Hello,
I’ve never been in a position like this before so I’m not sure what to say. The backstory: I am 39 years old and engaged to my beautiful fiancé we have been together 12 years now. I support her and our 7 children ages 2-16. I’ve always been able to support my family financially by running a small family-owned construction company that is now down to basically me and my 65-year-old mother, since my father passed away in 2020. We have never been extremely wealthy. I live basically paycheck to paycheck, but we survive, and everyone has always had what they need and little extra. With this said I have virtually no savings what I did have has already dwindled away.
I was diagnosed with kidney Cancer about 3 months ago and had surgery 2 weeks ago today to have it removed. Surgery consists of 6-8 weeks downtime so no work no money. I found out today that they didn’t get it all and they are looking to reschedule another surgery sometime in January to remove the entire kidney. leaving me with another 6-8 weeks at least (I heard something about 3 months recovery). Money is already nonexistent I have Christmas coming up a mortgage and a lot of daily expenditures for the 8 people and myself I can no longer support financially.
A fear I have is me not surviving and not having life insurance to support my family when I’m gone. I put the goal at 25,000 that should last a while maybe 6 months but if it spreads and I don’t survive I’m scared of what will happen to my family. I only Owe 70k on the house our vehicles are from 2002. I was supposed to have everything paid off and stable before something like this happened.
I’m not sure how this works or if it even does but it’s worth a shot anything will help. God bless prayers are welcome. If you’re religious and would like to pray for me and my family. The main prayer I need is that it doesn’t spread before its removed. Thanks for reading my story.