Help Get Sasha Back To Good Health!
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Hello, Don Brown here.
Our good friend Sasha needs our help.
First, THANK YOU to all the amazing people out there that donated money and gave positive thoughts to support Sasha already ❤️. Your donations truly helped get Sasha through tough times and covered a lot of the expenses.
Sasha is still fighting hard to beat this cancer crap but funds have run out and he’s having to sell his personal items to try to continue the fight. HE NEEDS MORE OF OUR help and positive thoughts to keep going. Our Goal is to reach $30,000 as much of the treatment is not covered by insurance. If you can spare anything to help Sasha get through this it would be greatly appreciated. Please help spread the word too every share will make a difference.
THANK YOU
Here’s an update from Sasha ...
- July 2017 Initial surgery where my lower right side jaw was removed as it was infected with cancer and replaced with donor bone from my fibula. 6 months of physical therapy thereafter to learn to walk and run. As well as therapy to relearn to eat, drink and swallow.- Jan 2018 A new mass had been found during a routine MRI/CT scan.
- Jan 2018 Surgery to remove the mass. It turned out to be a very aggressive Squamous cell carcinoma.
- Mar 2018 Surgery to remove the temporary artery that was feeding blood to the new bone which now healed to my jaw.
- Apr 2018 Started Keytruda Immune therapy. This involved IV infusion every 3 weeks from Apr to Sep. Unfortunately after 5 months it was determined that no positive results were happening as tumor in jaw kept growing.
- Sep 2018 Went back to work against Doctors orders as my SDI insurance had ran out in July 2018 I needed to pay bills. I worked until Dec and at that point could no longer as my body was to run down from side effects of Immune therapy and too much physical work.
- Sept 2018 Started on a new trial (12 people in CA only) of a direct injection Immune therapy. This lasted from Sep to mid Nov. This trial seemed to only give me horrible side effects with again NO reduction in tumor growth.
- Jan 2018 Currently the tumor in my jaw is growing and will continue to grow unless I find a solution.All this brings us to the present. Insurance WILL pay for “Big Pharma” sponsored therapies such as Chemo and radiation. Radiation is for sure not an option as I had it in the past and have the maximum amount of rand that is allowed for your body. I do not want to deal with the side effects of these kinds of poison medicine. As well, I’ve tried 2 different types of Immune therapy with no results. Just side effects that seriously lower the quality of life. I no longer wait to be a guinea pig of “Big Pharma” medicine.I’ve been seeking other Natural intergraded therapies however non are covered by insurance. I have found alternative options but again they are expensive (25K to 35K). After doing much research, I do feel this is the direction I need to take. I’m 10-15K in past medical debt from everything that wasn’t covered by insurance (co-pays, deductibles), travel from home to SF, etc.Currently I cannot go back to Union job as it is to physically demanding and does not allow me to heal. I’m in a catch 22 situation…
Our good friend Sasha needs our help.
First, THANK YOU to all the amazing people out there that donated money and gave positive thoughts to support Sasha already ❤️. Your donations truly helped get Sasha through tough times and covered a lot of the expenses.
Sasha is still fighting hard to beat this cancer crap but funds have run out and he’s having to sell his personal items to try to continue the fight. HE NEEDS MORE OF OUR help and positive thoughts to keep going. Our Goal is to reach $30,000 as much of the treatment is not covered by insurance. If you can spare anything to help Sasha get through this it would be greatly appreciated. Please help spread the word too every share will make a difference.
THANK YOU
Here’s an update from Sasha ...
- July 2017 Initial surgery where my lower right side jaw was removed as it was infected with cancer and replaced with donor bone from my fibula. 6 months of physical therapy thereafter to learn to walk and run. As well as therapy to relearn to eat, drink and swallow.- Jan 2018 A new mass had been found during a routine MRI/CT scan.
- Jan 2018 Surgery to remove the mass. It turned out to be a very aggressive Squamous cell carcinoma.
- Mar 2018 Surgery to remove the temporary artery that was feeding blood to the new bone which now healed to my jaw.
- Apr 2018 Started Keytruda Immune therapy. This involved IV infusion every 3 weeks from Apr to Sep. Unfortunately after 5 months it was determined that no positive results were happening as tumor in jaw kept growing.
- Sep 2018 Went back to work against Doctors orders as my SDI insurance had ran out in July 2018 I needed to pay bills. I worked until Dec and at that point could no longer as my body was to run down from side effects of Immune therapy and too much physical work.
- Sept 2018 Started on a new trial (12 people in CA only) of a direct injection Immune therapy. This lasted from Sep to mid Nov. This trial seemed to only give me horrible side effects with again NO reduction in tumor growth.
- Jan 2018 Currently the tumor in my jaw is growing and will continue to grow unless I find a solution.All this brings us to the present. Insurance WILL pay for “Big Pharma” sponsored therapies such as Chemo and radiation. Radiation is for sure not an option as I had it in the past and have the maximum amount of rand that is allowed for your body. I do not want to deal with the side effects of these kinds of poison medicine. As well, I’ve tried 2 different types of Immune therapy with no results. Just side effects that seriously lower the quality of life. I no longer wait to be a guinea pig of “Big Pharma” medicine.I’ve been seeking other Natural intergraded therapies however non are covered by insurance. I have found alternative options but again they are expensive (25K to 35K). After doing much research, I do feel this is the direction I need to take. I’m 10-15K in past medical debt from everything that wasn’t covered by insurance (co-pays, deductibles), travel from home to SF, etc.Currently I cannot go back to Union job as it is to physically demanding and does not allow me to heal. I’m in a catch 22 situation…
Organizer and beneficiary
Don Brown
Organizer
Lake Forest, CA
Sasha Steinhorst
Beneficiary
