The Birch Family Medical Fundraiser

Update: The latest update we have is they believe it may be a brain tumor but the location of it makes it very hard to get at and biopsy. The doctors want to monitor the growth with MRIs and find a way to treat the behaviors so he can go home. Thank you everyone for the continued support. ❤️

Original:Last month my family's life turned upside down. I started receiving messages of a picture of my father trying to go to a house he was not supposed to be at because he had heard voices telling him to pick up papers there. My siblings and I then heard that he was fired from his job of 5 years at Williams College for mumbling to himself and acting confused. This was Monday October 23rd. We convinced my dad to see his doctor. That week we discovered he was very unsafe to be left alone. He would take apart all the outside lighting or would wait at the end of the road waiting for someone who doesn't exist to pick him up. Between the auditory hallucinations and his continued behaviors of talking to himself or people that aren't there we brought my father to Baystate Franklin where he was committed and put in the mental ward. That was the hardest week and half for my family. My dad was not allowed more than one visitor a day for no more than half an hour. He spent his days coloring and doing group therapy. No test were being done. It was finally discovered this was an organic situation, not mental health. My dad was then transferred to Baystate in Springfield on the neurology department. He has had multiple MRIs, EEGs, CT scans, blood work, spinal tap, urine test. Finally being told they think it may be mad cow disease which is fatal with no cure or they see a shadow on the scans and believe may be a tumor on his frontal lobe. We are hoping it's a tumor.

Meanwhile, my mom has been driving every day to the hospital trying to speak to the doctors and get answers what's going on, all while still working at the Wilmington post office not getting any help from corporate even though she has been with them for 35 years. My sister and I try to help driving when we can but I am also almost 20 weeks pregnant carrying their first grandchild and working full time. But my mom is still at her breaking point. She's exhausted. She's not taking care of herself and needs help. We are reaching out, which is not easy. If anyone can help donate to help with finances, share this to others, help make a meal for my mom to eat, give her emotional support, anything. Thank you from all of my family.