Help Our Family Fight Stage 4 Cancer

In March of this year (2023), my fiancé Douglas Bell was diagnosed with Kidney Renal Cell Carcinoma. After we found out that we were pregnant with our rainbow baby, Miss Serenity, we were told that he would just have a simple surgery that would make him cancer-free, with no chemo or radiation therapy. So, we were hopeful until May when he kept saying his chest was hurting and that he couldn’t get up. He needed me to help him because he lost the movement in his arm due to having a bad chest pain. I took him to the ER, and there we were told that the cancer had traveled from his kidney to his lung.

We set up an appointment with his urologist to let him know what we were told and to bring the imaging for him to review. At that appointment, we ended up receiving worse news: the cancer had traveled from his kidney to his lung, and now he had lesions on his liver that we were worried about. This took his cancer from being stage 1 in March to stage 4 in May.

We have gotten so many tests done and seen so many doctors for different opinions on how to save him. We were finally given the opportunity to get him tested for a clinical trial, but in order for him to even participate, he has to travel back and forth to Bethesda, MD for treatment. Until he qualifies for the clinical trial, all costs of travel and lodging will have to come from us. In the process of all of this we ended up moving in with his mom to help us out and now we have been approved for our own apartment but All of this with a newborn has put a great financial strain on our family, and we are seeking help from our loved ones to help us navigate through this time so that he can focus on getting well.

We love you all. Thank you in advance for your thoughts and prayers. All of the continued support truly means a lot.