Help Save Amber’s Life as She Faces an Aggressive Cancer Diagnosis

Amber has spent her entire life showing up for others—with courage, compassion, and service that has touched countless lives. Today, she is facing the fight of her life, and she needs all of us to help her continue it.

Amber was initially diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer at the age of 32 in 2015. The cancer had progressed and she was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in 2016. She beat the odds twice, achieving remission through sheer strength and relentless determination. But this year, everything changed. After months of escalating scans and appointments, doctors found a new tumor in her sacral bone and lesions affecting her spinal cord and nerve root. Specialists believe this is leptomeningeal disease—an aggressive and fast-moving cancer that impacts the brain, spinal cord, and cerebrospinal fluid. Final confirmation is pending, but her team has urged us to prepare for treatment immediately.

Leptomeningeal disease requires highly specialized care, rapid intervention, and treatment options that fall outside what insurance fully covers. To give Amber the best chance at extended time—and possibly life-saving responses—we need to act quickly.

The Financial Reality

Amber is medically retired, and her wife, Celena, has temporarily stepped away from her job to care for her full-time. This means their household income is extremely limited at a time when medical costs are rising at a staggering pace.

To pursue the treatments, consultations, supportive care, and out-of-pocket medical interventions that could extend Amber’s life, we need to raise upwards of $500,000.

This includes:

This amount is overwhelming for any family—especially one facing a diagnosis with so many unknowns. But as a community, we can help lift this tremendous weight so Amber can focus on fighting, healing, and holding on to hope.

A Lifetime of Service

If you know Amber, you know she has never hesitated to give—her time, her strength, her heart, and her service.

Amber has spent decades saving lives, protecting others, and strengthening her community.

Now, she needs that same support—urgently.

How You Can Help

Your contribution—of any amount—directly helps Amber access the care she needs to keep fighting. Whether it’s $10 or $10,000, every donation moves her closer to life-extending treatment and removes a tremendous burden from her and Celena during this unimaginable time.

If you cannot donate, please share this page. Your share could reach the person who can.

Amber has fought for so many. We are fighting now for her.

Thank you for standing with Amber and helping us give her the chance she deserves.