GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — A Gwinnett County woman facing financial trouble amid her daughter’s battle against cancer has one less worry on her plate.
Last week, Channel 2 Action News reported Lindsey Farnsworth was facing foreclosure but was worried it would jeopardize her daughter’s health. At age 3, Farnsworth’s daughter, Darby, has beaten cancer twice.
"It was a tough, tough road," Farnsworth told Channel 2's Kerry Kavanaugh.
Leukemia treatments were expensive and required extended hospital stays, and Farnsworth lost her job.
She said she immediately contacted her mortgage lender, Bank of America, but the bank said it couldn't do anything until they fell behind.
Two months later, the family could no longer come up with the $1,600 monthly mortgage payment and applied for several aid programs, but they did not qualify. The family negotiated a six-month break during which they would send a reduced payment, but that also backfired.
The home was set to go up for auction June 5, but Bank of America reached out to the Farnsworth family shortly after Kavanaugh’s story and decided to cancel the foreclosure auction.
Farnsworth told bank officials her daughter recently received a bone marrow transplant and needed to stay home during recovery. The bank is working with the family again on attaining a long-term sustainable solution to their financial troubles surrounding the home.