Cancer Patient's Bank Account Emptied By Bank

January 19, 2024 Update.

It has been 5 years since my cancer surgeries. I am blessed each day with life, with my son, my dear friends, and with hope for a future.

The expenses from my continued care add to the bills from prior surgeries. As hard as I have tried to balance getting out of bed each day with working two jobs to keep up with my medical expenses, the balance from my Wells Fargo credit card became too difficult to manage.

After I missed monthly payments, Wells Fargo secured a judgement against my bank account.

In the account was just enough to pay my health & auto insurances, and for my monthly medications.

The bank took everything.

They left $1. in my account.

I am losing momentum, I am losing hope. Unfortunately this becomes about money. Money to keep moving forward, money to keep my health insurance for when I become sick again, money for auto insurance so I'm legal to drive to work, money for co-pays for medical appointments.

If you are reading this, and have the ability to donate, you will be helping me try to persevere through this arduous fight.

Thank you for reading, and for sharing this.

Suzanne Devlin

2018 Update

As I recuperate from major surgery and am receiving chemotherapy treatments, I was notified by my employer that my medical leave pay has been cut in half for remaining time off work, through March.

With rent due this week, half pay isn't enough to cover rent and my health insurance coverage to continue care.

More information on these recent surgical procedures are posted in prior updates. Thank you for your time in reading this, and for your consideration and love.

*Summer vacation at City of Hope, 2018*

Cancer returned to my lower skull behind the ear, deep in the neck, and into the gland and lymph nodes.

Time for a radical neck dissection where the incision is made across the front of the neck, the area is opened, and diseased lymph nodes, muscle, parotid gland, and tissue are removed. Oh yes, as painful a recovery as one might imagine. To close the surgical opening, a full thickness skin graft complete with an artery and vein were harvested from my forearm and transplanted to the side of my head.

My life has been saved by the extreme skill, expertise, and humbleness of my surgical team.

The donations of money, food, groceries, gas cards, household supplies, and your personal time all are so needed, and beyond deeply appreciated.

Saying "thank you" will never be enough.

I continue to keep moving. Most days, the moving is painful and slow, but I keep moving. I want to be here, to be present. As you who are parents know, the strength you dig deep for is for your children ~ it is what propels you forward, no matter what.

To those of you who continue to donate to my ongoing medical costs for cancer treatment, for labs, for specialist's co-pays, for scans, and for the prescriptions to quell the horrible side effects, I could never adequately express the deep gratitude I carry for each of you. You offer me hope, dignity, and often, pain-free time to spend with my most incredible son, the brightest light of my life.

Praying and hoping for a peaceful, brighter future.

I can only try to express my deepest gratitude, from my heart, to every person who reached out to help me during my most frightening, darkest time.

I have known selflessness and love from strangers whom I still do not know to this day -

I have made new friends in those of you who reached out on behalf of your loved ones who have gone through, or are still going through, the same fight as I am .

I have been showered with love by my friends who continue to keep an eye on me.

I am now about a year and a half into remission after completing chemotherapy, trying to navigate how to live life with cancer as part of it.

My side effect has been the destroying of my adrenals, the glands that produce hormones vital to life. I have daily medications to help my body function, and will need them the rest of my life.

Financially, I cannot believe the amount of debt, and destruction, cancer leaves in its wake.

My energy is not what it was before I became ill, so I continue to work part time, as working full time is not an option yet.

I rarely make rent each month, and rely on the giving nature of those who can help me make up the difference each month.