Hello world, I am Lisa Watkins. I am 49 years old and have been diagnosed with stage 1B Triple Negative Breast Cancer. I have 1 son, a wonderful daughter in law, a granddaughter, and another granddaughter due to arrive in November 2024. I was completely blindsided by this diagnosis. Never in a million years would I think I would have cancer despite most of my family members having it. I think about my beautiful little Emelia, my granddaughter, and I get teary-eyed. I think to myself Lisa you CAN do this because you need to be here to tell Em’s and her parents she can't be wearing those little half shirts, yoga pants so far up her butt you can see her tonsils and those little booty shorts. NOPE. I am also the sole caregiver to my 82 year old uncle whom I have nursed though, heart failure, colon cancer, bladder cancer, and 3 major surgeries. Uncle Abe now has a colostomy bag, urostomy bag, and a bunch of meds to which I tend to as needed. Sad reality is more and more people are being diagnosed with cancer, but you will never see these stats on the news. It's rather frightening what's going in the world.

Anyway, back on task, at this point, I am 9 weeks into chemotherapy, and it's now starting to take a toll. 7 days ago today, I had an anaphylaxis reaction to chemo and was hospitalized for 3 days. Thankfully, im feeling much better, but I'm not able to work full days or weeks at this point. My body is on autopilot, and I feel like I'm running on 20% life force. Unfortunately, Time doesn't stop or slow down while I'm moving in slow motion. As I mentioned, I have been working as tolerated, but I'm falling short, and I'd like to ask for a bit of financial help. If you prefer you can Zelle directly to me at [phone redacted].