Roosevelt's Cancer Fight
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My name is Nadine I am creating this fundraiser for a wonderful, caring, sweet, loving man named Roosevelt.
Roosevelt is a self-employed Peak Performance Coach and has worked for himself for the past twenty years. He has helped thousands of students pass their SAT's with flying colors, allowing them to attend the college of their choice. Being self-employed means there's no PTO or paid vacation days. If you don't work, you just don't get paid.
This past June, Roosevelt was diagnosed with Stage IV Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma, metastasized to lymph nodes and thyroid from an unknown primary cancer. One of the side effects of this cancer is that is has affected his voice, which he clearly needs in order to be able to teach. For quite a while, he had no voice at all, and could only whisper. He has regained some semblance of a voice, but it still comes and goes at will. The doctors don't know whether his voice will ever return to normal.
He has undergone 31 daily radiation treatments and six weekly chemo treatments and will be having surgery on December 12th to remove his lymph nodes and half of his thyroid. We don't know how long the recovery period will be or what will happen to his voice, but in the mean time his medical and living expenses are growing and his income is dwindling.
Some of the side effects of his treatments and cancer are that he has difficulty swallowing, his taste buds have been compromised, his salivary glands have been compromised, his voice has been compromised, he has dry mouth all the time, and he has to take almost all of his nourishment through a feeding tube, which hangs directly out of his stomach. He no longer enjoys food and nothing tastes right. The man who loves his smoked meats no longer cares about food.
Roosevelt is fighting the good fight and he is working hard to keep his attitude positive, but facing the possibility of no income is weighing heavily on him. He needs to focus on just getting well, so I am asking that you look into your heart and help lessen his burden. No amount is too small. All money raised will be used for medical and living expenses.
Thank you for taking the time to read this and thank you in advance for you donations. You will never know how much it means to us. I can't take his cancer away, and I can't make him feel physically better, but I can at least try to eliminate a little bit of his worries.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Roosevelt is a self-employed Peak Performance Coach and has worked for himself for the past twenty years. He has helped thousands of students pass their SAT's with flying colors, allowing them to attend the college of their choice. Being self-employed means there's no PTO or paid vacation days. If you don't work, you just don't get paid.
This past June, Roosevelt was diagnosed with Stage IV Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma, metastasized to lymph nodes and thyroid from an unknown primary cancer. One of the side effects of this cancer is that is has affected his voice, which he clearly needs in order to be able to teach. For quite a while, he had no voice at all, and could only whisper. He has regained some semblance of a voice, but it still comes and goes at will. The doctors don't know whether his voice will ever return to normal.
He has undergone 31 daily radiation treatments and six weekly chemo treatments and will be having surgery on December 12th to remove his lymph nodes and half of his thyroid. We don't know how long the recovery period will be or what will happen to his voice, but in the mean time his medical and living expenses are growing and his income is dwindling.
Some of the side effects of his treatments and cancer are that he has difficulty swallowing, his taste buds have been compromised, his salivary glands have been compromised, his voice has been compromised, he has dry mouth all the time, and he has to take almost all of his nourishment through a feeding tube, which hangs directly out of his stomach. He no longer enjoys food and nothing tastes right. The man who loves his smoked meats no longer cares about food.
Roosevelt is fighting the good fight and he is working hard to keep his attitude positive, but facing the possibility of no income is weighing heavily on him. He needs to focus on just getting well, so I am asking that you look into your heart and help lessen his burden. No amount is too small. All money raised will be used for medical and living expenses.
Thank you for taking the time to read this and thank you in advance for you donations. You will never know how much it means to us. I can't take his cancer away, and I can't make him feel physically better, but I can at least try to eliminate a little bit of his worries.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Organiser and beneficiary
Nadine Borey
Organiser
Southbridge, MA
Roosevelt Strange
Beneficiary
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