*IHaveSTAGE4BreastCancerHELP

It just keeps getting worse… Read test results, (Bone Scan taken  10-14-22) today October 16, 2022, lucent bone metastases noted at T3, T8, T10, L1, L2 and S1. No pathological fracture.

 

October 13, I had to drive to West Penn Hospital in Pittsburgh from Somerset, I had an echocardiogram, then , I went to Monroeville to have a radiation injection to do a bone scan, but the technician canceled my appointment and no one told me until I arrived. This is the second time this has happened at the same place. This is the first time I cried. 

 

October 14, I arrived at UPMC by 8am in Monroeville and finally got the radiation injection to do the bone scan, I finally left the hospital at 2pm. To then. Drive to Harmarville to have two cortisol inject in each hip. 

 

October 6, I fired my medical and surgical oncologists after getting a new team (medical and surgical oncologists) to oversee my treatment plan, my well-being and care on October 4th and 5th appointments.

 

Tests completed on September 21, 2022 of Lymph Node in breast positive for Cancer

 

 

I need to pay for a nurse that can assist me, because I can’t be a burden to my friends or family, everyone has so much going on in their lives.

 

I have yet to receive any medical bills, I am waiting for the medical bills to bombard me into shock.

 

I am worried about expenses and bills, and I know this is something I shouldn’t be so concerned about, but I want to not lose everything fighting for my life again. 

 

Again, is a key point…please read below. Thank you.

 

 

In 1998, I was driving home from a bridal shower and I had an auto-accident where a 17’ radius Boulder fall from a cliff along the highway. The Boulder didn’t hit me, but the impact o the rock made in truck flip over and I rolled 3x, 250’ in the median. 

 

I woke up 4 days later with a halo screwed into my scull, over 200 stitches on my forehead, 27 staples around my head, I had my ear sewn back into place, and I had a brain swelling bag. I spent the next 4 months basically in bed. I could not walk, I suffered from 98% muscle atrophy- I couldn’t even carry my own body weight. I spent the next 11 months, 5 hours a day, 3 times a week going to physical and cognitive rehabilitation. 

 

I have a severe TBI, Trigeminal neuralgia, and I suffer from chronic pain. I thought I already had fought the battle for my life in 1998/1999 and now exactly almost to the day 24 years later on August 29, 2022 I received a phone call.

 

I was in a hotel room in Rogersville, TN and a doctor (who I didn’t know) told me I had breast cancer. I was all alone in that room and I cried for myself.

I couldn’t call my mom, she passed away on Dec 4, 2021, and I literally just dropped off my daughter in Washington DC at American University on August 27. I couldn’t tell my daughter either, because she is still mourning from the death of her Grandmother and is suffering from separation anxiety leaving home.

Here I am again, getting ready for another war internalized within my own body. 

 

I don’t think it is very fair and I was yelling at GOD for allowing this to happen to me. I believe I have suffered enough and I have watched everyone else’s lives move by and I just remained idle.

 

At the end of my daughter’s spring semester, I picked her up and we traveled together the entire Summer and finally lived after all these years. I did things I was advised not to do, I got to ride the oldest roller coaster in the world, I got to hike to waterfalls that were advanced hikes, and I got to see the most beautiful marvels our great nation has to offer.

 

I went to Cherokee Tribal Nation, NC after I got the phone call and went on a pilgrimage to prepare for fighting my own body again. 

 

To win this war, I will prevail even if my body gives out because, I knowI never quit or just gave up like I could have done 24 years ago”.

 

INVASIVE DUCTAL

CARCINOMA, GRADE 3 OF 3 AND DUCTAL CARCINOMA IN SITU, HIGH NUCLEAR

GRADE, SOLID PATTERN WITH COMEDONECROSIS AND CALCIFICATIONS

(Nottingham grade 3, ER negative, PR/HER-2 new positive).

 

I will gladly provide any documentation to provide authenticity. Just ask me in the supporting comments section and I will happily provide any information you need. 

 

Chemotherapy;

Surgery; and 

Radiation Therapy.

 

Chemotherapy could last through April 2023 or even for the rest of my Life. 

 

Expenses out of pocket to date just for traveling to the doctors and hospital visits for test is now well over $1500.00 

Somerset To Pittsburgh almost Daily now with weekends off. Lol . it is now a job.