For 9 years I leased a barn and facility where I did my Equestrian training business, and also horse boarding. In 2015 I had to move my Training business to a new facility, which worked well for training but I wasn't boarding horses anymore, I was paying board, so my income went down and my expenses went up! Then in 2016 my Dressage show mare Deynika, who I bred, raised and trained to Grand Prix Dressage, had to have stifle surgery. I was devastated as the surgeons didn't know if she would be able to go back into full work as this particular surgery had never been done on a horse her age, she was 13 years old at the time. Fortunately I had insurance for the surgery but I still had to pay the deductible, which was substancial. I had always wanted to breed Deynika as she has a great mind, and is very trainable and very versatile. So I decided to breed her using embryo transfer. At her age I didn't want to risk loosing her during foaling so I adopted a couple of great brood mares and they both wound up carrying her foals. Deynika recovered and rehab'd well from the surgery and just when I was ready to start back into training with her to show Grand Prix again, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Talk about a kick in the gut! That was the spring of 2017. I had worked so hard and had these two foals coming the next spring and I didn't know if I would be here to see them. It was all a very dark time. I started planning my surgeries and treatment for my breast cancer when I was told I would have to move my Training business out of the facility I was in, and I was only given 2 weeks to do it. Another kick in the gut! I found a place to move everybody, and got it done right before my second surgery. Needless to say, I started loosing clients and horses in training as there were some things I just couldn't do at the time. Besides the surgeries, I started radiation treatments which were very debilitating as they made me so tired. I would be determined to keep working and then I just couldn't. So I lost most of my Training business. I am very grateful to the few clients who have stayed with me, and I do everything I can for them and their horses. I have health insurance which is a necessity, but with a high deductible and high co-pays, there has still been more going out than coming in. Especially with four surgeries spread over 2 years. So, the beautiful foals were born in March of 2018, and I was there to see them, and I am still here and plan to stay here! Then, in July of 2018 the one foal, Devonica ECE, aka Nika, developed a tumor on her lower jaw! I couldn't believe it. It was very fast growing. I took her to Davis and they were going to remove it but a CT scan looked like it was moving along her jaw bone, SO THEY JUST SENT US HOME! Again I was devastated. This was a perfect, beautiful filly and there had to be something that could be done to save her! So I called the Vet at Davis and told him I was bringing her back as something had to be done to save her! Fortunately he had been researching this very rare tumor and he had a plan. The plan was drastic. Her lower incisors and jaw bone had to be removed. That was hard! He showed me cases of other horses that had that done and they were fine, so that's what was done. Now she is a big, beautiful coming two year old. As a teaching hospital, Davis works to keep expenses down, but the surgery was still expensive, and she and her surrogate mother had to be hospitalized for a couple of months. Also expensive. So this has been a 5 year progression of getting hit with higher expenses, and continually decreasing income. I kept thinking things would turn around and improve, but they just kept getting worse. And I have gone farther and farther into debt. To the point, now, that I need to do this fund raiser to help me come back. I will be very grateful to everyone who is able to donate to me. THANK YOU