Hello and God bless! I am writing this for Christmas help and basic needs for my parents. I am praying that there’s someone out there that will see this and care. My father was diagnosed with Stage 3 Lung Cancer in June of last year. We are a large family; my parents have a total of 9 children and 6 grandchildren. We are pretty close family; I am 27 and the oldest with 3 children. My brother died when he was 20 in 2008 in a car accident and left behind 2 daughters’ now ages 5 and 4. My 22 year old sister has the last grandchild who’s 1. We are all living on our own struggling and wish we could do more for our parents and the 5 siblings that are still at home. My father cannot work and use to work with the community as an outreach specialist and my mother was laid off from work in 2009 gave up seeking employment when my father got sick. At home there are still 1 brother and 4 sisters. We have all struggled in seeing my father fighting his cancer through 35 rounds of chemo and radiation. My parents would leave the house each morning and return home late in the evening after hours of treatment. The doctors said that he was young and in excellent health and that they wanted to be aggressive with his treatment. My mother was always by his side, staying nights in the hospital with him through his lung surgery and recovery when they removed his left lung. We were truly blessed to have him with us last Christmas since the original doctors that diagnose him only gave him 6 months to live last June. And here we are another year having him alive and with us. But it has its tolls and they are struggling desperately trying to hold our family together in the midst of all this stress that’s almost unbearable. They are financial strapped with my father’s disability which isn’t enough to pay their bills yet alone enough for x-mas. My father is recently suffering from insomnia which I believe is due to him not being able to support his family and the holiday season. I pray that God will move on someone’s heart to help.
