Hey everyone! I'm Kimberly Salgado Esquivel. I'm 18 years old, and my life has changed drastically this past year.

In April 2025, I went to the ER and found out I had an abnormal ovarian cyst. In September, I had surgery to remove my right ovary since the cyst grew and turned into a tumor the size of a lemon. The tumor took over my ovary and made the whole right ovary into a mass, leaving my uterus and my left ovary in risk. During surgery, my surgeon noticed abnormal masses on top of my left ovary, bladder lining, and abdominal wall. He took biopsies of those.

On Tuesday, October 7th, 2025, I was diagnosed with Stage II low-grade serous carcinoma (ovarian cancer), and everything that he took biopsies of all tested positive as well. I've started a treatment to help slow the spread. This type of cancer starts and forms from the ovaries and spreads to the nearby organs. My doctors and I are planning to start chemotherapy this year to help fight this cancer. My doctor told me that the 5 months of chemo is going to affect my left ovary and make it lose its function.

I've always wanted a big family. The only way to have the opportunity to have a child of my own in the future is to freeze my eggs and get IVF in the future. Egg freezing is not covered by insurance, and my family and I need help because we didn't plan for this. No one in my family has had cancer before, and the doctor explained to me that it was just an unlucky random mutation of my cells. He also told me that it was rare for someone my age (18) to develop this cancer.

The fertility treatment total can go up to $30,000-$40,000. That's around the estimate for everything that's needed. It's heartbreaking that this is the one of the most important things and it's not covered by insurance, and the only reason why it hasn't been done yet is because we don't have the money for it. My family and I are in a tight spot, and I know there are so many kind people. Everything has been really hard on my family and I. It's been impacting my everday life and it's something I wouldn't wish on anyone. Anything raised would go straight into paying my fertility treatment and IVF before and after I start chemotherapy at the end of this year. I thank every single person that helps out, and I'm eternally grateful. ❤️

Hola a todos. Solo quería decirles que estoy bien por el momento, voy poco a poco. Ha sido mucho que asimilar y nunca pensé que esto me pasaría a mí ni a mi familia. Les agradezco muchísimo a cada uno de ustedes y espero que no sea mucha molestia pedirles que recen por mi familia y por mí. Últimamente ha sido difícil, sobre todo a nivel mental, pero me siento cómoda compartiendo mi historia con ustedes. Sé que la meta de mi campaña de GoFundMe es bastante ambiciosa, pero incluso un dólar donado es de gran ayuda. Este cáncer que tengo, lamentablemente, comienza en los ovarios y se extiende lenta pero inexorablemente a los órganos alrederores. Así que, después de la quimioterapia, necesitaré otra cirugía para sacar el ovario que me queda y el resto del tumor. Afortunadamente, aún no se ha extendido al mi útero. Espero que, mediante la fecundación in vitro, pueda tener un hijo en mi propio útero en el futuro, y espero lograr ese sueño con su ayuda. No le desearía este cáncer ni este dolor a nadie. Rezo para que en el futuro haya una cura y ninguna mujer tenga que pasar por esto. Ser madre es uno de mis mayores sueños. Pensaba que tendría una vida normal: estudiar, vivir con mi novio, casarme y, finalmente, tener un hijo cuando ambos estuviéramos listos. Lamentablemente, ya no es así, y el sueño de ser madre se me escapa poco a poco de las manos a causa de este cáncer. Anhelo tener un hijo, y gracias a sus generosas donaciones, podré costear los tratamientos. Quiero agradecerles a todos y cada uno de ustedes, los quiero mucho ❤️