Jill's Medical Fund
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Jill and Shaun Dalton, are very well known in their community, for their endless dedication of helping anyone in need. Talk to anyone who knows them and you will hear about the time, they've helped someone with a home cooked meal, gave someone a place to sleep, or a much-needed ride to the doctors. If you were to ask them why they give so much of themselves to those in their community, they would tell you kindness is at the base of their Christian faith.
What the community doesn't know about their kind-hearted friends is they're facing very tough times themselves.
Please read Jill and Shaun's story:
Jill Burbank and Shaun Dalton met in school, many years later on a cool October evening in 2009 they would become a couple. Jill and Shaun bonded quickly finding strength as they centered their lives around Jesus Christ. Their dream was to raise a family by adopting children who had been abandoned by their birth-parents. The couple was married during a traditional church wedding on October 10, 2015, where they pledged to love each other in sickness and health. The couple would wait until they saved enough money for their honeymoon in February 2016. The day Jill returned to work, she complained of a headache that quickly became severe. After a sleepless night filled with pain and nausea Shaun took Jill to Shore Medical center, where the ER Doctor ordered testing including a CT scan. It didn't take long for Jill and Shaun to learn Jill had a brain tumor the size of a grapefruit that had to be removed as soon as possible. Jill was immediately transferred to Pennsylvania hospital where a team of neurosurgeons waited her arrival. During a long and difficult surgery, Jill's team of surgeons were able to remove the majority of Jill's massive tumor. However 10% of the tumor was inoperable, due to its location. A few days later doctors would tell Jill and Shaun, Jill's pathology report showed her tumor was a malignant hemangiopericytoma tumor (also known as Solitary fibrous tumor) which is extremely rare and very aggressive cancer. Jill's treatment would have to be equally aggressive. Jill's team of doctors plan was to immediately start proton radiation. Jill would receive 37 treatments of proton radiation - 111 beams in total, to the remaining part of the tumor as well as the surrounding areas of her brain. Jill would have to drive 58 miles one way daily to the hospital in PA since this treatment is unavailable in New Jersey. This treatment was Jill's best chance to surviving this aggressive cancerous tumor. Jill was told that she would have short and long term side effects from the treatment.
A few months before Jill was diagnosed, the couple opted out of the medical insurance offered by Shaun’s employer, due to the cost, which was over $1,100 a month. They simply couldn’t afford the new cost that substantially increased their health care premium and pay their monthly household bills. After Jill was diagnosed, Shaun's employer was kind enough to allow Shaun to reinstate his healthcare. The couple would have to find a way to pay the monthly premium so Jill could receive these lifesaving treatments.
Shaun and Jill had no way of stopping their financial downfall and now find themselves buried in a mountain of debt. Which is comprised of many thousands of dollars in medical bills that are the couple's responsibility after paying $1,124.00 per month for health insurance, 20% out of pocket coinsurance for doctor's visits and 50% out of pocket coinsurance on all testing. The couples payments on household bills have went unpaid while they scrape to meet the other non covered financial cost of treatment such as travel from Mays Landing New Jersey to Philadelphia including, tolls, gas, and parking fees. Just when they thought things could not get any worse. Their 2005 Chevy Cavalier began having mechanical issues while Jill was visiting Shaun who was in the hospital for chest pain from stress. The couple is in desperate need of a dependable car so Jill can get safely to her many follow up doctor appointments in Philadelphia which is about 58 miles from her home and to her job which she hopes to be able to work part time at while getting her debility from the many radiation treatments and surgery under control. Please give them a hand getting back on their feet. No donation is to small. Jill and Shaun are deeply thankful for any help that is given.
Jill's incision after brain surgery
Wedding day
Jill and Shaun at the Prom in1998
What the community doesn't know about their kind-hearted friends is they're facing very tough times themselves.
Please read Jill and Shaun's story:
Jill Burbank and Shaun Dalton met in school, many years later on a cool October evening in 2009 they would become a couple. Jill and Shaun bonded quickly finding strength as they centered their lives around Jesus Christ. Their dream was to raise a family by adopting children who had been abandoned by their birth-parents. The couple was married during a traditional church wedding on October 10, 2015, where they pledged to love each other in sickness and health. The couple would wait until they saved enough money for their honeymoon in February 2016. The day Jill returned to work, she complained of a headache that quickly became severe. After a sleepless night filled with pain and nausea Shaun took Jill to Shore Medical center, where the ER Doctor ordered testing including a CT scan. It didn't take long for Jill and Shaun to learn Jill had a brain tumor the size of a grapefruit that had to be removed as soon as possible. Jill was immediately transferred to Pennsylvania hospital where a team of neurosurgeons waited her arrival. During a long and difficult surgery, Jill's team of surgeons were able to remove the majority of Jill's massive tumor. However 10% of the tumor was inoperable, due to its location. A few days later doctors would tell Jill and Shaun, Jill's pathology report showed her tumor was a malignant hemangiopericytoma tumor (also known as Solitary fibrous tumor) which is extremely rare and very aggressive cancer. Jill's treatment would have to be equally aggressive. Jill's team of doctors plan was to immediately start proton radiation. Jill would receive 37 treatments of proton radiation - 111 beams in total, to the remaining part of the tumor as well as the surrounding areas of her brain. Jill would have to drive 58 miles one way daily to the hospital in PA since this treatment is unavailable in New Jersey. This treatment was Jill's best chance to surviving this aggressive cancerous tumor. Jill was told that she would have short and long term side effects from the treatment.
A few months before Jill was diagnosed, the couple opted out of the medical insurance offered by Shaun’s employer, due to the cost, which was over $1,100 a month. They simply couldn’t afford the new cost that substantially increased their health care premium and pay their monthly household bills. After Jill was diagnosed, Shaun's employer was kind enough to allow Shaun to reinstate his healthcare. The couple would have to find a way to pay the monthly premium so Jill could receive these lifesaving treatments.
Shaun and Jill had no way of stopping their financial downfall and now find themselves buried in a mountain of debt. Which is comprised of many thousands of dollars in medical bills that are the couple's responsibility after paying $1,124.00 per month for health insurance, 20% out of pocket coinsurance for doctor's visits and 50% out of pocket coinsurance on all testing. The couples payments on household bills have went unpaid while they scrape to meet the other non covered financial cost of treatment such as travel from Mays Landing New Jersey to Philadelphia including, tolls, gas, and parking fees. Just when they thought things could not get any worse. Their 2005 Chevy Cavalier began having mechanical issues while Jill was visiting Shaun who was in the hospital for chest pain from stress. The couple is in desperate need of a dependable car so Jill can get safely to her many follow up doctor appointments in Philadelphia which is about 58 miles from her home and to her job which she hopes to be able to work part time at while getting her debility from the many radiation treatments and surgery under control. Please give them a hand getting back on their feet. No donation is to small. Jill and Shaun are deeply thankful for any help that is given.
Jill's incision after brain surgeryWedding dayJill and Shaun at the Prom in1998Organizer and beneficiary
Jill Dalton
Organizer
Mays Landing, NJ
Jill Dalton
Beneficiary