Help Leni and Her Family in Their Time of Need

Hello, my name is Reno and I'm married to the most wonderful woman on the planet. Her name is Leni. We have been married for 28 years and have 3 amazing daughters together.

Let me tell you her medical story: She suffered a major stroke in 2015 and then a second stroke in 2017. She spent the rest of her life not being the same person physically or mentally but to most people she seemed perfectly normal and she made huge recoveries both physically and mentally. The two strokes left her weak on her right side and her speech was affected but she worked diligently through rehab to get better.

In 2017 she was diagnosed with Stage 2 Colon Cancer. She had surgery immediately to remove it and she did chemo for six months afterwards which made her dreadfully sick. Exactly one year from her surgery the Cancer returned. This time it was classified as stage 4 and the tumor was too big to remove for the surgeons in Illinois where we lived at the time so we moved to Las Vegas so she could be near her sister. She did chemotherapy for 6 months again and got to the brink of death this time. The chemo did not shrink the tumor enough and the surgeons in Las Vegas would not operate. They said that she was at the end of her time.

We got a second opinion at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona and there was a world class surgeon there who took on her case with his team and performed an amazing surgery. She recovered completely and was in remission from cancer and healthy from the end of 2018 until June of 2024. While all this was happening, I also got Multiple Myeloma cancer in 2023. The cancer caused complete kidney failure and near death. I was immediately put on dialysis and started chemotherapy treatments, blood transfusions, etc. I spent 6 -9 months being deathly ill but eventually the chemo did send the cancer into remission.

I'm still on dialysis to this day, but in May of this year I had to go to California to City of Hope to do a bone marrow transplant in the hopes of keeping the cancer in remission as long as possible. My wife insisted that I go do this even though it was a very expensive endeavor and we had to pay to live in southern California for two months. She was my caregiver throughout this entire timeframe. She pushed me in a wheelchair to all of my appointments from a hotel to the hospital and dialysis centers for treatments and she made sure I got everywhere I needed to be on time and she took care of me hand and foot because I was too weak to stand or walk or do anything to help myself the entire time I was there.

She was such a strong person and is the only reason I'm still here today. Unfortunately about a week after I was in recovery after my transplant she started to vomit multiple times a day and started having a hard time walking herself due to her stomach pains. She also stopped eating for the most part. I wanted her to go to the hospital while we were there but she didn't want to be stuck in California knowing that we had to keep spending money to live out of hotels and eat there and it was costing us so much out of our savings.

By the time we flew back home to Hawaii from my treatment in California she was unable to walk so we both had to be wheelchaired throughout the airports on the way home to Hawaii. When we got home we took her to the emergency room and they told us that her cancer was back and had now spread throughout her body and into her bones and is inoperable.

In addition, it's causing a small bowel obstruction that is slowly killing her. Short version she is being given roughly 3 weeks to live and because we have spent so much money on living, travel and food expenses, medical expenses, etc. We have burned through a lot of the money that we had saved together. I would like to be able to provide her with an amazing quality of life with the little time that she has left and provide her with so many things that she deserves.

I need to take care of all her expenses as well and she wants to ensure that my 3 daughters are okay as well. We have never asked anyone for anything, and I was hesitant to even write this. But she asked me to start a gofundme campaign in tears as she's worried about me and my daughters after she is gone. The funds will go 100% towards her end of life expenses, etc. which as you know is so expensive in today's economy.

She has resigned herself to the fact that she doesn't have much time left and I really hope that people can donate to this amazing woman. She loves whales and dolphins and is the best mother and wife that anyone could ever ask for. Please help us in this time of need with anything that you can afford. It will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for taking the time to learn about my amazing wife of 28 years, the love of my life, the best thing that ever happened to me, and I will have a hole in my heart forever when she is gone. Leni Hortizuela-Begonia Provine 52 years old.