
Help Angel fight off Cancer and declare Bankruptcy
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Hi, im Angel. When I was 18, I went straight to working at Amazon. 8 months later my stomach problems caught up to me. At the time I didn't know I had Ulcerative Colitis. I originally thought my diarrhea was caused by my anxiety disorder and work, so I worked through this until I felt bad, bad. I, like an idiot, resigned before my diagnoses.
Can't go back in time unfortunately, the past is the past... If you're just seeing this, I have updated with redacted paperwork hiding my personals, this'll help with the time-line.
But weeks later, I was having bloody stools. At the time, I didn't know this was called a "flare". I bled every single time I went, I got low on blood, my migraines (not diagnosed at the time either) were active 24/7 due to low electrolytes. In and out of the hospital, referrals to a gastroentrologist, and a colonoscopy later,I was given medicine to control my flare and recieved my diagnoses.
Finally... i thought I was in control of my situation, I thought I was dying but silly old me just had a chronic condition and an inflamed colon. I thought nothing else could be going on in my body. Until I recieved a call to schedule another appointment but this happend weeks later. I thought it was a follow up but another man told me the harsh news, I had hundreds of polyps for whatever reason and sooner than later one would turn cancerous and I would need surgery to remove my colon before that happened. This was nuts to me, I was finally cured but this man i never met before said I was going to lose my colon. I was scheduled a genetic test to confirm their suspicions since you dont get hundreds of polyps at the age of 19. But what I told you I didn't get the chance to this until a year later..? Yep, life happened, we were evicted. I was ill, 90lbs at this point, and I needed help so I wouldn't part ways. So i though id help with housing and borrowed $8000 from Sallie-Mae for housing. My father didn't care though, he wanted a cheap place to rent and save money or whatever so he moved us to Arvin. But not in the city no, outside of the city in the fields (see photo), away from everyone. For a year my money was wasted on gas and living expenses.
We were tired of the place, so i borrowed an additional 18000 (see photo) for real housing. Taking my brothers along and its important to know its expensive in Bakersfield. I pay $1600 a month for my current house, this went by so quickly in a year. But this wasn't all that I borrowed, no. I maxed out my credit cards and loans from services like paypal, affirm, klarna, ect. But it was also time to resume what I left off, mainly because I lived outside the city before and I didn't want to believe that I somehow could lose my colon. I saw what happened to people after the surgery, I didn't want a ostomy, if you dare look that up you'll see why. But I needed to confirm with genetics so I did it, I came back positive for AFAP. That was insanity for me, a chronic condition and a genetic condition linked. So I got an emergency colonoscopy done. The polyps have grown in my rectum and it all had to go but there was also a tumor. No good. After hesitation I got through my surgury. A robotic proctectomy, see picture. Weeks later they got back to me with the sample report, It was cancerous, a stage 3. Life was upper cutting me. every. Single. Time. 12 rounds of chemo later I am FINALLY free. But Im not free from my financial ruin.
-$34000 from Sallie Mae
-$10000 (apparently its $6000 now) from PayPal
-$10000 from Discover/CapitalOne
-$1000 from Affirm
-$2000 total from multiple BNPL services
-$MedicalDebt ( I was on blueshield since I worked for amazon)
There is no way ill be able to gofundme through 30k, so im asking for $2000 to go bankrupt. Im not going to ask for help with my private student loans, I could've gotten cheaper housing or borrowed less and that was my bad planning. I thought id be working by then not going through surgery. If I manage to get an additional $1000 though it will go to what I owe them school, being enrolled will stop the minimum payments with Sallie mae.
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Angel Rios
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Bakersfield, CA