My family and friends have been asking, I love y’all so much, it’s been hard for me to process my situation. So I’m sorry I dunno how to word this exactly. Ca$hApp is also available it’s $yimmieko2 Check the updates tab for future updates & You can always find my Facebook and find updates there Hi, my name is Kimberly, I’m 26, and if you know anything about me, it’s that I’m a mom first — always. I have a little boy who is my whole world, my shadow, and honestly my biggest reason to keep pushing forward even on the days when I feel completely drained. If you know me, you know that me and my son are attached hip to hip. Imma fight with everything I have — not just for myself, but for him. I’m making this because right now, we can’t do this alone. Between medical costs, family’s time away from work, childcare needs, and the everyday reality, things are getting overwhelming in ways I never expected. This isn’t easy to write, and it’s not easy to ask. But if you’re reading this — whether you know me personally or you’re just learning my story — thank you. Truly. Every donation, every share, and every message of support helps lighten the weight we are carrying and helps me focus on what matters most: getting through treatment and being here for my little guy and for my whole family. Thank you for standing with us during another hard chapter of our lives. Here’s the big back story: We had some life changes this summer and it was intended that I would be able to work, get James into daycare. James presented developmental delays around June 2025 and we ended up having 4+ appointments a week. I was unable to go to work or put him in childcare because of the frequency. He finally has reached a good point and was placed on a break and at the beginning of March I was setting up interviews and had just finally found James placement in daycare. Days later I was admitted to McLaren and diagnosed with Lymphoma, pending sub-typing, and staging but suspecting it’s spread to other organs quite some time ago. I was so close to getting back to work ya’ll, it’s been a grieving process because I used to be such a work-a-holic ❤️‍ My power, water, cell phone and honestly all my bills are behind right now I have some upcoming and bigger purchases need like an window air conditioning unit. My family also has had to take off a decent amount of work and could use the help as well and we know we have a long road ahead of us that we will have to go through to beat this so I think I’m just going to get this started. Here’s the medical back story: These issues started shortly after I had James. I had been diagnosed with POTs and Raynaud’s Disease with a small, benign lump on my heart in 2024 it seemed adequate and the medication helped until i had random joint swelling, a high platelet count, then 2 lumps on my belly appeared and then my POTs just suddenly went away in early/mid 2025. This lump on my neck appeared October 2025, it started as one small M&M sized bump. By the beginning of March, there was concern that I shouldn’t be sleeping due to the size, it could block my trachea completely. The ER planned to admit and operate to remove in the morning talking about serious conditions naming Hodgkins lymphoma as the first one. My general surgeon at the time sent me to an ENT instead of removing it completely because we don’t want to remove the lymph node completely without knowing what is going on— since my entire lymphatic system had seemed to be inflamed not just the one lymph node, plus the labs, the history etc etc. The ENT scheduled to biopsy the area on my neck urgently to send a sample to pathology. In the meantime i was put on a steroid to help. I ended up on two rounds of this steroid and on the second round, 2 doses in, was exceptionally terrible to me. The removal/biopsy has been scheduled for the end of March but I ended up admitted in the hospital the week before. They considered oncology, rheumatology and infectious diseases. The first day of April they were able to perform a biopsy and instantly were able to confirm that it was indeed a form a lymphoma especially as all the other labs were completely negative across every board. During my biopsy, it was described that the samples visually appeared familiar and severely concerning by the doctor who preformed it. It visually was presumed to be a form of lymphoma because of the location but had to wait for the specific details and stage to come back from pathology. In the meantime I was discharged with a care plan at home. After we knew everything we needed to, we would be able to create a treatment plan. My ENT felt it was best to discharged me to their oncology center at this point, totally agreed. I met with my PC and they sent me to a secondary oncologist. I was able to see one within days and the treatment plan was developed and I was able to get better symptom management. I was able to be diagnosed stage 3 at the moment but we need more tests. So I had a bone marrow biopsy, a PET and numerous labs done and needed to get my infusport put in for chemo asap. Check updates tab