
Love for Lisa! Help Pediatric Nurse Fight Cancer!
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As a devoted pediatric nurse, loving wife, mother, and devoted caregiver to her elderly father, my mom, Lisa Nervig, has provided all the love and care our family and her pediatric patients could ever ask for. Now, she is the one who needs love and care.
This December my family was finally all together and enjoying the holiday season. Last year, my family had Covid during the holidays and I couldn’t fly home. But this year was going to be different. We had the best time together enjoying all the excitement of the season. Then the unbelievable nightmare began. Just after we rang in the new year together, my mom, was suddenly, and without warning, diagnosed with pancreatic cancer (specifically, pancreaticobiliary adenocarcinoma). The doctors have hope but have told us that the next 6 months will be a battle. However, it is a battle we know deep in our hearts she can win with your support.
My mom’s hope was that she could continue working as a school nurse and pediatric clinic nurse and caring for her family and elderly father as normally as possible during the weeks she wasn’t scheduled for chemotherapy. Unfortunately, that has not been the reality and the treatment has proven to be much harder on her body than anticipated, making working as a nurse very difficult for her.
The most important thing to my family is that my mom has the time and strength and peace of mind to devote all of her energy to healing her body from this insidious cancer.
We have started this Go Fund Me account to ease the financial burden my mom and dad will face. Over the next days, weeks, and months ahead, instead of working with her patients, my mom will need to be at chemotherapy sessions, doctor appointments as well as a scheduled surgery. As you can imagine the medical costs on top of regular living expenses could be astronomical.
It is my hope that with your help, my brother and I can help give back all the love and care my mom has shown us and so many others in her life. I know that all of us pulling together, and giving what each of us can, we can ease the pain of my mom's cancer journey and get her over the finish line to reach a clean bill of health.
Please share with your friends and family and anyone else who can help us bring some love, hope, and sunshine to my mom during this journey. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your generosity and support.
With love,
Madison
Organizador e beneficiário
Madison Nervig
Organizador
Naperville, IL
Lisa Knox-Nervig
Beneficiário