On January 20, 2024 we suddenly lost my dad, Barry McCammon. He left behind numerous family members and friends but most importantly he left the love of his life behind.
It was a shock to all of us, he was always so invincible and really the picture of health. We all thought we had many more years with him.
My mother was struggling with her own health challenges and was in the hospital on January 15, 2024, which was a Monday, and my father feeling ill ignored how he was feeling over concern and a singular focus on my mother. He just thought he had caught something at the hospital. By Friday my Mom was home and my Dad started coughing up blood, he was rushed to the hospital, at which point they found out it was pneumonia, pleurisy, and sepsis. His kidneys began failing and finally because about 40% of one of his lungs was gone by the time he got there it put too much strain on his heart and while they were moving him 25 minutes up the road to a larger more equipped facility, his heart stopped and after a massive effort they couldn't get him back and we all lost the best friend, uncle, father, granddad, and husband that I've ever seen in real life or in movies.
Now that he's gone though many harsh realities have come to light. We all thought or assumed that my parents both carried life insurance, but with the economy being what it is and them trying to scrape by on retired income they did not have enough and stopped carrying life insurance once my father stopped working. My mother figured up the bills and after the loss of her own retirement from the government and only part of his will come to her now, she will barely have enough to scrape by.
We just want to get enough together to cover my Dad's final expenses and make sure Mom doesn't have to worry for a little while.
If you had the honor to get to know him, then you know he always put others before himself. He would do everything he could to help those he loved. Well, we would like to honor his memory and would appreciate any help we can to do so. He would want my mom, Susan McCammon, to be taken care of and my father's cremation to be paid for so that my mother isn't living on loose change for the foreseeable future after the loss of her best friend and partner for the last nearly 50 years.
Please help us love and celebrate the man by taking care of his final expenses and the woman he cherished above himself all the way to the end.
