Help Jill Fight Cancer

 

I am fundraising for Jill Ledsham, Jill is our Jed's mum, Fred’s youngest son and my stepson. Jill is battling cancer and needs financial help to buy alternative medicine to live. She is on chemo indefinitely as the doctors have no other options. They have given Jill a 10/20% chance that the chemo will work, so with these shocking odds, Jill is courageously taking her life literally into her own hands and has researched alternative therapy to help her fight and kick Cancer’s ass!

 

This is where I ask for your help. Family is everything to me, and I am truly blessed with a blended family – Jill is family, and we need all the help you can give to help Jill fight cancer and live longer.

 

From the first day Jill was diagnosed, she has courageously fought the treatment, the operations, the recovery and is prepared with all her strength to fight with every breath in her body to live healthier and longer.

Jill is a single mum to 3 kids, 32/22/15 years old. Jill’s eldest son Joel lives in Australia and got married in Jan 2022, but because of restrictions and Jill’s treatment, she couldn’t be there to see him get married. However, Jill is determined to see Joel and Erin have her first grandchild, see her only daughter Lola get married, have children, and see Jed who is 15 and still at school, graduate from Uni, get married have a family and a great career in medicine.

 

I will be holding a series of fundraising events, of which all proceeds will go directly to funding Jill’s alternative therapy.

 

This is Jills story

My story starts from January 18, 2021. I caught COVID in work and was so poorly until the 4 Feb. I got over it and got back to work but found I was struggling to breathe and had terrible stomach pains, I couldn’t even get to the top of the stairs without running out of breath. I phoned my GP. They phoned me back 4 days later for a phone consultation. By then, the pain had subsided, but the breathlessness, fatigue, and stomach pains came back so I phoned the doctors and had to wait 4 days for a phone consultation and again, it had subsided by the time the GP got back to me! I asked for my blood to be done. I had to wait 16 days to get my bloods done, and when I did, the doctor was straight on the phone saying I needed to go to a hospital straight away because I had an internal bleed, and my haemoglobin was only 5.3, and it should have been 12! I was admitted to hospital given 3 pints of blood, I had CT, MRI scans and cameras up my bottom and down my throat; after 6 days, I was told I had stage 4 colon cancer, a tilted womb with lots of fibroids, tumour on the right side of my liver and 4 nodules on my lungs.

 

I left the hospital on the 25 March 2021 and had an appointment with my colorectal surgeon who told me my colon was inoperable. I’d have to do chemo first to shrink it, I started chemo on the 14 May 2021, (my daughter's 21st birthday). I managed 3 rounds of chemo before my bowel twisted and I started throwing up my own waste, I was rushed into hospital by my mum and taken down to theatre where they removed my whole bowel and 32 lymph nodes, 5 having cancer in them. 8 weeks later, I was in the hospital again having a liver resection; they took 65% of the right side of the liver, they also took my gallbladder out. While I was under my surgeon noticed a growth on the left side of my liver, he took it out and sent it for a biopsy, I had a scan in the middle of October 2021,the results came back to tell me I had 4 new tumours on the left side of my liver. I was referred back to my oncologist for chemo again to try and shrink them. While I was waiting for the results, I was sent for another scan to check my lungs. I was devastated to find out at my oncology meeting that I now had lots and lots of small cancerous nodules on both my lungs, along with 4 new tumours on the left of my liver.

 

My oncologist said I only have a 10/20% chance of it working and to do chemo indefinitely because he doesn’t know what else to do. So, I have taken my life into my own hands and have researched alternative therapies. I found lots of natural remedies that block the pathways that cancer uses. I must build up my immune system because our bodies can fight cancer if we are in good health, which on chemo you aren’t, it strips you of absolutely everything nutrient in your body.

 

Alternative therapy is not cheap I have calculated approx. £800 (plus) m per month, I have not been able to work since January 2021, I have sold my car to pay for this treatment, and I now need financial help to help me live. This truly is my only chance of survival and to live healthier and happier for as long as I can. My amazing mum, who is 70 is working long hours to help support me, she and the children have been amazing, but I can’t do this on my own. I am so grateful to Jo for helping me fundraise, together, and with your help I know I can beat Cancer. All donations will be gratefully received.