James’s Story

Site created on January 6, 2021

After never experiencing a headache in his life, James suffered some excruciating and debilitating headaches shortly before Christmas of 2020. Doctors thought at first it was certainly covid-19. After a negative covid test, some doctors visits, and ultimately an MRI, it was found that a tumor in the right frontal lobe of his brain was responsible for his pain. After surgery to remove the tumor on January 5th, 2021, doctors found that it was indeed cancerous. Pathology will return in a few days to determine the grade of cancer. 

On behalf of James and Emily I want to deeply thank you for your care, support, prayers, and well wishes during this challenging time for the Macchiano family. The warmth and love many of you have already shared is deeply appreciated and not unnoticed! We’ll be sure to update as soon as we hear more about the cancer grade and next steps toward his healing, which doctors believe will include chemotherapy and radiation. 

While the family prepares for the hardships ahead of them, they covet your prayers! Prayers of healing, of peace and comfort, and prayers of provision. Their hearts want to lean on the Lord in all of their decision making and trust that His plans are good. Your prayers, gifts, and encouragements are so meaningful and deeply appreciated! If you’d like to give more to support the family during this time of need, you can click the “Ways to Help” link and visit their Go Fund Me page. 



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Journal entry by Christina Neitz

Dear friends and family,
 
This thank you has been a long time coming, thank you all for your grace and patience with me. As you know, all of your prayers and support have kept us going through this traumatic past year. I would like to take the opportunity to specifically thank those of you who supported us financially. To say it's humbling to receive such generosity is an understatement. Truly there are no words...
To be transparent, James and I were facing over $10,000 in medical and surgical bills within the first six months alone. After that, the costs kept climbing at an unbelievable rate. But with your incredible support, we never had to bear that financial burden alone. More than that, we were also able to provide counseling for our children, cover travel expenses, pay for uncovered medications, and ease the weight of our time of reduced income. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
The remaining amount will be placed into a trust to protect myself and our children as we face this new life without Daddy...without James. Your continued prayers will get us through.
Thank you dear friends. For standing by us. For being our extended family.

With love,
Emily
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