Since being diagnosed with invasive Stage IV Triple Negative BRCA I Postive breast cancer back in 2017, Jamie Salisbury underwent a radical double mastectomy and an aggressive course of chemotherapy to treat the disease that invaded her body. When the virulent chemo did nothing to stop the cancer, that's when doctors performed surgery, removing both breasts and all lymph nodes from her armpit. Chemo continued after she healed from surgery.

As she fought through chemotherapy with another close friend and cancer patient, Jamie struggled to keep a semblance of her normal life. She came to work at the Weis in Shippensburg when she could. She crocheted. She took walks out in the nature that she loves and took photographs. She planned short trips to see lighthouses. She cross-stitched, all to keep some sanity in her life. But the cancer and the treatment took its toll, for chemo is not a friendly antibiotic. It wreaks nearly as much havoc on the body as the cancer it's sent to kill.

While Jamie has been doing all that she can to keep up on the bills of normal life and the medical bills incurred from hospital stays, chemotherapy, ER visits, and the like, being a cancer patient has been overwhelming. There's only so many sick days and vacation days to cover the time that she can't make it into work, and everything else goes unpaid.

Earlier this spring, she got word that the cancer had returned in a lymph node in her chest. Surgery was required to remove it. Further tests revealed that the cancer had progressed into her spine. It wasn't going without a much bigger fight. She was placed on a daily course of chemo drugs, in the hopes that it would force the cancer into retreat. The downside: she would be on them for life.

Her PET scans last week showed that those drugs were completely ineffective, as the cancer had spread even more.

Jamie is--her sarcasm, her sharp wit, and her tendency for practical jokes notwithstanding--one of the most loyal friends anyone can have. So, we're standing for her now, when she needs us most. We know her cancer is trying to take her from us, and we're determined to help her make the most of the lifetime she has left with us.

She needs help with her bills, so that she doesn't have to worry if she needs to leave work because she's sick.

She also deserves to be able to knock some of the items off her Bucket List: the things she wants to do before her time is up. We don't like admitting that the time she has left with us isn't going to be as long as any of us would like, including her.

Help us help our friend. She's pure gold, and she deserves her best life while she's got it.

If you have questions about this campaign, you can reach out to Joy Henley at [email redacted].