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On January 31 of this year our dear friends, photographer Wayde (Kenneth) Carroll and his wife of 24 years, Lisa Eisenrich—a beautiful soul, brilliant writer, and mother of their two children—received terrible news: Lisa was diagnosed with stage IIIb colon cancer. She received chemo and surgery, but the cancer metastasized and she’s currently in stage IV.
Wayde and Lisa are two of the most loving and generous people anyone could hope to meet. I’ve known Wayde since high school and have reconnected with him as I’ve taken up wildlife photography. In addition to being a kind and true friend whose gift of humor brightens every conversation, he’s an incredibly gifted photography teacher and travel guide . Those of you who have traveled with him know how special he is.
Over the past few years I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know Lisa, a published author and fellow word nerd, and their amazing children, Jack and Claire. I know many of you are as concerned as I am about their situation and want to help. So I’m reaching out to their friends, family, and fellow creatives around the world to help them fight this unimaginable battle.
Money won’t take away the horror of cancer, but it will help them stay in Tijuana, Mexico, where Lisa is receiving a combination of natural therapies and cutting edge medical treatment.
As a self-employed editorial and travel photographer, Wayde has seen all of his booked work for the year canceled or delayed due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Even if that hadn’t happened, treating cancer is frightfully unaffordable for most families.
They’ve managed to keep their heads above water financially these first four months but with no income at the moment, continuous treatment costs (including lodging, food etc.), and regular home expenses, they’ll soon be into unrecoverable debt.
Wayde and Lisa were reluctant to accept a GoFundMe campaign—it’s very difficult to ask for financial support from friends, family, or unexpected donors with big hearts. It’s made especially hard with so many people out of work due to the pandemic. If you can continue to send the much appreciated love and prayers, please do! If you can also contribute any amount of financial support, it will be humbly and gratefully received.
Your donations will help with medical expenses; monthly home expenses; medical treatments including chemotherapy, supplemental IV’s, doctor visits, blood tests, CT scans; and myriad inevitable unexpected expenses.
Here’s a statement from Wayde and Lisa about the battle Lisa is fighting. If you know and love them like I do, it will be hard to read about the suffering cancer inflicts but this is what they’re going through.
Please donate and use the hashtag #loveforlisa! should you decide to share on social (and I hope you will). If everyone we know donates even a small amount, we can meet this goal. Help this deserving family fight strong and kick cancer’s ass!
From Wayde and Lisa:
We were devastated to receive the news on January 31 that Lisa had stage IIIb colon cancer and would need surgery.
Lisa is fit and leads a healthy lifestyle with a nutritious diet, but after receiving her diagnosis, she immediately strengthened her organic, raw, plant-based foods diet, and increased various cancer fighting supplements to prepare herself for surgery on March 2.
The surgeon removed about a third of her colon and re-sectioned the remainder. The surgery was deemed successful and there were no complications. The surgeon said there were clear margins around the tumor and she felt she had removed all of the cancerous tissue.
We felt extremely lucky—like Lisa had survived the quickest and easiest colon cancer ever. Our oncologist recommended that Lisa start chemotherapy approximately six to eight weeks after the surgery in case any cancer cells had spread throughout her body.
Hoping to avoid chemo treatments, Lisa continued full-throttle hyper-dosing raw organic fruits and vegetables and taking a plethora of anti-cancer supplements as well as exercising as much as possible while recovering from the surgery. Our plan was to make her body a place where cancer could not thrive.
Unfortunately, before chemotherapy would have even started, we were horrified to see lumps forming under Lisa’s skin on various areas of her body. We met with the oncologist who declared they weren’t cancerous. But when seven more occurred in a matter of days, we went back to the oncologist and then to a dermatologist, who performed a biopsy on one of the lumps.
After an agonizing week of waiting, we received the awful news we feared. The lumps were indeed metastases from Lisa’s original colon cancer. This type of metastasis is so rare that we couldn’t find a doctor anywhere that had ever seen it much less treated it. The lumps were tumors, and Lisa was now stage IV.
With the help of our local doctors, family, and friends, we began a thorough but time-critical search for a cancer specialist who could could help. We narrowed the field to two doctors: one in Seattle, the other in Tijuana, Mexico.
The Seattle doctor’s plan was to do low-dose chemo once a week for 12 weeks. The Tijuana doctor had forty years of experience and a more varied plan with options that are proven successful but not allowed in the U.S. (This doctor was recommended by a friend whose late-stage colon cancer was successfully treated by him last year.)
We met with the Seattle doctor first and scheduled Lisa’s first chemo treatment. On April 29 we flew to Seattle. The next day a port was inserted and she spent seven hours receiving chemo and talking with the staff there.
We felt pretty good about the doctor and staff but, with the rapid pace of new tumors forming, we didn’t feel comfortable waiting a week between treatments to see if they were having an effect. After much soul searching and talking with close friends and family, we decided to take more aggressive action.
On May 4 we arrived in Tijuana, Mexico and started working with the doctor there. We’re very impressed by the doctor and staff and amazed at how fast they get things done. That first afternoon Lisa had a CT scan and we had the results the next day. The scans revealed that there were additional tumors in the tissue between the lungs and that there was a small suspicious area on her liver and one on her lung.
That same day the doctor did tests on Lisa’s blood and started her on intravenous chemo, as well as injecting chemo directly into her tumors. Throughout the week he injected interferon, made from Lisa’s blood, along with giving her ozone therapy on various days.
Our original plan was to be in Mexico for three weeks of intense treatment and see how things were progressing.The first week, Lisa was making tremendous progress. No new tumors were forming and those she had seemed to be getting smaller. We were feeling really good about things.
The second week, despite everything the doctor and nurses were doing to keep Lisa’s body healthy and hydrated, she began having excessive diarrhea and we had to stop treatments until she was healthy enough to continue. One morning she was hypoglycemic, but infusions brought her back pretty quickly. During that time the doctor talked to us about having the tumors surgically removed to reduce the load her system was fighting.
Lisa ended up having two surgeries and an outpatient procedure over the next two weeks to remove over 30 tumors. The surgeries went well but my heart aches to see what Lisa's body is having to endure with all these painful and invasive treatments.
On May 25 the doctor started Lisa on a new chemo regimen with lower doses. The hope is that we can keep treating the cancer while keeping her healthy and strong. Lisa has been incredibly strong and inspirational throughout this awful experience. Obviously there are moments of intense fear and anger but we both believe that God has put us on the right path and we have faith that Lisa’s body will heal.
Wayde and Lisa are two of the most loving and generous people anyone could hope to meet. I’ve known Wayde since high school and have reconnected with him as I’ve taken up wildlife photography. In addition to being a kind and true friend whose gift of humor brightens every conversation, he’s an incredibly gifted photography teacher and travel guide . Those of you who have traveled with him know how special he is.
Over the past few years I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know Lisa, a published author and fellow word nerd, and their amazing children, Jack and Claire. I know many of you are as concerned as I am about their situation and want to help. So I’m reaching out to their friends, family, and fellow creatives around the world to help them fight this unimaginable battle.
Money won’t take away the horror of cancer, but it will help them stay in Tijuana, Mexico, where Lisa is receiving a combination of natural therapies and cutting edge medical treatment.
As a self-employed editorial and travel photographer, Wayde has seen all of his booked work for the year canceled or delayed due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Even if that hadn’t happened, treating cancer is frightfully unaffordable for most families.
They’ve managed to keep their heads above water financially these first four months but with no income at the moment, continuous treatment costs (including lodging, food etc.), and regular home expenses, they’ll soon be into unrecoverable debt.
Wayde and Lisa were reluctant to accept a GoFundMe campaign—it’s very difficult to ask for financial support from friends, family, or unexpected donors with big hearts. It’s made especially hard with so many people out of work due to the pandemic. If you can continue to send the much appreciated love and prayers, please do! If you can also contribute any amount of financial support, it will be humbly and gratefully received.
Your donations will help with medical expenses; monthly home expenses; medical treatments including chemotherapy, supplemental IV’s, doctor visits, blood tests, CT scans; and myriad inevitable unexpected expenses.
Here’s a statement from Wayde and Lisa about the battle Lisa is fighting. If you know and love them like I do, it will be hard to read about the suffering cancer inflicts but this is what they’re going through.
Please donate and use the hashtag #loveforlisa! should you decide to share on social (and I hope you will). If everyone we know donates even a small amount, we can meet this goal. Help this deserving family fight strong and kick cancer’s ass!
From Wayde and Lisa:
We were devastated to receive the news on January 31 that Lisa had stage IIIb colon cancer and would need surgery.
Lisa is fit and leads a healthy lifestyle with a nutritious diet, but after receiving her diagnosis, she immediately strengthened her organic, raw, plant-based foods diet, and increased various cancer fighting supplements to prepare herself for surgery on March 2.
The surgeon removed about a third of her colon and re-sectioned the remainder. The surgery was deemed successful and there were no complications. The surgeon said there were clear margins around the tumor and she felt she had removed all of the cancerous tissue.
We felt extremely lucky—like Lisa had survived the quickest and easiest colon cancer ever. Our oncologist recommended that Lisa start chemotherapy approximately six to eight weeks after the surgery in case any cancer cells had spread throughout her body.
Hoping to avoid chemo treatments, Lisa continued full-throttle hyper-dosing raw organic fruits and vegetables and taking a plethora of anti-cancer supplements as well as exercising as much as possible while recovering from the surgery. Our plan was to make her body a place where cancer could not thrive.
Unfortunately, before chemotherapy would have even started, we were horrified to see lumps forming under Lisa’s skin on various areas of her body. We met with the oncologist who declared they weren’t cancerous. But when seven more occurred in a matter of days, we went back to the oncologist and then to a dermatologist, who performed a biopsy on one of the lumps.
After an agonizing week of waiting, we received the awful news we feared. The lumps were indeed metastases from Lisa’s original colon cancer. This type of metastasis is so rare that we couldn’t find a doctor anywhere that had ever seen it much less treated it. The lumps were tumors, and Lisa was now stage IV.
With the help of our local doctors, family, and friends, we began a thorough but time-critical search for a cancer specialist who could could help. We narrowed the field to two doctors: one in Seattle, the other in Tijuana, Mexico.
The Seattle doctor’s plan was to do low-dose chemo once a week for 12 weeks. The Tijuana doctor had forty years of experience and a more varied plan with options that are proven successful but not allowed in the U.S. (This doctor was recommended by a friend whose late-stage colon cancer was successfully treated by him last year.)
We met with the Seattle doctor first and scheduled Lisa’s first chemo treatment. On April 29 we flew to Seattle. The next day a port was inserted and she spent seven hours receiving chemo and talking with the staff there.
We felt pretty good about the doctor and staff but, with the rapid pace of new tumors forming, we didn’t feel comfortable waiting a week between treatments to see if they were having an effect. After much soul searching and talking with close friends and family, we decided to take more aggressive action.
On May 4 we arrived in Tijuana, Mexico and started working with the doctor there. We’re very impressed by the doctor and staff and amazed at how fast they get things done. That first afternoon Lisa had a CT scan and we had the results the next day. The scans revealed that there were additional tumors in the tissue between the lungs and that there was a small suspicious area on her liver and one on her lung.
That same day the doctor did tests on Lisa’s blood and started her on intravenous chemo, as well as injecting chemo directly into her tumors. Throughout the week he injected interferon, made from Lisa’s blood, along with giving her ozone therapy on various days.
Our original plan was to be in Mexico for three weeks of intense treatment and see how things were progressing.The first week, Lisa was making tremendous progress. No new tumors were forming and those she had seemed to be getting smaller. We were feeling really good about things.
The second week, despite everything the doctor and nurses were doing to keep Lisa’s body healthy and hydrated, she began having excessive diarrhea and we had to stop treatments until she was healthy enough to continue. One morning she was hypoglycemic, but infusions brought her back pretty quickly. During that time the doctor talked to us about having the tumors surgically removed to reduce the load her system was fighting.
Lisa ended up having two surgeries and an outpatient procedure over the next two weeks to remove over 30 tumors. The surgeries went well but my heart aches to see what Lisa's body is having to endure with all these painful and invasive treatments.
On May 25 the doctor started Lisa on a new chemo regimen with lower doses. The hope is that we can keep treating the cancer while keeping her healthy and strong. Lisa has been incredibly strong and inspirational throughout this awful experience. Obviously there are moments of intense fear and anger but we both believe that God has put us on the right path and we have faith that Lisa’s body will heal.
Organisator und Spendenbegünstigter
Laura Hamel
Organisator
Sarasota, FL
Wayde Carroll
Spendenbegünstigte