Relief For Ryan Marie’s Fearless Fight

Hello everyone. I am NOT one to ask for help. But as you all know in December of 2019 I was diagnosed with Cervical Cancer stage 1b. It all started in Sept 2019, I took a trip to the ER for a pain on my right side. They did a CT scan and determined I had a cyst on my right ovary. For many years I’ve had pelvic pain and I have never gotten a check up or went to the doctor since my daughter was born in 2006 ( I am terrified of the doctor, hospital, broken bones, blood) so I made an appt to follow up on the cyst. They asked me when the last time I had a pap was and since it was 13 years ago they scheduled me for one. That’s where it went down hill. It came back abnormal and I was scheduled to have my first biopsy done in November. After getting that done the results came back that I had precancerous cells on my cervix and scheduled me for a leep procedure. The leep was to cut a layer of my cervix off in hopes to get rid of those abnormal cells. The doctor doing that told me the looks of it was not good and she couldn’t get it all, she also couldn’t get me to stop bleeding for a little. After two traumatizing biopsy’s they called me in Dec 2019 to let me know I had cervical cancer and it was pretty invasive. My insurance for work finally kicked in on January 1st for kaiser. I was referred to an oncologist there. We did a pelvic exam with her and she said the tumor was a pretty good size but doesn’t look like it has spread anywhere else. She ordered a PET scan of my body (which is like a CT scan) to see if the cancer had spread. As we waited for the next appt to find out the results, it didn’t come back as we expected. The PET scan came back abnormal, my right ovary lit up at the top close to a lymph node. She said there was something about 2cm in size on my ovary. Could be a cyst or could be the cancer. She said it’s not likely that cervical cancer could form on my ovary, but it’s also not uncommon. So we were left with the choices of, her opening me up and looking at that ovary to see what that 2cm hot spot was and to look at the lymph node, if all looked ok she would proceed with the radical hysterectomy BUT there was a chance I would still have to face chemo and radiation OR not do the surgery and just do chemo and radiation and hope for the best. After hearing the options and all the possibilities plus her thoughts we decided to go through with the surgery. 

surgery day January 28, 2020. She called Emmett an hour into surgery and said it was just a cyst and everything looked great so she proceeded with the surgery. 2 days after surgery, that pathology came back and she came to let us 
know that unfortunately the lymph node has a 7mm microscopic tumor and I would have to do chemo and radiation, also to let us know the surgery was a very difficult one because it was very sticky in there and hard to move around my organs that she needed to cuz they were stuck together, resulting that I also had endometriosis. I came home from the hospital on January 31st. I was sent home with a catheter for a week due to her moving my bladder down and it has to settle. Feb 6th I got the catheter and the staples removed. On Feb 7th I had a scare going to the ER with shortness of breathe. After spending 6 hours there they found I have a blood clot in my right lung, due to having cancer and the surgery it was easier to form a blood clot Emmett had to give me blood thinner shots for 5 days and now I’m on pills for 6-12 months. They said it’s a small clot and the thinners should get rid of it. Here I am 3 weeks recovery, which has been the hardest for me mentally and physically and in the coming weeks will have to face 6 weeks of treatment to hopefully beat this stupid C word

So during all this bills have been piling up, Emmett has been here to take care of me the past 3 weeks, I have been forced to not work with an expected date back to work June 1st and we are struggling. We have been so appreciative of the calls, text, love, support, people sending food and gifts it truly means a lot. I’m the one to help you before you help me. So this is hard for me to ask for help. But anything helps at this time. Money will go to gas to get to treatment for the next 6 weeks as I will have to drive about 2 hours a day there and back Monday- Friday, food, bills and any supplies I need. Thank you! If you don’t want to donate through here I also have Venmo, zelle and cash app.

Venmo= Ryan-Murray-104
Zelle is under my phone number (message me if you need it)
Cash App= $RyanMariee

thank you all for taking the time to read this. And continue to be with me on this Journey to kicking cancers ass!!  #TeamRyanMarie

The Tucker Family