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Hi, some of you may know me as a co-worker from the Turbo Products/ Doncasters or the Electric Boat' purchasing departments or maybe from the 13 years I put in as coach, manager, league secretary, and president in the Mystic Little League, Babe Ruth, and 16-18 year old leagues.
However you may know me or even if we have never met here is my tale of woe.
Back in January of this year I was diagnosed with 4th degree lung cancer. Doctors started me on Chemotherapy
Did that for 6 months and they found a tumor in my right hip that wasn't responding to the chemotherapy so they hit that area with radiation. Which stabilized the tumor there but didn't shrink or kill it.
So after 12 months of chemotherapy , blood tests, and every 4 weeks. radiation treatments an numerous CT scans and MRI's, and countless other procedures I am still hanging in there and fighting the good fight. The tumors still remain but are being held stable by the combination of chemo and Keytruda.
But as you can imagine all this fine medical treatment is not inexpensive (some might say outrageously expensive, but that is a discussion for another time).
My wife Sherri, who takes care of our finances, has been paying small amounts to all our of the medical bills, and creditors but sometimes it just seems like a financial house of cards. And I know all of this stress is really taking a toll on her. She and my son Tyler have been wonderful during this entire ordeal. Tyler is remotely teaching his 8th grade math middle school students from our family room downstairs.
We could really use some help, and God forbid something should happen to me, I don't want to leave a burden for them.
Thanks forever visiting, hope you'll make a donation.
Thank you, Mark Underwood.
However you may know me or even if we have never met here is my tale of woe.
Back in January of this year I was diagnosed with 4th degree lung cancer. Doctors started me on Chemotherapy
Did that for 6 months and they found a tumor in my right hip that wasn't responding to the chemotherapy so they hit that area with radiation. Which stabilized the tumor there but didn't shrink or kill it.
So after 12 months of chemotherapy , blood tests, and every 4 weeks. radiation treatments an numerous CT scans and MRI's, and countless other procedures I am still hanging in there and fighting the good fight. The tumors still remain but are being held stable by the combination of chemo and Keytruda.
But as you can imagine all this fine medical treatment is not inexpensive (some might say outrageously expensive, but that is a discussion for another time).
My wife Sherri, who takes care of our finances, has been paying small amounts to all our of the medical bills, and creditors but sometimes it just seems like a financial house of cards. And I know all of this stress is really taking a toll on her. She and my son Tyler have been wonderful during this entire ordeal. Tyler is remotely teaching his 8th grade math middle school students from our family room downstairs.
We could really use some help, and God forbid something should happen to me, I don't want to leave a burden for them.
Thanks forever visiting, hope you'll make a donation.
Thank you, Mark Underwood.
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Mark Underwood
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Mystic, CT