As most of you know, our Mom, Patty Flanagan has always been a hard working single mom. In April of 2017 our mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. She had a mastectomy in May and then went through chemotherapy and radiation which spanned into February 2018. Due to complications with her irradiated skin, she finally finished her breast reconstruction and an abdominal repair in 2021. Since then she’s done her best to get a good job working in property management, she’s rents a cute home in Tacony, and has even started her own led testing business. She’s busted her ass to do cleaning jobs on the side and also worked a catering job on nights and weekends. In fact, prior to her recent health issues, she worked 23 days in a row without complaint. In July of 2022 at a check up with her surgeon, she was informed that a scan she had done a year prior (July of 2021) had something suspicious show up on her hip bone and no one flagged it. The same lesion had appeared to grow in a more recent scan and they wanted her to see her Oncologist. We met with an oncologist in August of 2022 who informed her that a petscan had shown she had lesions throughout her spine, in her shoulder joints, her lymphnodes in her abdomen, lungs, throat and worst of all they’ve done a lot of damage to her hip bone. Since August we’ve met with many specialists, she’s had to have a lung biopsy, a throat biopsy, shoulder surgery to repair a hole in the bone, radiation and just recently a full hip replacement. She hasn’t been able to lift her right leg since October, which has caused her recovery from said hip surgery to be a long and painful process. She spent an unexpected week in Temple hospital on Broad Street due to the fact that a pre-surgery x-ray revealed her hip had broken while waiting for surgery and she had a tumor in the incision site. She’s had to spend an additional two weeks at Moss rehab. During this time life has gone on around her, as it does, and she is in danger of becoming very behind on her bills. She was already struggling to make ends meet as her hip deterioration had caused a lot of pain in addition to the abundance of doctors appointments, scans, blood draws, and injections she’s had to endure, she hasn’t had the physical strength or the time to be able to devote to working full time. She has been staying with me, Melissa her daughter, and my family for two weeks leading up to her hip surgery and she will need to be here for another two weeks at minimum while she recovers. A nurse, occupational therapist, and a physical therapist will be coming out throughout the next two weeks to get her hip strong enough for her to return to normal life. She has such a long road left to go working with medicines to combat the cancer and figure out which one works best for her. We’ve decided to make this in hopes that we can make life a little less stressful for her at this time and let her just concentrate on healing and not so much time worrying about when she can return to work in order to pay her bills. We greatly appreciate any and all help.