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29 and Fighting For Her Life

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My name is Ashly I’m 29 years old I’m a single mother of 5 Beautiful children, I was diagnosed with cancer June2017 I underwent a hysterectomy followed by radiation and chemo I was off work for eight long weeks I borrowed money from friends and family members to help play bills and whatever cost I could at the moment I finished chemo and radiation March 2018 since then I’ve been in excruciating pain I’ve spent multiple times in and out of Hospitals for the doctors to tell me it was sciatic nerve damage so from March till June 5 I always thought it was sciatica nerve damage June 6th I made an appointment with my oncology doctor to get a PET scan to find out the cancer has came back and it’s spread to the top of my vagina and my left lymph noid going thru this process I have to have a nurse come in my home 5 days a week I have to buy supplies to catheter myself because I can’t urine on my own and I’m doing a higher dose of chemo that within 21 days I will lose my hair and get very very very sick on July 11th I’ll be 30 years old and guess where I’ll be bringing in my Birthday in the hospital I haven’t been able to work I have filed for FMLA through my job and they have been giving me the run around about it meanwhile I have bills that are passed due it’s summertime so I can’t take my kids anywhere by me not having the funds. I’ve cried every night and day just praying that one day this will all be over and I can go back to work and be able to manage my household along with treating my babies the way they should be treated I am being denied supplies because of insufficient funds, I am taking so many different meds that I can’t drive I’m always sleeping or in pain my Babies ages are 12,10,9,7,5 they try to help me with keeping things cleaned around the house and helping with bathing and showering my kids are only Babies I appreciate all the help from them but I don’t want there life’s to come to a stop or an end because they have to grow up faster just to take care of me. I just want to beat this cancer so I can go back to taking care of my babies and my household the way it should be, my babies worry enough about me they ask me everyday am I okay will I live to see them grow older they are my life they are all I have and to have to struggle and not be able to give them a good life emotionally and mentally tears me up inside I’ve gotten to the depression stage I have went days without eating just worrying about how I am going to make ends meet or how my kids are feeling mentally, please any little bit of help is appreciated if you can’t help financially please pray for us, if you know of anybody who makes wigs please feel free to give them my information I will need a couple wigs and keep in mind I don’t have any funds to purchase these wigs or anything else. Thank you so much for taking your time out to read my story everything is appreciated

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Ashly Matthews
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Inkster, MI

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