Support Brian & Family During Second Cancer Fight

Hello, my name is Adam. Brian is my Sponsor. I walked up to Brian at six years sober and asked him to work with me because I was feeling a little squirrelly after a job loss (low on hope, full of self-doubt, and irritable). Brian jumped at my request to begin working with him as though he had nothing else going on. Little did I know that Brian had just beaten cancer and had plans to camp, take motorcycle trips, spend time with family, to just live his life, and who would blame him? This was April of 2022. Brian learned that he beat cancer the month prior, having fought it since September of 2021.

Brian did ride motorcycles over the next year, he did go camping, and he spent time with Jolene, his kids, and the dogs. He spent time with me too because that is the man that Brian is. He packed a lot of life into those months, not to mention working a 40+ hour work week!

Today, Brian still works a long workweek, when he can. He meets with me every week, spends as much time as he can with Jolene (his soon-to-be wife) and the kids and grandkids, and the dogs. Brian is fighting cancer again too.

Cancer is an insidious disease that way. It drives home the point, every day, that each moment is a blessing hanging in the balance.

On March 14, 2023, a year exactly from the day Brian learned he was in remission, he began treatment for a cancer that came back bigger, badder, and more lethal. Brian began his second fight, this time against Stage 4 Colon Cancer.

Every other week, Brian spends his days receiving chemotherapy and recovering. On the weeks when his body isn't being ravaged, he works. He works because that is also who Brian is. He puts his responsibilities and others before himself. He does this through his outreach to other members of the sober community and in his relationship with his two kids, 16 and 18, and two step-grandkids.

When Brian gets a moment to himself, he dreams of seeing his children graduate high school, and to see what comes next for each of them. He dreams of a day he'll be able to beat his son at a video game. ;) He dreams of getting back to Sturgis, of taking Jolene through the Redwoods, of getting married. Brian dreams too of the fear that is inescapable, that his family won't be okay if something happens and he is unable to work, to contribute to the mounting costs of a second battle with cancer.

Brian's not a guy that asks for "handouts", and not a guy that accepts them easily either. Fortunately for Brian, any help he receives here wouldn't amount to a handout. It would be an investment. An investment in more time with a dear friend, a brother, a member of the family, or a Sponsor.

Any money raised here will benefit Brian and his family directly, aside from the administrative fee assessed by GoFundMe. Brian intends to use these funds to help with uncovered medical bills and to offset the time lost from work through this treatment process over the next year.