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Friendship is the glue that binds our lives, makes the sunny times brighter and the difficult times easier. Its not hard to find someone who will laugh alongside you when you are already smiling, but it takes a special kind of friendship to weather the storm beside you when the going gets tough.
Art, my boyfriend, proved himself to be one of those rare people when my life took a turn towards a difficult chapter. He gave up his job, home, car, packed up all his belongings into storage and left his home in America to take a chance on starting a life with me in the UK. I wasn’t an easy pick, I came with three children and plenty of past life baggage, but he believed in me, he believed in us. We had big plans for the future and truly felt we had found what we had both been searching for in one another. This was our time, finally after many struggles respectively, to turn what were dreams for the future into reality. This was it.
Three months into his stay, he got struck with a vomiting virus, or so we thought until three weeks into his recovery from that episode, the violent vomiting returned. He had no insurance this time (as he had previously on every other visit) and so no GP to visit and eventually we decided to pay a visit to A&E as things just weren’t adding up and he was growing increasingly weak. He was normally very healthy; a vegan, non smoker, teetotaller who like myself didn't even stretch to coffee! Two days later he was having life saving surgery to remove a large tumour from the bowl. After four days in hospital and the shock of what had been sprung upon him, he was told that the surgery was going to cost £23000. Can you imagine that news on top of everything else?
Days after the surgery he was allowed home to the children and I, unable to eat more than a sparrow and barely able to move. Now two weeks later, and just three days before his birthday, he has been hit with a cancer diagnosis and will have to return to America as soon as he is fit enough to cope with the plane journey in a few weeks time. He has no home to return to, no bed to call his own, no easy ride and now a foreseeable future of care plans, tests and check ups. I cannot begin to tell you how many emotions I am feeling and yet how stuck for words I am, and I am not the one going through it.
If I could, I would go with him, but with three children it is far from simple. If there were anything I could do to help him, I would do it without a second thought. He doesn’t deserve all this added stress on top of a new chapter of health, especially after how much of his life he has spent caring for others. He has been my rock to cling on to and I desperately want to cling on and never let go, but go he must. So at the very least I wanted to try to set him up with a little financial blanket to ease some of what lies ahead. If you could help, I would be very grateful.
This is an extremely urgent situation as he needs to board a plane and get his follow ups going ASAP in the states. He will have to pay for expensive health insurance in order to do so, especially now with an existing condition, and is of course now unable to work, something he has done tirelessly since a young boy! He needs caring for, he needs a break. He needs to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Lets get this amazing man back to even better than his previous best!
Art, my boyfriend, proved himself to be one of those rare people when my life took a turn towards a difficult chapter. He gave up his job, home, car, packed up all his belongings into storage and left his home in America to take a chance on starting a life with me in the UK. I wasn’t an easy pick, I came with three children and plenty of past life baggage, but he believed in me, he believed in us. We had big plans for the future and truly felt we had found what we had both been searching for in one another. This was our time, finally after many struggles respectively, to turn what were dreams for the future into reality. This was it.
Three months into his stay, he got struck with a vomiting virus, or so we thought until three weeks into his recovery from that episode, the violent vomiting returned. He had no insurance this time (as he had previously on every other visit) and so no GP to visit and eventually we decided to pay a visit to A&E as things just weren’t adding up and he was growing increasingly weak. He was normally very healthy; a vegan, non smoker, teetotaller who like myself didn't even stretch to coffee! Two days later he was having life saving surgery to remove a large tumour from the bowl. After four days in hospital and the shock of what had been sprung upon him, he was told that the surgery was going to cost £23000. Can you imagine that news on top of everything else?
Days after the surgery he was allowed home to the children and I, unable to eat more than a sparrow and barely able to move. Now two weeks later, and just three days before his birthday, he has been hit with a cancer diagnosis and will have to return to America as soon as he is fit enough to cope with the plane journey in a few weeks time. He has no home to return to, no bed to call his own, no easy ride and now a foreseeable future of care plans, tests and check ups. I cannot begin to tell you how many emotions I am feeling and yet how stuck for words I am, and I am not the one going through it.
If I could, I would go with him, but with three children it is far from simple. If there were anything I could do to help him, I would do it without a second thought. He doesn’t deserve all this added stress on top of a new chapter of health, especially after how much of his life he has spent caring for others. He has been my rock to cling on to and I desperately want to cling on and never let go, but go he must. So at the very least I wanted to try to set him up with a little financial blanket to ease some of what lies ahead. If you could help, I would be very grateful.
This is an extremely urgent situation as he needs to board a plane and get his follow ups going ASAP in the states. He will have to pay for expensive health insurance in order to do so, especially now with an existing condition, and is of course now unable to work, something he has done tirelessly since a young boy! He needs caring for, he needs a break. He needs to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Lets get this amazing man back to even better than his previous best!
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