From academic coach comes the story of Badger, an ABD grad student faced with extreme debt and a dying husband. Please make a donation.
Academic coach has set up a Fund For Mr. Badger’s Cancer Treatment

Badger, An awesome ABD who posts pseudonymously as Badger has only a short time left with her husband. Mr. Badger, a 34 year old artist, is dying of liver cancer.

Badger, Mr. Badger and their 11 year old son, are also faced with mounting debts — because of the expense of his cancer treatment, the insufficiency of her graduate student health insurance plan, and our government’s scanty assistance programs.

“Cost to date for surgery, CT-scans, hospital stays, doctors’ visits, and labwork: $79,000. Insurance benefit left for year: $21,000. Days left until new benefit year: 145. Response from Social Security Administration when I went down to their office with our 2004 tax returns to prove our lack of income: Priceless.

“There’s nothing I can do for you. Come back in two years.”

Prognosis of someone with stage four liver cancer: 3 months.”

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