Let's Help Geneva in Her Time of Need

My friend Geneva Davis, MD, MPH, has recently become very sick.

She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018. She endured more than a dozen surgeries to remove the cancer and patch up skin that was destroyed by MRSA. This left her body permanently scarred. We thought it was beat after the operation. Unfortunately, we were wrong. No one knew how far the cancer had progressed, because she appeared to be a healthy young woman.

Looks can be deceiving.
At her original diagnosis the Drs did not look anywhere else in her body, because she did not fit the
profile, or have any risk factors for such aggressive breast cancer. Because of that and because she has
no genetic predisposition or family history, the Doctors assumed that the cancer was contained to her
breasts.

Big mistake.

Even after rounds of chemo, they had no idea this monster was spreading through her bones. Currently
she is diagnosed as stage 4, terminal cancer. Because the cancer is breaking down her bone structure, it is
highly likely that she will have more surgeries to prevent or repair breaks. She is playing a game of Jenga
with her bones, and even a light fall could take her down.

At 37 years old she has already accomplished her life’s goal of becoming a Doctor and Master of Public Health. She is prepared to begin a career in helping others cope with and heal from illnesses such as the one she now has. Throughout her years of study, she found time to participate in many different charitable and community health activities. She was a volunteer providing practical and emotional assistance to better understand populations living with breast cancer at Shanti Lifelines. At Haight Ashbury Free clinic, she was a phlebotomist assistant and medical assistant from 2000 until 2003. She served as the financial chair of the Alpha Phi Omega co-ed service Fraternity, a fraternity committed to serving the community and those in need. She served as a Student Heath Advisory Community member at San Francisco State University, where she voiced the needs of the student body and the heads of the university. Additionally, she was the President of Pre-health Professions Student Alliance at San Francisco State University. From 2003 until 2016, she volunteered at the San Francisco Needle Exchange, helping reduce the number of drug overdoses in the city.

Also, she is a great friend, aunty, doggy mama, neighbor, and a very generous, selfless and
brilliant woman who makes others laugh and smile, even through her own pain.

We originally wanted to start this fund to help her have a chance to do somethings before she passes,
things have progressed so quickly and it took so long to work around CA law, that we now are just raising
money to help this generous woman transition in a graceful way. She cannot work, is on disability and very 
isolated out in Alameda. Anyone who would like to visit, should. It is so expensive to live in the bay area,
dying here even more so.

In closing, I’m asking everyone to help give a chance to one of the most generous and loving people we
know. With a little bit of donation, we can share in the burden and help all of us to help a wonderful
human achieve the end she deserves. She should live her remaining years with as much pleasantness as
her cancer will allow. Even a little bit goes a long way towards helping her do some of the simple things
she has dreamed of having the time and money to do. Please, please, let’s create a fund for
unanticipated costs and for enjoyment of life. We need to get some special mats for the apartment, and have funds on line for end of life preparation. This is all we got. Thank you

P.S. 

    -- This money is going into an SNT (Special Needs Trust) set up secifically for G. It is a fund accessible only by her father, he handles disbursement and herself through her father. Any funds left over after G's passing will be donated to charity.