Wish come true for my sweet friend with cancer
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Hi. My name is Teresa and this is about my beautiful soul of a friend Tricia. In Jan 2019 she was diagnosed with stage 3 triple-negative breast cancer. She went through chemo, double mastectomy and reconstruction, and oral chemo til August 2020. After only knowing Tricia for 6 months before her life-changing news, my husband, kids and I moved her and her dog Roxie into our house to help take care of her since she didn't have any family in the area. So the small amount of money she made from work (she was limited due to her compromised immune system) could be used for all of her medical bills and treatment. The entire time she was so positive, happy, and strong and I used to think would I be like that?!? How does she do this?!? She remained upbeat and brought much light and love to our family. She became our family. In August 2020 she was all done and ready to move back out on her own. She continued to have to get periodic scans and bloodwork. Her hair grew back, her weight increased, as it should, her scans and bloodwork continued to come back normal. Life moved on and her and Roxie were happy once again. Until late 2021. She had been feeling some unusual pain in the same side of her right breast area and developed a slight cough that wouldn't go away. She went to the doctor and had a CT scan among several other tests including a lung biopsy and they found suspicious spots on her right lung. She had a biopsy. Then came the news. Malignant cells. She was crushed. A pet scan confirmed she had Stage 4 triple negative breast cancer that had metastasized to her lung. A few days later her beloved Roxie who had been her comfort during the first round of treatment in 2019 was diagnosed herself with Lymphoma. Roxie crossed over the rainbow bridge not too long ago and so Tricia will not have her fur baby this entire second round which is devastating to her as well. In the meantime, Tricia has started chemo again. We don't know how long she might be on it. But we all know Tricia's fighting spirit. She shared with me her bucket list. The very one thing she wants to do before she can't is to see the northern lights. I want so badly to give this to her but cannot afford it on my own. She only has her mother who lives in Virginia and her brother who is moving with his family overseas. A few friends are all she has here in Charleston but we are not enough alone to give her this one wish or to help with other smaller bucket list wishes! Can we all please pull together to help provide her with this wish? Thank you!!
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Teresa Mccoy
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Summerville, SC