Helping the Honmyhrs

First, thank you thank you thank you for being here and reading this.

I'm Amy's sister, Allyssa, and I wanna be frank that the Honmyhrs need financial support right now. I've received dozens of messages over the last couple weeks asking how to help, and I'm telling you *this is how*.

The short story is that they discovered black mold in their home this summer, and now just found out their eldest child, Henry, has Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.

The longer story is that this past summer an environmental consultant confirmed that their home was testing positive for black mold. You can't live with mold, it's an extremely harmful neurotoxin and wreaks havoc on bodies, and you also can't sell your house once you find mold without remediating it first, because that's illegal.

So they put their heads down and got to work. Room by room, they've been doing the removal themselves with instruction from the environmental consultant, because they've likely saved $50k with this approach rather than hiring it out. We're talking HEPA vacuums, Hazmat suits, air scrubbers, stripping drywall and cleaning wood, plastic coverings on doors. They're full-on doing it. Three of four bedrooms, the kitchen, and the old sauna they inherited are all gutted to the studs.

Close friends and family kicked up the weekend-support into high gear when we caught wind that Henry had a wrist issue that was starting to point them to specialty oncology clinics. (My god, we thought, what else will be thrown at them??). They needed to get this mold out immediately, and get the house put back together. For Henry's sake.

Test results came in this week and Henry has Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and will begin chemotherapy immediately. I started a CaringBridge to keep folks updated on his healing here.

Amy and Paul can no longer do *all* of this without some serious community care. They'll likely rotate spending extended time in the hospital with Henry, which impacts their ability to work (he's a nurse and she's self-employed), and finish what's begun inside their home. Henry's treatment is particularly important the first 28 days, but will continue for 2.5 years, according to his oncologist.

They'll use the money we collectively raise here to finish what's begun in their home, and for the cost of living while their ability to work shifts as they support their child's healing.

People have offered to give rides to sports, make meals, etc, and while those could be helpful, it's less pressing right now. Gift cards to Donnatelli's, Chipotle , Culver's or Randy's are helpful rather than delivered meals if you're compelled to feed them rather than donate here.

If you cannot help financially, please help in prayer. For Henry's healing, for Amy and Paul's strength, wisdom of the doctors, ease for their other children, and speedy put-back-togetherness of their home.

They reluctantly agreed to let me do this for them, mostly in disbelief that they've become the family that has a GoFundMe and a CaringBridge. They need support, and I'm asking you for it.

The day they told me that it was cancer I brought coffees to their house, and Paul was upstairs in a Hazmat suit scrubbing Henry's room. All I could see were his eyes, and they were tired and terrified and relentless in the pursuit of cleaning his son's room of harm, he didn't wanna talk, he just wanted to complete the job. I asked him how he was doing, and he replied "Now that we know what hill to climb, we gotta just start climbing."

Let's help them get there, you guys. Thank you thank you thank you.

Allyssa