Your Support helped me through extended radiation for Prostrate Cancer with good results but then I developed another Cancer and have spent the last few months undergoing tests. Needless to say this has been a financial burden even though we have very good news finally which I will explain below. But once again I need help with these many additional expenses and ask for your support via my GoFundMe.

I would be deeply grateful for any support you might be able to give to help cover the many tests, copays, medicine and ongoing medical care. Living in the desert it has become increasingly difficult to be without Air Conditioning and so I also seek help to install a small unit to make the summer heat more bearable. Again my thanks. Below is a full account to the Cancer that has me giving thanks to God as it truly is an Easter Miracle.

I have a cancer only 200 people in the world have.

That’s the diagnosis from Renown Hospital and Stanford Medical Center.
The Renown Hospital Chief of Pathology was truly amazing—she correctly diagnosed it using a series of five tests. Along with placing it under the microscope. And Stanford confirmed it.
I’d like to thank everyone for their prayers during this time, and Bless God for this least deadly diagnosis. And a shout-out to Walmart who gave me the days off for the surgery. And yes—the CT scan on April 7 was completely clean—no metastasis.
It is called “BCC Anal Cancer.” Specifically, Nodular Basal Cell Carcinoma of the Anus. You can Google it and see the medical journal articles on it—and just how rare it is.
In essence, it is a skin cancer around the anus, caused by unknown factors (such as environment, or genetics perhaps). It is—Thank God—not SCC—Squamous Cell Carcinoma—which usually occurs inside the anal canal, and is caused by HPV—a sexually transmitted disease. That SCC anal cancer is primarily treated by radiation—which, due to my prior radiation—might have precluded any treatment at all. Anal SCC can be a very aggressive cancer. So God helped me dodge a big, big bullet here.
BCC of the Anus—only 2/100ths of 1% of anal cancers are this type. 200 people.
And it is treated primarily by excision—which my amazing MD/PhD surgeon did on March 18 at Renown in Reno. And it is healing quite nicely now.
Nodular BCC is generally indolent, meaning, slow growing. That is the characteristic of Nodular BCC, although, in the anus I was told, it could become more aggressive. With your help, I am prepared.
So—I am simply going to Bless God and anticipate a long and happy life.
I still have co-pays to pay off, and prescription drugs to buy, and more doctor’s visits in the future for my treatment. I hope to use the remainder to help get some type of Air Conditioning which we totally lack now for Reno’s 100 F+ days.
Once more I am asking for your help. Anything you can give will be deeply appreciated. Thank you.