Crusade For Christine
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I would like to share Christine's story and ask that you pray as to how you can help her with medical expenses for ongoing treatment of bone cancer. 100% of this money will be paid on medical bills and supplies. Christine is a wife, sister, aunt, cousin, daughter, and mother of three children ages 9, 7, and 6 months. She has a long trial ahead of her and as friends and family we want to do what we can to help her and that is the reason we have set up this GoFundMe account.
"It all started as a pain in my knee Dec. 2014. I thought it was a flare up of an old knee injury many years ago. By March of 2015 the pain became unbearable and a visit to the ER ended up in a hospitalization where it was thought I had a bone infection in my femur (upper leg bone). I was sent from Wyoming to Denver, Colorado for a biopsy to determine what type of infection it was and how it would be treated. At this time, the doctor discovered it was not an infection, but an agressive tumor (osteosarcoma). My heart broke!
I was sent home and given medication for pain and nausea, anxiously awaiting my first oncology appointment. I am being treated at the Rocky Mountain Oncology Center in Denver. My first chemotherapy treatment was the week of April 12th. I was too sick to come home for two days after that. What a relief when I did get to come home and be reunited with my family. While I am in the hospital I cannot have visitors under age fourteen, so do not get to see my children which is very hard.
My treatment plan is to have chemo for a week, go home for two weeks and then have chemo for a week and so on. In 3 months I will have surgery to remove the tumor, followed by more chemotherapy. After the final chemo treatment I will have surgery to repair my leg if possible. Yes, I could lose my leg, but I would rather lose it than my life. Thank you for helping with our transportation expenses and medical bills which insurance will not pay."
"It all started as a pain in my knee Dec. 2014. I thought it was a flare up of an old knee injury many years ago. By March of 2015 the pain became unbearable and a visit to the ER ended up in a hospitalization where it was thought I had a bone infection in my femur (upper leg bone). I was sent from Wyoming to Denver, Colorado for a biopsy to determine what type of infection it was and how it would be treated. At this time, the doctor discovered it was not an infection, but an agressive tumor (osteosarcoma). My heart broke!
I was sent home and given medication for pain and nausea, anxiously awaiting my first oncology appointment. I am being treated at the Rocky Mountain Oncology Center in Denver. My first chemotherapy treatment was the week of April 12th. I was too sick to come home for two days after that. What a relief when I did get to come home and be reunited with my family. While I am in the hospital I cannot have visitors under age fourteen, so do not get to see my children which is very hard.
My treatment plan is to have chemo for a week, go home for two weeks and then have chemo for a week and so on. In 3 months I will have surgery to remove the tumor, followed by more chemotherapy. After the final chemo treatment I will have surgery to repair my leg if possible. Yes, I could lose my leg, but I would rather lose it than my life. Thank you for helping with our transportation expenses and medical bills which insurance will not pay."
Organizer
Laura Kinnaman-Hermann
Organizer
Buffalo, WY