GoFundMe and MealTrain

It is seriously astonishing how much support we already have gotten in the handful of days anyone outside of our immediate families has known about my diagnosis. People are asking what they can do to help and at first, all we had to offer was that gift cards to area vegetarian restaurants or that Visa, Holiday Market, Whole Foods, Target, etc. gift cards to purchase every day items like gas, groceries, even prescriptions were helpful. 

All of those things are still very helpful, but two friends have set up accounts to make it easy for people to help from near or far. At the top of this page you will see links to GoFundMe and MealTrain.

Any donations to GoFundMe will be used for the aforementioned things to help our family while I am going through treatment and surgery. Going from two incomes to one, probably until early next year, in addition to medical costs is daunting. So, this fund is designed to help us with everything from rent and insurance and the electric bill to toilet paper and gas while I'm out of commission. 

MealTrain is designed for people to sign up to bring over dinner or complete other tasks we may need accomplished (who likes to pull weeds? Ha). While meals or groceries are welcome and needed anytime, we especially want to try to still have family dinner on Sundays and Mondays when Claire is here and we are all together (she spends most of her week at her grandparents in the summer). Especially the Sundays and Mondays that fall after I have chemo (right now July 7, 28 and August 18 and probably every three weeks after), as I will likely not be able to make dinner. There are details on the site re: dietary preferences, etc. 

Again, thank you to everyone who has reached out. I can't say that enough.