Financial assistance

.Greetings my name is Dahlia McDonald. I was diagnosed with stage three her2 to positive breast cancer.

My first round of chemo that I did was back in March 2021 through July 30,2021. The chemo treatment brought me to my knees. During the week of my treatment I could not eat I could not keep any food down. I was weak , I hated water because it tasted like metal.bones hurt. I lost all my hair and I mean everywhere . There was a time that I asked myself if I’m going to make it. At that time a fear came over me because I am a single mother of three boys and 2 sooly depends on me.

After my chemo treatment, I had surgery where they remove both breast and my lymph nodes. Six weeks after my surgery I started radiation. Radiation took another toll on my body. It burns me so bad where my skin looks like I got third-degree burn and because of my clothes that I wear, it rubbed the skin off so now I’m in burning pain every day. They have to stop the radiation for two weeks so I could heal.. I started radiation October 2021 through December 2021.

After finishing radiation, I went back on chemotherapy treatment. Then in April 2022. I started having headaches. After doing all the scans and tests ,results came back that the cancer now spread to my brain. There were five tumors in my head immediately after my doctor said that I need to start radiation as soon as possible. once again immediately, another fear came over me . Because if the radiation did my upper body like that what is it going to do to my brain .He also stated that there’s nothing more he can do for me because now the cancer is advance to stage four and because it travels through my blood to my brain there is no cure for it. This chemo treatment is just to preserve my way of life. They started me on 14 chemotherapy pills per day. The chemo pills gave me hand and foot syndrome . Both my hands and feet turn black you could see the blood through my hands and feet and because the layers were so thin, they start breaking . There was a time I could hardly walk .there was a time I couldn’t open a bottle or hold a fork it was that bad . But God have the final say. There was so much they told me I couldn’t do because of the radiation to my brain. But of course I didn’t listen they told me not to drive and I did. In July 2023, I decided to journey to the holy convocation in Greensboro. Went up for prayer that Saturday night with faith and belief. Pastor anointed my head and pray for me. Came back home and from that day till now they cannot find one active cancer cell in my body.

They keep doing test after test and every time they came back negative. All praise and glory goes to God.

In the midst of all of this, I did not work for about two years and because of not working it put me in a financial situation. I’m still in the healing process, but because I’m the sole provider for my family, it forced me to get a part-time job at a grocery store, but with that and my disability it’s still hard making ends meet. I have another surgery coming up on the 25th of April 2024. They found 3 legions in my right Parotid gland and if I don’t remove them. They will just keep getting bigger and cause more harm.

But with God everything is possible, and with faith I’m going to keep believing in him.

Now I’m going through all the side effects from the surgery , chemotherapy, and radiation.

I’m constantly in pain every day. But I thank God he has given me the strength to keep going every day and I thank him for the strength that he have given unto me.

I know it’s hard for everyone but what ever you can donate please help we will appreciate it. Thank you and God bless you all.

You can also donate directly to my wells forgo account.

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