Dave M's Med Support - In Memoriam of Mom Adell M

My name is Melanie Mangum, and I'm raising support funding for my brother David Moore - in honor and memoriam of our mother Adell Moore.

In the months just prior to Adell Moore's passing in January, she traveled from Peoria, IL to Manchester, NH to be with David and provide care and comfort as he went through treatment for stage 3 rectal cancer.  For those of you that knew our Mom, you know she had fought through 4 cancers since the early 1990's, in addition to other related complications, including a diagnosis of MDS several years ago.  She was a year out recovering from colon cancer surgery in Sep 2018, when she went out to NH to be with David.   She was diagnosed there with melanoma, and after she returned to Peoria to her doctors there, learned she had developed AML, which was something eventually expected from her diagnosis of MDS.

I write this as way of introduction to why I'm starting this fund. In the month before her death, though she was not afraid and accepting of it, she expressed her concern over David, and wanted to be assured that he, along with I and our brother Curtis - would be ok.  I told her we would all take care of each other.  In fact, our brother Curtis left his home in Oregon very soon after my Mom left David, to help take care of him. 

While David has covered medical treatments and surgery, there are other medical costs related to his care and well-being that are not covered, and that are difficult for us financially to provide. These include certain medical supplies and OTC medicines necessary to his home care, as well as costs for groceries and transportation to and from medical visits. 

David has already been through rounds of chemo. He'll shortly be done with radiation treatments - which are proving the most effective for shrinking his tumor in preparation for surgery.   He will have a break of 8 weeks from treatment with a follow-up halfway through, but must still maintain an ostomy which has been in place for several months.  He will eventually have surgery to remove the tumor,  he will have to have an ileostomy, and then, hopefully, a reversal of the ostomy.   It's likely to be about 9 more months until he's in the recovery phase of all of this.

I think my Mom must have put the bug in my ear that this is what she wanted as a donation in lieu of flowers at her service.   I know that she would be honored and pleased if she were able to continue care for Dave though she can't physically be here. 

Our family would be so grateful for donations in her memory to be made to this fund.

With love and gratitude,

- Melanie