With A Little Help From His Friends

On September 10th, our friend Bill Busca was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. On September 9th he didn’t even know he had a pancreas. At the time, Bill was working as a journeyman carpenter at his local nuclear power plant during their fall refueling outage. After an outage, supplemental workers are laid off and this coincided with Bill beginning chemotherapy at Lurie Cancer Center - Northwestern University, where he'd been diagnosed back in September. After five months of chemo, Bill's oncology team believes, despite the tumor maintaining its size, other indicators are positive and continuing the present protocol is the prudent path. Unfortunately, it is a path whose end is out of any mortal's sight.

Cancer sucks. Cancer requires chemo, chemo makes you sick, you can't work when you're sick and if you don't work, you don't get paid. Having to worry about money at a time when all your focus should be on getting well is more than stressful, it slows recovery.

This month Bill's hours from his fall employment at the power plant, hours that support his health insurance, have run out. Needless to say, there is a lot of scrambling going on in Bill's life. That's where we come in. Any contribution, big or small, will make a huge difference. Even if you cannot donate, please share this page with your friends and family. Every bit of support helps.