I was in the middle of relocating back in June and had stopped trying to collect on this balance that Lee owes me, while I found a new place, it was in June I received some terrible life changing news. My little brother who is also my best friend and closest person in my life, had a seizure while we were in the middle of moving and was rushed to the emergency in Austin where they did a cat scan and found a primary malignant brain tumor, called Anaplastic astrocytoma (grade III).
This is a rare (about 4% of population), life-threatening, usually rapid growing and is an inoperable tumor as it is on the part that connects the brain stem to the spine. They cannot even do a biopsy on it.
They have recently said (this past week) that my brother only has about 24 months at the rate its going , thats 24 months from the first diagnosis..
We cannot do anything except try to make him more comfortable as he starts to physically deteriorate.
He is 29 years old and has a 3 year old son.
The medical bills right now are at $15,000 and we need to make payments on that so that the hospital will continue to monitor the tumor to see if its growing faster or not.
We need to know how fast it is growing so that we can know how much time we have to be able to put money together to give him a vacation with his wife and son, just some last time together in a peaceful setting.
I am just trying to collect on what is owed to me for work I DID DO, because everything counts right now. $200 may not seem like a lot to some people, but for one, I earned it and should be paid, and for two, you can imagine how everything is going to count right now for my family.
I was stupid to not collect a deposit, but I never thought this would happen, I have never had a client do this, and do not know what else to do. I have to try. I am sorry if anyone thinks this is funny, as I am sitting here thinking about the little things I can do right now for my brother to make it count.