Jamee's breast cancer medical fund...

March 23rd 2024. Jamee was released from the hospital today on supplemental oxygen. She was diagnosed with chemo lung toxicity, and will now have to discontinue her current chemo. She will be flying down to Texas to MD Anderson to see a lung toxicity specialist team as soon as she is stable enough. Please send your love to her, this is a detour we did not foresee.

On March 15th 2024 Jamee was admitted into the Hospital in Billings after being sick for a few days, it turns out she is fighting a very bad case of pneumonia and infection that comes with extreme pain and fevers. As of today, Monday the 18th, she doesn’t have a release date as she is on Iv antibiotics and fluids. Please send her your love ❤️

March 2024

Jamee Crabtree-Kendrick was diagnosed with Stage 3 aggressive and rare Inflammatory Breast Cancer. She has completed chemo and immunotherapy, surgery and radiation; and is currently working towards finishing 14 rounds of a new chemo treatment for residual cancer. Jamee is working full time as a dental hygienist in Laurel as much as possible before her upcoming surgeries. We are having a benefit on April 27th 2024, all proceeds from the benefit will go directly to Jamee for all current and future treatments, tests, and surgeries, along with travel expenses to MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. Thank you to everyone for helping make this all possible.

8/26/2023

On August 1st at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, Jamee had a radical mastectomy with total lymph node removal and she had a specialized procedure done called a lymphovenous bypass. She has spent the last several weeks healing and getting the wound vac removed and the last of the drains were removed earlier in the week. During this time she has had many drs. appointments. Her surgical oncology follow up showed clear margins, this meaning that the surgery has removed all cancer, However, the intial 6 rounds of chemo left behind residual cancer and a tumor in her lymph nodes. So because of this, The oncologist says her best course of treament right now is a new chemo/immunotherapy drug that she will have done by infusions once every 3 weeks for 14 rounds. This puts her not finishing this particular treatment until The very end of May 2024. She will have her first few rounds done in Houston, then her drs here will work with her drs in Montana to finish. Jamee has started physical therapy three times per week and she will also do her radiation therapy in Houston. This will be done twice a day, five days a week for 5-6 weeks, putting her last session being done the end of October.

When we came to Houston the end of July to prepare for all of this, we had planned to be here through the first week of October, but now with all the new things we will be here through at least the end of October, and making many trips back here in the future.

She has been given the opportunity to enter into a clinical trial, which would be amazing, but it will require a lot of traveling back and forth from Montana to Houston for all the tests, the positive notes on the trial are; that of decreasing her reoccurrence rate significantly for a longer period of time, and that they continue to monitor her closely, and test her frequently over the upcoming years. This will help keep a closer watch on this aggressive, rare form of inflammatory breast cancer.

On Wednesday she went through another port surgery here at MD Anderson to replace the one she had done in Billings with a new and better one. They had to remove it because it had become kinked and was making its way into her azygos vein. Now she is ready to start the new chemo on August 31st.

With all of this, and the many trips current and upcoming, along with Jamee being unable to work while she gets this treatment, it is quite stressful for both her and Tate financially. Their insurance has been great, but there is and will be so many added costs.

Thank you for all the love and support you have shown, our entire family thanks you so much.

Update!!!!

First of all we want to thank everyone for their generous donations and to all of you who chose to share. I want to take a minute and update everyone.

Jamee has completed 3 rounds of aggressive chemo and immunotherapy so far, however, after her third round her doctor decided it was best to send her to her surgeon for two biopsies of a rash they have been watching/trying to treat. Those results came back as Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC), which means she has a new and more difficult fight ahead of her. With this rare 2nd form of breast cancer added to her diagnosis it sent us scrambling to find a specialist. With the help of her primary physician and encouragement from her surgeon, she has been accepted as a patient at MDAnderson Inflammatory Breast Cancer Clinic in Houston, Texas. We will be flying out to her first appointments the 3rd week of May, and when we leave there she should have a new treatment plan in place. I am going to go ahead and start her go fund me circulating again in case anyone wants to help by donating/sharing and spreading the word. We would be forever grateful. Please keep praying, sending love, and keep the positive vibes coming we can feel them all.

On January 17, 2023 at 30 years old, Jamee Crabtree-Kendrick was diagnosed with Stage 3 aggressive, invasive breast Cancer. She is a stubborn, and independent young woman who definitely is not one who asks for, or accepts help easily, so her family has decided to do it for her.

Jamee is currently going through fertility treatment with Utah Fertility Center, as the doctor for the Billings, Montana Fertility Clinic is not in office this month. This procedure allows her a chance at having a family once her body is healthy enough to do so. Once that is completed this month she will start 6 rounds of aggressive Chemo and 1 years worth of immunotherapy. When the first 6 rounds of Chemo is finished she will proceed with a double mastectomy, followed up with more Chemo and immunotherapy due to an HER2+ gene.

Jamee works full time as a Registered Dental Hygienist at Winterholler Dentistry in Laurel, Montana, and her husband Tate works for Sibanye Stillwater Mine. Even though she plans to continue working as much as her body will allow, despite having insurance, their finances will be strained, and the expenses will be mounting.

***So if you pray…. please pray, if you vibe….then please vibe, and if you can donate to help, or just share for others to help, we as a family will be forever grateful. Let’s help her kick this cancer in the ass and get back to her vibrant, full of life, young self.

**This account was set up by Terri Krenning-Gauthier, Cody and Cooper Crabtree.