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Help Rebecca win the fight against stage 4 cancer

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Hey, most of my close friends and family know my very long cancer story but I will try make it as short as possible for ye to read. I was diagnosed with stage 3 colorectal cancer last April 2018 at age 29 by a complete mistake after being referred to the A&E by a doctor. I had to have IVF hormone treatment for 2 months (travel at my expense spending thousands at that stage) as I had to do radiotherapy and was told I will never be able to naturally conceive and carry my own child (we have 6 embryo's on ice) I then had to have an ovarian transposition to lift my ovaries up and away from the radiation line as the radiation would put me straight into the menopause permanently, and I'm still unsure if my womb will be able to carry the embryo's down the line, will have to wait to find out. I did 6 weeks of every day Monday to Friday of radiotherapy/chemotherapy travelling myself at my own cost, I then had robotic colorectal surgery in October 2018 and had a ileostomy bag attached (absolute hell for the first 4 months, look up stoma bags if ye don't know what I am on about, as too long to explain) I then had scans done after the surgery and was told the brilliant news that I was NED (no evidence of disease) but I was advised to go on another round of chemotherapy to make sure there were no small cancerous cells floating around, I started the "clean up chemo" which was intravenous 3 days every 2 weeks just after my 30th birthday January of this year and did 8 rounds of gruelling chemotherapy from January to the end of April (they wanted me to do 12 but it was killing me so I stopped) I then got scanned again and was expecting to be told I'm ok and to get a date for the ileostomy bag reversal (to go back to doing number 2's normally) but instead I was told I had cancer in the lung, a 10mm tumour as a result of my original cancer so I am now considered stage 4 with secondary metastasis to the lung, I also have a 1mm cancerous nodule in the same lung. Shocked doesn't even begin to cover how we felt getting that news. Throughout this all my mother has had me on supplements and cancer killing treatments all paid for out of her own pocket and truthfully she is the reason I am still alive today as if not for her the chemotherapy would have killed me or I would be riddled in cancer rather than just in the lung. I am here today to ask for donations towards getting alternative/ complimentary treatments to make sure that after my lung surgery I never have to go through cancer again, I honestly never thought at the beginning of May last year I'd be sitting here today (battered, bruised, in constant agony and beyond tired, barely able to get up in the morning) that I'd be ever asking anyone for anything let alone a donation page (anyone that knows me knows I am a giver and never expect or look for anything off anyone) but behold I am here on the 16th of July asking for help, please can you donate whatever you can to help me with the costs of the very expensive treatments I need to get me back to being able to LIVE again, to be able to go back to work etc... one example of the treatments I need is a Vitamin C intravenous IV which not only kills cancer cells but makes sure no new cancer cells ever form again and builds the immune system back up etc, this treatment is on average 300 per infusion, and my mother has drove me to portlaoise to get this done 10 times since last year. I am on disability allowance (obviously) and my partner is too as he is recovering from knee reconstruction surgery, my mother pays about 400 a month on supplements for me and my father gave my partner and I a part of his home to live in so as we didn't have to worry about rent etc. I will need a lot of different treatments to help me build back up my immune system and I will need to be on these alternative treatments indefinitely for life to keep the cancer away as I got a cancer that is normally associated with the elderly and the chances of it wanting to come back is very high. I will post the receipts etc of every single one, donate what you can please and sorry for the long post and I have left a lot out so if anyone has any questions please feel free to ask me and I will answer. No donation is too little, I just want to get back to be healthy as soon as possible and unfortunately this cannot be done the conventional way though the HSE and hospital way, thanks so much for reading and thanks in advance for helping me in my journey to getting back healthy, one love, Rebecca ❤ PS the target goal I set was just because I had to put a number down, thanks so much to everyone so far I am genuinely overwhelmed by the love and generosity of ye all ❤

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