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Mother suffering from cancer battles against eviction
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Dying mom fights for home in Michigan
- Duration 2:10
- Date Sep 12, 2012
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It's pretty hard to miss Kelly Parker's house on Detroit's west side it's covered with graffiti.
And it was done on purpose to trying keep potential buyers said today -- CD.
Is saying they see we're putting in a planned auctions so.
I made it to the point where nobody would want to -- it.
Life is dealt the mother to some pretty rough blows she has stacks of paperwork documenting her struggle.
She lost her job suffers from Crohn's Disease and is now in the fight of her life.
Three weeks ago I was diagnosed with a brain.
And lung cancer.
And thanks.
To the point where they want -- brain surgery and are.
I just found -- I'll.
Tell them trying to -- me out of my house and sell my house.
And I don't want anyway.
When she bought the home in 2000 find those small tidy two bedroom bungalow was Parker's dream -- a place to raise a family.
-- mortgage and doubled and she fell behind.
The home went into foreclosure.
-- about 121000 dollars in back taxes she was hoping her disability checks would kick -- with enough time to save the place not for her.
Before her son's -- -- back I don't have much time.
So.
-- Might it -- the house.
She's really sick and she's a good mom and a good neighbors -- we -- -- here instead of complaining about the -- neighbors are supporting -- effort to stay.
They even contacted the problem solvers when I read that sign and sending -- broke my heart I have started doing something plastering her life story of front of her house in -- dating her home with words of warning.
Mean not fix Kelly's situation.
But desperate times call for desperate measures.
Toll for what she has to do.
Get.
Out there for your word out there for help this is our house and -- -- Go buck.
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