Cervical Cancer prevention surgery recovery

hey everyone,

Marc here. So, let me tell you about a shit week. On Wednesday last week, my wife got a biopsy of her cervix to check for possible cancer. On Friday night, after the doctor's office was closed, the results were emailed to her. It read that they had found squamous cell carcinoma in situ. We’re both healthcare people, so we looked up what that meant and everything we looked up said she had cervical cancer.

That’s a lot of information to take in over your weekend, so of course we took it... poorly. My wife, who goes by Glamblkgirlmagic online, couldn’t work and I canceled all my streams, which is a large part of my income right now while I’m in college to become a nurse. We didn’t want to say too much except to a few close friends and family because we were waiting to get more information from her doctor. So, we got ahold of them today.

A secondary thing that was going on before I continue there is that we have been struggling financially. Like many American families, we relied on the child tax credit advance to make ends meet and with me getting fired from my job in January and also we never fully recovered from glams last health event, which was her gallbladder being removed. We’ve been living off of payday loans and dying by them coming out every paycheck, so keep that in mind as I get into today.

We had done our taxes and thought we were out of the water when we saw our refund, but due to a lot of miscommunications and lack of funding to the IRS, tax preparers had not been able to adjust to the new rules from the stimulus and advanced child credits, it was reduced by $2,800 (the majority of the refund). That was what I found out today after being on the phone with the IRS.

As to glams condition, we finally talked to her doctor today and the good news is we caught it early enough to be stage 0 and not require chemo or radiation therapy. The bad news is she's going to require surgery and a portion of her cervix will need to be removed. And that bring us to where we are now.

With our money problems, her missing work due to the news of having cancer, and her future surgery and recovery, we are asking for help. The number we came up with was $5000. This is meant to include what we didn’t get from our tax refund that will cover the bills we’re behind on, getting out of the payday loan trap, and her recovery. The last amount is to finally pursue something I have pushed back.

I have a condition called Barrett's esophagus that requires regular upper endoscopies every few years to make sure I, myself, don’t have cancer. Last time I went in, they were alarmed by a polyp and reduced it to yearly. Unfortunately, my insurance doesn’t cover the cost of that and I owe over $900 to them for my last upper GI and would have to pay that amount to get another one, so some of that will go towards making sure that I don’t have to worry about a cancer diagnosis while also dealing with my wifes.

So, that’s everything. I really hope you can help my small family and if not, spread this around. Its sad that this is what counts as healthcare in the US, but we have to work within the system we have and not the one we want. Thank you and stay safe.