The words to start this are hard.

Our family is asking for help. Many of you know my grandma, Vickie. She’s the best human in my eyes; she’s done so much, helped so many. She never asked for much; she doesn’t like to ask for help. We’ve been trying to figure out all the pain she’s been in for a while now, in and out of the doctor's offices, pain meds, tests upon tests. Well, we’ve got our answers. An ER visit turned into the words we’ve all been dreading. She has cancer, not in one place but in many places: lungs, liver, and her spine (T6).

My grandma is being referred to the University of Iowa to hopefully start chemo. This is to hopefully shrink the cancer; to help manage her pain. She’s been maxed out on pain meds; nothing’s been working. She’s in extreme pain; she has been for months.

Please say a prayer and keep our family in your thoughts and prayers. This is a lot to swallow. If you can donate, money would be used to pay for medical bills as her insurance covers about nothing, medications, and anything here and there she needs to feel human.