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<div>My name is Jasmine — a devoted mother of four, a mystic, an Energy Healer, and someone who’s building a life rooted in love, healing, and community. I've been working to create a heart-led business to provide for my family, while helping us reconnect with our Indigenous roots, while living a life of Joy, Love, true expression of what calls to our Heart/Soul, complete Authenticity, &amp; overall freedom.
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<div>But at this present moment… I truly need help. Something that is not easy for me to ask for, but if I am to overcome this, I must open myself up to receive &amp; be fully transparent &amp; authentic about what I've been going through.
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<div>Sometimes, the strongest thing we can do, is be vulnerable.
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<div>I am experiencing a strong relapse of lupus, after two years of remission.
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<div>I am also facing the very real possibility of cancer.
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<div>Multiple masses have been found throughout my body, in various places, with potential lymph node involvement, due to the multiple inflamed nodes throughout my body.
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<div>Multiple other organs are also been affected with the resulting inflammation of all that is going on.
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<div>I am also dealing with significant daily pain that has had an impact on my everyday life.
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<div>I am doing all that I can to stay strong - for my children &amp; for myself.
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<div>Yet, I am at a point where I am seeing I am in true need of help - something that is not very easy for me to ask for .
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<div>This is why I'm taking the steps needed to dig deep &amp; be vulnerable at a time that I would rather remain private about what I am going through. 
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<div>Yet to sit back &amp; not try - would not do my family &amp; I much good, for the current financial situation we are in has made it very difficult to get the actual help I need towards getting a diagnosis,  &amp; some of the prescriptions I am requiring to help with all that I am undergoing at this time.
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<div>If you, or anyone you know, is able to help my family &amp; I out, please consider donating. 
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<div>ANY amount, no matter how big or small, will go towards helping me to cover the extra medical costs, procedures, specialists, tests, etc, that are steadily coming in as I navigate getting a proper diagnosis. 
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<div>Especially in regards to the likely malignancy that my doctors are suspecting.
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<div>My current goal is to have an answer, or be closer to getting one, by the end of October, at least.
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<div>If you are kindly able to donate, this is how the funds will be used:
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<div>I need to raise $5,555, or so (this will vary depending on what additional tests, specialists, and/or procedures are added) to:
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<div>*Cover critical medical tests (MRIs, colonoscopy, biopsies, labs)
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<div>*Travel to Houston, several times a month, for appointments with specialists &amp; other tests &amp; lab work.
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<div>*Afford copays, medications, and lab bills.
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<div>*Access supportive therapies that have helped me in the past with my lupus, and now with the additional health issues that have resulted from the potential malignancy.
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<div>*These funds will also be used to ensure I don’t experience a delay in care, which could worsen my condition, or make it harder &amp; more expensive to treat, the longer I have to put it off - which has the potential to affect my life, at this point, in significant ways.
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<div>I’m now at the point where I have to cancel or reschedule appointments simply because we cannot afford them due all the added appointments, tests, &amp; extra specialists that I'm having to take on as we try to figure this all out.
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<div>All while my health is not doing well.
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<div>This is already causing challenges in my daily home life - trying to keep up with my basic needs, &amp; with the duties of maintaining a household with several children.
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<div>Especially since I do not have the physical help I really need in my current situation.
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<div>This is no easy task, by any means, but at this time, I have no other choice but to do my best &amp; remain strong, even when I'm in need of rest or help - regardless if I'm healing from a procedure, or experiencing a severe flare up.
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<div>Here is My Story that led me here:
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<div>Over 10 years ago, I was diagnosed with lupus. This affected my joints, bones, &amp; gut.
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<div>I nearly lost my life during COVID, in early 2022, from a pulmonary embolism, which had been worsened from my lupus &amp; having just literally given birth.
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<div>This experience was the last straw - for I was feeling unhelped by conventional/modern means &amp; the westernized medical industry. I was sicker &amp; more traumatized than ever before, after those last 2 experiences.
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<div>So in late 2022, into 2023, I finally began doing more intensive research - studying, learning, &amp; experimenting with the native medicinal plants of my area, &amp; pulling out old books I had from long ago, to learn all I could on natural &amp; alternative ways of healing.
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<div>This, along with other methods, lead me to finding the Knowledge I needed about a combination of natural &amp; intensive healing regimens that finally brought me into an incredible, &amp; unexpected, remission!
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<div>I was hopeful. I was rebuilding. I was stronger than I had ever been for the first time in 10 years!
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<div>I had healed so much in ways I never thought possible.
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<div>It was such an incredible experience to get to live a life I was told by my current doctors I would never get to experience, because they told me to prepare for a lifetime of worsening disability. That they expected me to only get worse &amp; to start fixing up my home to accommodate my worsening condition.
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<div>Those times - when my doctors told me these things - felt uncertain - yet I knew that this could not be all there was!
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<div>I was in my early to mid 30s &amp; just felt so deeply that surely there were other options.
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<div>My rheumatologist (at that time) even told me that anything natural would not work, &amp; tried to discourage me from alternative methods - despite me advocating that these could potentially address the root cause, instead of just managing the symptoms.
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<div>It felt so strange &amp; my intuition KNEW this was not right to be told not to even attempt something other than the many prescribed medications I was being offered &amp; given. 
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<div>So it was quite an experience to witness that there was real power in the natural &amp; "alternative" ways of treatment once I followed my gut &amp; took the leap!
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<div>Then in spring 2025, everything changed again.
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<div>Almost a year after returning to Texas, I began to experience extreme bouts of illness again. And it was different in many ways this time - though some similarities from my past Lupus experiences were presenting themselves again.
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<div>I went back to my natural healing I had originally tried, but this time, it was different.
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<div>It wasn't working like it used to. 
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<div>I continued to get sicker &amp; sicker.
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<div>Something felt different. Off.
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<div>I immediately knew this was more than an autoimmune issue (if my lupus was coming back - which I wasn't fully aware of at the time I first began getting sick again. It took me a couple of months before I even had the courage to go to the hospital again.)
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<div>First, a lump appeared underneath my left breast. My heart rate dropped into very low rates. My abdomen &amp; colon became painfully inflamed, with a hardened lump in my lower left abdomen (it eventually grew &amp; extended to the front near my belly button) that had seemed to come out of nowhere.
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<div>Several ER visits revealed multiple growths throughout my body, along with some heart issues, inflamed organs, swollen lymph nodes, etc.
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<div>I am again suffering from daily pain (but in a different way this time, with worsening pain in some familiar spots), nausea, increasing weakness, along with many other symptoms.
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<div>I had originally lost a significant amount of weight within just a few weeks of first being sick, without even trying, due to the issues within my abdomen. I could hardly even eat without becoming very ill &amp; dealing with pain from the digestion of the food I would consume. The pain would sometimes last for weeks!
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<div>Now that this mass had grown, I regained weight in my abdomen, yet, with worsening bowel issues that I will not go into full detail here.
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<div>And now, with my doctors suspecting cancer, with the left sigmoid colon &amp; gastric areas being of the greatest concern - I’m in a bit of a state of worry about what that could mean for me &amp; the future of my children.
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<div>I want to be here for as long as possible for my children.
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<div>I want to live for them more than anything in this World - yet also for me too! -because life is such a beautiful experience &amp; something I want to enjoy for as long as I can, especially by my children's side as they grow.
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<div>To continue to be here as their support, their safety, their confidant - their Mommy - for as long as I can &amp; am meant to.
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<div>I have many appointments, procedures, &amp; tests scheduled over the coming months - , but I cannot them all done without some community help.
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<div>These particular tests &amp; appointments will be the ones that can finally give me the real answers I need - especially since I was finally able to save up just enough money to pay for the colonoscopy &amp; endoscopy I had done on Sept. 30th.
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<div>I will share what was found in an update I will be posting after this.
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<div>But I did not recieve full answers due to additional tests &amp; lab work needing to be done on the masses that were biopsied during the procedure.
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<div>That, in itself, is about a 2 week process to recieve results.
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<div>I never expected that trying to find out if you have cancer, or not, could be such a lengthy &amp; exhausting process!
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<div>Why This Matters So Much:
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<div>My children are my everything. I live for them. I’ve raised them with love, intention, and care, doing all I can to instill strength, compassion, &amp; cultural wisdom into their lives.
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<div>Yet, I cannot hide that I am a worried there is a potential chance that I may not be here long enough to finish that journey, unless I get the care I need.
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<div>Even on my sickest days, I still show up for them. But it is not without it's challenges. And I need additional help to keep going, to heal, &amp; to continue being the mother they need.
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<div>Sometimes, it takes a village, &amp; the coming together - in the name of community &amp; Love &amp; humanity - to help each other out.
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<div>Especially in a World so riddled with separation &amp; judgement.
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<div>One which operates amongst systems that are designed to not be very supportive of basic human needs &amp; rights.
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<div>This is why it's more important than ever to come together in so many ways - as a human race.
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<div>As the Citizens of Earth.
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<div>To help one another out, offer support when it's truly needed, &amp; to be the family that we are - for we all share the same land, water, &amp; Sunshine.
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<div>         ☀️Sunshine is for everybody, yall!☀️
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<div>Ways In Which You Can Help:
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<div>If you would like we to support me, please consider donating anything you feel will help. Every bit counts. No matter how much.
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<div>Every share helps too!
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<div>Every act of kindness brings me one step closer to getting the diagnosis &amp; treatment I need that could save my Iife.
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<div>If you’re unable to give financially, please
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<div>share this campaign, 
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<div>⚡️⚕️send healing energy⚕️⚡️ my way.
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<div>Your support means more than words can express.
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<div>Thank you for taking time to read my story.
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<div>A story of this Mommy - who is taking all the strength &amp;
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<div>‍‍♀️courage‍‍♀️I have, to step outside of my comfort zone &amp; put myself out here like this.
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<div>I am only doing this because the Love for my children makes me want to keep going. For them.
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<div>I am only able to find the Courage to be vulnerable in doing this because of them.
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<div>☀️They are my everything.☀️
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<div>Everything I do - I do for them.
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<div>They are the reason I keep going
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<div>forward - doing what I can to ensure I am here to experience as full of a life as I can, by their side.
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<div>With deep gratitude and Love for All,
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<div>♾️☀️☀️♾️Jasmine♾️☀️☀️♾️
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<div>A Mother‍‍, A Warrior, A Strong A** Woman - even in the face of challenge - I choose to be brave enough to ask for the help I need.
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<div>This is for my children.
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<div>Everything I do, I do for them.
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