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Help me win my fight against Breast Cancer

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First a little about me.... I am a 33 year old divorced mother of 3 boy's ages 13, 9 and 7 with a wonderful man in my life that I have known since we were 15 and a beautiful step-daughter.  A little over a month ago I started to have pain in my right breast, I noticed I was very tired all the time and just wasn't my normal always on the go self and that's when I did a self breast exam discovered 2 lumps in my breast, I immediately went to the ER to be checked out and was told it was just cysts, being a girl sucked and was sent home with Ibuprofen 800MG. The doctor had ordered no ultrasound, no blood testing, just felt my breast for 5 to 10 seconds and sent me home. Fast forward almost 2 weeks and I'm still not feeling better so this time I head to a different hospital, this doctor did not like the way the lumps in my breast felt and immediately ordered an ultrasound and after that everything became a blur. The doctor came in and told me to sit tight there just happened to be a general surgeon at the hospital that night and he wanted to come in and talk to me, so at this point I'm scared who wouldn't be right!? I was referred to his office for a fine needle biopsy which came back with inconclusive results, on August 22nd my boyfriend and I managed (unfortunately with credit card's and money we really couldn't spare) shelled out over 2 grand so that I could go in for biopsy surgery, the doctor was able to completely remove one mass, but the other was too large to completely remove. Sadly less than a week after surgery I was diagnosed with breast cancer and was told my right boob needed to be completely removed. After talking to the doctor and asking lots of questions,  my boyfriend and I mutually made the decision to have the left breast removed as well, since I got cancer so young the chances it will happen again are almost certain and we don't want to go through this again. So now I  am facing a double mastectomy and I don't have health insurance. Now you would think that's as bad as it could get right!? WRONG! After yet another hospital visit and an MRI we learned the remaining mass has grown and I now have swollen lymph nodes in my armpits that the doctor is going to biopsy during my mastectomy surgery to determine what stage of cancer I am in and if the cancer has spread. If the lymph nodes show signs of cancer I will be facing chemotherapy treatment as well after surgery. I am currently self employed, but business has been slow and I am already drowning in medical bill's and we haven't even scheduled surgery yet. Every little bit help's and my family and I will forever be grateful for any help. All donations will go toward medical costs, supplies, and financial help during recovery so we can be slightly less stressed about rent and monthly bill's and focus more on my recovery and healing.

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Codi Nicole Markstahler
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Punta Gorda, FL

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