After eight years of service to the floor covering industry, Michael Campbell was forced to stop working his normal 70-90 hours a week due to stage 4 brain cancer. He lives with his wife and eleven-year-old son in Glasgow, Va., where he worked as shift leader and line clerk. Unfortunately, his life changed drastically due cancer. In October 2017, he had surgery to remove a malignant brain tumor, six weeks of daily chemotherapy and radiation, followed by seven more cycles of chemotherapy. Hospitalized in November 2018 due to severe headaches, an MRI revealed another tumor, this time inoperable. Campbell is currently undergoing chemotherapy every two weeks and receiving electric fields therapy, which stops the growth of new cancer cells.
Now, with the family just relying on his wife’s income, they are behind on the household expenses and medical bills. The financial stress was more than the family could bear. With the grant from the Floor Covering Industry Foundation (FCIF), the Campbells were able to save their home from foreclosure, catch up their utility bills, afford Mr. Campbell’s treatments.