Do-over! I announced here many moons ago that I was starting a second fundraiser, to be sent to a new group of friends and family, but I did not have the time and follow-through to make that happen, so I am starting the second fundraiser now, in April of 2026.

For those confused by my multiplicity of names, my legal, birth certificate name is Edith Margaret Price; Peggy is the name I was called from day one of being alive, which morphed for me into Peg over the decades. I wanted a new name from the time I was twenty-one years old, and thirty years later, I discovered it, Shanti. However, once I had claimed the name Shanti, which I love, I realized I also love the name Peg Price, which has so much history and is woven deeply into the fabric of my life. I do well with being called Peg, Peggy, and Shanti. I am still working on accepting Edith, but making some progress there; that progress began with realizing the first four letters of Edith are EDIT, and I do love to edit.

The first wave of the fundraiser was in April of 2024, two years ago, to get help to pay my way for a three-week stay at a cancer (yes, cancer!) clinic in Tijuana, the Immunity Therapy Center (ITC). That fundraiser was successful for covering all the costs of that journey, for which I feel supreme gratitude!

I have actually come to believe over the last eight months that I no longer have cancer, though my healing journey is not yet complete. In regard to this beautiful belief, there are three areas of evidence. One, the size of the bump on my back, its smallest size, has been holding steady since June 10th, 2025. For a high grade (fast-growing) kind of tumor, I think that is pretty darn telling. Two, I have found out from science and conventional Western medicine, that the bump and the cancer are two different things. The cancer can be gone, even though the bump remains. Three, two dear and longtime friends of mine who have proven their profound intuitive abilities to me many times over the years, have volunteered the information that I no longer have cancer. For me, those three things add up to a lot.

Going back to the end of my stay at the clinic in Tijuana, I decided that when I got home from México I would do a second fundraiser to pay for my ongoing medical expenses, and to live on, while I continued to spend a good part of my time doing health procedures and protocols, and until I got fortified with more energy to explore and move into a new phase of life. That plan has been constant for the last year and ten months, and I finally have the free time and attention to act on it now.

If you would prefer the most succinct version of this letter, to get to the practical details scroll down until you reach the line of stars (asterisks), and proceed from there.

I guess I operate best under pressure, because I am doing this now only because the financial pressure is ON. I have recently gone into the red. I need financial support as I continue this journey. A lot of my time is still taken up with health procedures and protocols and my energy continues to be low.

When I was going to Antioch University in Seattle in the mid-eighties, I took some classes in Family Systems Therapy. In one of those classes I learned that Family Systems Theory sees that in health it is most common for people to differentiate, or fledge, from their families (including emotionally and financially) in their fourth decade, that is, in their 30’s.

I LOVED the idea of being financially independent as a sign of maturity, and I have been aiming for that in my mind and heart ever since, though so far not achieving it at all. As I worked my mostly subsistence level jobs through the decades, Mom and Dad helped all along the way with the ‘big ticket’ items, like education, travel, health insurance, cars and rescue. Thank you Mom and Dad! Then, in the nick of time, as my energy was crashing, they gave me a substantial inheritance, and I have lived off of that for the last fourteen years.

But I haven’t been idling. During the last fifty years I have been engaged in such a big piece of work to heal and fledge emotionally, psychologically, mentally, and spiritually; to gain some ego strength and learn to inhabit my body; to ground and center. I have come far. Apparently that had to happen before I could fledge financially! I am certainly more ready than I have ever been to give financial empowerment ‘a run for its money!!’ Ha ha!!

This second fundraiser is to pay myself back for the expenses and time that were needed for the cancer journey, to take the time I need to continue my healing journey, and to have time to learn and lean into this new walk of financial independence. I don’t want to go back for ‘seconds’ to the people who have already donated. I figure they dug deep enough. So I am reaching out to a wider group.

I received the cancer diagnosis a week after surgery to remove a ‘lipoma’ on May 31st, 2022. On June 7th, I got the news from my surgeon that it was not a lipoma (as I and two doctors had believed for the previous three years, and my surgeon was also convinced of), it was a fibromyxosarcoma, which is a ‘high grade,’ i.e., fast growing, kind of tumor.

Spiritually, after my initial surprise (I had believed for decades that I would never get cancer), I felt trust. I had been feeling so held in the arms of the divine for the previous months, it just felt of a piece with that.

It was also great to have Sus quickly remind me of a couple of quotes from spiritual teachers: Byron Katie says “Life does not happen to you, it happens for you.” What a fabulous game changer!! A devotee of Gangaji’s asked her if a particular event is his life had been a teaching of the sadguru; she said vehemently: “LIFE IS the teaching of the sadguru!” Yes! All of this unfolding was meaningful, it was all to be trusted, and WOW, does trusting the way unfolding ever make a HUGE difference to my quality of life!!

I quickly decided I would open and explore into all possibilities for healing, even conventional Western medicine, though I knew I had a strong predilection for treatment modalities that would uplift the body, improve the underlying ecology, and strengthen the immune system to do its job of healing. I wanted to heal so deeply that my body would not invite cancer to grow again.

My time in Tijuana was a fabulous adventure on so many levels. The clinic was a place of upliftment and they practiced so many sane healing modalities; community was fostered. I met many wonderful people from around the world, getting to know them and their stories as I rode in the van with them to and from the clinic; as I lay next to them as we were receiving many, many kinds of treatments daily in the good vibe group treatment room; as we sat at the same tables eating the good, fresh, organic, real food in the bright and airy community dining room.

After each week of treatments in Tijuana, the sarcoma on my back, hereinafter referred to as ‘the bump,’ was noticeably diminished in size, but I could not afford to stay longer. I brought home an expensive three-month treatment plan from ITC, and bought further recommended infrared devices when I got home.

Home in Eugene from my journey to Tijuana, I took the recommended supplements (and gave myself shots in the belly), and did four hours a day, six days a week of home treatments for those three months, and kept up with the four hour a day treatments for another three months. Three of the treatments felt like lying on a beach in the sun, and yet keeping up that pace of pleasure and languor was difficult! I started saying, as those six months of post-ITC home treatments wore on, and ever since, that the healing journey has been a blend of sublime blessing, merry chase and arduous marathon.

Sus started measuring the bump regularly after I got home from Tijuana, and the excellent news, given the cancer’s reputation for being fast growing, is that over many moons the bump has continued to get smaller. Very slowly! Yet, given the other possibilities, supremely good news! I have been doing a bunch of helpful things for healing for all of the last three years and ten months. Since early June 2025, the bump has remained steady in its diminished state.

However, my health journey is not over. I’m dealing with several issues still. The one that feels most pressing is to find a way to increase my energy, and I believe I will do that. I need to run the experiments, as guided by my inner healer in relation to lots of information and guidance and inspiration coming in. I think increased energy is foundational to help with all aspects of the healing still needed, as well as to help me create a new phase of my life, complete with income streams.

GoFundMe is a public platform that shows what my monetary goal is and what I have received so far. I actually have received quite a bit more than what has come through GoFundMe, because quite a few people chose to donate directly to me.

It is said that an active GFM website is an inspiration to others to donate.

GFM takes a modest amount out of each donation, but mostly relies on tips from donors for the funds to operate their service, which is an incredibly awesome service. So if you donate through GFM I would encourage you to give them a tip, in whatever amount feels good to you.

I would welcome and deeply appreciate a donation in any amount.

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If you make a donation here, and I post an update, you will be informed that the update is available. I wrote an update every night for those three weeks in Tijuana. Beyond that, I have written just occasional updates.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you!!