Support Chloe through her Journey with Breast Cancer

Hello Dear Friends and Community of Chloe,

As some of you will know, our beloved Chloe was diagnosed with a fast-growing Breast Cancer in January this year, requiring urgent treatment. The subtype (Triple Negative) has higher rates of metastasis and recurrence than other types, and had already spread to her lymph nodes.

Since the diagnosis, she has approached each stage of the process with pragmatism and a clear vision for full recovery. Those of you who know her well will have sensed her fierce willingness to show up to life, and all that it asks. With an open heart and mind, she is viewing this to be another health crisis she can ride through, learn from, be transformed by and emerge stronger and wiser.

However, like anyone going through this level of cancer treatment, the scale of impact on Chloe’s life is hard to overstate. While she thankfully still has some better days, it has been immensely challenging and debilitating for her on every level.

Treatment

It is really important for Chloe to take an integrative and holistic approach in her treatment; blending western medicine with oncological naturopathy, Chinese medicine/acupuncture, lymphatic drainage/massage, diet and other lifestyle measures. These complementary modalities support her body through the intense side effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, as well as give her ongoing comprehensive treatment for the best chance to reverse the cancer’s growth and prevent recurrence.

Conventional treatment began with surgery at the end of January and she is now in the midst of five and a half months of intensive chemotherapy. There will be a pause for brief recovery before four to five weeks of concentrated radiation therapy, and then likely another surgery. Then the long recovery begins, and ongoing complementary treatments continue.

It’s already been a tough and exhausting journey and there’s still a long way to go!

Loss of Income

Many of you may know that Chloe usually works as a self-employed Psychotherapist and Counsellor; work that requires a high level of mental and emotional capacity and robustness, and which has simply not been possible alongside treatment. This has meant that she hasn’t been able to earn an income since early in the process and this will continue through the medical treatment which extends towards the end of the year and into her recovery next year. If she is able to work at all during the early recovery period, it will likely be very little and inconsistent. She will then need to progressively build up her stamina and client base again.

How We Can Help

It has been a very vulnerable time for Chloe, needing to receive various kinds of support from those around her, and it has also been a very confronting process to ask for financial support.

One of the most helpful things we can do right now is to provide the fundamental safety and security that will enable Chloe to focus on her healing, without the stress of not being able to meet her living expenses and the costs of the various ongoing treatments.

We want this deeply loving, compassionate woman, who devotes so much to supporting others in their healing, to feel our deep love and support for her in her own healing journey now - through this difficult time, and well into her recovery.

The Goal

We are setting a goal of $35,000 to help her with her living expenses, medical expenses, and chosen treatment modalities; to get the ongoing holistic support that she needs for complete healing.

If you can make a donation, of any amount, that would be greatly appreciated. Chloe is humbly grateful for this financial support.

Messages of Support

It would also be lovely for Chloe - whether you contribute financially or not - to receive messages of loving support and positive reflections, including perhaps how she has touched your life. These can be sent either via this page or privately. She won’t be able to respond to each message individually, but she will greatly appreciate feeling your loving presence with her through this challenging time.

Ways That You Can Support Chloe:

1) Make a donation to this campaign, whatever the amount.

2) Please share on your platforms. Sharing this fundraiser will significantly help to achieve the goal.

3) Send Chloe messages of loving support and positive reflections.

And COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENT from Chloe…

4) She highly recommends getting your own breasts and bodies checked!! (This came as quite the surprise to her, and if she’d discovered it much later, this would all be even more difficult, especially given the fast-growing nature of her subtype.)

With deep gratitude and love,

Kate, River and Craig