Conversations wit Coyfee - God's Commission For Believers..(HOMELESS MOM BATTLES CANCER
I am a resident of Florida's capital city, Tallahassee. I was checking out the local news and ran across this story. I decided to share it with you. I hope that you will be able to make donations to this family in need as the Lord Jesus Christ commissioned us to do.Please see an exert for the below the story written by Sharon Kant-Rauch • DEMOCRAT STAFF WRITER'I had to be strong for my kids. They never see me cry about it.'Gloria James doesn't like to ask for help."Usually when I do, I get turned down," she said.But last December, she found herself homeless and throwing up in the bathroom at The Shelter.Shelter director Mel Eby wanted to know why. Finally James told him: She'd had colon cancer in the past and was sick again. "I'll help you," Eby told her that night.Within a few weeks, James found out the cancer had spread to her liver and lungs, and Eby began taking her to her weekly chemotherapy treatments at Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare. In February, Eby moved her and her 14-year-old daughter Janae out of The Shelter and into an extended stay hotel so they could have some privacy and quiet.When James' doctor stopped chemo at the end of March — "There's nothing more we can do," he said — Eby drove mother and daughter down to Shands Hospital in Gainesville to seek another opinion. On their third visit to Shands, James received radiation to reduce the size of her tumor.No one knows how long James will live, but Eby would like to keep her comfortable at the hotel. And he could use some help. To pay for the room, which includes a refrigerator and microwave oven, he's had to dip into his emergency funds, money usually set aside for things such as medication or transportation for Shelter clients. The hotel room costs $700 a month."I keep checking on her to make sure she's functioning OK," Eby said. "She should be able to live independently for a while." James can still walk around and one day recently went to The Shelter to help hand out towels to the clients. But it's painful for her to lie down for long, so she spends most of her time sitting up.She also drinks lots of Ensure, a liquid nutritional drink, because she can't keep solid food down."She eats one or two bites and quits," Janae said on a recent afternoon in the hotel room, glancing over to where her mother was propped up in bed with pillows. James said her daughter, who attends Nims Middle School, is her biggest joy. She keeps me laughing," said James. "She's all I could ask for."James, 38, was born in Quincy, one of 10 children. She went to elementary school in Gretna and middle school in Havana. When she was 9, her mother died suddenly; six years later, so did her father.She went to live with various relatives and by age 17, James had two children of her own. Later, she would give birth to two more.In 2007, when she was living in Georgia, she was diagnosed with colon cancer. Doctors removed half her colon and afterward, she moved back to Quincy to live with a brother. She was supposed to get chemotherapy, but for one reason or another, never did. Instead, James continued on with her life, going to Tallahassee Community College to work on getting her GED. But things didn't work out with her brother and she moved out. Then the cancer returned."One part of my mind freaked out," James said. "The other part said I had to be strong for my kids. They never see me cry about it."Before she moved into the hotel, James would spend the day wandering around downtown, going to the library, or sitting in the day center next to The Shelter until The Shelter opened up in the evening.One of James's sons, now 19, also stays at The Shelter. Her other children are still in Georgia — the 22-year-old is on his own and the 12-year-old lives with a cousin. Janae is the only one with James right now.On Sundays, Janae's civics teacher picks the two up and takes them to church. The people pray for James. She prays for herself.Then the mother and daughter return to the hotel where they can be alone together in a room that, for now, is safe and quiet.If you are moved to make donations and or prayers for this mother and her children please do so. He who sits high on the throne is still able (Ephesians 3:20-21)"Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto him [be] glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen."Here's the address for donations: Send checks or money orders with Gloria James in the memo section to the below address.The ShelterP.O. Box 4062Tallahassee, FL 32315If you have any questions, please contact me @ tamee37@yahoo.com.
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