A Florida family of three is going through hard times as all the three members are suffering from different types of cancer.
Five years ago, the matriarch of the clan, Kathy Desclefs, discovered that she had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
The things got worsened when the family learned in August that Benoit Desclefs had an inoperable tumor on his brain. This didn’t stop here as Luke Desclefs was also told that he had cancer in October. His Hodgkin’s lymphoma, was diagnosed after he found something odd on his body.
“I found a lump on my neck and I thought it was weird, and I told my mom,” the 17-year-old Bishop Snyder High School senior told the outlet, adding that he did not show any typical signs of having that specific cancer.
“It’s hard to process,” Kathy admitted of the unbelievably awful odds that her family has been dealt. With Benoit, they’ve said roughly 12 years,” she explained. “With Luke, he has a very good prognosis if he responds to treatment and we’ll know how well he responds next week when they do a PET [positron emission tomography] scan.”
“For me, it’s hard to say, because the variant I have is so rare they don’t have a lot of data on that,” she added.
The three family members are undergoing treatments and they haven’t been able to work at their restaurant which Benoit opened it after moving from France to Florida years ago. A fundraiser has been set up on November 30 for the family as Benoit and Luke continue to receive chemotherapy. It has raised over $27,000.
“One family member having cancer is very stressful, two is crazy hard and three is unimaginable,” the page reads. “As small business owners, both Kathy and Benoit work at the business. However, Benoit is not able to, but Kathy has had to go back to work so that they can manage their expenses a little bit.”
“They are having to pay another worker to help out. And they are down to one working vehicle,” the page continues. “So you can guess that finances are a very real struggle… please help this amazing family during this crisis. They are warm, generous, and joyful people. But they are faced with a challenge they can’t do alone.”
Kathy told the outlet that they are hopeful and have faith in God to help them come over this difficult time. “We are set up for God to show up because it’s so over the top,” she said.
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