Alamosa News | Christi Dahle receives $2,000 donation from Poor Boy Car Club

CENTER — Higher Rio Grande College District trainer Christi Dahle was not too long ago recognized with breast most cancers. The Poor Boy Automobile Membership heard about Dahle’s prognosis with most cancers and needed to assist her offset the prices of physician visits and chemotherapy therapies. Poor Boy Automobile Membership founder Richard Garcia not too long ago offered Dahle with a verify for $2,000.

Dahle’s husband, Chris, was extraordinarily grateful to the automotive membership.

“We had heard that the automotive membership was going to make a donation, however we had no thought how a lot,” Chris Dahle mentioned. “We noticed the donation and we have been like wow. The price of attending to and from most cancers therapies is so exhausting. This has actually made such an enormous distinction for us. We’re shocked and grateful to Richard and the automotive membership for what they’ve performed. This actually reveals you the way actually beneficiant individuals from the Valley may be. I imply individuals sort of hold to themselves however when any person is in hassle, individuals right here band collectively and assist one another out. It’s simply one of many nice issues on this group. We’re very grateful and actually respect it. We hope we will both pay it ahead sometime or advocate another person who would possibly need assistance too.”

Christi Dahle spoke about a few of her journey.

“I used to be recognized with breast most cancers this summer time. This was going to be our summer time. It was our twenty fifth marriage ceremony anniversary. We have been going to do some good issues this summer time and all the pieces hit,” she mentioned.

Chris Dahle added, “We have been on the hospital, and he or she had her mammogram on our anniversary. Then they obtained her in and did the biopsy on our anniversary, and on her birthday was once we obtained the optimistic consequence again for most cancers. It was simply exhausting; the timing was simply exhausting. All the things we had deliberate to do on celebratory days, turned out to be days of extra dangerous information. It was exhausting. She is so courageous. We’re all happy with her right here. Now we have needed to drive up for chemotherapy and that’s been exhausting too.”

Christi Dahle spoke about her journey.

“Now we have an incredible assist group,” she mentioned. “Everyone that I’ve talked to within the San Luis Valley that has had most cancers, has mentioned they went by this explicit middle in Colorado Springs, and they’re actually good. They’re so optimistic there. The drive has been exhausting. It’s been exhausting to rise up at 3:30 each morning and drive. For various causes we’ve felt like we will’t rise up there the evening earlier than. They’ve been so good about scheduling all our appointments on the identical day too, however it’s a lot.”

Christi Dahle mentioned she has performed her preliminary chemotherapy appointments and is now dealing with surgical procedure with an extended street to go.

Chris Dahle acknowledged that he and his spouse have a couple of yr and a half to go earlier than something will probably be over, together with remedy for a few years after. He believes that they are going to be by the worst of it by the top of the yr, however Christi will want chemotherapy after that.

“Regardless of all of this we’re on the upswing although. Christi could be very optimistic,” he mentioned.

“Now we have no different possibility,” Christi mentioned. “We’re going to get by this. The assist has simply been superb. From our church household, the group, the automotive membership, everybody. Now we have had individuals bringing us meals. We respect everybody a lot.”

Chris Dahle mentioned that when Christi went again to show that everybody was sporting t-shirts someday that acknowledged, “Collectively we battle in Christi.”

Christi Dahle mentioned she didn’t anticipate the automotive membership donation in any respect. With tears in her voice Dahle mentioned, “It completely caught me off guard. I used to be not anticipating any of that. My jaw was on the ground, it was so superb. The donation was offered to me at a employees assembly on the college. Richard Garcia was there, this occurred two weeks in the past. I used to be simply fully amazed by the generosity that was proven to us.”

Garcia was proud to problem the donation to Christi Dahle and mentioned, “We’re so completely happy to have the ability to assist such an exquisite individual in our group. It’s our hope that it helps her, and he or she will get higher very quickly. We’re so completely happy that we have been capable of assist her.”