- K
- J
Dear friends and family,
I’m reaching out to you today. Jose, I’ve never had too much experience at all with sickness or hospital visits in my 26 years of life. I’ve always been attentive to health, wether is the way that I ate, or walked into work. In some sense, I felt immune to receiving a challenge such as cancer.. I was wrong in thinking something like this would never happen, so here we are.
My strength and will to live is a factor that I choose to hold highly. I will fight to remain a part of life. With an entirely new prospective on appreciation for the days I’ve been gifted to awaken another day. I have faith in my human spirit, alongside the support of all friends and family that I reach victory in this battle.
Full story ahead.
In December 2021, I started to notice little lumps growing in my neck. There was no pain, and they hadn’t grown to be a nuisance to look at physically. So, I left them alone. Up until this point, I have been working out more than half of my life, 14 years and going. I assumed the lumps were some sort of gym related thing, and never looked into it further.
In July 2022, I attended a barbecue for the 4th with all of my close friends. They had known about the lumps for a while, and chose this day to all open up and ask me to at least get it checked out. I yet to still feel any symptoms of something bad, but I decided to get checked to put their minds at ease. I’ve been through an immense amount of tests and surgeries since then, leading to my inevitable diagnosis of having stage 4 Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.
My most notable and challenging symptom is itching throughout my entire body. It is not just your average itch unfortunately, nor does it come in random parts throughout the day. It’s there, all day, all night.. With no medication or cream to sooth it, besides the chemotherapy I am to endure as a part of all of this. The added difficulty that comes with this, is astronomical.
That being said, my father (Jose Garcia Sr.) has taken the mantle of being my caregiver in this time of uncertainty. Both financially and mentally burdened, my 69 year old father continues to work a physically demanding job to remain afloat to support all of my health. We could use your help in alleviating the financial hardship myself and most importantly, my father has been faced with.
Funds raised would go towards helping us tackle the mountain of medical expenses (copays/deductibles), that have placed an increasingly difficulty on our financial well-being.
Any support you can provide is extremely appreciated. Thank you in advance for your contribution. It means the world to me to have you all alongside myself as I fight my hardest to win this, and I know it will mean the world to my father too.
Love,
The Garcia’s
I’m reaching out to you today. Jose, I’ve never had too much experience at all with sickness or hospital visits in my 26 years of life. I’ve always been attentive to health, wether is the way that I ate, or walked into work. In some sense, I felt immune to receiving a challenge such as cancer.. I was wrong in thinking something like this would never happen, so here we are.
My strength and will to live is a factor that I choose to hold highly. I will fight to remain a part of life. With an entirely new prospective on appreciation for the days I’ve been gifted to awaken another day. I have faith in my human spirit, alongside the support of all friends and family that I reach victory in this battle.
Full story ahead.
In December 2021, I started to notice little lumps growing in my neck. There was no pain, and they hadn’t grown to be a nuisance to look at physically. So, I left them alone. Up until this point, I have been working out more than half of my life, 14 years and going. I assumed the lumps were some sort of gym related thing, and never looked into it further.
In July 2022, I attended a barbecue for the 4th with all of my close friends. They had known about the lumps for a while, and chose this day to all open up and ask me to at least get it checked out. I yet to still feel any symptoms of something bad, but I decided to get checked to put their minds at ease. I’ve been through an immense amount of tests and surgeries since then, leading to my inevitable diagnosis of having stage 4 Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.
My most notable and challenging symptom is itching throughout my entire body. It is not just your average itch unfortunately, nor does it come in random parts throughout the day. It’s there, all day, all night.. With no medication or cream to sooth it, besides the chemotherapy I am to endure as a part of all of this. The added difficulty that comes with this, is astronomical.
That being said, my father (Jose Garcia Sr.) has taken the mantle of being my caregiver in this time of uncertainty. Both financially and mentally burdened, my 69 year old father continues to work a physically demanding job to remain afloat to support all of my health. We could use your help in alleviating the financial hardship myself and most importantly, my father has been faced with.
Funds raised would go towards helping us tackle the mountain of medical expenses (copays/deductibles), that have placed an increasingly difficulty on our financial well-being.
Any support you can provide is extremely appreciated. Thank you in advance for your contribution. It means the world to me to have you all alongside myself as I fight my hardest to win this, and I know it will mean the world to my father too.
Love,
The Garcia’s