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Help a young mother with cancer

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I am going to start from the beginning. The year was 2012 and it was around spring time. When I got out of the shower i noticed that one of my birthmarks was bleeding, very itchy and dry. So, to be on the safe side, I went to the doctor. He removed it and sent it in for analysis. The answer I got was that the birthmark was completely normal and nothing to worry about. Which in my case was completely and utterly wrong. So my life went on like always without a thought of it at all. Then I started feeling so goddamn tired! I could not at all understand why everyone else had so much more energy than i did. It was almost as if I felt feverish. I started taking my temperature and it was consistently higher than what was normal for me. So I went to the doctor and spoke about my temperature change and my other symptoms. But the only answer I got was, "Why would you check your temperature every day?" Umm, maybe because I feel ill? Stupid question; and even now nothing was done. They told me to go home and rest. This was about 2,5 years after the birthmark was removed. Since the doctors did not believe me I started thinking that maybe there was something wrong with me. I thought, “Am I just out of shape?” “Am i only imagining that i’m tired?” So I went on with my life the best I could. Worked, came home, cooked, cleaned - just like normal, but I was always completely fatigued when I was done, Could not do it all in the same day either; which I used to be able to do before. There just wasn't enough energy. Around 2016 I started having migraines and started randomly throwing up. As you can imagine, I had no appetite at all. But i kept on working. I went to the doctor again because of my fatigue and she just gave me a prescription for iron tablets. They didn't do a thing for me. The doctor promised a checkup later to see if I was better - she never kept the appointment. Sometime in late 2016 I started to feel a lump on top of my breast. The first doctor i went to told me that it was a lump of fat. As it continued to grow, i was referred to a surgeon who removed it in 2017 - "Just in case...". After examining it, the surgeon assured me that, "... it was not anything dangerous."  and threw the sample away. One morning in may 2017, i woke up to find my right hand completely numb and just hanging there. I could almost not move it but for a little with my fingers. So again I went to the doctor. He told me it was an usual athletic injury. I'm not an athlete. Still, he sent me home with no answer. The next week my fingers on the other hand started to feel numb. I could barely use either of my hands and I went back to the doctor. They took a few muscle tests and some nerve tests in my arms. He talked about a MRI for the brain but that never happened either as this doctor never kept his promise to call me back and follow up. As I walked around at home with my two non-working hands, I started to look for a job for when my hands got better. Luckily I found one and I was very good at it. My employment began in June with a six months trial period. I was able to work there almost three months before I got really sick. Threw up every day, could not eat anything, headaches from hell, and even less energy than before. During the two first months of my sick leave, I contacted multiple doctors who all took the same tests and didn’t find anything. I had a growing tumor in my sinus so my nose got to the point that I could not breathe through it. I told my doctor that there was something stuck in my nose, he gave me antibiotics which did nothing at all. During that same period, I woke up with a lump in my arm that was bleeding inside. I got a huge bruise that almost covered my entire forearm - and they did nothing. NOTHING!  This is what it looked like.  During the same time that I got the bruise, I noticed more lumps under my skin. I went back to the doctor again and and told him about the lumps that keep on growing. He just said, "Oh well, come back if you get any more." The thing is, I already had, like five or six already. Something should have been done! I still could not breathe through my nose and it was just bleeding all the time so i went to the ER. There I met a very good doctor why actually listened to me. He ordered a CT-scan of the brain and there they were; the dreaded tumors. This was the 7th of December 2017 I had one in my brain, one huge in the sinus, two in my lungs, one on my liver, one in my ovaries and eight under the skin. The first treatment I started in December. It was a new medicine and to use it you had to have a special gene in the tumors. Luckily I did so I started my treatment the 15th of December. It seems to have worked well and many of the tumors have shrunk or disappeared. I have now in June started my next treatment but depending on results I might have a long way to go before I get healthy again. The nerve damage I got in my hands and arms was because of the cancer and is called para malignant syndrome. The numbness is still there although I can use my hands now. Since I got so sick after the summer they had no choice but to replace me at work even though I was doing so well. This lead to a really bad personal economy. I’ve never had it worse.  I would be so grateful if any of you with a little extra cash over any month would like to help me out a bit. I feel ashamed for asking but I'm getting kind of desperate. The money would be used for bills, essentials, medicines, trips to the doctor, food and clothes for my daughter since she is growing so fast. If you live in Sweden and prefer to swish my number is 0704584228.

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  • Robert Sanchez Carlsson
    • kr35 
    • 5 yrs

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Nalin Fuglevaag
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Sundbyberg, AB, Sweden

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