Help us help Chantal Dixon and her family

Our dear friend and co-worker, Chantal Dixon is fighting her second battle with CML (chronic myeloid leukemia). Chantal has just received this devastating news last week and will be admitted this Monday to the UW Medical Center to begin her chemotherapy. Chantal is also a single mother of three children, Leondray age 13, and to two twin girls, Wanita and Aaliyah age 6.

I can’t imagine getting this news and having to start cancer treatment for the second time, let alone during the Holiday season. Please help Bluwater Bistro and myself, in raising money to ease her financial burden while fighting this disease. Chantal also has a faith based website that you can support and order from at www.foreverfearlessfaith.com. Any thing helps and we appreciate all prayers and well wishes!

In 2013 Chantal Dixon was diagnosed with CML (chronic myeloid leukemia), which is a type of cancer that develops in the blood-forming cells of the bone marrow and invades the blood. Chantal decided to forgo her recommended treatments so that she could carry out a healthy pregnancy. Against all odds, she delivered two healthy twin girls in 2015!!!

In 2016 her leukemia returned with a vengeance. Her CML transitioned to AML (acute myeloid leukemia), which is cancer of the blood and bone marrow. This “blast phase” invaded her brain and spinal fluid. Chantal underwent 5 bone marrow biopsies, 2 spinal taps, had a Hickman line placed in her chest, had a Ommaya shunt placed in her brain, did 8 weeks of chemotherapy, 8 sessions of full body radiation, 2 sessions of head radiation, and received a Stem cell transplant . Chantal endured all of this with her unstoppable and remarkable faith in her higher power and a determination I can’t even begin to comprehend, all while raising three children!

The treatments and stem cell transplant were considered successful and she was declared cancer free and in good health!

In late November 2021 Chantal became sick again and started noticing familiar symptoms. She returned to the UW Medical Center and underwent another bone marrow biopsy and spinal tap. Her doctors have confirmed that her CML (chronic myeloid leukemia) has returned. As I stated above, she will begin her treatments this Monday December 13, 2021.

Chantal is a beautiful bright light that never gives up, never asks for anything, and always remains positive.

It is my sincere hope that we can bring a small Christmas miracle to this amazing woman.

This information has been posted with consent and permission of Chantal Dixon.