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HELP Kelly Hayes fight breast cancer

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My name is Mackenzie Hayes and I am raising money for my mom Kelly Hayes who was diagnosed with invasive ductal cancer in her left breast just 2 weeks ago. She will be having a mastectomy in a week followed by radiation and possibly chemotherapy. Recovery could be months to a year depending on chemo treatments. As a family of 7,my parents, Matt Hayes and Kelly Hayes, have a ton of expenses just to keep us afloat. Her children are the ages of 20, 16, 14, 4, and 1. Mackenzie, Kendall, Branden, Presley, and Harper. I am 4 hours away at school and unable to help as much as I would love to. My mom runs a successful ETSY jewelry company from home which requires an unbelievable amount of hard tedious work, time, and energy. Many of you may have her jewelry!!She crafts each custom piece of jewelry herself, is constantly replying to customers to insure they’re getting exactly what they want, making and sending out orders, and creating new designs. Along with trying to recover and take care of 4 children, while my dad Matt works she will not be able to keep up with her business and will need to close the shop temporarily because she is the only employee! My dad has a limited amount of sick days that he can take off from work which creates an even bigger issue. My parents have been together for 25 years and just recently got married at the end of September, one week before the stupid cancer diagnosis. I cannot think of two more hard working individuals. Everything they do is for their kids. My mom is the most selfless person I know and she really needs the help quickly. This all happened so fast. In about one week she'll be having a masectomy. This could not come at a worse time financially for the family and her jewelry company Namedrops. Christmas is the busiest time and most of her income for the year is during the next 3 months. The store will be closed until she is through recovery and possibly into the treatment phase. Her company is a main source of income that will be lost starting next week. Appointments, surgery, radiation, possible chemo, time away from work, the jewelry business on hold, 4 kids at home to support and one at college is about to become overwhelming for them in the next week. Please, please, help donate and support my family through this very difficult time. KEEP my mom in your thoughts. Share this with all your friends and let's get her on the road to recovery while not having the added financial stress of basic living expenses, medical costs copays and deductibles, groceries, and taking care of four kids while in treatment. Thank you for your help, and please share on your social media pages with anyone you know who can support and donate to help my mom get better as fast as possible and back to the awesome career and company she started by herself, back to being mom, and back to cancer free. Thank you to all of you who have already provided support and time. It is appreciated so much by all The Hayes Family. I will share updates as soon as we know any thing further. Mackenzie         
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  • Peyton Campbell
    • $100 
    • 5 yrs
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Organizer and beneficiary

Mackenzie Madison Hayes
Organizer
Traverse City, MI
Kelly Byar
Beneficiary

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