Help Josefina Receive Cancer Treatment

My name is Dusty Price and I am a teacher and wrestling coach at Woodburn HS fundraising for Josefina Santos (45). Her son Marco was on my wrestling team some years ago and now raises goats and sheep on our property with his family. They are really good people...hard working and humble. Josefina has done fieldwork and farm labor while raising her 6 kids. She has 3 kids still in school; her youngest is just 8 years old. She was diagnosed in December 2020 with Stage 4 Gallbladder Cancer at the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) but they are not offering her any treatment. She is very sick.

 

Marco decided to take his mother to the Immunity Therapy Center in Tijuana, Mexico for 3 weeks of alternative cancer treatment. Their hope is to at least regress the growth of the cancer. The cost of this treatment will be $20,000 but their family does not have the financial resources to pay for all of it. Marco has a small landscaping company (Off the Road Lawn Maintenance) and has already saved $5,000 to help his mom. He is determined to do whatever it takes to save the rest, but coming into the winter months business will slow and make it difficult. They cannot wait any longer. Josefina is very frail and will begin treatment at the Immunity Therapy Center on Monday (October 4). They are driving down this weekend.

 

As I visited with her this evening, she lay in her bed and reached out to hold my hand and offered the most tender prayer for her family and me, asking God to watch over her family and the "maestro". My family will be making a generous donation to help Josefina and invite any other individuals or families to join us. Charity is the pure love of Christ and we often experience it through the selfless service and generous donations of others. Thank you for showing that love to Josefina and her family.