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Help a Cancer Warrior's struggle

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I like many other people who have fought and won againts the battle with cancer, the fight is still far from over.  The struggle to survive just getting by is just as hard as fighting something out of ones control like cancer.  I've had go-fund me in the past, but the need is still there.  It's difficult to try to get by with the bare basic needs home, elec, phone, and food on $800 mo. with &1,400-1,600 to pay every month, so as I'm paying what I can...the bills and amounts due keep adding up to a huge debt.  Still having to come up with co-pays, and prescriptions not covered by my insurance, is enough to send me into panic attacks, that last for days...keeps me from sleep, eating, or being able to find a solution that just ends with me unable to breath.  

In mid 2012 I was diagnosed with Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma tumors in my nose, that although it's a common cancer of the salvatory glands, mine was in my nose is extremely rare, and it was an aggressive form, that by the time of my diagnosis there was only one option of a full amputation of my nose, bone, and surrounding tissue.  I had about 3 month of high radiation 5days a week, with chemotherapy one a week after radiation.  It's been 3yrs since my last treatment, and as far as we can tell so far the cancer is gone, since it was so aggressive it would have shown itself by now, but I won't get my all clear for another couple of years.  For the last 2 1/2yrs I've now had close to 30 reconstruction surgeries to try to rebuild my nose and face, to hopefully someday have a normal appearance, and less ignorance from people who see my disfigured face as some sort of threat, and treat me as I carry the plague, and be the target of the many jokes that makes it a lot harder with the feeling of having confidence in myself and adding to the feeling of not having support.  I do have friends that have helped me for which I'm extremely grateful for and appreciate everything they've done for me, but that circle of trusted friends is small, and they have stuggles of their own and I hate having to be a burden.  

I know the goal says a high amount, but I had to put in something.  I hope you know that anything is a help of less worry and stress of even having that means a lot to me.  To not live in fear of "is today the day my lights get disconnected", or "I hope my phone isn't ringing because it's also shut off. "  the worse is getting home after more than a week in an out of state hospital, all alone, get home to sit in dark apartment with no power, and try to have a plan of what to do next, knowing that next disability payment wont even touch what I owe.  I've sold just about anything I have of value, and am at a point where I'm on the verge of becoming a homeless beggar.  Thanks for taking the time to read my story, and any small bit means a lot.

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Sonja Sayers
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Saint Albans, VT

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