Christines Oncology Odyssey
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Christine’s Oncology Odyssey
CO2 starving cancer of hope and breath
We would first like to Thank God for Christine’s Life.
We would also like to thank all the Doctors, Physicians, Nurses, Family and Friends who have helped Christine continue with her life and love.
Christine Yurko, mother to our beautiful daughter, Rachel. Stepmother to two wonderful children, Conner and Victoria and the best wife a husband could ever want. She is strong, smart, continuously available for the smallest of details and a passionate, ever learning advocate for the deaf and hard of hearing community.
March, 24: a stormy evening after all day visits to some doctors’ offices, Christine was taken for a late appointment MRI. When the Radiologist finally saw Thomas it was explained to him that Christine has a large mass in her head and needs to be taken to the hospital immediately to have surgery.
Christine was so tired and confused by this point that she didn’t understand what was happening. Thomas rushed her away to the hospital and we were checked in to the neurosurgery ICU. Christine further decompensated overnight and went into surgery the next morning about 10o’clock. Prior to surgery we were told that Christine would probably come out of the operating room locked in with no real time estimate as to how long she would remain that way and no idea how long her recovery may take. Nine hours later we were told that a tumor the size of a softball was removed from Christine’s head, approximately a third of her brain was now missing; left frontal lobe, that she had an unknown type of high grade brain cancer and at this time that is all we can tell you. However, Christine, being the ROCK STAR that she is, came out of surgery awake, alert and as smart as she ever was. Thank you Dr. VanHoppel and staff for saving Christine’s life. They referred to her as a Miracle, and “One Tough Cookie”. Two days later she was discharged, actually kicked out, because of the threat of Covid 19.
Many things have happened and changed, almost on an hour by hour basis since. Christine is currently convalescing with her sister in Cary, North Carolina. She is receiving the best care, her family, Duke University, The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Cancer Center and the world has to offer.
Rachel, her daughter is with her. Thomas is preparing their house in Charlotte for sale and is expecting to move to Cary, where Christine will be undergoing Radiation, Concurrent Chemotherapy, and possibly Experimental Drug Trials for the next year or more.
The Yurko’s are asking for your support, however large or small, to help defray medical and treatment expenditures. These costs are estimated to be well into the tens of thousands of dollars.
Please consider helping us fight this and win!
Please share with everyone you are able!
THANK YOU!
CO2 starving cancer of hope and breath
We would first like to Thank God for Christine’s Life.
We would also like to thank all the Doctors, Physicians, Nurses, Family and Friends who have helped Christine continue with her life and love.
Christine Yurko, mother to our beautiful daughter, Rachel. Stepmother to two wonderful children, Conner and Victoria and the best wife a husband could ever want. She is strong, smart, continuously available for the smallest of details and a passionate, ever learning advocate for the deaf and hard of hearing community.
March, 24: a stormy evening after all day visits to some doctors’ offices, Christine was taken for a late appointment MRI. When the Radiologist finally saw Thomas it was explained to him that Christine has a large mass in her head and needs to be taken to the hospital immediately to have surgery.
Christine was so tired and confused by this point that she didn’t understand what was happening. Thomas rushed her away to the hospital and we were checked in to the neurosurgery ICU. Christine further decompensated overnight and went into surgery the next morning about 10o’clock. Prior to surgery we were told that Christine would probably come out of the operating room locked in with no real time estimate as to how long she would remain that way and no idea how long her recovery may take. Nine hours later we were told that a tumor the size of a softball was removed from Christine’s head, approximately a third of her brain was now missing; left frontal lobe, that she had an unknown type of high grade brain cancer and at this time that is all we can tell you. However, Christine, being the ROCK STAR that she is, came out of surgery awake, alert and as smart as she ever was. Thank you Dr. VanHoppel and staff for saving Christine’s life. They referred to her as a Miracle, and “One Tough Cookie”. Two days later she was discharged, actually kicked out, because of the threat of Covid 19.
Many things have happened and changed, almost on an hour by hour basis since. Christine is currently convalescing with her sister in Cary, North Carolina. She is receiving the best care, her family, Duke University, The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Cancer Center and the world has to offer.
Rachel, her daughter is with her. Thomas is preparing their house in Charlotte for sale and is expecting to move to Cary, where Christine will be undergoing Radiation, Concurrent Chemotherapy, and possibly Experimental Drug Trials for the next year or more.
The Yurko’s are asking for your support, however large or small, to help defray medical and treatment expenditures. These costs are estimated to be well into the tens of thousands of dollars.
Please consider helping us fight this and win!
Please share with everyone you are able!
THANK YOU!
Organizer
Thomas Yurko
Organizer
Indian Trail, NC