Hi guys, so I never come on here to ask for help from anyone because I usually do things on my own. Well... I want to see how many of my friends on here will help me. I need surgery and I need help coming up with money for the surgeries I will be needing. I'm not going into full details about my surgeries, but most of you all that have seen my ongoing battles with cancer, well, these surgeries are cancer-related.

And I need one surgery to control whatever is going on with my menstrual cycle. So many doctors here are saying nothing is wrong with me, but after seeing so many doctors that only want to keep you sick and not help with the main issues going on with my body, always waiting for referrals only for appointments to be backed up 5 months, so to find an opening, yeah, we all know that wait. And a wait some of us can't wait because it will spread and start affecting your body, including your iron levels. No matter the dosages of iron, my body doesn't want to take it. I myself eat a lot of red meat, but the issue is my cervix and the side effects I'm dealing with along with taking the medication. It's also taking a toll on me, but I need to take it to keep my levels in kind of good standing for my surgery.

Then after this surgery will be my double mastectomy to prevent my breast cancer from returning, but first my hysterectomy. I had cancer in my ovaries before and I overcame it, but since I was younger, I've been having a hard time with my cycle, but much worse as an adult. So one surgery first before my tits get cut off. Please don't take offense to what I said about my tits being cut off. I don't want to cut them off, but if it's to prevent my cancer from ever coming back, well, I guess I have to do what's best for me.

And y'all are probably asking why am I doing one surgery first. Well, the hysterectomy needs to be done first before the other surgery because the second surgery needs more recovery time than the first one. The first one is to stop the bleeding that isn't normal. No matter what I do to get myself feeling better, including eating better, it wasn't helping. My body has been through a lot that it's affecting me a lot. At one point, I wanted kids, but I got two handsome boys at home, my dogs Elvis and Prince. Elvis has been with me throughout my many battles with cancer, so having kids of my own wasn't going to ever happen. I have a high chance gene that can give any child of mine cancer in their cervix or breast, and that is something I myself couldn't live with.

I love kids, but just not for me, so I love my friends' kids or if a partner of mine may have kids, they are also my kids too, I would like to say. It's not the family you see, it's the family you make together. So for now, my kids are my dogs and many other dogs I find in the streets. I get them better, healthy with shots, and their bellies full and a warm home until I find them their forever homes.

And I'm definitely scared of surgery, who isn't? But the main surgery will be my second surgery after the hysterectomy, which will be my double mastectomy. It's enough that I get looks, and I mean ugly looks, when I enter the women's restroom because I dress like a man, but I'm definitely a woman and I show no form of being a man in my face. So you can only imagine the uglier looks I'll get when my breasts are removed. I'll feel less of a woman because I won't have my breasts anymore, so I have a little body dysphoria going on, but I know eventually I'll get over it. But first, my hysterectomy, that way I can start feeling better and stop taking this medication.

I'm trying to raise 13 thousand because I decided that a doctor that is helping and found the reason when my own state couldn't find the issue because they want me to be sick. And as a person in the medical field and served her country, I've seen too much in the medical field. You need to be an advocate for your own body and keep fighting for answers, and I did. So I'm getting my first and second surgery in another country, so I need to pay out of my own pocket and also have a little extra to pay my bills while in recovery and my travel expenses to and from the doctors. My second surgery won't happen till I come up with more money for that, but first this surgery. I do have a little of my money for surgery, but it's not enough, so anything donated will help in any way to make this possible for me. Thank you.