My name is Alex Korseska, my mother is Irena Korseska and 5 days ago my family and I found out she has been diagnosed with Glioblastoma Grade 4 which is a terminal brain cancer. It was extremely unexpected and no one would've ever guessed this would've happened to MY mom. She is an RN working for Hospice of Chattanooga and has always liked to help people and patients. She became a 7 day Adventist and was attending Southern Adventist University to become a Nurse Practitioner. She had 4 semesters left and you can imagine the devastation she felt when knowing she will not be able to complete her dream.  She has always been an extremely genuine person and has always wanted to provide comfort to her patients and their families. She is a mother of 3 myself included and cannot bare to leave us behind. We hoped that the we would find out it was a benign tumor even though surgery to the brain would still be traumatic. We stayed in the hospital for 2 days anxiously waiting to find out the news. Then we finally find out it is a 2 inch cancerous tumor on the frontal lobe. I could not believe what I was hearing.. my mom? Then it felt like all hope was lost when we found out there would be an extremely poor prognosis in the treatment and a low survival rate. Even if my mom would undergo surgery she would be bedridden and in excruciating pain for 6 months healing and then have to go through chemo and radiation. The doctors described her tumor octopus like and said it has "tentacles" going down into her brain. They told us that even with chemo and radiation she would never be fully cured and by the time the chemo and radiation treatments were finished there would be a high chance she would not even know who I or my family are.  The doctors said within all the pain and chemo my mom would have less than a year. My mother and family decided to not go through with the surgery because we would not want her to be in pain for 10 months straight and die in suffering. So she is here at home with us now and has about 2-4 months to live. It is absolutely heartbreaking to know my mother my anchor in life will not see me graduate high school, get married, or see my children one day. It is just unbelievable to be 17 and know your mother will not be there for the whole life you have ahead of you. My family and poor father will now have to face life without our number 1 supporter. I am asking for donations because my family and I would like to take my mom to some places before she passes and do some things on her bucket list. We will also need to have a funeral, casket and headstone, things like that, But our main wish would be to just be able to take her to do things as a family. Anything helps and thank you for reading.