Tina Perrin Brain Cancer Expenses
Spende geschützt
**NOTE** there is a second gofundme account set up by a friend to help pay the $78000 for the life flight from Idaho to Seattle. Any help, financial or other, is greatly appreciated by family and friends.
Tina is our wonderful sister. She is the 4th of seven children. She is strong and determined, fun and outgoing. She is always in the middle of play and hard work, as long as the hard work comes first. (Below is a picture of the siblings in 2000. Tina is in the middle.)
Tina is also the mother of seven children. The family is self-employed and works hard on their tree farm to support the family. Three of her children are currently in college, two are missionaries for their church, and the youngest two are still at home. (The campaign photo is the family in 2017.)
After a few months of not feeling well and being dizzy, Tina was diagnosed with a large tumor in her brain. Tina was quickly flown from Cottonwood, Idaho to Seattle, Washington where she spent a week in ICU waiting for the surgery to remove the “apple size” tumor in the middle of her brain. After the surgery to remove the tumor, then came two more weeks in ICU waiting for her brain to recover enough to remove the shunt placed in her head to drain cerebral spinal fluid.
While she was recovering from the surgery, Tina’s pathology reports came back as an anaplastic ependymoma, a rare primary tumor that can grow anywhere on the spinal cord or brain. Ependymoma tumors are graded by the World Health Organization (WHO) according to molecular changes in the tumor. Anaplastic ependymoma is a grade III tumor, the more malignant type. Unlike other cancers, brain and spine cancers do not generally metastasize, so they aren’t categorized as other cancers are with stages. WHO lists the classification of grade III anaplastic ependymoma as showing increased tumor cell growth, new blood vessel formation to grow, more aggressive behavior and require additional treatment after surgery and can recur (CERN Foundation website).
Being self-employed, there is no vacation or sickness leave time to fall back on. Nor are there company funds which might typically be available for someone employed by a company. Funds are needed to help Tina and her family meet the large insurance deductible and help with long-term rehabilitation that will be needed. Additionally, funds are necessary to help finance the travel back and forth to Seattle both while she is hospitalized and future treatment visits. (there is another fund by Christopher Roach to help with life flight expenses)
Other ways you could help, if you live close to the Perrins in Cottonwood, Idaho, you might offer help on the tree farm (with Tina out of commission for awhile a major worker is missing!), or you can help with future rehabilitation needs.
Tina's family appreciate all the thoughts and prayers in Tina's behalf.
Tina is our wonderful sister. She is the 4th of seven children. She is strong and determined, fun and outgoing. She is always in the middle of play and hard work, as long as the hard work comes first. (Below is a picture of the siblings in 2000. Tina is in the middle.)
Tina is also the mother of seven children. The family is self-employed and works hard on their tree farm to support the family. Three of her children are currently in college, two are missionaries for their church, and the youngest two are still at home. (The campaign photo is the family in 2017.)
After a few months of not feeling well and being dizzy, Tina was diagnosed with a large tumor in her brain. Tina was quickly flown from Cottonwood, Idaho to Seattle, Washington where she spent a week in ICU waiting for the surgery to remove the “apple size” tumor in the middle of her brain. After the surgery to remove the tumor, then came two more weeks in ICU waiting for her brain to recover enough to remove the shunt placed in her head to drain cerebral spinal fluid.
While she was recovering from the surgery, Tina’s pathology reports came back as an anaplastic ependymoma, a rare primary tumor that can grow anywhere on the spinal cord or brain. Ependymoma tumors are graded by the World Health Organization (WHO) according to molecular changes in the tumor. Anaplastic ependymoma is a grade III tumor, the more malignant type. Unlike other cancers, brain and spine cancers do not generally metastasize, so they aren’t categorized as other cancers are with stages. WHO lists the classification of grade III anaplastic ependymoma as showing increased tumor cell growth, new blood vessel formation to grow, more aggressive behavior and require additional treatment after surgery and can recur (CERN Foundation website).
Being self-employed, there is no vacation or sickness leave time to fall back on. Nor are there company funds which might typically be available for someone employed by a company. Funds are needed to help Tina and her family meet the large insurance deductible and help with long-term rehabilitation that will be needed. Additionally, funds are necessary to help finance the travel back and forth to Seattle both while she is hospitalized and future treatment visits. (there is another fund by Christopher Roach to help with life flight expenses)
Other ways you could help, if you live close to the Perrins in Cottonwood, Idaho, you might offer help on the tree farm (with Tina out of commission for awhile a major worker is missing!), or you can help with future rehabilitation needs.
Tina's family appreciate all the thoughts and prayers in Tina's behalf.
Organisator und Spendenbegünstigter
Ryan Weston
Organisator
Vancouver, WA
Scott Perrin
Spendenbegünstigte