Koch Family Fundraiser -- Help Suzy Fight Cancer

Where to even begin...

If you know myself, my husband, or either of our families, you know we are not people to ask for things, including help.

Kyle and his mother, Suzy, have been through the heartbreaking loss of half of their immediate family. Kimberly, Suzy's daughter and Kyle's sister, passed away tragically and unexpectedly in 2019. Unfortunately just few short years later Tony, Kyle's father and Suzy's husband of nearly 30 years lost his battle with prostate cancer.

The past 6 weeks have been a whirlwind for us. The first week of October, Suzy was rushed for an emergency appendectomy and some biopsies were taken of some suspicious cells. Less than a week later, the second week in October, she was diagnosed with metastatic cancer without a specific starting point. The third week of October, Kyle and I made the decision to spend the rest of our lives together and we eloped. When we got back home, the final week of October, we saw oncology for the first time and got the final diagnosis of stage 4 metastatic colorectal cancer. While we waited another week for biomarkers to come back from the original biopsies, Suzy was hospitalized again with a partial intestinal obstruction. With things seemly progressing rapidly, and no option for genetic targeted therapies, Suzy was able to get a chemotherapy port put in stat last week and has chemotherapy treatments starting this week.

Suzy is currently living alone, which we don't find ideal for many reasons so over the last two weeks I have been pushing and pushing to get pre-approval for a new mortgage as well as getting my and Kyle's home listed for sale.

Heading into winter and the holidays (plus all 3 kids birthdays) with everything else foing on, things are tight and a bit hectic. If you find yourself more fortunate than we are right now, please consider making a donation for our home, family, medical treatment, etc.

Thank you for taking the time to read this and thank you in advance if you choose to donate. God bless!

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