Rachel’s Cancer Journey
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This is Rachel's Story - thank you for your prayers and donations.
I find myself in one of the darkest seasons of my life, with a positive hope for the future.
Let me explain...Dec 2018, I survived a domestic violence situation with my ex-hubby; March 2019, lost one of my closest childhood friends (at her young age of 32) to a disease she didn’t know she had and I had just had 2 different surgeries: first to to remove precancerous cells from my cervix in Nov. and another a few days into April to remove a lipoma from my back.
Things had been tough for several months and just starting to look hopeful again with a new job. Then, my first day at the new gig, I flew to Phoenix for training. By the time I went lunch I got the call. The first tax year I have ever owed the IRS, April 15th. The call that changed everything - my doctor said lab results came back .. invasive ductal carcinoma.
After a mammogram, sonogram and biopsy, labs showed it to be “triple positive” meaning aggressive. ER/PR positive means estrogen and progesterone are both “feeding” the cancer. HER2 positive means there is a greater risk of relapse and metastasis with a positive HER2 status.
My health insurance with the new job won’t start until 6-1-19 and I only have 1 shot to freeze my eggs before starting chemotherapy - which I will have to be on for the next year.
The chemo potentially can render me infertile, so I have applied for all the discount programs and savings that I can to get financial assistance for this procedure. Most have approved coverage for the thousands in medication fees, but the procedure itself is $7,000.
Thank God the medicine is covered but the procedure isn’t. That price is due the day of retrieval, in two weeks, Sat May 25th. So this is my very last option..to ask for help & pray.
I honestly can’t start chemo treatment until I have insurance coverage, seeing as just 1 round of chemo as a “self pay client” is $33,000 and I need 6 rounds. So I am prayerfully believing for financial provision be blessed and thank you for your support.
- Rachel
I find myself in one of the darkest seasons of my life, with a positive hope for the future.
Let me explain...Dec 2018, I survived a domestic violence situation with my ex-hubby; March 2019, lost one of my closest childhood friends (at her young age of 32) to a disease she didn’t know she had and I had just had 2 different surgeries: first to to remove precancerous cells from my cervix in Nov. and another a few days into April to remove a lipoma from my back.
Things had been tough for several months and just starting to look hopeful again with a new job. Then, my first day at the new gig, I flew to Phoenix for training. By the time I went lunch I got the call. The first tax year I have ever owed the IRS, April 15th. The call that changed everything - my doctor said lab results came back .. invasive ductal carcinoma.
After a mammogram, sonogram and biopsy, labs showed it to be “triple positive” meaning aggressive. ER/PR positive means estrogen and progesterone are both “feeding” the cancer. HER2 positive means there is a greater risk of relapse and metastasis with a positive HER2 status.
My health insurance with the new job won’t start until 6-1-19 and I only have 1 shot to freeze my eggs before starting chemotherapy - which I will have to be on for the next year.
The chemo potentially can render me infertile, so I have applied for all the discount programs and savings that I can to get financial assistance for this procedure. Most have approved coverage for the thousands in medication fees, but the procedure itself is $7,000.
Thank God the medicine is covered but the procedure isn’t. That price is due the day of retrieval, in two weeks, Sat May 25th. So this is my very last option..to ask for help & pray.
I honestly can’t start chemo treatment until I have insurance coverage, seeing as just 1 round of chemo as a “self pay client” is $33,000 and I need 6 rounds. So I am prayerfully believing for financial provision be blessed and thank you for your support.
- Rachel
Organizer and beneficiary
Nashifa Gilani
Organizer
Carrollton, TX
Rachel Rubio
Beneficiary