Julie Pool Brain Cancer Fund
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Welcome,
This story starts nearly five years ago for my Aunt Julie. One of the nicest people on the entire planet. While that may sound cliche, all you need to do is ask literally anyone who has so much as said 'Hello' to her. Which is why what she is going through is an absolute tragedy.
Back in March of 2014 they found a mass in Julie's abdomen and during surgery they found out it was cancerous. Julie was only 45 at the time, now facing a hysterectomy and chemotherapy. The good thing is that, for a short while, the treatments worked.
She had been undergoing treatments for years until December of 2017. That is when she got sick they found 2 tumors, in her brain and bones (mainly hip). This is when things got really serious.
In the last year she has undergone, chemo, a thing called 'Gamma Knife'(which frankly, sounds horrific), and 'Stereotactic Laser Ablation Surgery'.
As of Dec 2018, the last laser surgery she had caused a stroke and she has been in the ICU for the last two weeks. Her short-term memory is gone, and due to her hip surgery she cannot walk. (More details at bottom)
Needless to say, Julie is not working, Scott must take time off and the prognosis for Julie is measured in 'months'.
Even with insurance, out of pocket costs are nearly unlimited. If this Go-Fund-Me reaches it's goal Scott will have the ability to spend more time with Julie, and if the worst happens it will help clean up bills.
The holidays are about GIVING, I can think of no better cause than giving the gift of time to family.
Time is the most precious resource they have right now.
~Thank you for reading and extreme gratitude for anything you can do to help.
If you want more details. . . (From Scott)
In May the left tumor (in her brain) grew to twice its size and we hit that with the Gamma Knife for the second time.
At the end of July she was having hip pain on her left side, that went on for a few months and found that the cancer had spread to her bone, we hit that 5 times with radiation in October.
Mid-November the brain scan found the 2 tumors from last December started to grow again and we decided to hit both of them with Stereotactic Laser Ablation Surgery killing off the right tumor but the left is still active.
Thursday the 6th of December she had a 5 1/2 hour surgery and 3 hours of recovery and everything looked good Thursday night. Buy Friday at 3pm she was unresponsive.
They put in a breathing tube and a brain shunt to relive the pressure on her brain, Saturday (12/8/2018) morning she started to recover and the breathing tube was removed Sunday morning.
On Sunday we found that she had a stroke on her right side affecting her eye, arm, leg and short term memory. She was in ICU untill Thursday afternoon then moved to a regular room. With all the scan being done we have found that the radiation didn't do any good to her hip and it might fracture, we are now looking at hip surgery this coming week.
We are more concerned with the short term memory loss, she has shown small improvements.
This story starts nearly five years ago for my Aunt Julie. One of the nicest people on the entire planet. While that may sound cliche, all you need to do is ask literally anyone who has so much as said 'Hello' to her. Which is why what she is going through is an absolute tragedy.
Back in March of 2014 they found a mass in Julie's abdomen and during surgery they found out it was cancerous. Julie was only 45 at the time, now facing a hysterectomy and chemotherapy. The good thing is that, for a short while, the treatments worked.
She had been undergoing treatments for years until December of 2017. That is when she got sick they found 2 tumors, in her brain and bones (mainly hip). This is when things got really serious.
In the last year she has undergone, chemo, a thing called 'Gamma Knife'(which frankly, sounds horrific), and 'Stereotactic Laser Ablation Surgery'.
As of Dec 2018, the last laser surgery she had caused a stroke and she has been in the ICU for the last two weeks. Her short-term memory is gone, and due to her hip surgery she cannot walk. (More details at bottom)
Needless to say, Julie is not working, Scott must take time off and the prognosis for Julie is measured in 'months'.
Even with insurance, out of pocket costs are nearly unlimited. If this Go-Fund-Me reaches it's goal Scott will have the ability to spend more time with Julie, and if the worst happens it will help clean up bills.
The holidays are about GIVING, I can think of no better cause than giving the gift of time to family.
Time is the most precious resource they have right now.
~Thank you for reading and extreme gratitude for anything you can do to help.
If you want more details. . . (From Scott)
In May the left tumor (in her brain) grew to twice its size and we hit that with the Gamma Knife for the second time.
At the end of July she was having hip pain on her left side, that went on for a few months and found that the cancer had spread to her bone, we hit that 5 times with radiation in October.
Mid-November the brain scan found the 2 tumors from last December started to grow again and we decided to hit both of them with Stereotactic Laser Ablation Surgery killing off the right tumor but the left is still active.
Thursday the 6th of December she had a 5 1/2 hour surgery and 3 hours of recovery and everything looked good Thursday night. Buy Friday at 3pm she was unresponsive.
They put in a breathing tube and a brain shunt to relive the pressure on her brain, Saturday (12/8/2018) morning she started to recover and the breathing tube was removed Sunday morning.
On Sunday we found that she had a stroke on her right side affecting her eye, arm, leg and short term memory. She was in ICU untill Thursday afternoon then moved to a regular room. With all the scan being done we have found that the radiation didn't do any good to her hip and it might fracture, we are now looking at hip surgery this coming week.
We are more concerned with the short term memory loss, she has shown small improvements.
Organiser and beneficiary
Nathan A Wishard
Organiser
Osseo, MN
Scott Pool
Beneficiary