Final expenses, other bills, costs for Luke's mom, Wanda

Your support and generosity during this hard time is great aptreciated. Luke cannot thank you enough. Continued prayers as we navigate the next days, weeks, months and even years.

Can't begin to express our gratitude for the support we have received. Words canny express how much it all means, knowing now hard a time everyone is going through right now. Thank you. With my leaving my job days before her death and Luke trying to figure out how to begin his life, every bit will help us in every way.

Hello, friends. As much as I hate to create this page, I'm afraid we need help. Luke Stroud's mom, Wanda Stroud, died today, 12-13-24, after complications from COVID and pneumonia. She was most recently in the Cave City Nursing Home getting rehab for a burn and was planning on coming home sometime.

She has no insurance or savings, and with Luke having been her 24/7 primary caretaker for more than 30 years, he doesn't have any funds either.

It's not easy asking for donations, and prayers are just as appreciated. However, I, his girlfriend, am pulling out my "help" card.

If you ever saw Luke out and about, you rarely saw Wanda not with him. He's spent his life caring for her, doing everything a caretaker does, and then some, through her physical and mental illnesses. She was also a breast cancer survivor, having had a double mastectomy in the early '90s. That's when Luke's caregiving began, and boy, did he do an awesome job. As Wanda always called him, he was and is the "best son."

As he tries to figure out his new path, he could really use some help, and he isn't one to ask for help. I don't even expect to raise the goal amount. That is just a figure I put in. I just really want to help. My heart breaks for him. I also just left my job earlier this week with no place to go, so I am struggling to help as well.

Any amount would be greatly appreciated and go toward her final expenses, direct cremation, the mortgage still owed on the house, other incidentals, food, gas, etc.

We don't know where to go from here, and it's scary, especially with the state of their home and all. We are just going to have faith that everything is going to be OK.

Again, thank you, and God bless you. Please keep Luke in your prayers. I know he's going to feel lost for a long time since caring for her is all he's really known.