Allie T Colt Brain Cancer Fund
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I'm so very sorry and truly embarrassed that I have to ask my friends, my family and even complete strangers for financial help, but I've exhausted every other available option.
I love Allie more than life itself. I will do anything humanly possible to help save her life.
I’m her full time caretaker and while being self-employed has benefited my schedule, it has cut my income by almost 30% in the last year.
We have tried to get funding through insurance, charity groups, state Medicare and various cancer foundations, but Allie is in a catch 22 situation.
For those of you who do not know her history, she really is a warrior! Three and a half years ago, when she was diagnosed with brain cancer, she was given 6 months to live and only a 30% chance of making it out of surgery. While her brain surgery went well, her chemo and radiation treatments almost killed her.
The chemo completely blew out her autoimmune system. Leaving Allie to suffer from Aplastic anemia, which is very rare with only about 800 cases diagnosed a year. She also has a rare form of leukemia, which means her blood cells don't mature. They call it M.D.S (myelodysplastic syndrome) which is causing her to be neutropenic.
Basically this all means that Allie needs a bone marrow transplant because her bone marrow will not produce red cells, white cells or platelets.
Because Allie’s brain tumor is an Astrocytoma (aggressive stage three cancer), insurance will not even consider covering the bone marrow transplant until the cancer is in remission. The catch is that the cancer will not go into remission without her autoimmune system being healthy.
Currently, Allie gets infusions of blood and platelets at least once, sometimes twice, a week. The infusions are keeping her alive, but they do nothing to help her heal. She needs the bone marrow transfusion for that.
All of her doctors agree that they can't fight the cancer, or the other adverse health effects, until the bone marrow transplant is completed successfully. They are saying that a bone marrow transplant is the only chance Allie has to beat the cancer into remission.
The good news is that they found 3 donor matches. One is even here in Illinois. The bad news is that her transplant surgery will cost in excess of $350,000 dollars. And that’s just for the surgery.
That doesn't include compensation to the donor, her organ transplant medication (estimated to be $5,000 each month), any extended hospital stays, follow up M.R.I's, other medications, tests and things we haven’t even thought of yet. They have told me the medical expenses would be in excess of $1,000,000 over the first 10 years.
I realize it’s the worst time of year to be asking people for donations, but Allie's chances of beating this go down with every day, week and month that goes by.
It would be easiest and least burdensome if a lot of people were able to give a small amount of money than it would be for a few people to give lot of money. So I was hoping I could appeal to your sense of competition and make this a game of sorts.
If each of you were able to donate between $10 to $100 and then recruit just two friends to also donate $10 to $100, with the commit of getting two of their friends to do the same, we would have the money in no time.
No one would have to give big money, but we could still save Allie's life. For such a small amount of money, you can feel good about yourself and you will have me forever grateful and in your debt.
All the money collected will go directly to offset the cost of surgery and medical bills. If anyone has advice or ideas on how I can raise the money quicker or easier, please don’t be shy. I welcome all the ideas and any advice I can get.
Whether you are able to donate to Allie's fight or not, I would like to thank each and every one of you for taking the time to read this and to consider donating.
Please help if you can.
Donate and Share!
Thank You,
Tim
I love Allie more than life itself. I will do anything humanly possible to help save her life.
I’m her full time caretaker and while being self-employed has benefited my schedule, it has cut my income by almost 30% in the last year.
We have tried to get funding through insurance, charity groups, state Medicare and various cancer foundations, but Allie is in a catch 22 situation.
For those of you who do not know her history, she really is a warrior! Three and a half years ago, when she was diagnosed with brain cancer, she was given 6 months to live and only a 30% chance of making it out of surgery. While her brain surgery went well, her chemo and radiation treatments almost killed her.
The chemo completely blew out her autoimmune system. Leaving Allie to suffer from Aplastic anemia, which is very rare with only about 800 cases diagnosed a year. She also has a rare form of leukemia, which means her blood cells don't mature. They call it M.D.S (myelodysplastic syndrome) which is causing her to be neutropenic.
Basically this all means that Allie needs a bone marrow transplant because her bone marrow will not produce red cells, white cells or platelets.
Because Allie’s brain tumor is an Astrocytoma (aggressive stage three cancer), insurance will not even consider covering the bone marrow transplant until the cancer is in remission. The catch is that the cancer will not go into remission without her autoimmune system being healthy.
Currently, Allie gets infusions of blood and platelets at least once, sometimes twice, a week. The infusions are keeping her alive, but they do nothing to help her heal. She needs the bone marrow transfusion for that.
All of her doctors agree that they can't fight the cancer, or the other adverse health effects, until the bone marrow transplant is completed successfully. They are saying that a bone marrow transplant is the only chance Allie has to beat the cancer into remission.
The good news is that they found 3 donor matches. One is even here in Illinois. The bad news is that her transplant surgery will cost in excess of $350,000 dollars. And that’s just for the surgery.
That doesn't include compensation to the donor, her organ transplant medication (estimated to be $5,000 each month), any extended hospital stays, follow up M.R.I's, other medications, tests and things we haven’t even thought of yet. They have told me the medical expenses would be in excess of $1,000,000 over the first 10 years.
I realize it’s the worst time of year to be asking people for donations, but Allie's chances of beating this go down with every day, week and month that goes by.
It would be easiest and least burdensome if a lot of people were able to give a small amount of money than it would be for a few people to give lot of money. So I was hoping I could appeal to your sense of competition and make this a game of sorts.
If each of you were able to donate between $10 to $100 and then recruit just two friends to also donate $10 to $100, with the commit of getting two of their friends to do the same, we would have the money in no time.
No one would have to give big money, but we could still save Allie's life. For such a small amount of money, you can feel good about yourself and you will have me forever grateful and in your debt.
All the money collected will go directly to offset the cost of surgery and medical bills. If anyone has advice or ideas on how I can raise the money quicker or easier, please don’t be shy. I welcome all the ideas and any advice I can get.
Whether you are able to donate to Allie's fight or not, I would like to thank each and every one of you for taking the time to read this and to consider donating.
Please help if you can.
Donate and Share!
Thank You,
Tim
Organisator
Tim Colt
Organisator
Downers Grove, IL
