Support Jan Fansler's Fight to Beat Cancer
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Awe where do I start? Let me start with this.... Jan is caring, eager, compassionate, loving, a great friend and most of all someone you should get to know.
When I found out she had cancer my heart broke especially after just losing someone so close to me last year.
I thought to myself, "how can I help?" Jan has done so much for so many and I felt that she deserves us to do for her.
I asked her to tell her story and here it is....
From Jan:
This story began many years ago when I graduated from college with a BS degree in secondary education, taught for 9 months and discovered teaching was not for me.
That summer (1979) I took a summer job as a physical therapy transporter and discovered my passion for being a caregiver. That led to going back to college for 2 more years and becoming a physical therapy assistant which I have enjoyed an incredible career for the past 38 years and recently retired as a result of my company closing my section of the rehab company I was working for .
At 64 I decided my time had come to hang up my trade. During the college to get my physical therapy assistant degree I met a lady who had 3 children .
As the years progressed we became close friends and she and her husband were in the process of a divorce. After graduation and her divorce it made sense for us to share housing and split expenses (1984) In 1989 my friend was diagnosed with a rare tumor.
A chondroid sarcoma of the petrous bone which without very delicate surgery would end in death. She was able to receive her surgery and get the radiation to prolong her life.
I became her main caregiver along with continuing my job as a therapist.
In 1996 my dad had a heart attack and although he and my mom lived 5 hours away each weekend I would travel there to help take care of daddy.
To keep a long story short over the past 30 years I have been the caregiver for my now adopted sister, daddy and mom. I was at the bedside of my dad when he took his last breath in my arms and 3 years 3 months and 3 days later I was at the bedside of my precious mom with her in my arms as she breathed her last breath.
Now fast forward to today. I have as of last week myself been diagnosed with uterine cancer involving the cervix or cervical cancer depending on the biopsy report to determine which one.
I now began my journey as a patient for the first time in my life as I begin radiation and chemo treatments for the course of the next 5 weeks, 5 days a week.
As noted above I am 64 and do not have medicare until 65 and I have no medical insurance, which is the reason I kept putting off going to the doctor for the past year as symptoms began approximately one year ago.
I was hoping to make it to medicare to get covered for whatever lies ahead, but that was not to be as 6 weeks ago.
I began to hemorrhage and no longer had the option of waiting.
I will use the money raised from this fund to pay medical bills and to continue to pay my house payment so I don’t get evicted during this series of healing for my body.
I am so not used to being the patient and so not accustomed to asking for help, but this time I see no choice.
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As you can see Jan has shared her story but what you don't see or hear in those words is her actual need for help. She has a hard time asking for help. She has always been the one to help.
This is why I am stepping in to take over and share that Jan does need help!
I hope you can find it in your heart to help someone like Jan who is selfless and needs help in fighting the beast....CANCER.
When I found out she had cancer my heart broke especially after just losing someone so close to me last year.
I thought to myself, "how can I help?" Jan has done so much for so many and I felt that she deserves us to do for her.
I asked her to tell her story and here it is....
From Jan:
This story began many years ago when I graduated from college with a BS degree in secondary education, taught for 9 months and discovered teaching was not for me.
That summer (1979) I took a summer job as a physical therapy transporter and discovered my passion for being a caregiver. That led to going back to college for 2 more years and becoming a physical therapy assistant which I have enjoyed an incredible career for the past 38 years and recently retired as a result of my company closing my section of the rehab company I was working for .
At 64 I decided my time had come to hang up my trade. During the college to get my physical therapy assistant degree I met a lady who had 3 children .
As the years progressed we became close friends and she and her husband were in the process of a divorce. After graduation and her divorce it made sense for us to share housing and split expenses (1984) In 1989 my friend was diagnosed with a rare tumor.
A chondroid sarcoma of the petrous bone which without very delicate surgery would end in death. She was able to receive her surgery and get the radiation to prolong her life.
I became her main caregiver along with continuing my job as a therapist.
In 1996 my dad had a heart attack and although he and my mom lived 5 hours away each weekend I would travel there to help take care of daddy.
To keep a long story short over the past 30 years I have been the caregiver for my now adopted sister, daddy and mom. I was at the bedside of my dad when he took his last breath in my arms and 3 years 3 months and 3 days later I was at the bedside of my precious mom with her in my arms as she breathed her last breath.
Now fast forward to today. I have as of last week myself been diagnosed with uterine cancer involving the cervix or cervical cancer depending on the biopsy report to determine which one.
I now began my journey as a patient for the first time in my life as I begin radiation and chemo treatments for the course of the next 5 weeks, 5 days a week.
As noted above I am 64 and do not have medicare until 65 and I have no medical insurance, which is the reason I kept putting off going to the doctor for the past year as symptoms began approximately one year ago.
I was hoping to make it to medicare to get covered for whatever lies ahead, but that was not to be as 6 weeks ago.
I began to hemorrhage and no longer had the option of waiting.
I will use the money raised from this fund to pay medical bills and to continue to pay my house payment so I don’t get evicted during this series of healing for my body.
I am so not used to being the patient and so not accustomed to asking for help, but this time I see no choice.
____________
As you can see Jan has shared her story but what you don't see or hear in those words is her actual need for help. She has a hard time asking for help. She has always been the one to help.
This is why I am stepping in to take over and share that Jan does need help!
I hope you can find it in your heart to help someone like Jan who is selfless and needs help in fighting the beast....CANCER.
Organizer
Michelle Pescosolido
Organizer
Frisco, TX