
Please Help Felicia Fight Stage 4 Cancer
Hi everyone! I have a friend named Felicia Keener who I went to school with and who is a wonderful person I know and love. Felicia could use a little help right now, which is hard for her because she is usually the giver. Here’s why she needs help—in the last several months, her husband informed her he was divorcing her, and then shortly after that her doctor informed her that her cancer, lymphoma, (cancer in her lymph node tract) that she has been struggling off and on with since 2011, has progressed to stage 4 and has now she has new masses in her esophagus and her breast. Since first diagnosed back in 2011, she has had many rounds of chemo and many surgeries to kill or cut out the cancer when it spread from her lymphatic system to her brain, her thyroid, and her armpit. And she had a radical mastectomy and a hysterectomy back in 2015 at her doctor’s suggestion, which makes it a double shock that she now has cancer in her breast. Sadly, that’s because after her mastectomy, when she had reconstruction surgery to create breasts, rather than receive breast implants, she chose to use her own body fat to create breasts. Unfortunately, now they know she had some tiny micro-mets of cancer in her abdomen back then, which were inadvertently moved to her breasts during the reconstruction surgery.
Another thing that popped up on the first day they started chemo on Felicia a few weeks ago was a strange looking sore on her tummy. They thought it was a black widow spider bite and those are poisonous. It looked infected and Fe was put on antibiotics and told she had to be three weeks infection free before they could resume chemo. According to her white blood count which is high she has an infection in her bloodstream. Now, they are concerned it might Not be a black widow but is instead another cancer spot. They are scheduling a biopsy soon.
Felicia has insurance because she worked in a civilian position for the Air Force, but the brain tumor she suffered damaged her vision and she was declared legally blind back in 2015. She hasn’t been able to drive since then. She does receive a modest amount of disability each month thank goodness. She moved into the apartment of one of her two grown sons and his roommate (and best friend since age 7,) and her son’s 3 daughters, aged 4 5, & 6. The mother of the girls is not in the picture, and Fe, being the person she is, asked her son for, and received, part-time custody of the girls years ago. Felicia takes care of her three grand-daughters every day while her son is at work, and also has been homeschooling them this school year because of COVID. She is an amazing, unselfish, funny, generous, and thoughtful woman of good character who, as most of us probably have had, has had some hard knocks in life.
If you could spare any size donation to help Felicia with her insurance deductible and then co-pays, it would be a wonderful help and such a blessing to her. Unfortunately, cancer is very expensive. When you receive a bill to pay your 20% insurance copay, so $2,000 of the $10,000 bill from your first group of chemo treatments, it adds up fast. And then you still will have to pay your 20% of all the rest of your chemo treatments, as well as the surgeries and the radiation treatments and the medicine.
Thank you so much for reading this and hopefully for donating and also for praying if you are the praying kind. If you Are the praying kind, I will reiterate something my dad often used to say to us children of his. “You need prayer and action—prayer and action. Pray about it, and then Do something about it!”
Thank you for your consideration!
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