Fundraiser for Jenna
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Our sweet Jenna’s cancer has returned and is worse than ever. The tumors in her body are causing her so much pain, and affect her ability to even breathe. She has been taking many things to try to manage her pain which is consistently getting worse. The things she needs are costing her family hundreds of dollars a day and her Dad has been working through the night to try to pay for them. Please help by donating what you can. Every bit helps.
Jenna has been writing a blog with updates when she can. She gave me permission to share the link here.
https://m.facebook.com/The-thoughts-I-think-377217056104566/
Her most recent update:
“The side effects of radiation have caught up to me. My throat feels like it’s completely raw with blisters and even water hurts to swallow. The past few days I’ve been so hungry but it’s hard to want to eat when each bite or swallow is so painful I almost cry or do cry. When I stay on top of pain killers, I’m still living at a constant pain rate of 5/10 which is probably most people’s 7-8/10.....Even with all of this the pain often becomes too much and I start having panic attacks. Ativan and breathing exercises,-or not talking at all- help me get through them.
Although the side effects are so horrible, after the first treatment, I could talk better because there was less compression on my vocal cords. I could also swallow and breath better. Through that week it just got better and have stayed. If only I could’ve gotten the relief without all this agony.
Today we are headed to Calgary for a set of radiation on my breasts to hopefully shrink the tumours a bit and provide some pain relief. Side effects seem they will be more or less the same, but since it’s a bit lower down, skin irritation may be more common than throat irritation. (HOPEFULLY, so I can actually get some food into me).
For anyone asking what they can do to help lift my sprits, maybe send me a letter with memories, stories, photos of you and/or your families, or anything along those lines.
I love you all and thank you for your continuous support. I just feel like I’m missing out on so much because I never feel good enough to do anything and when I do actually force myself to do something and try to have fun, I my whole body just ends up so exhausted and all I want to do is cry.
So please, write me letters with photos into your awesome lives, memories, children, fur babies, or anything that brings you joy, or even just funny stories; I’d love to see it.
They can be sent to:
Box 3 Cranbrook V1C 4H6
Thanks for reading and supporting me in all of this. ♥️“
Please keep Jenna and her family in your thought and prayers. Thank you!
**Jenna is my niece and I will be withdrawing the money raised and giving it directly to her parents, Jake and Treena.
Jenna has been writing a blog with updates when she can. She gave me permission to share the link here.
https://m.facebook.com/The-thoughts-I-think-377217056104566/
Her most recent update:
“The side effects of radiation have caught up to me. My throat feels like it’s completely raw with blisters and even water hurts to swallow. The past few days I’ve been so hungry but it’s hard to want to eat when each bite or swallow is so painful I almost cry or do cry. When I stay on top of pain killers, I’m still living at a constant pain rate of 5/10 which is probably most people’s 7-8/10.....Even with all of this the pain often becomes too much and I start having panic attacks. Ativan and breathing exercises,-or not talking at all- help me get through them.
Although the side effects are so horrible, after the first treatment, I could talk better because there was less compression on my vocal cords. I could also swallow and breath better. Through that week it just got better and have stayed. If only I could’ve gotten the relief without all this agony.
Today we are headed to Calgary for a set of radiation on my breasts to hopefully shrink the tumours a bit and provide some pain relief. Side effects seem they will be more or less the same, but since it’s a bit lower down, skin irritation may be more common than throat irritation. (HOPEFULLY, so I can actually get some food into me).
For anyone asking what they can do to help lift my sprits, maybe send me a letter with memories, stories, photos of you and/or your families, or anything along those lines.
I love you all and thank you for your continuous support. I just feel like I’m missing out on so much because I never feel good enough to do anything and when I do actually force myself to do something and try to have fun, I my whole body just ends up so exhausted and all I want to do is cry.
So please, write me letters with photos into your awesome lives, memories, children, fur babies, or anything that brings you joy, or even just funny stories; I’d love to see it.
They can be sent to:
Box 3 Cranbrook V1C 4H6
Thanks for reading and supporting me in all of this. ♥️“
Please keep Jenna and her family in your thought and prayers. Thank you!
**Jenna is my niece and I will be withdrawing the money raised and giving it directly to her parents, Jake and Treena.
Organizer
Hanna Blackmore
Organizer
Riverton, UT
