Cancer Sucks! Help Jessica fight !!

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Cancer Sucks! Help Jessica fight !!

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Jessica is a beautiful 32 year old mother, with a 7 year old daughter and husband. She has been suffering with medical issues since she was 21, when she had her first surgery to remove a 7-8 cm dermoid cyst from her ovary and was diagnosed with endometriosis. Since then she's had 5 more lap surgeries and 6 months of Lupron shots that put her through menopause. 
 
As the pains had worsened she went to the er several times starting in march of 2013 where they just found a simple watery cyst on her kidney.Her pcp did an MRI where she was told everything was fine, she was told she was just BI-Polar and put her on medicine.  

In March of 2014,  went to er again they saw the lesion grew to 1.2 but was clear and fine according to the pcp.  By August of 2014,  she decided enough was enough and went for a second opinion. The urologist explained that on the MRI that the pcp was aware of , she had, was a rare disease called nutcracker syndrome, that compresses the renal vein with the aorta and vena cava aka like a nutcracker. A stent was placed in her renal vein to open up the blood flow. And the cyst was seen again and said to have grown to 1.6 but was still nothing to be alarmed of said pcp and vascular Doctor. Has not been back to pcp since.

Jessica was deveasted. In oct 2015 through now, jess is having horrible nerve and muscular pain. She loses feeling in her arms and legs, and so much more. Due to this pain it took a toll on her physically and she was unable to work, doing hair ,a job that she absolutely loved for 15 years. Her passion. Her source of income.

In a year and a half she has gone she to 9 different specialists who all rejected her based on age, clean blood test, normal MRI, been called too emotional , it's psychological ,and more and tried ever medicine they prescribed for something that didn't even have a diagnosis for. They diagnosed her with fibromyalgia, anxiety, depression, and add. She has been on and off medicine for years, and nothing has helped as everything she was taking was not for what she really had.

In the past 2 months, she has lost 50 lbs due to what we now know is kidney cancer. She has been losing clumps of her hair that you can actually see her scalp in certain parts coming through. She's losing hair below the scalp with follicle attached meaning some are dead and not coming back. Her hair is very important to her.

Last week she went to the emergency room, due to the overwhelming pain in my upper and middle abdominal region, dizziness, passing out, tingling sensation, incredible nauseous feeling, back pain, fatigue,etc. The ER doctor preformed a CT and found what was always there. It showed that her renal lesion almost doubled in size in a year. It measures 2.2cm , solid lesion renal cell carcinoma ( kidney cancer) with hyperattuating areas (meaning definitely not fat cells) with Much more abnormalities and a 3x2 cyst on her right ovary. Below Low red blood count and high white blood count , fever everyday and Now that this has been found Jessica can finally be treated properly. 

She wanted a diagnoses for so long, and now she can finally fight and get the surgery she so desperately needs. Her health coverage is not good, and with her husband as the only income and trying to also help raise their daughter, take off for ever doctor appointment and do EVERYTHING else ,Financially they are in need of your help big time. Please help and donate, every dollar counts! Stress is the worst thing families need when dealing with cancer and other illnesses. Let's join together to take some of that stress off their back. she goes to the surgeon on Thursday so they need help ASAP!!! Please put her in your prayers! She would do it for you if she could.

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Jessica Nicole Shannon
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Bay Shore, NY
Louann Shannon
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