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my mom has ovarian cancer, please help if you can

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I'm starting this fundraiser on behalf of my mom. she's told me multiple times over the past 3 years she's been battling late-stage ovarian cancer that i shouldn't make a gofundme for her. She's so humble and she doesn't want people's charity, but i can't sit by and watch without acting any longer. Times are tougher than usual lately and i don't have much to give her, but i've seen the amazing things this site can do and i'm hopeful. Today she confided in me that she's having her 3rd bout with ovarian cancer, and because live in another state with my husband she didn't want to worry me by telling me sooner than now. She found the new cancer in May and it's June at the time i'm making this campaign. I wish with everything in me that she didn't feel the need to hide it from me. I wish there was a cure so she didn't have to fight like this even once, let alone three times. I'm writing this because today my dad described the sign he wants to hold outside the white house while he begs the president to allocate funds to ovarian cancer research. I held a straight face through our facetime call tonight, but as soon as i hung up it broke me. My dad told me every single word he wanted to paint on that handheld sign for her. He plans to drive to washington dc and hold a sign on the street to urge that appropriate funding goes to ovarian cancer research. He just wants my mom to be ok. We just want her to see my little brother graduate from college and get married. Things look good and she's doing well, but as you can imagine that doesn't stop us from worrying. My dad just wants a wife, my brother wants a mom, and we all just want her health and happiness. My mother is the kindest, most beautiful, most incredible person i've ever met in all my life. She loves every single person she meets. She's the first to roll down the window to a person on the street asking for spare change. She's been a speech therapist in a special-needs school for the past decade. she stands up for her students when the school board makes changes to the detriment of the kids she helps. She makes the most amazing butternut squash soup i've ever had in my life. everywhere she goes she meets a new friend. You're a cashier and it's 9pm? She genuinely cares how your evening's going and she wants you to be well, even if you never meet again. You're a stranger she just ran into? Now she's your newest friend. She's met friends from france to japan this same way— she met them and she loved them instantly. For the past 18 years she's lived in our hometown she's taken on extra responsibilities in her church that she has absolutely no responsibility to take upon herself. Her career is working as a speech therapist for special needs kids in Hillsborough county, and she loves every single child she's ever met. She's run herself ragged working so hard. She fights with the powers that be to give them the education they deserve and she would die for every single person she loves. no matter what she does, somehow she finds a way to give back to others. It kills me to think of a world without her.  My mom is the most incredible human being i've ever met in my life. Honestly, i wish i'd been her childhood friend instead of her daughter just so i could know her longer. A lifetime could never be enough with her and it never will be. She puts on a smile every day so my brother and i don't have to see what she's going through, and i think it's time she sees how loved she is and how much her community cares and appreciates how hard she's worked. She would die for every person she's ever met and i can't sit by and know i didn't try to give her something in return for all the love she gave me throughout my life.  I don't quite know how gofundme works bc i've never used it, but my mom is set as the sole proprietor for this fundraiser. If necessary i will gladly post proof of the funds reaching her. If any donor has doubts or questions my ig is @ghost.modernism just in case you want to check on me and ensure that i'm legit. My facebook names are Melissa Richardson and Baba Yaga, i have two profiles and you can hold me accountable on both. My family is doing alright for the moment but i just really want my mom to be ok, and i want to help with my family's lost income. The prayer she's always said for my brother and me as she tucked us into bed as kids was "may we all live together to a happy old age," and i want so badly for that to be true, for her sake. I just want her to see a happy old age, and she's not there yet. She's not even close to old age yet. Please help my mom and our family if you can.
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Melissa Harnage
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San Antonio, TX
Jennifer Harnage
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