Help Amy Beat Cancer!

Dear Friends of Amy,

We are writing to you about our dear friend who has done so much for others and has sacrificed so much to have the life she is leading today. She spent almost four years in Tanzania to bring home her beautiful son, Pray. She stood by her mother's side, as her mother, Diane, fought cancer only a few years ago and now she has been diagnosed with virtually the same disease--Stage 3 Colon Cancer.

Amy starts her treatment journey the first week of November with chemotherapy. A port is being placed this week to ease the process. She will be on the same chemo protocol as her mother, FolFox. It is rigorous and frequent, with her being treated every other week, with a 2 hour infusion at the cancer center, and then home with a wearable pump. After 4 months of chemo, she will be switched to radiation 5 days a week and a low dose chemo pill each day. That will last 6 weeks. She will be given just shy of 3 months to recover after all of this, before she is scheduled for a major surgery. Her oncology and surgery team is planning this surgery for May.

On top of all of this, Amy has always dreamed of having more children. Pray has talked about his future siblings since he was little. Due to the upcoming radiation treatment, she has been told that she will need to harvest and freeze her eggs immediately if that is to happen. This, as you can imagine, is another added expense, but one that anyone in their mid-thirties would seriously consider.

Overall, for cancer and fertility treatments, insurance will cover some of these expenses, but definitely not all, given that she has a very high deductible and they will only cover in-network services.

Our goal is to raise enough so that finances are not an added stress during this already very stressful time. We want Amy to be able to get the best treatment she can, prepare for a future where she could hopefully still have the chance of growing her family, and ease the burden that this will put on her and Pray during the next year.

We all know and love Amy and know that she has always been the person that has helped us out, now it's our turn to help her. Please give what you can. Amy will be updating us on her journey, so that we can cheer her on, pray for her, and help her as much as we can during this extremely difficult time.

With love and prayers for healing,

Whitney, Stephanie, and Sarah