When my wife, Maribelle, was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2025, everything in our lives changed in a single moment. The illness took away her voice, her strength, and the independence she once had. Today she breathes through a trach and depends entirely on daily care, fighting through a recovery that has been long, painful, and filled with uncertainty.

For more than a year, we have been trying to secure disability benefits and assistance programs that should have helped her. We have submitted every document, followed every instruction, and waited through every delay, yet nothing has been approved. She has received no financial support at all, leaving our family to carry every part of her care on our own.

Her medical needs, her transportation, her emergencies, her daily support, and even the basic costs of keeping her safe at home have all become responsibilities we shoulder alone. As her condition remains unstable, even our regular household expenses have become harder to manage, and we are doing everything we can to keep her cared for and housed during this difficult time.

This fundraiser has become her only source of support. It is the one thing helping us keep her stable, supplied, and able to continue healing. Maribelle is still fighting throat cancer, still trying to regain strength, and still needing help to stay safe as she recovers.

Your prayers, your kindness, and your generosity mean more to us than words can express. Every contribution directly supports her care and gives her the chance to continue healing with dignity and hope. Thank you for standing with her and with our family during this journey.