Help Christie Patrick Maxey Fight Stage 4 Cancer

My name is Haley Deyoe and I am raising funds for Christie Patrick Maxey, my best friend, who was diagnosed at the age of 41 with stage 4 breast and bone cancer.

In the last year, Christie has beaten the prognosis of having 6 months to live. When diagnosed, Christie's parents flew in from Spain to take care of her and the young 4 kids. Her family has maxed out their savings caring for Christie. The treatments and many medicines have not been covered by insurance. Her husband, Colin, throughout all of this, has continued to work very long work shifts. Robert, the grandpa, has just a few weeks ago broken his leg in multiple places so Carmen has many people to take care of currently. Christie is currently at home on hospice.

Here is Christie’s fb journey post:

Last March the doctors diagnosed me with Stage 4 Cancer. A year ago the doctors gave me 6 months to live. I’d had cancer for a year and a half before the doctors discovered it. They said I wouldn’t make it to Christmas. God has been good to me and I’m still here. At times I’ve had to spend periods in the hospital and every time I go they tell me, “look, you have cancer throughout your body and you’re going to die. The sooner you accept it, the better. Well, I unapologetically refuse to accept what they say and have faith that I will make it through this. In the beginning, I was in tears at the thought at having to say good bye to my 4 young children. I’ve since learned to stay strong and not let what the doctors say affect me.

This is a post I’ve never fathomed I’d be making. If I’m being honest, this is not an easy thing to write. I was honestly embarrassed to tell anyone about my condition because I was worried that people would think I was a “failure”. Many of my friends and family comment when they hear, “but you’ve been the one of us who’s eaten healthy and lived a healthy lifestyle.”

Honestly, not being prideful, but I was shocked too because I truly thought I was living a life in a way that was cancer preventing and gave up many unhealthy things I wanted in order to live a cancer free life while here on earth after seeing so many lost to cancer and loosing my best friend to cancer when I was younger.

I’ve spoken with many cancer survivors and each one has one common answer as to what helped them get past cancer was dealing with unresolved childhood trauma, unforgiveness, stress, criticism, and resentment. I’m truly grateful for this time God has given me motivation to work through these things in my life. He’s been teaching me so much through this journey that I’ve been on and has been increasing/fine tuning my relationship with him.

Forgive me in advance for not responding to messages or replies to this post. I’m very weak at the moment and don’t have energy to do anything other than focus on my healing. Christie

Monetary gifts are so greatly appreciated right now to take a great burden off of the family, but prayers for Christie's healing are also so lovingly appreciated.

Thank you from Christie and her family in advance.