Help @MiaVibes BEAT cancer

 

Hello, my friends and family! This is Sunny, or Mia Vibes if you’re following my Instagram @miavibes. Thank you so much for visiting my GoFundMe page because I really need your help this time. Please read my long story below and consider donating and sharing this page. I thank you everyone in advance.

Let me quickly introduce myself in case you don’t know me: I’m a 32-year-old girl living in Katy, Texas. Married to the best husband ever. Before getting sick, I was a journaling inspiration creator on Instagram with over 70k followers, I was also a full-time journal maker & seller since 2019, and I want to say I was such a #selflove & #selfcare message spreader and “good vibe” sender. However, currently, I am battling severe anemia and getting ready to fight possibly 2 different types of cancer.

Back in April 2020, I started noticing some changes in my body. At first, for several days, I had terrible stomachache and fever, which was very unusual for me, and I even experienced very severe nausea during that time. Ever since then, I have been now always having pain all over my stomach, experiencing fever and cold sweats every single day and having no energy to do anything. In addition, I haven’t been able to eat as much as I used to, which caused me to lose my body weight very quickly, or sleep peacefully.

I started realizing there was something wrong with me because I wasn’t getting better at all while I was telling myself every day, “I’ll feel better tomorrow.” I had to slowly stop working as I wasn’t able to do anything at my work desk. Whenever I was trying to do anything, I would start sweating, feel pain on my stomach, and even lose my focus completely. Eventually, I couldn’t even simply journal or update my Instagram anymore because it was too much for my brain and body.

A few months went by like that. I didn’t do anything for my body just because I was afraid to see a doctor. I was afraid if they would find something bad, I was (and still am) afraid I couldn’t afford to pay for treatment for whatever I may have, and I was afraid I wasn’t ready for any of that. The whole pandemic situation also discouraged me to go to the hospital.

Finally, on August 23rd 2020, I decided to go to the Emergency Room. It was after I almost collapsed and passed out at the grocery store and had a couple of really bad nights with no sleep and lots of throwing up. I didn’t feel like my body could handle it anymore, so as soon as my husband came home from work that Monday, I asked him to take me to the hospital, which he always had tried to but I always said No whenever he asked.

At the ER, they did all kinds of tests such as CT scan, ultrasound, urine test, blood test, etc., and told me that my blood level was very low. It was 4 when it should be 12 normally. My nurse told me I was very pale, too. Then they gave me a blood transfusion immediately.

While I was getting the first pack of blood, the doctor came by to tell me that I had a big mass on my right stomach and other tumors on the mash that holds my organs. He said it was guaranteed that I had cancer and it was going to be a tough treatment with chemotherapy as a surgery wasn’t going to be able to effectively  remove my “advanced” cancer. He also said I possibly had another cancer in my female area.

I was admitted to the hospital that night. It was already 3 am the next day. While I stayed at the hospital for the next couple of days, I had more blood transfusion which increased my hemoglobin level to 7 now, and they did biopsy to remove fluid (caused by the tumors) from my stomach and to take a piece of my tumor so that they can further know what kind of cancer I have.

Now a little over a month has passed since I got discharged from the hospital. But y’all, nothing has been done to treat my cancer. I haven’t even followed up with the oncologist to go over the biopsy result, so I still don’t know what kind of cancer I have. It’s no one’s fault, but it’s all because I simply couldn’t afford to go to see the doctor as it’s $800 per visit. (The insurance we bought did not cover these visits, unfortunately.) We don’t have that now especially when I haven’t been able to work for the last few months due to my illness.

We’ve been applying for all kinds of financial assistance, but it takes a long time for those applications to be processed, or we’ve been getting some rejection news as well. We’ll keep trying, though.

While I spend most of my day in bed due to pain, fever, and low energy, not only hospital bills but also regular life bills have been piling up on us. We were already falling behind before my ER visit since I hadn’t been working for so long, so I feel like I’m almost stuck here. This is why I decided to open up myself and ask y’all for help publicly even though I think it is embarrassing that I got sick and I can’t take care of myself as a grown-up adult.

My wonderful husband Blake has been being the best husband ever and doing everything he can do to take care of me, but we’re not a wealthy couple, so we really need your help so that I can start visiting doctors IMMEDIATELY while waiting on the financial assistance program approvals, hopefully.

We’d really appreciate it if you consider donating any amount of money for my cancer treatment and life bills. I will spend every penny carefully and gratefully, and I will do my best to BEAT this cancer as soon as possible so that I can go back to work where I inspire people every day.

I’ll update this GoFundMe page as often as I can, but please visit @miavibes on Instagram to get to know me better and see more quick life updates of me.

I appreciate all your time, love, support, donations and shares.


Sincerely,
Sunny a.k.a. Mia Vibes