FBGs helping FBGs - Chadstroma (1 Viewer)

[Instinctive]

Thank you Chad - hope this helps

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

We just passed the 2 year mark with childhood leukemia and times have been tough.

Best wishes for you and yours.

 

[Andrew74]

Bump this to the first page!

 

[Alex P Keaton]

Really heartened to see this community step up to help a special person

 

[Beef Ravioli Part 2]

Just noticed this thread and just donated. Continued prayers @Chadstroma!

 

[Judge Smails]

Done. Hang in there, Chad. Can relate - F cancer

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

Thanks everyone! Were are shockingly close to the goal. Feel free to share this outside FBG for the last stretch.

(71% !)

 

[Chadstroma]

It is hard to describe if you have never been on the receiving end of generosity for something like this. It isn't something you want or to take advantage of.

Please try to reframe this as allowing us to have the privilege and comfort of helping you in some small way. (Same for the food thing.) If we didn't want to be here, we wouldn't be.

It is honestly a mitzvah to be able to assist.

I get it.... I feel the same when on the other end but on this end it is still weird but appreciated.

 

[Chadstroma]

Not sure exactly what’s going on, but after the generosity we’ve seen with donations recently, I’m more than happy to donate.

Hang in there.

Of course, we’ve saved far more due to chad’s guidance than I could give today.

The summary of it is that for the last three years my wife has battled two cancers. The overall financial strain of the battle itself plus my focus on her and the kids has kept me from where I am simply not bringing in the income I could has been a challenge.

Steady being an awesome person felt compelled to help. Up until this summer, I had actually turned down offers to help (even from FBG's who privately offered) beyond what our kids Catholic school/church had helped us with which largely was a meal tree (and that was so very helpful). This summer, I finally gave in and reached out to get assistance for my kids sports stuff as anyone who has kids in sports know is a big financial drain. I didn't tell Steady this when he called but a couple of days before he called, I had some prayers with God asking for guidance on how to get things moving faster to start really turning the financials around and start climbing back up. If not for that prayer, I most likely, honestly, would have declined this. It is hard to describe if you have never been on the receiving end of generosity for something like this. It isn't something you want or to take advantage of. But I literally kind of feel like I asked and God answered and it would be.... I don't know what the word would be for that.... but not good to decline.

We are heading towards what I hope is the light at the end of the tunnel. She had an MRI today and visit with the neurologist. It went very well. The area of the brain surgery has healed well and there is no sign of any other tumors around the brain (as well as all her other scans/xrays/MRI's etc have come back clean since surgery/treatment). She is currently scheduled for treatment (chemo and other drugs) through spring. Then if all continues to look good we can start getting back to "normal" though she will have fairly frequent checkups, scans, etc.

My wife has been stabilized in terms of working so that is good. Rates are dropping so hopefully that will help me bring in more business but I really am thinking of either doing something else or at least starting a side business (I have wanted to do a POD clothing company for a bit and haven't because of all of this). I just got done restructuring our debt which will help a lot. So I think we should be in a spot we can start making progress versus being in the red or treading water.

I did not really expect this so I am still thinking through on this but my thoughts for the money will be a small splurge for my wife and kids (no clue what but they deserve something nice), I am trying to figure out a way to get out to L.A. area as my mother has just recently been diagnosed with cancer- and the ONLY thing she cares about is seeing my kids but that is a whole complicated thing due to my wife and finances, and then just applying it to our general finances paying bills or debt.

I bet many of us would really like you to use part of it for a splurge, whatever that means for you and yours. You all deserve it.

I really do not need any splurges though I guess it would be a splurge to start the t-shirt company in a way since that is something I been wanting to do.

 

[Chadstroma]

Not sure exactly what’s going on, but after the generosity we’ve seen with donations recently, I’m more than happy to donate.

Hang in there.

Of course, we’ve saved far more due to chad’s guidance than I could give today.

The summary of it is that for the last three years my wife has battled two cancers. The overall financial strain of the battle itself plus my focus on her and the kids has kept me from where I am simply not bringing in the income I could has been a challenge.

Steady being an awesome person felt compelled to help. Up until this summer, I had actually turned down offers to help (even from FBG's who privately offered) beyond what our kids Catholic school/church had helped us with which largely was a meal tree (and that was so very helpful). This summer, I finally gave in and reached out to get assistance for my kids sports stuff as anyone who has kids in sports know is a big financial drain. I didn't tell Steady this when he called but a couple of days before he called, I had some prayers with God asking for guidance on how to get things moving faster to start really turning the financials around and start climbing back up. If not for that prayer, I most likely, honestly, would have declined this. It is hard to describe if you have never been on the receiving end of generosity for something like this. It isn't something you want or to take advantage of. But I literally kind of feel like I asked and God answered and it would be.... I don't know what the word would be for that.... but not good to decline.

We are heading towards what I hope is the light at the end of the tunnel. She had an MRI today and visit with the neurologist. It went very well. The area of the brain surgery has healed well and there is no sign of any other tumors around the brain (as well as all her other scans/xrays/MRI's etc have come back clean since surgery/treatment). She is currently scheduled for treatment (chemo and other drugs) through spring. Then if all continues to look good we can start getting back to "normal" though she will have fairly frequent checkups, scans, etc.

My wife has been stabilized in terms of working so that is good. Rates are dropping so hopefully that will help me bring in more business but I really am thinking of either doing something else or at least starting a side business (I have wanted to do a POD clothing company for a bit and haven't because of all of this). I just got done restructuring our debt which will help a lot. So I think we should be in a spot we can start making progress versus being in the red or treading water.

I did not really expect this so I am still thinking through on this but my thoughts for the money will be a small splurge for my wife and kids (no clue what but they deserve something nice), I am trying to figure out a way to get out to L.A. area as my mother has just recently been diagnosed with cancer- and the ONLY thing she cares about is seeing my kids but that is a whole complicated thing due to my wife and finances, and then just applying it to our general finances paying bills or debt.

Hope everything is turning a corner, brother. Use the money as you see fit, it's yours.

Hookers and blow it is!

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Just checked.

SCORE!

 

[scoobus]

Yo whoever donated $1,500 should check in here, that's insanely generous.

 

[Chadstroma]

Yo whoever donated $1,500 should check in here, that's insanely generous.

Yea, I feel like I owe them some sort of sexual favor now.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Yo whoever donated $1,500 should check in here, that's insanely generous.

Yea, I feel like I owe them some sort of sexual favor now.

Go on...

 

[GordonGekko]

Yo whoever donated $1,500 should check in here, that's insanely generous.

Yea, I feel like I owe them some sort of sexual favor now.

You're not my type.

 

[bigbottom]

Friday bump!

 

[Chadstroma]

Yo whoever donated $1,500 should check in here, that's insanely generous.

Yea, I feel like I owe them some sort of sexual favor now.

You're not my type.

I can clean up kinda good though

 

[FarFromHome]

Yea, I feel like I owe them some sort of sexual favor now.

This got dark and hopefully thread won't get locked. In regards to your feelings, is this on the table? Ha ha

 

[Orange&Blue]

bumping

 

[kutta]

Just seeing this now - donation in.
I love this place

 

[Senor Schmutzig]

Yo whoever donated $1,500 should check in here, that's insanely generous.

And no, it wasn't me.

 

[Chadstroma]

Thank you guys...

I just booked flights and a hotel so go out and visit my Mom (and other family) with everyone. My Mom has never seen my boys in person and the last time she saw my Daughter was when she was 1 year old. Before, it was just having little kids and travel was not very appealing and my Mom has for a long time not been physically 'good' and mentally none of us trusted her traveling on her own so it limited her ability to come to us. Then the last now... 4 years of cancer with my wife obviously made us traveling not really something an option.

My sister was planning on coming out to visit us with her now fiancé. Her fiancé apparently is into trains so they were going to take a train out to us. My Mom kind of invited herself along I guess and it was supposed to happen basically sometime in September... until the cancer diagnosis for my Mom. It was something my Mom wanted so badly that there was no way that my sister could say no and even with the diagnosis my Mom told the doctors that she didn't care about dying, that she is ready to go but that she wanted to see her grandchildren. I started to try to figure that out which was complicated by money, time, my wife's treatments/risk of travel, etc.

I was originally looking to have a trip out this Christmas. During this time, I added my wife to the text group that my sister set up to update the family on my Mom. Basically, it hasn't been going well. The chemo is really, really, really hard on her. She has been hospitalized several times now. I think my wife realized that this could go very south very fast and told me that let's figure out something for Thanksgiving instead of Christmas. I will fly out the 21st with my boys as they get off school and then my wife and daughter will fly out on the 25th. We come back on the 28th... I would have liked to stay longer but ticket wise there was a huge difference for Sat vs Fri red eye. My wife really didn't want to come back Sunday either so it bits. My plan was to crash at family houses until my wife flew out then get a hotel but my wife made a good point that with my back and travel, if I was on a couch or pull out then chances are that I would be knocked out of commission and it was better for me to get a hotel and be able to rest my back on a full bed. The money you guys have so generously donated is pretty damn close to the money spent on the flights and hotel. God has used you guys to perfection to make this happen for my family. I have to thank you so much for this. I really don't "like" getting money like this but it certainly seems to be something God was behind to line this up to make this work like this. You have no idea how much this means to my Mom and obviously to me. The plan is to go back this summer as well to give my Mom something to look forward to and do more of a real vacation than a scurry off, see Mom and try to do some things with the kids before running back. I would like to drive and do a road trip as I think it would be fun and we can make it a thing on the way there and back to stop at places... plus less cost than flying. But we will see. Treatments for her are expected to end this Spring so things should go more to normal and hopefully financially we will be more 'normal' but then how much time she has will be a big factor. I think we should be good as she won't need so many PTO once treatment is done.

The purpose of the trip, obviously, is to see my Mom and the kids/Mom to see each other but there is only so much time kids can sit in a room with a cancer patient. Plus we haven't been able to do much in way of vacations or fun stuff over the last few years so I want to try to make this fun for the kids. My nieces want to take the kids to Magic Mountain so I think they will do that on the Wed. I looked up the Lakers and Rams to see about taking the boys to a game but those tickets are silly priced right now which I know this far out they normally are. Maybe see about that day if they come down enough on game day. The beach is an easy win for sure. My Mom wanted to do a reunion thing and she mentioned there was like 70 people.... I asked my sister and she was like "I have no idea who she is inviting but you know Mom, everyone is family." I know the kids would love to do the Disney thing but maybe the summer trip.

Again, thank you guys. I love you all. Even you Dolt, Donkey and Chef fans.

 

[DA RAIDERS]

Where does mom live?