Help Uri beat Cancer & cover urgent medical costs!

Our beloved Japanese friend and sister Uri, urgently needs our help to pay the overwhelming medical costs she and her family are now struggling to find a way to cover in her efforts to heal from a very aggressive Stage 4b cancer (squamous cell carcinoma of cervix).

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When she was diagnosed suddenly Sept. 2018, the tests showed it had already spread to the lymph nodes on the left side of her neck, groin and in the bone in the right hip area, with small shadows on the left kidney, lungs and liver.

As conventional treatment offered no hope, she turned to reputable alternative treatments but kept on working as best she could from home as she is a translator to keep up an income.

In December her condition turned critical and her sister Akari (a Mum of 3 boys, separated from her husband and living in America) came to Japan to support Uri, she realised drastic measures needed to be taken.
 
Akari rallied family, cousins and friends support to scrape together the $51,000 USD plus airfares to get Uri in to the Hope for Cancer clinic in Mexico and she stayed with Uri in Mexico for another 10 days until she came through some critical stages.
But she then needed to get back to attend her children and start to prepare a space where she lives for Uri to come home to after her intensive treatment.

She checked in to the clinic on December 29thand just in time to have life-saving stent surgery to unblock her kidney function. This cost another $6,000 they are yet to find with speciality surgeon follow up and treatment already beyond another $1500.

The current estimates of future basic follow up treatment is another $25,000 USD plus airfares and covering all her own rental & usual living expenses without an income as she cannot work at the moment and currently needs a wheel chair for getting around.
 
Thankfully, with all the treatment and the tireless support of her sister Akari, Uri has jumped through some hoops and is doing everything possible to heal. If she can continue these treatments she has a real chance to heal from this nightmare.
 
But with her family’s funds already all but gone, they really need urgent financial  help and her sister Akari will also now be her full time Carer as well when Uri checks out of the clinic next Monday. The clinic doctors in Mexico will monitor and support for a year but from a distance and in correspondence with local clinics Uri will need to connect with in the area her sister lives.
 
It is still undecided whether her best next step is to be in Japan where certain of the medications she needs are less expensive, or with her sister in Chicago where she has personal support and someone close to care for her.

Either way, she will be facing way more than the current $30K USD of medical bills due this next week!!  So we have set a goal for 100K USD.
Any and all funds donated to Uri will go directly to her sister Akari in Chicago, who is taking care of everything for Uri, including paying for all. Akari will also need to fly to Mexico on Monday to bring Uri home as well as she cannot fly without aid.
 
Uri is one of the most giving, and loving people I know and is the first to help others. She was not comfortable with this idea at first but she realises that if she is to live, she needs to be willing to receive.
 
So from the bottom of our hearts thank you for any size donation you can manage. Every cent counts and is appreciated more than any words can convey.
 
Naturally, all healing thoughts and prayers are also so deeply received and appreciated.
 
This kind of support from our greater global family will make it possible for Uri and Akari to focus more fully on helping Uri heal.
 
We will send regular updates on Uri’s progress.
 
Thank you!

 
Extra information from Uri’s ‘support sisters’ who set up this campaign.


To the amazingly generous "Earth Angels" taking time to read this, thank you.

We (Uri’s closest friends) have set up this GoFundMe page in the hope that, with your generous help, we can take some of the financial pressures, stress and strains off Uri and her family whilst she goes through life saving treatments, surgeries and recovery. 
 
The money will go directly to paying for the life-saving surgeries, both past & future, specific medications for the type of cancer Uri has, the kidney dialysis and related treatments and to help cover some of the mounting monthly costs of consultant appointments, scans, pre and post-operative care, travel costs and all the other ‘unseen’ bills that seem to come out of now where at these times.
 
We will keep you updated on here status and the doctor’s decision on where her treatment will be best catered for from next week.

Whatever the donation you can manage, we cannot thank you enough and tell you how incredibly appreciated it is by Uri and all her family as well.

Love and blessings to you all!

You are Uri’s Earth Angels!!!