Fighting Acute Myeloid Leukemia with Pammy Tinsley
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Hey All! This is our first time asking for help on this platform, but we do so out of urgency and love.
Our dearest friend, Pammy Tinsley was recently diagnosed with her second battle with cancer. She has always been strong in nature, with remission lasting 2 years. This time around we are ready say good-bye to cancer for good!
Covid-19, as we all know, has made everyday life a little more difficult and we are all trying to navigate this one day at a time. Pammy is fighting for her life in the middle of an epidemic, this makes figuring out daily normal life seem trivial in perspective. Medical office buildings cutting hours, limits on the amount of people being seen, places to stay for longterm cancer care closed, and extra precautions daily as she tries to protect herself from this virus while having no active immune system.
Pammy has "Acute Myeloid Leukemia" which is a blood and bone marrow cancer that hinders production or stops making white cells which are produced by bone marrow to help your body fight infection. NOT something we want while in the middle of a global pandemic. AML progresses rapidly, with myeloid cells interfering with the production of normal white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets. Symptoms include fatigue, recurrent infections, and bruising easily.
Treatments include chemotherapy, other drug therapy, and stem-cell transplants. It's rare, 200,000 cases or less per year.
Needing a Bone Marrow Transplant to repair her bone marrow using a donor match, she will have to live in Ann Arbor for 100 days. This is where we are asking for your help. Since Covid-19 has shuttered doors everywhere, The American Cancer Society closed its doors to the Hope Lodge and suspended ride-shares. While understandable due to highly susceptible patients, it has changed everything planned for Pammy. Living in Ann Arbor for 100 days, Pammy will have to have her husband Jim with her to drive her to the transplant clinic three times a week, give her medications, take care of her, and monitor her health. They will have to keep their apartment in Traverse City as well, to come back to their everyday life. Moving twice with 100 days is not economically feasible. Before undergoing any further treatment with the she will also need to have costly dental work done, they can not do a bone marrow transplant if there is risk for oral infection. She will be seeing a Leukemia specialist as well as receiving heart tests to ensure success. Those will have out of pocket expenses as well, along with food, medications, and transportation costs.
Getting sick in a pandemic could happen to anyone. We are all human, and all we ask is for our wonderful community to gather together in this fight.
With much love and appreciation,
Eric Shawbitz & Erin Ferguson
Our dearest friend, Pammy Tinsley was recently diagnosed with her second battle with cancer. She has always been strong in nature, with remission lasting 2 years. This time around we are ready say good-bye to cancer for good!
Covid-19, as we all know, has made everyday life a little more difficult and we are all trying to navigate this one day at a time. Pammy is fighting for her life in the middle of an epidemic, this makes figuring out daily normal life seem trivial in perspective. Medical office buildings cutting hours, limits on the amount of people being seen, places to stay for longterm cancer care closed, and extra precautions daily as she tries to protect herself from this virus while having no active immune system.
Pammy has "Acute Myeloid Leukemia" which is a blood and bone marrow cancer that hinders production or stops making white cells which are produced by bone marrow to help your body fight infection. NOT something we want while in the middle of a global pandemic. AML progresses rapidly, with myeloid cells interfering with the production of normal white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets. Symptoms include fatigue, recurrent infections, and bruising easily.
Treatments include chemotherapy, other drug therapy, and stem-cell transplants. It's rare, 200,000 cases or less per year.
Needing a Bone Marrow Transplant to repair her bone marrow using a donor match, she will have to live in Ann Arbor for 100 days. This is where we are asking for your help. Since Covid-19 has shuttered doors everywhere, The American Cancer Society closed its doors to the Hope Lodge and suspended ride-shares. While understandable due to highly susceptible patients, it has changed everything planned for Pammy. Living in Ann Arbor for 100 days, Pammy will have to have her husband Jim with her to drive her to the transplant clinic three times a week, give her medications, take care of her, and monitor her health. They will have to keep their apartment in Traverse City as well, to come back to their everyday life. Moving twice with 100 days is not economically feasible. Before undergoing any further treatment with the she will also need to have costly dental work done, they can not do a bone marrow transplant if there is risk for oral infection. She will be seeing a Leukemia specialist as well as receiving heart tests to ensure success. Those will have out of pocket expenses as well, along with food, medications, and transportation costs.
Getting sick in a pandemic could happen to anyone. We are all human, and all we ask is for our wonderful community to gather together in this fight.
With much love and appreciation,
Eric Shawbitz & Erin Ferguson
Organizer and beneficiary
Erin Ferguson
Organizer
Traverse City, MI
Pamela Tinsley
Beneficiary