Help Cory with expenses during Brain Cancer
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Hi Everyone
As many of you know my husband Cory was given some devastating news recently, after living healthy and never even being in a hospital before. He is a runner, a sighted guide to blind runners, an amazing hair stylist, an amazing husband and a great friend to so many. Cory started having seizures out of nowhere in the middle of the night. After a crazy week or more in hospitals, tests, biopsy…We finally know that he has a brain tumor. Oligodendroglioma grade 2. Primary central nervous system tumor. Next step is to test to see if a brain surgery will be able to be done to remove some of the tumor. Either way he will need 6 weeks of radiation followed by 48 weeks of chemo therapy.
I recently had job change and Cory opened his own business, not the best timing, our health insurance isn’t amazing. Of course I had great insurance I never used for years, but isn’t that how it goes. Anyhow so many of you are asking how you can help. I never ask for money and to be honest it’s super awkward and uncomfortable, I’m usually the one lending out money to others. Obviously with Cory not able to work for sometime, money is necessary to pay the bills. I work two jobs at the moment and they are amazing and flexible with all we are going through. Anything you want and are comfortable contributing will go to our daily expenses, rent, food, Ubers to treatments, medicine, medical bills and all the other things that pile up with brain cancer. We are still learning and working on the treatment plan with his doctor. I figured I should start this at the suggestion of so many of our friends, to see if it can help take some of the stress away. I thank you for contributing if you can and if you aren’t able the prayers and love and positive vibes sent his way are also a great help! We hope to keep the salon going and as Cory feels up to it he will want to take some clients and have some normalcy back but for now he is chilling and figuring out how to live with this. It is not curable for now, it can be managed and treated and is known to respond positively to treatment, so that is what we are hoping for. Also you have to have a $ goal listed and I have no clue what expenses we are in for so I just put $10,000 and raised it as we quickly hit the goal overnight? People are amazing, thank you so much!
As many of you know my husband Cory was given some devastating news recently, after living healthy and never even being in a hospital before. He is a runner, a sighted guide to blind runners, an amazing hair stylist, an amazing husband and a great friend to so many. Cory started having seizures out of nowhere in the middle of the night. After a crazy week or more in hospitals, tests, biopsy…We finally know that he has a brain tumor. Oligodendroglioma grade 2. Primary central nervous system tumor. Next step is to test to see if a brain surgery will be able to be done to remove some of the tumor. Either way he will need 6 weeks of radiation followed by 48 weeks of chemo therapy.
I recently had job change and Cory opened his own business, not the best timing, our health insurance isn’t amazing. Of course I had great insurance I never used for years, but isn’t that how it goes. Anyhow so many of you are asking how you can help. I never ask for money and to be honest it’s super awkward and uncomfortable, I’m usually the one lending out money to others. Obviously with Cory not able to work for sometime, money is necessary to pay the bills. I work two jobs at the moment and they are amazing and flexible with all we are going through. Anything you want and are comfortable contributing will go to our daily expenses, rent, food, Ubers to treatments, medicine, medical bills and all the other things that pile up with brain cancer. We are still learning and working on the treatment plan with his doctor. I figured I should start this at the suggestion of so many of our friends, to see if it can help take some of the stress away. I thank you for contributing if you can and if you aren’t able the prayers and love and positive vibes sent his way are also a great help! We hope to keep the salon going and as Cory feels up to it he will want to take some clients and have some normalcy back but for now he is chilling and figuring out how to live with this. It is not curable for now, it can be managed and treated and is known to respond positively to treatment, so that is what we are hoping for. Also you have to have a $ goal listed and I have no clue what expenses we are in for so I just put $10,000 and raised it as we quickly hit the goal overnight? People are amazing, thank you so much!
Fundraising team: Team fundraiser (2)
Joseph Bragdon
Organizer
Boston, MA
Cory Gardner
Team member