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Help for Norah's cancer treatments & bills

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First off, the quick summary - we're a one-income family with many medical bills to pay and have burned through all of our savings to pay these bills. I'm starting a GoFundMe to ask friends, families, and well-wishing others if they can help us out.

My wife Norah has had many medical issues going all the way back to 1995, when she had to leave work. She had problems with her back, hip, blood platelets, and knee ever since. From about 2012 she has had severe hypertension with daily blood pressure readings over 200. This led to her being hospitalized for a minor stroke in December 2020 when her BP spiked at 255.

During her hospital stay they discovered two masses in her abdomen. Due to Covid, she wasn't able to have them removed until August, 2021. This surgery found one of the ovaries had ruptured and led to a Stage 2 Ovarian Cancer diagnosis, a full hysterectomy, appendectomy, and other procedures to remove the cancer.

Because of the rupture, Norah has to have chemotherapy to reduce the possibility of a fatal reoccurance. Before she could begin, the Oncologist (cancer doctor) informed her that she was severely anemic and was also in Stage 3 Kidney Failure. She saw a new Kidney doctor for this and once he gave her the thumbs up, she began I.V. treatment chemotherapy in November, 2021. She will complete her treatment in late March or early April.

We are at the point where we have used all of our savings; we are still making installment payments on various bills going back to the 2020 hospitalization, and we may not be able to meet our monthly obligations such as rent any longer. Norah still cannot work, my workplace severely cut back on bonuses and my hours worked, and I can't take on a second job while caring for Norah.

Any help would be greatly appreciated at this point. Also, a quick aside, if any of Norah's family sees this, her parents do NOT know she has cancer. They know she is sick and let's leave it at that. They are elderly and can't travel here so please don't tell them and make them worry.

Thank you.
Kevin Hopkins
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Kevin Hopkins
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Fullerton, CA

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