Carol's cancer cure

On October 31, 2016, Carol’s oncologist diagnosed her with stage 4 cholangiocarcinoma, a rare form of bile duct cancer. The only treatment doctors here recommend is chemotherapy to attempt to shrink or slow down the tumors. Our world has been turned upside down every second since that moment.

Carol is my wife and mother of our four wonderful children. She has been beating the odds ever since I met her. We started dating very young and had our first child while she was a freshman at Loyola University Chicago. She went on to graduate and has been teaching in Chicago Public Schools for 13 years. The child of Mexican immigrant parents, she is the first in her family to get a college degree. She is loved by all of her family, friends, coworkers, students and students' parents. She can make anyone feel special because she knows how to care and love unconditionally. Right now, she is in a lot of pain. It has been continuous and progressive since August of this year. She has grown weaker and has taken a leave of absence from work.

This newest challenge in our life has reaffirmed our faith in God. It reminded us why we named our first child, ‘Faith’, 18 years ago. We have been praying and asking for a sign or a miracle. We’ve talked about the miracles we have already witnessed. There’s an old Mexican tradition that I watched my dad practice in San Juan de los Lagos, when I was a child. He made a promise to God that we would return every year, if God would make my eyesight better. He would get on his knees and pray the rosary from the entrance of the church and crawl all the way to the altar. It worked; my eyesight improved dramatically as I grew up. Last week, we visited the Shrine of our Lady of Guadalupe in Des Plaines, IL. I got on my knees and prayed the rosary, with all my faith, as I crawled towards the shrine. The next day, my sister happened to show me a photo of a stone with our dad’s name on it that our family recently had dedicated to him. I had no clue that his stone was placed in the ground at the shrine in Des Plaines. I realized that I had crawled right over my dad’s name the night before, performing the same ritual he taught me 35 years ago for someone I love as much as he loved me. It was a sign. The same day, Carol’s cousin texted her the link to Hope 4 Cancer. It is the only place that we’ve found able to CURE the same diagnosis Carol has; another sign. This is the path God has put before us.

We are asking for $40,000 to cover expenses for travel, stay and treatment at Hope 4 Cancer Institute (hope4cancer.com ), where Dr. Antonio Jimenez has helped cure many diseases with his groundbreaking approaches and procedures. Since it is in México, our insurance does not cover it. We have researched many clinics around the world, and this seems like the most comprehensive, non-toxic solution for getting our Carol back to good health. We know that chemotherapy only has a 2.7% success rate, and we understand how the US medical field may be compromised by big pharmaceutical corporations, keeping patients on drugs without any interest to truly cure an illness. Please, consider helping us reach our goal as soon as possible. I would like to raise the money by Friday, November 18, 2016. Every second is ticking and every penny will help. Carol is only 37 years old. We have many more happy memories to make with our family and friends for years to come. Thank you for reading.

Sincerely,
Miguel