Helping Brita Light

My name is Lana Magnuson and Brita Light is my 21 year old best friend.  At least she always was just mainly that. But now she will soon turn 25 and this is who else she is becoming.  A Stage Three Breast Cancer Patient who is receiving Aggressive Chemotherapy each and every week for the next year at a minimum.  What terrifies her most along with all that is her dwindling ability to support herself.

"I have always seen myself as a strong and independent individual.   It has been the focal part of my identity, the driving force in my creativity.  How I have grown, how I have changed.  I have always been a problem solver.  But, I am floundering lately and losing strength with this malignant asshole cancer and my future now worries me just like anyone else.  My personal growth, previously held so dear, has become my enemy in a cancerous form.  I don't want to watch my apartment, my independence or my animals disappear with my health.  I want to remain in the space I have created for myself and heal.  I want to stay your 21 year old best friend and have this cancer leave my body whole.  My intention is to continue working for as long as I can, I love my job!.. but I also need to be realistic about the physical impact of the treatment that I am receiving.  I feel afraid".

I am hoping that you will help me to help my friend.  Cancer is stressful enough without all the bills it incurs, all the stress it produces and how it so swiftly snatches what you call your life right out from under you.  Personal independence evaporates and helplessness can make you feel destroyed.  So far Brita is responding well to her treatment but what she has always called her life is starting to crumble. 

I want to help Brita Light and I hope you do too.

Thank You and Be Well