As most of you know my cousin Megan has stage 4 Cervical Cancer, and is currently out of work due to being sick and having a ton of doctors appointments.  Beside being sick and doctors appointments she is also home schooling her 10 year old daughter Chloe. We are hoping to raise enough money to cover medical expenses and gas and whatever else she may need. Megan has a huge heart and is usually the one helping everyone else it took us a while to convince her to let us start a go fund me as she hates asking for help. Below is Megan's story. Any amount is appreciated and if you can't donate please share!  Megan's story ⬇️ At the beginning of 2020 I noticed severe pain and bleeding which was not common for my body. This went on for a few months where I had lost a lot of blood and it was not common. Due to covid I had to wait to get into planned parent hood to see if it was my birth control IUD that was causing this bleeding and ocasional severe cramping. Once i went into the doc apointment they could not get the iud and I had to go to a specualist up in Claremont NH. Now it is the begining of May ( May 5th to be exact that I am in Claremont Nh trying to get my IUD out and also getting a clonoscopy biopsy done to see about some weird cells. The doctor there could also not get the iud and reffered me to an Oncology, Gynocology doctor out of Dartmouth Hitchock for my biopsy clooscopy results. I saw this oncology, gynocology doctor mid May where I then did another biopsy and was told that I more than likely have cervical cancer and will be notified once these results she did herself come back. After a few more visits to Dartmouth and dealing with the doctor I was advised I needed scans like a Catscan and a scan called a petscan for more results before deciding what my next steps would be. All scans came back and I was advised that I had Stage 1B cervical cancer and it appeared my tumor was 3 cm and was surrounding one ovary and hiding my IUD and thats why they couldnt get that out. The best option per the doctor was to do a hysterectomty, lymdectomy surgery to remove my cervix, and ovary and IUD and move the remaining ovary over to my side so I would not go into early menapuase. June came and now it is my surgery which was 6 and half hours long. Longer than we were told and I woke up and everything was taken out more than I was told. I was told that the tumor was also much bigger and was 4.3 cm which since it was she just went and clipped out everything without my permisssion. Let me inform you that myself and my family were advised that anything bigger than 4cm I would be closed up and I would have to do radiation and chemo therapy and somehow that was not the case for this doctor she in my opinion wanted my insides for the medical testing and training that I signed saying it was ok to use for training before the surgery. It took 2 months for me to heal from my surgery before I could go and do radition and chemo which was supposed to be a percautionary step for future years so tghe cancer would not reacure and just incase she missed something in the surgery. I did radiation daily 5 days a week for 5 weeks out in a NY hospital. And I did a lite version of Chemo therapy called cisplaton every Monday with my radiation for 5 weeks. Once this was done August 28th this year I started back at work and did a follow up and a cat scan and was told things looked good. within 2 weeks I started to get severe pain in y lowe L5 L1 back area and I forgot to mention my nerve pain I had since my surgery was flareing up more as the surgery they cut nerves to remove the tumor. this went on for almost 3 months. I was in and out of the ER no doctor would listion and I felt Judged. I went to a spine doc got a shot in the back. I went to chiopractors, message therapis, bought messagers, creams, pain meds, or cried on a floor until the pain might ease up. I lost my job due to this. It is now December 15th my follow up petscan appointment. within 2 days the chemo doctor called me which I new was not good as I wasnt going to see him until the 30th. He told me my cancer looked as if it spead and pushing on my organs and I needed to see another specialist in Albany NY rite away to confirm. So in pain we went and saw this new doc and she confirmed my cancer that was supposed to be gone after my surgery is now a stage 4 and not a 1B and has spread up to my liver. At this point there is no cure it is just about managing it to hope it does not spread any further by doing a strong dose of 3 meds of chemo. A far as the pain she prescriped another pain med to try as she could see all the other meds I had been prescibed were clearly not working. ( I was prescribed or given atleast 20 different meds).This pain med did not work either and we thern finally were able to get a strong drug and fight with insurance for me to use. I also got help from people to try CBD and Mary J. I had to have 2 surguries so far and a few more are in discussion to be done. I had a sten put in my kidney and I had a day surgery for a port to be put in my chest to help with putting in IVs. My first day of 3 strong chemo meds was Jan 15th. Which knocked me out made me sleep for days which was nice as I did not sleep for 2 months due to the amount of pain I was in. This chemo is so strong that I do it every 3 weeks and I had my second Chemo Feb 5th. The chemo seems to help with the pain a lot, that I dont need to take as much pain meds. I just take a bunch other meds to help with other issues chemo gives you. This chemo round I lost all my hair. The first round just thinned my hair. It has been a hard and long ordeal to go through. I have had many emotional days or moments throughout the days where I have felt so defeated and down. Some days I just didnt want to be in this world at all, but not like i wanted to hurt myself I just didnt want to be here and was just so exhuasted. I have cried more than I think Ive cried in my entire life. Mind you this is all during covid and trying to be a teacher for remote learning to a 10 year old and be a girlfiriend and also be home as I couldnt work due to pain or doc appointments and my now suiper week immune system. I have a long way to go and there is no knowing what will happen. Every day is just a miracal I am here.

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