Chris Mallory, a longtime reader and frequenter commenter has had a major medical emergency in his family and needs a helping hand.
Chris's wife was hit by a stroke back in September. While she made some progress, she never fully recovered. This past Wednesday night, she suffered another stroke, this one much more severe. According to his latest email to me, she's almost catatonic at this point. Unfortunately, a nursing home for her care is a strong possibility here.
From one of the emails from him:
I found out a little more on today's stroke. Strokes are ranked on a scale from 0-42. 0 is no symptoms. 1-4 are mild strokes. 5-15 are moderate strokes. 16-20 are moderate severe. And 21-42 are severe. Last year her stroke was rated a 5. Not good but it could be a whole lot worse. Today's was ranked a 20. Anything over 15 is really bad.
She's in a Nashville hospital so she's in good hands, but Chris could use some financial help with this. There's deductibles, expenses that either have higher deductibles or just aren't covered by insurance and last but not least, those expenses incurred by Chris to stay in the area while she's in a Nashville hospital, a few hundred miles from their home.
One of the great pleasures of this blog for me is that I'm in a position to get the word out knowing that we take care of our own. I've done many, many fundraisers over the past 10 years, everything from helping people in situations like this to helping readers pay for funeral expenses and Chris is one of those that never failed to step up, in fact he sent a check back in early June when my wife Lisa's son passed away. Thursday morning I returned the favor and sent him a donation. What goes around, comes around, right?
A GoFundMe account has been set up - I'll post the link at the bottom of this post. As I was making my donation, I saw that they no longer take a cut, so 100% of your donation will go to Chris. If you don't feel comfortable putting your card number online to them, you can send your donation to me. I'll post my mailing address along with the GoFundMe link. The only thing I ask is that you make your check out to Chris Mallory and not me - my bank lobby is closed because of this corona bullshit and depositing those checks and then buying a money order or cashier's check at the drive-thru window is a colossal pain in the ass. I'll just pop them in a manila envelope and send them to him via certified mail.
If you choose to send a donation to me through paypal for him, please note that it's for him and I'll send it to him through the GFM link myself.
I'd like to thank you in advance. If you're not in a position to give, please take a moment and pray for the Mallory family. Maybe you can send a Get-Well card. I know it'll all be much appreciated.
Thank you,
-Kenny Lane
Donation information:
GoFundMe:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/dawn-mallory-stroke-fund
My mailing address:
Ken Lane
PO Box 712
Lafayette TN
37083
My Paypal link can be found at the top of the sidebar on this blog.
