Hi my name is Crystal and this is part of our story. 
Last year our 14 year old daughter was diagnosed with an inoperatible brain tumor.  The doctors said that the best option for her was to do radiation and chemo infusions.  So Kyla went through her 6 weeks of radiation at UW. It made her swell up and her hair fell out. She took it like a champ and kept her head held high!  Then she had her port put in before she started her year of chemo infusions. Every other week we drove up to Seattle children's hospital where she had chemo injected into her port. It made her sick. So sick. She would some times be down for 4-5 days. It was so hard watching her be so sick. Our poor sweet amazing beautiful kind daughter was so much stronger than me about all this.  Anybody that has been to Seattle children's hospital knows how hard it can be to go there and see all these sick kids. If you haven't been to a children's hospital of some sorts, it is heartbreaking to see how sick kids are. It starts to do something to you. It is truly sad. But Kyla wanted to bring smiles up there everytime she went! She would bring a stuffed animal of some sort and find a kid that was having a bad day or just looked like they needed it and give them something to try and cheer them up! She's that kinda kid! She was 1 treatment away from being done with her year of treatments when they wanted to do another MRI. The MRI showed that the chemo and radiation didn't work. The tumor had actually spread and increased in size. It was not the news we wanted to hear. The doctors didn't really have a strong back up plan either. They have the routine meds that she is on now but they do not have a confident answer to help her. She has been on hospice for about 2 1/2 months now. I was working up until we had her last MRI done. I took some time off of work to help take care of her and spend time with her. She can not be left alone anymore. She is so strong but she needs help with doing a lot of things now. We went from 2 incomes down to 1. Even though we feel like this is the most important thing to us, it doesn't stop the bills from coming in. It doesn't change that we still have responsibilities. My wonderful husband goes to work and tries to carry us as much as he can. But there is only so much one person can do. So the worry is on how to pay bills when we should be worried about how we are going to spend the days with her. It is hard to do anything because everything costs so much. We have looked for grants and help but there is not a lot of help for us because we have decent jobs. Anyone who knows us, knows that we don't ask for help. We have done our best to always take care of things. But they are getting tough. All we want to do is spend time with Kyla and do things with her but you can't when you have to worry about paying rent. I know that everyone is having tough times and we appreciate anything that anyone can do for us. We hate asking for anyone to donate but we need help. We hope that this will help us to be able to focus on spending time with her.  Thank you for taking the time to read this and thank you in advance for your donation.