of treatment date which is July of 2026. He currently has a port and a GTUBE which I use for giving Kade his meds. He takes oral chemo every single day twice daily another type of chemo every Friday, 2 different daily meds twice a day for seizures, a med to help fight infection along with a steroid.

The people that do help with Kade and myself I’m beyond thankful for. It’s been a year and a half since Kades diagnosis.. there’s been ups and downs..but at the end of the day my baby is still here and for that I’m truly so blessed.

But we would really benefit from the community seeing us, hearing us, praying for us, and showing up for us.

If you read this far thank you so so much.

If you’d like to donate, but don’t like GFM due to the fees I have Apple Pay and Venmo. You can send a message on GFM or on Kades support page on fb. I haven’t been posting updates on there due to weird comments and scams.

https://www.facebook.com/share/1QdeE6LgYV/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Thank you so much, Destinee and Kade.