Help My Sister In Her Battle With Breast Cancer!

2022 has been one of the most brutal years in our family’s history. My sister Irina Borodowsky's breast cancer diagnosis (Stage III) came only a month after the news of her daughter’s father’s death from COVID-19. My niece was burdened with navigating both the grief of her dad’s sudden passing and the terrifying threat of cancer taking her mother away in the same year. Our family is spread out across the US, Canada, and Cuba, but despite the distance, we all put our energy into supporting them in whatever way we could. Cooking meals, driving her to treatments, running errands, cleaning their home, taking care of her daughter, and offering consistent moral support.

I had a lot of faith, because Irina is a tough cookie and truly one of the most hardworking people I know. A single mother to a teenage daughter, she runs her own business with so much dedication that she rarely takes time off. Even while her body was becoming increasingly frail during aggressive chemotherapy, she continued to show up at work to keep her small company afloat. Ironically, her company is a lab dedicated to analyzing individuals' unique genetic maps to assess their predisposition to illnesses, and using that knowledge to help prevent them from falling ill.

One of the most challenging chapters in her breast cancer journey was coming to terms with the cumulative effects of the chemotherapy treatments. It had given her neuropathy, which meant she would not be physically capable of returning to work as quickly as she had hoped after her final major surgery. In the meantime, the bills for all her medical care continue accumulating.

Our mother always told us that there is nothing in this world as important as your health. And I’ve always told my daughter that everything in life has a solution, except death. So, I told my sister not to worry about the medical bills, and focus all her energy on getting through the aggressive chemo treatments that were prescribed as her only option for survival.

Family, friends, and kind souls, we humbly ask that you show empathy and solidarity with my dear sister and everything she has been through to make it this far in her cancer journey.

All donated funds will go directly and exclusively to Irina to help relieve the substantial medical debts and expenses associated with her cancer treatment and related needs.

Please consider giving any amount you can spare. It may be a cliché, but every little bit really does help.

Regardless of your donation capacity, you can make a valuable impact by sharing the link to her fundraiser with your friends, family, and extended networks on social media. I’m sure you can imagine how hard it is to have your message noticed among all the noise online, and we only have a limited time before our fundraiser reaches its deadline.

We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your support today and pray that God will bless you tenfold for your kindness! The world needs more of it now than ever before.