Rojszyk Family Support Fund
Donation protected
On Monday, October 19th, Tiffany took 2-year-old Ella to the pediatrician for what she thought would be a routine visit to help her with some discomfort in her abdomen. What Tiffany was not expecting was to be sitting at Christ Advocate Hospital later that night, waiting on test results from blood work, ultrasounds and CT scans, to determine if Ella had Wilms tumor, a kidney cancer that effects children. In the days that followed, Tiffany and Tom sat with Ella in the hospital as more tests were run, surgeons were talked to, and plans were made to attack the kidney tumor that appeared on the CT Scan.
Surgery was scheduled for Thursday, October 23rd, and lasted 6 hours. While the doctors had hoped to be able to remove the kidney and tumor as a start to Ella’s road to recovery, that was not a possibility. Based on the surgery results, the course of action was changed to completing rounds of chemo to shrink Ella’s tumor, which will then be followed by another surgery to hopefully remove the kidney and tumor that the first surgery was hoping to accomplish.
The entire Rojszyk family needs us now more than ever to help them through the long and difficult road that they have in front of them. Not only will there be excessive medical costs from surgeries and treatments for Ella, but Tiffany and Tom will both have to take time off of work to ensure that Ella’s older siblings, Cole and Ava, are cared for as well.
Ella’s critical need for urgent medical care, especially during a pandemic, will also mean many trips to and from the hospital and various appointments, which leads to money spent on gas and food on the go, among other things. Additionally, they will be balancing activities for the older children to try to maintain some normalcy in a world that was just turned upside down for such a loving, giving, and kind family.
To know the Rojszyk family is to love them. When anyone in their lives needs help or support, they are there without needing to be asked. It is now time for us to step up to the plate and return the favor, so that they can have one less stress in their world, which is crashing down right now. A donation of any size, big or small, would mean so much and show the Rojszyks that we are here with them, rallying behind them until Ella is healthy once again.
Surgery was scheduled for Thursday, October 23rd, and lasted 6 hours. While the doctors had hoped to be able to remove the kidney and tumor as a start to Ella’s road to recovery, that was not a possibility. Based on the surgery results, the course of action was changed to completing rounds of chemo to shrink Ella’s tumor, which will then be followed by another surgery to hopefully remove the kidney and tumor that the first surgery was hoping to accomplish.
The entire Rojszyk family needs us now more than ever to help them through the long and difficult road that they have in front of them. Not only will there be excessive medical costs from surgeries and treatments for Ella, but Tiffany and Tom will both have to take time off of work to ensure that Ella’s older siblings, Cole and Ava, are cared for as well.
Ella’s critical need for urgent medical care, especially during a pandemic, will also mean many trips to and from the hospital and various appointments, which leads to money spent on gas and food on the go, among other things. Additionally, they will be balancing activities for the older children to try to maintain some normalcy in a world that was just turned upside down for such a loving, giving, and kind family.
To know the Rojszyk family is to love them. When anyone in their lives needs help or support, they are there without needing to be asked. It is now time for us to step up to the plate and return the favor, so that they can have one less stress in their world, which is crashing down right now. A donation of any size, big or small, would mean so much and show the Rojszyks that we are here with them, rallying behind them until Ella is healthy once again.
Organizer and beneficiary
Gretchen Lubbers
Organizer
Lemont, IL
Tiffany Rojszyk
Beneficiary
