Help a 4th Stage Cancer Survivor

Hi everyone I am Charles W. Poley, Jr, from North Canton, Ohio. I am raising money for myself to help me with food & getting a car. The money you donate gets transfered to my Walmart card & helps me get groceries & save up to purchase a car to get to the store & doctors appointments for cancer check ups. 

Today is October 28, 2017 and in just over a month you have helped me raise $1990 out of $5000 towards helping out towards food & getting a car. Thank you so much everyone. This has helped me out a lot. I had my last cancer surgery on September 13, 2017 and it was a success with no cancer in the biopsy or ct scans. I am waiting for a hearing date which can be 4 to 6 months for my appeal on social security. In the mean time this has helped me out a lot. Thank you everyone who has helped me and thank you in advance to anyone who may help in the future. God bless you all.

Charles W. Poley, Jr.



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I just got a letter today from Social Security today they are cutting off my SSD money & Medical coverage as of November 3, 2017. I have medicine that I take because of the cancer and damage from radiation & chemotherapy. Medicine I have to take the rest of my life. They reviewed my case with the doctors and 5 days after my last cancer surgery they have determined I am healthy enough to go back to work. My body is not the way it used to be since going through cancer , radiation, chemotherapy , depression, anxiety, & my thyroid being damaged from it all. I have good days & bad days from all of this. A good day I may last about 4 hours and I am beat.  A bad day I am wiped after 2 hours or less just doing stuff around the house.  Regardless I am being forced to go back to work full time in order to survive , paying my bills & hoping I get medical coverage at a job soon after. Meanwhile I will still need my medications and to see doctors for cancer check ups, ct scans. blood work & depression that will be out of pocket. I also will lose the Medicare transportation coverage to see the doctors. So I will need money for a car as soon as possible. My check has also just been cut by $135 a month for my last two months & food is extremely tight. I literally have no money at all until October 3rd.  If I can raise money towards getting a car on the road, money for some food and a little aside towards medications & doctors appointments that will help out a lot until I can get a job with the car & get on my feet. I will add other photos for those that do not know me so you can see all I have been through going through stage 4 squamous cell carcinoma cancer.  I have had 3 surgeries in the past two years. They did reconstructive tongue surgery, a tracheotomy temporarily for a week, a feeding tube, two skin graphs, two drainage tubes in my neck, pulled all my teeth out, broke my jaw to get lymph nodes from my neck after cutting me from my bottom lip around my face to my left ear.   Thank you all so much in advance & God bless you all.

Hi everyone I got saved on October 12, 1988 age 16 and have been a Christian 29 years now. I want to share with you my testimony of my cancer story.

I just wanted to show everyone my surgery pics. For those who did not know me before I was diagnosed with stage 2 squamous cell carcinoma cancer. That was the day before my birthday, September 11, 2015. They told me I need to get surgery right away or I would be dead. The cancer was in my tongue. Two months passed as I suffered on pain meds waiting for the surgery. By the time November 15, 2015 came I had lost a quarter of my tongue bleeding out from the cancer. I was in a lot of pain & very weak. Then surgery number one came. They had to cut half of my tongue off & do reconstructive tongue surgery doing skin graphs to my left wrist and left thigh. They cut my face from my bottom lip around my face to my left ear & peeled my face back so they could break my jaw & get to the lymph nodes in the left side of my neck. The surgeons had to put drainage tubes in my neck & also a temporary tracheotomy in my neck so I could not talk for a week. I also had a feeding tube put in because I could not eat drink or swallow after this would be done. In fact I would have to learn that all over again along with many other things & accept the things I can not do anymore today. They cut my arm pretty bad at the wrist to the inside of my elbow area for the skin graff. I now have nerve damage there, my face & head and complete permanent loss off feelings in my left thumb, bottom half of my left hand to my elbow along with loss of feeling left side of tongue, left ear bottom half and left check down to bottom lip and chin. After the surgery was done it took quite a few months to recovery. I could not walk for a week after the ten day stay in the hospital. Eventually I gained strength back in my legs. I could barely talk and had to write type and pm people because most people had a hard time understanding me. A week later I had a follow up with the surgeon. He told me the biopsy came back & I was now stage 4 cancer with a 35% chance to live. I would have to undergo radiation & chemotherapy and could be dead in two months. That was the worst thing for me to chew. As a Christian I believe I am saved and going to heaven because Jesus Christ died on the cross for my sins & everyone else's. I believe He rose from the dead on the 3rd day an ascended into heaven. I believe because I prayed and asked Jesus into my heart as my own personal Lord & Savior that I am going to heaven. I made that decision on October 12, 1988 at age 16. Now coming back to 2015 I knew where I would go if I died that wasn't the problem. I didn't want to die. I wasn't ready yet. Part of me wondered if I would ever be right again or just messed up the rest of my life. A lot of people also don't know about me is that I have suffered from depression since I was 15. I had been in denial about it for so many years until this year I realized I had only gotten a lot worse since cancer. I am now on medication to help me along with meds for acid reflux and thyroid meds because radiation destroyed it. I am very weak a lot. I just don't have the energy I used to have. After two hours most days of doing anything I am wiped. If it is a good day maybe 3 or 4 hours. Not to mention depression does not help things either. Having to fight it with will power to get up & get motivated each day is half the battle. Back to radiation & chemo. Well they had to put me on Adavan to keep me calm each day for radiation because I did not like being pinned down. Thank God for my friend Scott's sister Stacey. She works in the Oncology field doing radiation on patients & was a great help getting me through each week. So she kind of gave me a heads up which was really nice. Well now lets talk about it. Radiation was a breeze for the 2 months until I got home. Chemo was well it was chemo lol you get sick 6 to 8 times a day like you have the flu & I lost 68 pounds in two months and had a balloon shaped head from edema very skinny & look like death won over lol. After I got home radiation finally kicked in. It felt like have razor blades from a box cutter poured in your mouth & stuck all over your mouth, tongue & esophagus . I literally cried just to drink a drops of water. Yep it was pretty bad. Also I want to flash back & share something else with you. They had done a C T scan & Pet scan on me and I was full of cancer in the mouth neck area. My church prayed & layed hands on me. My family & friends prayed for me. People in other countries I never met prayed for me. I had another CT-scan & Pet-scan done. The Oncologist called me at what I called the cancer house. He said are you there. I said yes. He said go back home I don't like the plan. I said what are you talking about you gave me 2 months & said I have to start radiation & chemo like yesterday. He told me I can't explain it but the old CT-scan & Pet scan do not match the new ones. I saw the cancer I saw the suspicious activity & on the new scans it is gone. I can't explain it to you & science & medicine can't. I told him I can. My whole church, friends & family prayed for me. Over a few thousand people prayed for me. Jesus healed me. He asked me if he could share my story with his wife. I said please do. He said he still wanted to do chemo & radiation for any possible microscopic cancer that he can't see. I had a second cancer surgery where they took out all my teeth so I did not get bone disease & die which would have been more painful then the cancer. So that was another set back. Soon after the edema went down and was look better for a bit then it started all over again only me face was yellow on that side. I was rushed back to Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee where I was taken and cut open right away by my surgeon and admitted with IV & drainage ports. I didn't know it at the time but had an allergic reaction to either the radiation or the plate in my jaw with 6 screws that caused an infection. If I had not gone to the ER I would have been dead in 48 hours or less. It was that bad. Now I was back home soon after starting all over again trying to heal, get better & deal with the fact my face would never look the same again, no teeth etc.. Well September 13, 2017 I had my 3rd cancer surgery. This was a lot better only 2 hours verses 8 hrs to years before. I came home pretty sore but feeling better now. I also have bad nerve damage to the back of my head & neck that feels like a knife sticking me and it cuts off swallowing & breathing for like 10 seconds. Enough to scare the heck out of you. I thought for sure cancer came back or had a tumor but thank God CT-scan came back negative. Financially going through all of this wiped me dry & I am on SSD with no car. Last month they cut my check my $135 a month now cutting into my food bill. Well 5 days after I get home from surgery I get a letter from Social Security that they are cutting me off of SSD & all my medical coverage. I am on meds for life and the cancer I had is very aggressive and known to come back a lot with the first couple years. I need to get to the 5 year window and out of Stage 4 with 35 % & hit 92%. I have been clear now 19 months since my last treatment. I just take one day at a time & pray I make it to the 5 year mark. I hope if there is anyone out there reading my story that it may comfort you, encourage you, & bless you through any hard times you have been in life whether it was you or a loved one. Thank you for taking the time to read my story & I only pray none of you go through any of this and all stay in good health.