One of our patients, a resident here in Houston with Stage 4 cancer, arrived for treatment last week and mentioned that he lost everything in a house fire. To make matters worse what he and his family did salvage from the fire they left in their car, which was broken into while staying at a hotel. He is a lovely man whom we all adore and my coworkers are trying to raise some money to help him rebuild. You can imagine how hard it is to deal with cancer when you have all of your comforts, but now this man truly needs our help.
I am creating a ChipIn page until Friday May 23. If you are moved to help this man and his family please consider donating whatever you can manage. We will pool all the funds and get a Visa gift card that they can spend on whatever they need.
I purposely left out details because I don’t want to violate this patient’s privacy rights. I’m counting on your trust in me on this, but I promise I won’t disappoint you. I will keep you updated on the family through this blog.
I put this story on my blog and linked here. Hope you are overwhelmed with responses.
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