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I have a video showing my one of my disabilities on Update #3 and have pictures below.  

I am humbly asking for help.  I am a stage four cancer survivor that has been left physically disabled for many years.   I never gave up and I have worked ever since.  Through the pain, through the challenges, through the financial medical burden. I never have taken the second chance that I was given for granted.  But I no longer am able to work and now it is getting to the point that I am homebound and mostly bedbound.

  I have tried everything out there to help me with my disabilities.  Unfortunately, some of them cannot be fixed.  The two systems that are broken are the urinary and the lymphatic systems.  Both of which keep toxins in my body and cause a lot of infections.  These disabilities are getting worse and worse and now are life threatening as I have become immune to antiobiotcs and the strain on my heart is getting worse.  My arch is clapsing due to the weight of my leg and the ability to walk far and/or drive are becoming almost impossible.  My right leg gets up to 5 times the normal size and the left leg and the turso also swell up to two sizes at any given time.

There is a solution that will extend and give me a better quality of life.
I have been hoping and praying for a a procedure that would allow me to not only live a higher quality of life but to extend it so that I can be here and watch my family grow.  I have four daughters and three grand children that I adore more than anything in this world.  And I want to be here.  And not only be here but participate more in their lives.  And in my life. Now everything is such a challenge.  I continue to always help others, but I am unable to get out and even do that any longer.  That is upsetting to me.  But there is thankfully electronics whereas I can at least reach out.  

The first procedure will transplant lymphnodes to the affected areas and hopefully create channels that can push the  toxic fluid through and out of my system.  It sits in my body and creates a huge amount of stagnant toxins that the lymphatic system cannot push out of my body.  It also gives me ongoing infections (cellulitis and even sepsis).  A bug bite put me in the hospital for 22 days.  And I almost lost my life as I became Sepsis.  I also had  Sepsis this last year and flown out to another hospital due to my heart not withstanding all of this.   Due to a faulty pic line, I was also paralysed in my leg arm and still, to this day, do not have full movement.  I will need some major vascular reconstruction work done which will relieve the pressure on my heart and thirdly a debulking method which will get rid of all of the old toxins and wastes in my body (I actually have been hospitalized 5 times this last year.)  The wastes are just sitting in my body and wrapping, pumps and manual physical therapy is not working for me. The fluid comes out as fast as it is pushed out.   My legs swell with the bandages on and the pumps have harmed me whereas it created passages for the fluids to go into other areas of my body that it shouldn't go to.   Anyone that knows me knows that I have tried everything, have had hope each time and gone to and through it with enthusiasm.  I have tried everything!!!   And I have never given up hope!  

MY DREAMS FINALLY HAVE COME TRUE

These procedures haven't been available for a long time in the US.  Also my doctor thought it was too high of a risk at the time.  But we figured out how to handle the urinary system problem (I am no longer able to urinate on my own and have to catherize myself 5 times a day) and he feels now is the time to take this risk.  Actually has told me to DO IT.

Financially it will not be easy.  I have 20% share of costs on almost all of it.  I am going to another state for some of the process and those costs alone are thousands of dollars.  I will have a lot of debt after this as the costs will be way more than what I am asking for.  

One more infection can kill me.  I cannot take the risk for myself or my family.  Please help me.   If I do not raise the bulk of this money before I get started at the end of this month, I will have to postpone some of the procedures until I do.  And that, in itself, is life threatening.  One infection can put into sepsis and that can kill me.

Thank you all so much!!!  I cannot go on this journey without each and every one of you.

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Cynthia Spitzer
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Clearlake, CA
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