Childcare + 1 yr Grocery Shipt Fee
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Hello, dear friends. Many of you have been asking how you can help our family as we are struggling though the second year of cancer treatment.
I was diagnosed with Stage IV Colon Cancer in Feb 2015, and since then I have undergone countless rounds of chemo and surgeries. In March of 2016 I was lucky enough to undergo a combination surgery of abdominal tumor debulking, HIPEC, liver resection, gall bladder removal, colonostomy takedown, and oophorectomy with the potential to cure me. Unfortunately, that surgery was not considered "successful," as just 2 months after returning home I was told that I have a new 2 cm tumor behind my uterus which already has "tentacles" out to my cervix, remaining ovary, and possibly colon and liver (again).
With two toddlers and approx 30-60 Statistics students each semester, life has become very hard. I am *back* on Oxaliplatin, and the good news is that ALL treatment options are still available to me, but Oxaliplatin is hard. Starting it up again is going to be as hard as (or possibly harder than) it was with the first 8 rounds last year.
Thank you all so much for caring so much and asking what can be done to help. I think the easiest area for people to help right now is simply in reducing our daily headache in terms of taking care of the family. Grocery deliveries would be so helpful. We have chosen shipt.com since they deliver from our area HEB (a TX company with gun sense) and so that we can pick and pay for our own grocery list. There's not a way that we are aware of for the delivery fees to be paid by friends, so I set up this gofundme account for the annual fee of $99.00.
I have been very lucky to have you all as friends. All that matters in the world is how we treat each other. Thank you so much for that.
I was diagnosed with Stage IV Colon Cancer in Feb 2015, and since then I have undergone countless rounds of chemo and surgeries. In March of 2016 I was lucky enough to undergo a combination surgery of abdominal tumor debulking, HIPEC, liver resection, gall bladder removal, colonostomy takedown, and oophorectomy with the potential to cure me. Unfortunately, that surgery was not considered "successful," as just 2 months after returning home I was told that I have a new 2 cm tumor behind my uterus which already has "tentacles" out to my cervix, remaining ovary, and possibly colon and liver (again).
With two toddlers and approx 30-60 Statistics students each semester, life has become very hard. I am *back* on Oxaliplatin, and the good news is that ALL treatment options are still available to me, but Oxaliplatin is hard. Starting it up again is going to be as hard as (or possibly harder than) it was with the first 8 rounds last year.
Thank you all so much for caring so much and asking what can be done to help. I think the easiest area for people to help right now is simply in reducing our daily headache in terms of taking care of the family. Grocery deliveries would be so helpful. We have chosen shipt.com since they deliver from our area HEB (a TX company with gun sense) and so that we can pick and pay for our own grocery list. There's not a way that we are aware of for the delivery fees to be paid by friends, so I set up this gofundme account for the annual fee of $99.00.
I have been very lucky to have you all as friends. All that matters in the world is how we treat each other. Thank you so much for that.
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Catherine Nance
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Spring, TX