My sister, Kristin, is a tenured 3rd grade teacher in the Hudson Valley, NY. She is an outgoing and spirited person, and an excellent teacher loved by both students and parents. She is also a wife, a loving mother of four, a caring daughter, sister, and friend, and by far one of the most extraordinary people I know.
Kristin was someone who always had a plan. She worked her way through school, and eventually graduated with an undergradate degree and a graduate degree from SUNY New Paltz. Once she established a career in teaching, the next part of her plan was to be a wife and a mother. She met the love of her life, Chris, and eventually turned to IVF for their first two children. The IVF community is something she’s very grateful for. From finding the support of other parents and medical professionals, she went onto being a strong advocate and supporter for other people going through the process. After two kids within three years, safe to say they were done for a while. But life had other plans, and she was unexpectedly pregnant with twins not even a year after her second baby. Balancing work, family, and life is hard enough, but with a pair of newborn twins, as well as the two toddlers, she had her work cut out for her.
While adjusting to this new routine as a mother of four babies, she receives life altering news: her breast cancer diagnosis. She was diagnosed with estrogen receptive positive breast cancer. Consequently, she will be undergoing chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation. Kristin is one to never back down to a challenge. However, anyone can recognize overcoming this adversity is for very special people. Being a mother first and foremost, her immediate worry was being able to take care of her children to the best of her abilities. Not knowing how her body is going to react to the treatments makes the future seem very uncertain.
And so, we want to do everything we can to make sure that she is set up to have as much support as she can. By starting up this spotfund, I hope that she will have no worries in the world paying for childcare, paying for food, paying for medicine, and paying for any other unforeseen expenses for her family. Her husband, Chris, works full-time in the HVAC industry, however one income as we know is not enough these days, especially when you have four kids to care for.
Any help would be greatly appreciated by Kristin and the rest of her family. ♥ļø
