Hi, my name is Susan and This GoFundMe has been set up to help my sister Pam Norman in her brave fight against cancer after having a liver transplant in 2019. Pam beat it before, let's come together to help her beat it forever!

All donations will go to help with all medical costs as she fights this cancer battle and with repairs to her vehicle so she will have safe dependable transportation traveling to Shand’s UF in Gainesville FL for all cancer treatments and appointments!

Pam Norman, Lil Sis as I call her, is fighting a long brave battle from having a liver transplant in 2019 to now fighting against cancer! She just found out that a new spot has been discovered on her 7th rib and she will start radiation treatment again the week of Feb 13, 2022. The doctors are trying to get her on a new cancer medication that will keep the liver cancer at bay in her body. This medicine acts as an inhibitor that does not allow cancer to feed. Unfortunately, from what the doctor said the medication can cost $21,000 a month. The doctors are working with the pharmaceutical company to get her qualified for financial aid for the medication.

Pam needs some financial help with money for medications, gas, hotels and food while traveling back and forth to Shands for various appointments and radiation treatments along with assistance on repairs to her vehicle which has 300,000 miles with some mechanical issues. She needs a dependable vehicle as she travels back and forth for her cancer treatments to Shand’s UF hospital in Gainesville, FL. Pam lives in a very rural area of Florida the Ocala National Forest and the trip to Shand’s is about 1.5 hours just one way, a total of around 3 hours round trip, so the wear and tear on an older vehicle are very hard.

Pam has always been a fighter and a giver to everyone she knows, thinking of others first and lending a helping hand to everyone, so asking for help is something that she just does not do and is unnatural for her. But she needs some extra help now.

Even the last year through her 5 days a week for 4 straight weeks of cancer radiation treatments last fall she was and still has been helping a 94-year-old neighbor man who has been a family friend for years. He lost his wife last year and to be able to stay in his home needed help, Pam went twice daily to check on him and to be sure he was ok making sure he had his lunch and dinner. A few times when she was too sick, she made sure someone else checked in on him.

Pam is a mother, grandmother and my younger Lil Sister who is deeply loved by all of us! As her daughter, April says “She is my mother, father and best friend, always putting others first. Her heart and determination are something that I can only hope to have one day myself. I have watched my mom struggle through life, running a household as a single mom as we grew up while trying to balance raising two children on her own. My mom is strong-willed and never gives up.”

As we all walk through this, we know in our hearts God has to be the center of our focus and we have to place our faith and trust in God. We take each day as a gift, cherishing each other every day.

Thank you for all your prayers, support, and generosity for Pam in her fight against cancer. God Bless.

With Love and Gratitude.

Please see Pam’s complete story and journey while keeping her faith in God through it all!

Pam was placed on the liver transplant list in January 2015 when she found out she had stage 4 liver failure. She was on the transplant list for over 3 years. During her on being on the transplant list, she had a lot of issues from multi trips to the hospital because of Varices where a blood vessel would break and bleed out of nowhere, having a TIPS procedure, having to have her stomach tapped multi times to drain off the fluid buildup and then liver cancer which was treated with ablation procedure in 2018.

Pam knew God was with her and brought her through all this and has been thankful for every day he has given her.

On July 24, 2019, she received the call that a donor match was found and she had her liver transplant on July 25, 2019. After a successful surgery 1 week after being home Pam had a brain bleed, taken back to Shand hospital in Gainesville FL. The doctors were never really sure exactly what caused the brain bleed. She was tested completely from head to toe and the Doctors felt it was just something that happened for no apparent reason except maybe a clot from the transplant surgery traveled up into the brain. We were blessed and thankful that Pam did not have any permanent damage. Pam continued to give God the Glory and stayed strong in her faith.

Pam had been doing great from her liver transplant up until her routine 6-month checkup scan last June 2022 where they found a mass in her abdominal wall and from the biopsy found liver cancer. Her surgeon said you have liver cancer but not in her liver. After 3 years to almost the date of her transplant, she had surgery to remove the mass from her abdominal wall and scraped her lower right rib area. The final pathology reports came back and where the margins were not as clean as the doctors wanted so she underwent radiation treatments 5 days a week starting at the end of last August for 4 weeks straight. With that behind her, she felt again blessed that God had gotten her through it again.

But here we are again with a need for not only strong prays, but this time she needs some additional financial help to get her through this challenge of cancer as she fights hard to win this battle against cancer.

Thank you for reading Pam's story and for lifting her in prayer and support.