Help Kit Lowen Battle Multiple Myeloma

Two weeks after formally submitting for retirement from a beloved job teaching English as a Second Language, Kit was devastated by an active Multiple Myeloma diagnosis.

Multiple Myeloma is an incurable cancer, but it can be treated. It forms in plasma cells, which help to make antibodies that fight infections. Cancerous plasma cells accumulate in the bone marrow and crowd out healthy blood cells. The disease can damage the bones, immune system, kidneys, and red blood cell count.

Kit is lucky: her five adult children and husband, though he struggles daily with Muscular Dystrophy, are supporting her in this challenging journey. And she’s blessed, too, with her beloved soccer community from the Minneapolis United Soccer Program. Kit is an avid soccer lover and Liverpool fan.

All this love, support, and cheerleading will certainly boost Kit’s spirits through the long treatment ahead; however, the cost of treating this type of cancer is astronomical.

Currently, the plan is for Kit to receive a year of weekly chemo treatments at Rochester Mayo. She will then undergo a stem cell transplant which will require an in-house stay of 6 weeks.

In addition to high and constantly fluctuating out-of-pocket medical and prescription costs, much of Kit’s already restricted budget will go to travel to and from Mayo, over the counter drugs and supplements, and lodging during treatments.

Kit has a great family standing by her and a world-class medical team leading her treatment, but financial support from her community of friends, colleagues, and fellow soccer fans will help her to make it through the next few years.

Your contribution will directly support Kit’s costs related to Multiple Myeloma, allowing her to concentrate on the tough physical and mental challenges ahead.

THANK YOU for being amongst Kit’s many cheerleaders -- we know the community she has built over the years is standing by her in this fight.