Help with Lou Jimenez’s medical expenses

As many of you know, we’re doing a benefit for Lou Jimenez April 17th, 2021 at the Wellsboro Moose. - This benefit is to help raise money for him and Audrey with his medical expenses. If anyone who cannot make it and would like to donate, we decided to also start a Go Fund Me. All proceeds will go towards his medical and travel expenses. Every little bit helps and is greatly appreciated!! Below is Lou’s story. 

May 10, 2020 - Lou was diagnosed with paraganglioma. A very rare cancer that attacks the adrenaline glands and kidneys. Only 2 out of a million people get this form of cancer.

June 22, 2020 - Lou went in to have a 10# tumor removed. Along with the tumor, they removed his right kidney, adrenal gland, and gallbladder.

He went back in for checkup on July 23, 2020 to have staples removed. At that time he was informed that the tumor indeed was seeping into his chest wall. But they felt they had got it all on the June surgery. He was sent home to play with their newest members of their family - (6) dachshunds. He heard a “snap” and “pop,” but didn’t feel the pain for a few days. 

Went back in November for an MIBG pet scan and was told that the cancer was growing. At this point it has also involved his iliac, eighth right rib, right skull along with his sacram and his aortic lymph node. 

He underwent local radiation through Thanksgiving into just before Christmas with unfortunately no luck. 

He felt the pain was getting worse, so he called his oncologist in Pittsburgh. With the push from Dr. Kaplan of Hillman Cancer Center here in Wellsboro, he got his scan set up for end of February of 2021. 

The scan did not come back good at all. The scan showed that his cancer has now moved to his right femur, left leg, spine, liver, and into both of his lungs. Lou is now set up with an Azetra injection of 131 for April 12th with the remission for up to a year.

Everyone that knows Lou knows he is a fighter. He is staying positive through it all. The pain is the worse pain he has ever experienced in his entire life. But to no avail the pain is still horrific. These remedies take his pain from 10 to 8 on the pain scale. He loves life and recently married Audrey in November of 2020. He loves his family and his friends too much to just give up. 

All who have been involved with him know that his activity level is almost nill. He can’t do much and take it from him he hates that. He doesn’t even have the energy to cook - Yes, cook. The last meal he cooked was well over 6 weeks ago. That is not Lou at all. He prays daily and he knows his warriors are sending them because that is what is giving him strength.