An Appeal to Help Save My Life

I am an energetic 44 year old woman with Stage 4 breast cancer. You can help save my life, by making a small donation towards the completion of the cutting-edge specialist treatment I need.

After 9 months of standard-of-care treatments, last January doctors gave me a timeline that ran out in March.

Remarkably I am still alive, actually feeling pretty good, and certainly not ready to die. Even more remarkably I am still managing to keep this thing at bay - the combination of conventional treatments like chemo through the Canadian system, off-label drugs for my kind of cancer, an array of naturopathic treatments, and a determined mindset - have combined, to the amazement of my medical team, to prevent the cancer spreading beyond my liver.

Knowing that the multiple large tumours in my liver would kill me unless I got them treated, prompted me to seek out some cutting-edge treatments, frustratingly not available through mainstream systems in either Canada or the UK.

In September/October I began this treatment. Initially 6 weeks at a clinic in Spain and then another 2 weeks in Turkey (see updates where these are detailed).

It is now time to head back to Europe to complete these treatments.

My partner, my family, my friends and complete strangers have been amazingly generous and supportive in getting me through stage 1 of these treatments but I'm now facing additional costs of $40000 CAD for the remaining treatment to rid me of the remaining two tumours in my liver.

That's why I'm asking for your help today. I am due to return to Spain in January. Time is not my friend right now.

Anything you are able to donate will be so gratefully received.

Thank you xx

(Updated Dec 2022)