Hi, my name is Kassidy and I’m trying to raise money to help my mom. Kristen is a full time mother to four and works as many hour as she can while battling cancer. She has raised my siblings and I completely on her own.
Twelve years ago she was first diagnosed with reoccurring Papillary Carcinoma Thyroid Cancer. Over the last couple of years, she has had a number of diagnoses. Most recently, the cancer has spread to her parathyroid as well as throughout her body. It spread to her lymph nodes and now she has a brain tumor. She has had a list of medications and treatments over the last 10 months including 32 weeks of chemo which was not successful and caused heart damage. Now she is in intense, inpatient radiation and now has dialysis twice a week to help with the kidney damage for treatments. She has to make frequent trips to San Francisco for most of her appointments and treatments. In order to make these trips, she has to take time off work and of course means time away from the house and my siblings-two of them still being in school.
Her next round of radiation is coming up in a few weeks. We’re trying to raise money so she does not have to worry about rushing back to work. Anything helps! Thank you for your time.