IT IS WITH GREAT HUMILITY that Carolyn O’Barr and her husband, Randall Cornish, who live in Encinitas, California, ask for assistance with medical expenses related to Carolyn’s struggle with multiple myeloma cancer.

Carolyn faces this tragedy with immeasurable courage and resolve, but the treatment for multiple myeloma cancer is only partially covered by her health insurance. Treatment includes expensive chemo-therapy drugs and radiation therapy. This is why the loving couple is in need of your financial help.

There is no cure yet for multiple myeloma, but many patients have benefited from treatments that prolong the patient’s life and give the patient much-needed comfort. The challenge is to keep experimenting until the right treatment is found. Every patient responds differently.

At one point Carolyn had a stem cell transplant at the City of Hope hospital in Los Angeles, which helped her go into remission for a time, but the cancer has aggressively returned. The stem cell procedure is too dangerous to repeat, so currently doctors are trying various combinations of chemo-therapy drugs, hoping to find one that will suppress the cancer and put Carolyn back into remission. 

After teaching for twenty years at various colleges and universities around San Diego County, Carolyn has had to retire because she just doesn’t have the physical strength to continue teaching. She dearly misses her students and the joy she gained from helping students grow and prosper.

Carolyn and Randall offer much gratitude for any donation, large or small, toward medical expenses.

Your kindness is greatly appreciated and held in the highest esteem.