San Francisco, CA – December 11, 2014 – Wendy Wiedow is a wife and the mother of a precious and brave little 9 year old girl named Tracy. Four years ago, her family were all together living in their own home in West Virginia, celebrating Christmas 2010 with her husband Walter and their two girls Cindy age 10 and Tracy then age 6.
Those were the innocent and happy days of December 2010. A dream world so far away now….but little did we know then that just one year later Walter would have lost his job as a coal mining shuttle car operator we would lose our home to foreclosure and the worse nightmare of all, we would lose our little girl Cindy to kidney cancer.
After Walter lost his job, the Wiedows tried desperately to keep their home for their little girls sake, but in the end with very little income coming in they just could not make even the lowest of mortgage payments. So they took their belongings from the house and just let it go into foreclosure. They moved into a small two bedroom apartment in a high crime neighborhood an hour’s drive from their home.
One day on a Sunday in late June after church, Cindy came out of the bathroom and she was not smiling with her drawing book as she would normally do, but just walked slowly over to her mom in the kitchen and said “Mom…my water-(pee) is red”. Well, the thinking at the time was she has a urinary infection (girls get them at her age). They took Cindy to the doctor first thing Monday morning, and yes she did have a urinary infection, but the doctor said just to make sure, he would send out all of Cindy’s test samples to have them analyzed.
A few days later the doctor called and he wanted them to see him at his office. He told them Cindy has cancer and she must go to the hospital right away for further tests. Those further tests would reveal Cindy had Wilms Tumor (Kidney Cancer). After months of out-of state cancer treatments, their beautiful loving daughter and sister Cindy died at home with her family around her, she was 10 years old.
After Cindy died, the Wiedows decided to pick up and move out west. One day while driving south of Las Vegas Nevada, they stopped by a medical clinic to get Tracy a complete physical. The nurse there told them that Tracy has a slight discoloration in her urine and were told once that Tracy may have a genetic predisposition kidney cancer. “Oh no!” Wendy said…”Not our only surviving daughter Tracy!”
They did not want to wait this time like her sister Cindy did. So they got a map to find the nearest hospital and had Tracy checked-in. The test results came back and Tracy did have Wilms Tumor (Kidney Cancer) but it was in the very early stages. They stayed near the hospital for 6 months while Tracy got surgery/radiation/chemotherapy. One day the doctor told them Tracy is now cancer free, and Wendy fainted into Walter’s arms. The Wiedows can live again!
They now owe medical, housing food and travel expenses that have ballooned to a mind boggling total of $114,387.59 They are now poorer than they have ever been in their lives but they are happy because we have “Our Faith in The Lord” and knowing our precious little Tracy is now Cancer Free!
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Wendy Wiedow
San Francisco, CA
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