I’m a 74-years old widow with cancer in my brain. I have never asked for financial help, instead, I’ve always worked to pay my own bills. I didn’t actually stop work until I was 71-years old.
I became ill at the end of September of 2023. I discovered I have brain cancer at that time. I eventually spent 5 weeks in the hospital after I was diagnosed. I had a bad reaction to the chemo and almost damaged my kidneys. Now I take two pills per day that are suppose to stop the cancer from growing.
I use to live in Trumbull County Ohio with my husband. He passed away from cancer in 2015 and I moved back to Kentucky to be close to my family a year after his death. I worked in the gift shop at a local Cracker Barrel restaurant. I also baby sat with two great nieces at no charge to my niece. Then I brought my niece and her three children to my apartment so they could have a break in a sad life. They lived 130 miles from me. Normally they would stay a minimum of 2 weeks. Then my niece died from a heart problem in 2020 and since then her children have come to stay all summer with me. I went a little silly and charged almost $3,000 in clothes for her kids. I get calls from her children always wanting to know if they can come live with me.
I’ve gone a little nuts with my great-nieces and my great-nephew but I wouldn’t have done anything differently. They need to grow up knowing they are loved.