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To all the amazing and caring souls who have helped me this year: you have helped me to pay for my insurance, treatment, medications, wigs. I have so much gratitude for your empathy and compassion. I am so grateful for the many friends, family members, teachers, classmates, and many people whom I have never even met, who reached out and alleviated so much of the burden of fighting cancer from my shoulders. You have enabled me to focus on my fight.
In March of 2021, I found out I had a grapefruit-sized tumor on my left ovary and a second tumor on my right ovary. I got surgery in April to have both tumors removed and biopsied. Both were malignant. I was diagnosed with Stage 1C ovarian cancer. Doctors removed my entire reproductive system and took samples of my lymph nodes. While my cancer had not spread to any other organs, there were some cells in my stomach called clear cell carcinoma, which is aggressive and has a high rate of recurrence. My oncologist ordered six rounds of chemo.
I’ve always tried to live a good life and do right by other people. If you have known me as your friend, neighbor, co-worker, classmate, or student, you know that I am a kind, hard-working, and honest person. While this has been an extremely difficult time for me, I’m using my writing and filmmaking talents to start a vlog about having cancer in the hope that I can help other people in my situation who are scared, lost, and looking for guidance. But I’m also in need of help myself.
I have not been able to work due to chronic pain, recuperating from abdominal surgery, and fatigue from chemo. I’m drowning in bills. My cancer center is two hours from home and the lengthy trip often necessitates staying in a hotel overnight because the free house on the medical campus for patients is always full and the hospital hotel discount is basically non-existent. My parents and I have shouldered the burden of the many extraneous costs associated with cancer.
The last thing I want is to be a burden on anyone right now. But if you are in a position to pay it forward today, please consider doing it for me.
In March of 2021, I found out I had a grapefruit-sized tumor on my left ovary and a second tumor on my right ovary. I got surgery in April to have both tumors removed and biopsied. Both were malignant. I was diagnosed with Stage 1C ovarian cancer. Doctors removed my entire reproductive system and took samples of my lymph nodes. While my cancer had not spread to any other organs, there were some cells in my stomach called clear cell carcinoma, which is aggressive and has a high rate of recurrence. My oncologist ordered six rounds of chemo.
I’ve always tried to live a good life and do right by other people. If you have known me as your friend, neighbor, co-worker, classmate, or student, you know that I am a kind, hard-working, and honest person. While this has been an extremely difficult time for me, I’m using my writing and filmmaking talents to start a vlog about having cancer in the hope that I can help other people in my situation who are scared, lost, and looking for guidance. But I’m also in need of help myself.
I have not been able to work due to chronic pain, recuperating from abdominal surgery, and fatigue from chemo. I’m drowning in bills. My cancer center is two hours from home and the lengthy trip often necessitates staying in a hotel overnight because the free house on the medical campus for patients is always full and the hospital hotel discount is basically non-existent. My parents and I have shouldered the burden of the many extraneous costs associated with cancer.
The last thing I want is to be a burden on anyone right now. But if you are in a position to pay it forward today, please consider doing it for me.